Posts by tboonpickenz

His meaning is this:  If you split a meal into two meals, then you will be far less likely to have snacks for a longer part of the day.  Snacks are typically the worst of the food people eat, and have substantial calories.

Eating more, smaller meals is very beneficial.

I have to tell you a co-worker of mine has chickens he bought and were delivered through the mail, which was hilarious in the first place, but he gets many eggs every day.  I asked him to please watch his cholesterol.

Some people hate Windows 8 more than republicans hate Obama.  Don't let your emotions get the best of you.

In a related sci-fi movie, Aliens, terraforming was being performed, which changed the atmosphere of the entire planet to make it habitable.  Unfortunately for the colony, a superior predator already existed there.

BMI was never designed to accurately predict mortality.  A far more accurate method to predict "risk of heart attack, stroke or death", is:

Even simply waist size is substantially better at predicting mortality risk than BMI.

Simply put, if your waist is more than 1/2 of your height, than you are at increased risk of death.

At the top of the list of people I feel sorry for are the ones starving, which number around 800 million.  The number is down from about 1 billion in the 1990s, but food prices have jumped last decade.  That hurt the poorer countries pretty bad at the time.

When I hit the plateaus, I find the cause is inaccurate measurement of foods.  It could be different for you, but with with me, I sometimes not log a food or two, or guesstimate a serving size.  It never works out right. 

Also, never go by how much you gain in one day.  You can only really go over a trend over a period of time.  It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking your weight in a single day a problem.  I've been there.

In summary, I recommend using a scale for all ingredients for food that isn't packaged in its serving size. 

I eat a bowl of cereal, and sometimes some peanuts even when I'll work out hard after that.  I never have a problem.  I eat good afterwards.

Edit:  If I am going to have a long workout, which means 2 or more hours, I bring several 'power' bars, nuts or other snacks to eat in the middle.  This happens when I do something like a 30+ mile ride on my bike.

To counter any concern you may have about overeating during some periods, I recommend careful logging and accuracy during logging of your food.  Make sure you weigh foods carefully, especially when you go over, on the weekends.  I find when I do that, I tend to make adjustments even to weekend meals, eventually, because I can see the impact on my goal, if it is too big.   I bet the same will happen for you.

Measuring can be a pain but I recommend weighing your plate before and after eating so you know the weight.

The most important time is before, during and just after exercise. Drink plenty of water then, but also the usual 8 glasses of water per day, whenever you want.  Sometimes I'll drink all 96 ounces of water at once but I don't recommend it to others.  I do it cause I'm crazy like that.  j/k. but i do drink 40 ounces of water sometimes.