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6 meals a day

  • 20-04-2010 9:38am
    #1
    xgtdec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭


    HI All

    Still on this fitness lark :) and still enjoying it for the most part but i had a quick question on 6 meals a day and how you all get this in....im finding that by 9pm i still have a snack meal to get in and i dont wanna eat before i go to bed at 10/11ish....i have breakfast at 7am so i figured its actually the gym work the messes my eating routine.....Average daily dies is like so

    7am, 1 weetabix with crushed seeds and a banana, 1 protein shake
    10am, innocent smoothie, 1 rice cake, peanut butter, i apple
    1pm, wrap with turkey\chicken\tuna salad etc, pot of yogurt with granola
    4pm, 1 rice cake peanut butter, 1 banana
    8pm, dinner, normally turkey steak\salmon with beans peas veg etc

    and then a protein shake at 9 ish before bed at generally half 10/11

    gym routein is as below

    Monday: weights, dumbells bars squats deadlifts kind of overall weights workout
    Tuesday: 45 mins spinning, 45 mins body scuplt
    Wednesday, lower body weights squats lunges etc
    Thursday, 45 mins spinning, 20 mins abs
    Friday: weights, dumbells bars squats deadlifts kind of overall weights workout
    Saturday: 45 mins spin, 18 holes golf


    So after all that :)...am i eating to late in the day or would it be ok to cut to every 2 and a half hours so im not eating so late in the day or would i start to be really full on every 2.5?.....goal is fat loss muscle build, started at 18,12....now at 14,04 and going well....any advice?


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  • #2
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    xgtdec wrote: »
    im finding that by 9pm i still have a snack meal to get in and i dont wanna eat before i go to bed at 10/11ish

    If your goal is fat loss and you don't want to eat that close to bed, I'd say don't. :)


  • #3
    TommyKnocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭TommyKnocker


    Hi There

    6 meals a day is a guide, it is not carved in stone.

    Basically folks are looking to do 3 things

    • Lose weight
    • Gain weight
    • Maintain weight
    No matter which of the above is your goal, success is achieved by eating the correct amount of calories to meet that goal.

    The idea behind the 6 small meals a day is to help keep your blood sugar stable, which helps prevent cravings which are usually fed with junk foods.

    To be able to have 6 small meals spaced three hours apart you would neeed to be up and about for at least 18 hours a day.

    Your 5 meal schedule will be more than sufficient as you have no large gaps between meals. And actually your pre bedtime shake counts as a meal, so you are having 6 meals a day :)

    For me personally, I am up each weekday morning at 04:45, so I actually have my calories spread over 8 meals, and one of my mid morning meals is a shake and two teaspoons of peanut butter.


    Best Regards,

    Michael


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