How Many Meals A Day Should You Eat for Fat Loss? 🥩 🥗🍗 3 meals, 5 meals, 6 meals, or more?
The number of meals you should eat per day can vary based on individual preferences, dietary goals, and cultural norms. There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question. Traditionally, many people follow a pattern of three meals per day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. However, some people prefer to have more frequent, smaller meals throughout the day, which is often referred to as "grazing" or "snacking."
Here are some common meal frequency patterns:
Three meals a day: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are the main meals, with no or minimal snacking in between.
Four to five meals a day: This can include three main meals and one or two snacks in between.
Six or more small meals a day: Some individuals prefer to eat smaller, more frequent meals to maintain energy levels and control hunger.
Intermittent fasting: This involves cycling between periods of eating and long breaks in between meals. Such as 16 hours of no eating and an 8 hour eating window when you can consume your meals.
Regardless of how you space out your meals, the most important thing is what you eat and how much you eat. When you eat is the least important when it comes to weight loss.
Now this doesn't mean that meal timing has no purpose. For athletes and people who are performing in a specific sporting or athletic events, they need to ensure they have adequate calories and glycogen in their system to provide energy for the event, and then they need to make sure to consume adequate protein and nutrients afterwards to allow for optimal recovery.
However, for average people who are doing moderate exercise, meal timing isn't as critical and the amount of food and quality of the food they eat is the most important thing.
If you would like some help with planning out the ideal meal plan for you and your fitness and fat loss goals, then I'd recommend downloading a Free Copy of my "Ripped After 40 PDF ebook" at:
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This will break down different eating scenarios and show you have to best structure your meal plan for your individual needs and eating preferences.
And if you have any questions about this, you can book in for a Free One-On-One strategy session call with Lee Hayward to discuss your fitness and fat loss goals and map out a realistic action plan that's right for you.
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If you would like some help with planning out the ideal meal plan for you and your fitness and fat loss goals, then I'd recommend downloading a Free Copy of my "Ripped After 40 PDF ebook" at: leehayward.com/blog/ripped-after-40-ebook
Unrelated to your topic: always loved your work from so many years back, sadly not a gym nut anymore but love your advice and routines I hope many don’t follow the gimmicks and heed your tips and advice
@TotalFitnessBodybuilding
10 ай бұрын
I appreciate your feedback. Just curious, how are you keeping fit these days if you're not going to the gym anymore?
Hi lee just some topics for upcoming videos Your full supplements for the day such as vitamins minerals showing brands Second video your journey into property development and any other business ventures which have allowed you to become financially free and please go over some of the books that helped you from that massive bookcase of yours! All the best
@TotalFitnessBodybuilding
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for the idea!
😂😂 nice video
@TotalFitnessBodybuilding
5 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed
GSP once said, if he had to stop eating all his fav food, he would stop mma. Moderation is key.
@TotalFitnessBodybuilding
10 ай бұрын
I totally agree. Eating is a huge part of life, socially, culturally, enjoyment, etc. I wouldn't want to give up my favourite foods either 😋
1, 2 or 3 meals a day is possible and no sugar or man made processed carbs.
You are telling me you can get shredded on 3 meals and one snsck ?
@TotalFitnessBodybuilding
6 ай бұрын
Absolutely, the most important thing is what you eat and how much you eat. You can lose fat as long as you sustain a calorie deficit - regardless of how you space out your meals.
Of course you can eat THREE meals a day. You can eat FOUR and FIVE as long as the CALORIES are LOW! Lee is RIGHT! I do three. BUT, I keep the first two meals below 500 calories! And dinner is kept to around 1000 calories or so. Add to this EXERCISE so that I'm burning about 400-450 calories a day! So you have around 2000+ calories a day and subtrack 450 and you're at around 1600-1700 so about a pound or two every couple of weeks loss. SLOW but STEADY is the BEST way to lose weight and keep it off. If it comes off too fast that is NOT always a good thing! I also prefer to recomp rather than just lose. So I'm trying to hold onto muscle while trying to SLOWLY lose some FAT! This is a little harder but worth it. You keep training and exercising while being in a calorie deficit but not a great deficit!
@TotalFitnessBodybuilding
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing, that's solid advice, much appreciated.
@bioinfo3
8 ай бұрын
What do you usually have for your first two meals?
@cnhhnc
8 ай бұрын
@@bioinfo3 For B-fast I have one piece of 100% Whole wheat toast, some egg whites, a slice of cheese, coffee, and some OJ. I start off with a pint of water with lemon in it. I also consume some 90% chocolate-a square or so Lunch is either a protein shake with oatmeal, banana and frozen berries, or a large serving of oatmeal with a banana and milk in it, or a sardine sandwich with onion on whole wheat again. In ALL cases a very large cup of green tea is the preferred drink, probably two cups in size. I take joint supplements in the morning-tumeric, fish oil, MSM, and glucosamine/chondroitin complex, D, calcium, resveratrol, etc. at lunch, and saw palmetto, a potent multivitamin, and vitamin C and Mg after dinner.