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Originally Posted by Stranger33
Everyone says that the more meals per day the better.. I googled but couldn't find much info about it, or studies.
Then.. that was a lie?.
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Excellent question. My answer is - most likely it was a lie, unless you follow 1 specific loophole.
Here is my research and observation - There is some good intention behind it, but here is where it fails.
You eat a bunch during the day as snacks, you will nearly never be calorie deficient. Calorie deficient is the only reason you lose weight. But say you have great self control and are under the daily need.
Say you're 500 calories under your daily requirements. Now your body has to burn parts of itself. Here is the next issue. With constant eating, you will be triggering insulin. Insulin prevents your fat from getting burnt. That means with constant snacking you always have insulin, which means you'd be losing things other than fat. Muscle, organ tissue etc etc. AKA - Bad.
So you need to eat without triggering a insulin response in all your snacks. That means - it has to have no carbs, no protein, no other things that create a insulin response. AKA - fat mostly.
You've not got that much to lose, but if you only want to eat 1 meal a day - well, that's the diet I am on. I have 2-3 cups of coffee through the day with butter and MCT oil in it. Then 1 big dinner. The advantage of dinner over any other meal as my single meal is that I can be awake and active when I am non insulin-ed up. That IMHO promotes fat burning. Besides, I can save lots of time during the day by not worrying about food.
So yes, snack away, but all your snacks have to be nearly all fat. That is the caveat. If you're calorie deficient you'd lose weight, and if you're very low in carbs, you body stays in ketosis and keeps burning fat instead of carbs.
Thanks.
Srinath.