3 - 5 meals without grazing

[latido 177]

When a nutritionist asks you to eat five rather than three meals a day, how do you make sure it isn't grazing? In between drinking and eating, I am using my mouth the whole day!

[blashlee 509]

When a nutritionist asks you to eat five rather than three meals a day, how do you make sure it isn't grazing? In between drinking and eating, I am using my mouth the whole day!

Make sure that they are all actual meals and that the other 2 aren't "Snacks." And also, eat them on a schedule when you're actually hungry or getting hungry, not just because they exist and you were told to eat them. Somedays (especially after a good workout) I am starving and feeling hungry many times a day. Other days (rest days usually) I'm not that hungry and normally eat maybe twice, with a string cheese or a yogurt in between to stop me from having any headaches.

You're grazing when you run to your fridge, take a bite or two of something and then go away...then return 15 minutes later to do the same thing. If you're sitting down and focused on a balanced meal, comprised mostly of Protein, and you're treating it like a meal, then it's a meal.

[lisaanewme67 123]

@@blashlee Great advice. I will take that with me!

[TXMissy 211]

I eat 3 meals and in the morning about 10:30 I drink my Protein Shake, about 4 or 5 I eat half a Protein Bar (it's very filling) or I eat cut up chicken and nuts. With that being said my meals are very small. They look more like Snacks vs meals because I eat so little. I get home very late on week days so I don't eat dinner until 8.

[latido 177]

It's been three days on this schedule now, and I am eating or drinking nonstop. To calculate five meals every three hours, 5*3=15. 15 hours of my day, I am eating every three hours. In between, I have JUST enough time to wait 30-45 minutes, twice, to drink for 90 minutes, and eat again. I'm exhausted.

[TXMissy 211]

It will get better. I focus on my drinking and also on my Protein. There are days I just can't get it all in. I don't stress because if I do then it makes it worse. First thing out of bed I have to take my thyroid meds. If I don't then I'm off for the rest of the day because I have to wait an hour to eat or drink. There are days that I'm so busy at work that I forget to eat in between meals. (I never thought I'd see the day that I say that) so I stick as closely to the plan as possible. I've lost 71 lbs since April. It's coming off and I feel great for the most part. I've sat down at times to eat and could only take 2 bites and then there have been times that I feel I could just eat forever. I know this is normal. So I don't think that you have to kill to yourself with feeling like you are eating. I think the Nut is just trying to help you, but you really have to figure it out what works and how to get it all in.