eat six small meals a day.

To eat healthier and more often with smaller meals and snacks. Because the starve all day and eat whatever I want later thing has gotten me nothing but fatter and fatter. So, I decided to do it the slower but better and healthier way for me. Inspired by the Abs Diet given to me by my sis.

I’m going to give this a try and track my progress on this website. I’ll post successes and failures.

Personally, I feel much better when I’m eating several small meals a day than when I eat a couple of large meals. It helps me keep up my energy, and I never feel groggy from fullness. I’d suggest drinking water between meals too. It makes a big difference.

I eat when I am hungry. I have a bite here and there, I have a sandwich and it last me most of the morning. I eat until I am satisfied and eat fresh fruits and veggies with nuts, but not together.

This works good for me at work. I am a nurse and I just stop whenever I want, usually at the end of a task. Hey! everyone else goes out for cigarette breaks! I put a bag of frozen veggies, two portions of frozen cooked chicken, some fruit in a box for the fridge. Then a meal replacement bar, an oatmeal package besides in the bag. [I usually don’t eat these, but they are just in case.] If we order out I just get a small order of fries [gotta have them!]. I do 12 hour days so this is the whole day’s food except for a bit of cereal when I get home.

When I am home all day it usually works pretty good but I have to be more organized. What messes me up is the trips to the stores in town, the meals out with friends, the visits to friends, evenign seminars and other interruptions. Sometimes I am able to eat out and just bring half home.

But I still feel so much better when I stay on track. The big meals and not eating for most of the day really make me feel messed up and I get into the afternoon coma.

Does anyone know how much protein should be eaten during the day?

Sonya

I was doing this the whole time I was off work and traveling … it was a lot easier then because I had all the time in the world. Now it is just plain irritating to interrupt what I’m doing at work just to have a small meal. Not to mention it forces me to be a bit antisocial and not do lunch with the colleagues.

Maybe scheduling is the issue? Space your “MAJOR” meals apart enough so that your “MINOR” portions get an adequate gap, so you begin craving them. Try this:

(MAJOR) 6am Breakfast
(minor) 9am snack
(MAJOR) 12pm Lunch
(minor) 3pm snack
(MAJOR) 6pm Dinner
(minor) 9pm snack

Basically, every quarter of an analog watch is when you eat. That works out to 3 hour blocks, a natural interval to take a break. This forces me to stay on schedule b/c the last thing I want to do is to conscientiously count the hours.

but I feel better. I’m not weighted down by the density of alot of food. I eat small and I’m hungry sooner but in the time between meals I have more energy. The downside is, if I miss a meal, I’m completely ravenous.

The preparing 30 meals a work week was a little staggering, especially for someone who doesn’t have a lot of time. I generally use one or two shakes a day in lieu of a meal. It’s much easier than actually carrying another meal or two, and it doesn’t take me away from my desk.

And started buying healthy choice. They are not as good, nor as healthy I’m sure as cooking myself—but they’re pretty cheap(1.80) at the giant, and perfectly measured. At 230 calories a pop, eating four in a day still puts me well within my calorie goals. For breakfast I’m going with oatmeal with berries.