"..so they tell me"
thanks for the post.
Eating 5 #3 McD’s combos will help you lose weight? I knew those doctors were wrong.
Something that I’ve always known - the more you eat the less you’re gonna weigh!
I think the Hobbits do it right— eat a couple of breakfasts and go on really long walks.
At 6’8”, I am a fairy lean 240lbs. And I eat about 5 times a day. So it works! :-)
"..so they tell me"
I eat about 20 snacks a day and lose weight. Most are around 50 calories. None are more than 200. Occasionally I’ll have a regular meal at a restaurant.
All I know is the only way I lose weight is by tracking calories. It doesn’t matter the time of day.
Sometimes skippin breakfast makes me really hungry, and makes me want to eat someting big and unhealthy. However, if I just eat my normal lunch I’m fine after I eat. I will also typically eat lunch earlier.
I’ll also eat a snack before dinner if I am having a late dinner.
People (like me) tend to over eat because they are hungry. If you have a decent snack between the standard meals, you tend to not feel as hungry and won’t over eat.
I eat once a day and my weight, which is perfect for my height, has been rock steady for over 30 years. It just proves we are all different, something ObamaCare is sure to overlook. Hmm, has Moochele weighed in on this yet?
Worked for me - down 10 pounds in 8 weeks. Of course, the swimming, biking and running probably have something to do with it as well...
If you’re overweight, eat slowly and give the food time to reach the stomach. You’ll feel full and thus eat less.
Conversely, if you’re underweight, eat quickly so that you get the amount of food you need and quit when your stomach says, “full.”
Looking at Obama’s countrymen, you’ll have to conclude that cannibalism helps in weight loss.
Thanks for posting that informative article.
I was poking around the internet and just found out that eating before you go to bed does not put on weight, but it can negatively affect the quality of your sleep.
Well...I’ve lost over 3” in measurements over the last week, but, only about 1 lb....goal is 20 more lbs...Pilates, Eliptical, Teadmill and Weights are my new friends. And, yes, eating less, more often, does seem to help.
I love when they say...If diet and exercise don’t work......it always works!
Calories in - Calories out.
Want to lose weight? Eat less and exercise more. Number of meals is irrelevant.
Actually the article is correct eating three meals a day plus two to three snacks does help you lose weight. The key is that the snack isn’t the same as a meal. Usually your snacks are dependent on your goals. This methodology has been employed in almost every diet that has come out and most people tend to get hungry between three meals and a cot. And yes because every diet employs this methodology doesn’t make it right. Most people confuse eating 5 times a day with 5 meals a day. IF you listen to your body when you eat and stop when your body says it is satisfied, you will lose weight or maintian it. If you think eating 5 times a day means eating five T-day dinners or its equivalent, you would be unable to eat all of that if you are moderately healthy. I used to swim two miles a day and do an hour of water aerobics right after my swim. I ate what I wanted and that included a good dose of McD’s. I lost over 15 lbs. I ate 5 times a day too. I can’t swim now but still eat five times a day and have lost over 50 lbs. So yes eating three meals and two to three snacks a day and you can lose weight. IF you call shananigans, I have the medical records to prove it along with the pictures. I really don’t exercise at all other than normal household chores. I have a sedentary job now. One other thing I dont count calories carbs or points. I eat hat I want and when I want as long as I eat five times a day and never go beyond three hours between eating.
It's what you eat -- not how much or how often you eat it. Cut out the stuff that raises your blood-sugar level: wheat, sugar, fruit [sorry!], and starches.
Eat all you want of the rest: meat, vegetables [except potatoes, corn, and rice (eat these in small amounts)], and dairy. The weight'll fall off with nary a calorie counted.
The nutrition information we get these days is just as bad as the economic analysis they give us.
I kind of wonder about a “fourth meal” that may have existed before industrialization.
To explain, for years, historians were rather baffled, because before industrialization, there were frequent references to “first sleep” and “second sleep”, in a more rural, agricultural society.
Finally the light dawned that people were in the habit of going to sleep after sundown, then waking up in the middle of the night. At that time, they would stoke the fire, tend to young children, and make some preparations for breakfast, cooking over the coals. Then they would go back to sleep, to arise before dawn, eat their by then ready breakfast quickly, not having to prepare it, and set to their morning farm chores.
But into this now imagine the meals of the day. Breakfast, followed by the big meal of the day, called dinner, what we now call lunch, then a smaller meal, supper, before bedtime.
Adding a fourth meal to this makes sense, between the first and second sleep. Thus they would have three small meals and one large meal a day. People would not have a real “break-fast”, because they had not gone the whole night without food.
The proof of this theory would go back to those references for “first sleep” and “second sleep”, to see if they mentioned eating between the two.