1 2 3 O'clock, 4 O'clock... EAT!

Hi All,

I read somewhere that eating more smaller meals during the day is better for you than eating say 1 big meal as it keeps your metabolism going throughout the day. Fair enough me thinks. And everyone knows you should eat breakfast in the morning to kick start your metabolism and stop your body thinking that your starving after not eating while you sleep. But someone told me that eating certain amounts at certain points during the day also helps your body lose weight.

I eat breakfast between 8 and half past, lunch between 1 and half past, a fruity snack at around 3 or 4 and then dinner before 8. After 8 I don't eat anything.

Using this method of eating appropriate sized meals and healthy foods at the right times I manged to lose almost 2 stone.

Just wondering if anyone else uses a similar method to regulate what they eat and if anyone else has a cut off point in the evening.

George :)

 

I have a schedule but it's largely dictated by the working/school day rather than anything more complex.   I'd have though the vast majority of people do the same thing.   It doesn't really matter when you eat as long as the food is reasonably evenly spaced out.  

I do.

8am   - breaky
10am - snack
1pm   - lunch
3pm   - snack
6pm   - dinner

I try to eat 200-300 cal per meal/snack... sometimes the 3pm snack is smaller so I can have a bigger dinner.

No food after 7/8pm

Works  for me.  

I tend to have some sort of schedule most of the time...

7ish is breakfast - about 300 cals

930 or 10 is a snack - about 100 cals

12 is lunch - about 300-500 cals

230 and 430 a snack (i have these granola bars that are two to a pack and total is 150 cals so i have one at 230 and one at 430) - 150 cals

dinner is kinda late between 7 and 8  depending on the time i get out of work and how long I am at the gym for... I leave whatever is left for dinner. 

no snack after dinner...

I have actually done both a snack and no snack...I find that no snack is much better for me since I eat dinner so late.  when i ate a snack, i would usually would eat too big a snack and i didn't lose weight. If I am way off from my cal intake for the day i try to just have a granola bar or small bag of popcorn.

You really have to find what works for you...as long as you are breaking it up good and you are not starving when you go to bed, I would say that you are fine.  Let me tell you though once you start having a snack at night, its hard to stop...haha...

Usually my schedule looks something like this:

breakfast between 8 and 9

lunch around 1130

snack around 130-2

if i'm hungry, another snack around 330-4

dinner 530-630

possibly another snack around 8

The last snack generally depends on if I have calories left, usually utilized the most on my higher calorie days, and the snacks in the middle depend on if I'm still hungry after the first one.  Not a tiny bit hungry, I have to actually be hungry.  Otherwise I just wait for dinner.  Usually that only happens on my lower calorie days when I've had less for lunch and want to spread out my meals more over the day. (I cycle calories to keep my body from getting used to the deficit.) It's worked pretty well so far, I've lost over 20 pounds in a little over 2 months doing it that way.