Do you think eating 4 X 200 calorie meals and one 600 calorie meal a day is healthy?
I am trying to lose weight. I wanted to try the 6 meals a day routine. I found it ok durring the day but once 6pm hits I am no longer able to stop and eat. between getting the kids fed, bathed, teeth brushed, story read, do dishes, make hubby’s lunch for next day, tidy up the house and take a shower, it’s 11p.m. I was wondering if I sqeezed the last two meals together if it would sort of defeat the whole idea of the diet?
Has anyone tried the diet?
Has anyone done what I want to do successfully?
Thanks for your time everyone!
Becky
The point of eating smaller portions of food more frequently is to train your body to know that whenever it gets hungry, there will be food there to feed it. This has two beneficial results.
First, your body will feel free to burn the energy you put into it, and not store it because it will know that the supply will always be there.
Second, you won’t walk around the house starving between meals.
Most people would eat at 8, snack at 10, eat at noon, snack at 3, and have the final meal at 6, without adding food after that point.
I think you might want to adjust your schedule accordingly, spacing out the total caloric intake to your needs (a bit smaller snack in the mid afternoon, for example) and you won’t have to worry about eating later.
On a total side note, you might want to check your schedule if you can’t spare 5 minutes between 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. That type of stress might lead to some hypertension.
what time does the rest of your family eat dinner?
eat with them
dont eat anything after that time – too late in the eve
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You can accomplish the same thing by limiting your caloric intake with three meals and a snack. If you want to limit yourself to 1400 calories a day, you can to that without worrying about what to do in the evening. Sounds like your evenings are pretty busy, and you don’t want to eat just before you go to bed. After a light dinner, take care of things that you need to do, and have a snack around 8 or 9:00. then continue with your evening routine. You will be busy enough to allow the food to digest before you go to bed. Sounds like a 5 meal a day just doesn’t work for you.
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i’m no dietitian, but i gather you are trying to boost your metabolic rate by eating many small meals throughout the day. try to eat the last meal with the kids or whatever, and then you can work on burning calories while you’re doing all the household tasks in the evening. personally, i just eat a semi-big lunch, and then have a snack or a healthy meal later in the evening. i have an office job, so i don’t need many calories. i usually save some lunch for dinner later on if i can. i also probably get a lot of calories from alcohol and beer consumption, though, so you could probably eat more if you don’t drink like i do!
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It must depend what those calories come from. If you get a 600 calorie meal of cheeseburger, or a 600 calorie meal of lean meat and fresh veg, there’s a big difference.
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have you thought about tweaking what goes into those calorie meals ? decrease fat and bad carbs. increase protein.
if you work out x3 times a week you can increase your protein even more !!! but there are limits.
honestly- try a protein shake. buy the powder from walmart(body fortress) its a huge bottle !!! and one scoop has 23 grams of protein.
dont eat 2-3 hours before bed. and get a solid 8 hours of sleep. workout at least 35-40 minutes every other day- that does not include strecthing for at least 15 minutes before and 15 mintues after.
workout should be a 11-12 minute block of time for running or walking or whatever. the last 2 minutes you should be winded and cant talk. the remaining 30 minutes or so, should be weight(free, dumb bells, or pulleys or machines).
do a complete body of easy to understand exercise for the first month. then every other day focus on a target area. like- arms one day, the next legs, etc…
but dont exercise more that 35-40 minutes. it starts to deplete your muscle growth and totally negates anyhting you ttried to accomplish.
and rest every other day from exercising.
yes eating smaller meals is so great, but requires planning.
also, make you husband fix his own meal. thats just crazy.
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The point of eating smaller portions of food more frequently is to train your body to know that whenever it gets hungry, there will be food there to feed it. This has two beneficial results.
First, your body will feel free to burn the energy you put into it, and not store it because it will know that the supply will always be there.
Second, you won’t walk around the house starving between meals.
Most people would eat at 8, snack at 10, eat at noon, snack at 3, and have the final meal at 6, without adding food after that point.
I think you might want to adjust your schedule accordingly, spacing out the total caloric intake to your needs (a bit smaller snack in the mid afternoon, for example) and you won’t have to worry about eating later.
On a total side note, you might want to check your schedule if you can’t spare 5 minutes between 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. That type of stress might lead to some hypertension.
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I think it would still work as long as you are (of course) eating healthy meals. I did something very similar to what you’re wanting to do, which pretty much just involved
-having a small breakfast (high fiber cereal, apple and creamcheese…)
-a mid-morning snack (all natural yogurt, fresh fruit…)
-a decent sized lunch (veggie or tuna sandwich, sometimes soup, baked chips, almost always a salad…)
-afternoon snack (fruit, veggies, cheese…)
-then dinner (sushi, whole wheat pastas, herb rice, veggie burgers on the grill w/ homemade baked french fries, always always with salad!)
-if snacking (before 9!) stick with more fruits and veggies
By just changing my diet to eating more (yeah!) but eating healthier foods, and minimally increasing my exercise (walking/biking around town instead of driving) I lost a little over 5lbs in probably about a month or so.
Nothing drastic, but they say thats a good thing!
Good luck!!!
(Also, don’t weigh yourself everyday! It’ll drive you crazy!)
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