Busting the myth of eating multiple times per day.
We are going to be talking about some fallacies in the nutrition world now. This is one that I used to believe in and preached to clients and did myself. In my opinion you cannot be healthy if you are eating multiple times per day.
by Jason Yun. Keto, Diet and Fitness Professional
Now understand with this fallacy or myth you can still get a great body, health, fitness level, etc…… There are many people doing it. However, remember you are a health conscious person and part of health is aging, in particular healthy aging.
Let’s first clarify ‘eating multiple times per day’. Because the standard breakfast lunch and dinner is eating multiple times per day. I consider it to be anything more then 4 times per day. With myself 6 was the number to shoot for because you are awake 16 hours and you sleep 8 (this was what I was told- this is purely hypothetical- once you go through and understand the sleep section you will know not everyone needs 8 hours). So you eat within 30 minutes of waking up—— otherwise your muscles will simply get destroyed and shrink. Then every 2-3 hours you eat again for a total of 6 times. Then go to bed, that last meal coming an hour before bed. Then repeat day in and day out.
That’s how I did it and how I preached to clients. I wanted a minimum of 5 times a day. Myself in my heyday of my bodybuilding phase, I was eating anywhere from 7-10 meals a day. Even when I switched to a Paleo diet I was still eating 4 to 5 times a day. All the bodybuilders and bodybuilding magazines pushed this like no tomorrow.
They also pushed the way I was eating which was high carb, low fat/cholesterol and high protein.
When you eat like that you pretty much have to eat 4 or more times per day, otherwise you face the dreaded crungy (cranky and hungry). When you are consuming that many carbs and protein and not enough fat you are going to get that way.
Let’s talk about the actual science of eating multiple meals per day. OK!!
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