Healthy Living 101

[syborg tt]

Originally Posted by legend

the 5 small meals thing makes NO DIFFERENCE to your metabolism. What makes a difference is your total food consumed during the day.

Not to sound like a Jerk but welcome to the Early 80's thought process

Yes 5 small meals a day will help you lose weight.

The more you eat in one sitting the harder it is for your body to digest all of the food. What your body doesn't digest for energy it will store as fat for future needs.

Just think of a diabetic they need to eat 5 or 6 small meals. If they don't blood sugar levels and insulin levels go crazy. So simplely put 5 or 6 meals a day is what you should strive for.

Also talk to any body builder and ask them how many meals they eat a day. Or for that matter ask any professional athlete they all eat many small meals.

Other tip that is pretty simple. Toss out your large dinner plates and switch to a 9" plate it's a simple way to control your portions.

[legend]

Originally Posted by syborg tt

Not to sound like a Jerk but welcome to the Early 80's thought process

Yes 5 small meals a day will help you lose weight.

The more you eat in one sitting the harder it is for your body to digest all of the food. What your body doesn't digest for energy it will store as fat for future needs.

Just think of a diabetic they need to eat 5 or 6 small meals. If they don't blood sugar levels and insulin levels go crazy. So simplely put 5 or 6 meals a day is what you should strive for.

Also talk to any body builder and ask them how many meals they eat a day. Or for that matter ask any professional athlete they all eat many small meals.

Other tip that is pretty simple. Toss out your large dinner plates and switch to a 9" plate it's a simple way to control your portions.

I love the early 80s

You're wrong there Marty, but then again, whatever you prefer and can stick to is better than some "ideal" theory.

a calorie deficit is the only way you can lose weight. It makes no difference if you eat it in 1 big go or in 10 little goes. What does matteri s what keeps you on track. If lots of small meals help you avoid raiding the cookie jar, then it'll result in less overall calories.

Your body is awesome at digesting food, eat a 12 ounce steak, let me know if any of it makes it all the way through without getting digested on the way


here is A scientific look at the research data on this, scroll down to Alan's article.

http://www.leangains.com/2011/04/cri...d-on-meal.html

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[Chad-1stGen]

How's everyone doing.

I've been doing Myfitnesspal for almost 2.5 months. I've lost a bit over 20 lbs and am 1.4 lbs away from my target weight of 195. My body fat % as of tonight is at 15.7% from somewhere in the mid/high 20's.

Tomorrow my wife and I are starting a round of P90X. I will be doing it for increased health and fitness and my wife will be doing it for that and weight loss. If anyone else was thinking about P90X there is no time like the present!

Originally Posted by syborg tt

Not to sound like a Jerk but welcome to the Early 80's thought process

Yes 5 small meals a day will help you lose weight.

The more you eat in one sitting the harder it is for your body to digest all of the food. What your body doesn't digest for energy it will store as fat for future needs.

Just think of a diabetic they need to eat 5 or 6 small meals. If they don't blood sugar levels and insulin levels go crazy. So simplely put 5 or 6 meals a day is what you should strive for.

Also talk to any body builder and ask them how many meals they eat a day. Or for that matter ask any professional athlete they all eat many small meals.

Other tip that is pretty simple. Toss out your large dinner plates and switch to a 9" plate it's a simple way to control your portions.

As others have said there is no scientific evidence that 5-6 meals a day impacts your metabolism. However, I just wanted to point out that there is a lot of evidence coming out around fasting that indirectly sheds some light on why lots of small meals my in fact be bad or of no consequence. You point out insulin spikes which can happen from a large "unhealthy" meal, however the best time for body's insulin sensitivity is breakfast. Not because it is in the morning but because it is after a "fast" or period of time in which you haven't been eating. I encourage folks to watch the documentary video by the BBC that I linked a few pages back if you want to learn more about some of the latest thinking on meal timing and frequency.

[Chad-1stGen]

I am not a morning person and I hate working out but I got up today and finished the Day 1 P90X work outs first thing this morning at 6:00am. Any other P90X takers want to do this thing?

[legend]

P90X looks like a lot of effort for minimal gain. I think there are easier ways of getting in shape, but it's whatever floats your boat

Martin Berkhan has done a lot of research into intermittant fasting, you can find him at Leangains.com He's a bit of an asshat though but definitely in shape.

Intermiittant fasting or "skipping breakfast" is suprisingly easy to stick to and may have some benefits that aren't entirely clear yet. What he does do though that makes the most difference is always cover his protein needs and keep an eye on overall calories.

John Berardi who is possibly the most friendly and innofensive face of the fitness industry tried out all of the variants of fasting and wrote it all up in this free book

http://www.precisionnutrition.com/intermittent-fasting

[Chad-1stGen]

Day 2 Plyometrics is DONE! Got up early and did it first thing at 6:00 am again. Man that workout is murder for folks not in good shape or with weak cores like myself. Put I pushed through and modified where I had to.

Also, I am following the nutrition plan. Day 1 consisted of:

Breakfast: egg white mushroom scramble, cup of strawberries and 12 oz non fat milk
snack 1: protein bar
Lunch: green apple & chicken salad
snack 2: 30 pistachios
Dinner: 9.5 oz of chicken (lunch was a bit light), 2.5 cups of broccoli, single multi grain English muffin with no topping.

Also supplemented with recovery drink and a protein drink. You sure don't go hungry on P90X.

Originally Posted by legend

P90X looks like a lot of effort for minimal gain. I think there are easier ways of getting in shape, but it's whatever floats your boat

Having done P90X before I strongly disagree with your first sentence, though I do agree with your second sentence. P90X IS very hard work, especially for folks not used to measuring their food and/or high intensity and frequent workouts! However, you can see huge gains! I personally had significant gains in strength and significant losses in weight, body fat and just pure inches around my waist, stomach and butt. I also reduced my chronic back pain significantly.

If all you want to do is loose weight then P90X is a lot of extra work. If all you are looking to do is get mildly better shape then again it is a lot of extra work. However, if you want huge gains in a short period of time it kicks ass.

EDIT: I wanted to add that the first time I did P90X I was out of shape and overwieght a little bit (lost 20 lbs the first time). This time, I'm starting after 3 months of just trying to be more active in the form of fast paced walking and biking and 2+ months of using myfitnesspal to track what I eat but still eating the things I like that happen to be a bit healthier. That means that this time I'm starting P90X only a few pounds heavier than when I ended P90X last time, I'm also close to the same body fat % as what I ended at last time. However, I don't have near the muscle size or definition and my chronic back pain is bad. I'm looking forward to blowing my previous results out of the water since I'm starting off not having to loose a bunch of weight. I'd love to get down to single digit body fat % or even close to ~10% in my mid 30's.

[Tony_SS]

Originally Posted by Chad-1stGen

Day 2 Plyometrics is DONE! Got up early and did it first thing at 6:00 am again. Man that workout is murder for folks not in good shape or with weak cores like myself. Put I pushed through and modified where I had to.

Also, I am following the nutrition plan. Day 1 consisted of:

Breakfast: egg white mushroom scramble, cup of strawberries and 12 oz non fat milk
snack 1: protein bar
Lunch: green apple & chicken salad
snack 2: 30 pistachios
Dinner: 9.5 oz of chicken (lunch was a bit light), 2.5 cups of broccoli, single multi grain English muffin with no topping.

Also supplemented with recovery drink and a protein drink. You sure don't go hungry on P90X.

If I may offer a critique to that diet plan, it is very outdated and misguided!

Eat the whole egg, including the yolk! and drink vitamin D milk.
Include dark meat chicken
Steam the broccoli and include other veggies like carrots and cauliflower and add real butter and real sea salt!
Skip the 'whole grain' anything and eat very minimal amounts of breads.
Skip the 'protein' drink... synthetic protein is rancid and unhealthy.

The myth that saturated fat is bad for us is simply NOT true! It is essential for our bodies to have that.
Sugars, flours, fillers, processed grains, vegetable oils are bad for us.

Google Weston A Price for more info.

[Neil B]

Originally Posted by Tony_SS

Skip the 'protein' drink... synthetic protein is rancid and unhealthy.

Please explain. Specifically, what is rancid and unhealthy about supplementing with whey protein isolates mixed in water?