Help designing a 5 meal a day plan?
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skord (
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November 5th, 2008
I’m curious here, my personal trainer suggested five smaller meals a day, but wasn’t clear as to what they could be. Searching around leads me to a lot of commercial sources and spam links. If you eat five meals a day, how do you spread the calories out and still eat real food with your family come dinner time?
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I just today started a new diet plan that gives me 5 meals a day (2K calories), and I am amazed at how small the portions are—I’ve been way overeating in terms of portions.
What’s worked for me: make sure your b-fast and lunch and dinner portions are smaller. Seriously. Have hearty “snacks” as your other meals: handful of nuts with cheese, cottage cheese, some jerky. A protein shake. Some hummus and celery. Or, what I used to do… if you order out a bunch, split your lunch or dinner in half. Divide them between two meals. You’ll feel a lot more full, and have more energy since your blood sugar doesn’t spike so much.
The real key is eating every 4 hours. Now it makes total sense to me why, when I was trainign and eating 5–6 times a day, I losing weight and gaining strength, and now, when many times I skip breakfast and lunch, I’m still saying the same weight.
I eat high fiber cereal in the morning with frozen blueberries. I might substitute egg beaters in a high fiber tortilla on a few mornings. About 10:00 I have some protein like maybe a slice of deli turkey and an apple or pear. About noon to 1 I might have a tuna or salmon sandwich with celery and or kale or romain and onion. About 4 I’ll have some crackers (again, high fiber low sugar) with a slice of low fat cheese and maybe an apple and then about 6:30 broiled fish, chicken or lean beef and a big ass salad!
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