Sport Are consistant meals essential?

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Ed Gasket

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:confused: can breaking your eating pattern effect weight training goals?

i eat six meals every day during the working week all based around my particular energey needs all balanced calories bla blah blah. I wake up at 7am and eat my first meal straight away and so on every 2 and a half hours until around 7ish in the evening. this is all good until friday night when i'll sink 3 beers and wake up on saturday morning at 12ish in the afternoon missing my first 3 meals. that day i will eat 4 or 5 meals up until 8pm then a couple of jars again and mybe a late night snack before bed, waking up again on sunday at 12ish. then its back to normal on monday. Do you think that doing this pretty consistantly will crap on my chances of muscle gain and overall fitness in the long haul? or will the 5 good days outweigh the 2 bad days? anyone have any clues on this?
 
consistency is VERY important. the body looks for trends in dietary habits to determine what it can do. so if you don't consistently have surplus calories, you won't pack on muscle.
if you don't consistently have the right caloric deficit, you won't shed fat as easily.
 
How come with 5-7 meals a day you do that lose weight but you also do it to gain weight, which doesn't make much sense.
 
Ed it won't have any substantial effect on you. I'd be more worried ab the alchol you take in.

Also, with eating 5-7 meals I don't see how it will help build muscle. I've googled it and it helps in fat loss. But my goal is a small amount of fat gain along with muscle. Take the warrior diet for example.
 
Champ,

5-7 meals a day is how the body likes to take in food. less than 10,000 years ago, we still looked just how we look today (maybe shorter) but we were hunter/gatherers. Hunt and gather all day, stop for short breaks of meat, berries and tubers, then go hunt more.
10,000 years isn't enough time for us to evolve to the point where we can just stop 3 times a day, and gorge ourselves on the same total calories. The body gets what it needs, and stores the remainder as fat.

you eat 5-7 times a day regardless of your goals. if you wanna shed fat, you make sure those 5-7 meals give you a caloric intake that's 500 cals under your daily maintenance.
if you wanna gain muscle, you make sure that caloric intake is 500calories over your daily maintenance, or more, it depends on the individual, their level of physical fitness, sleep habits, and wether they are using hormones.

YOu're stuck on the number of meals, not the total food intake, which is really where fat loss or muscle growth is determined.
 
malkore said:
Champ,

5-7 meals a day is how the body likes to take in food. less than 10,000 years ago, we still looked just how we look today (maybe shorter) but we were hunter/gatherers. Hunt and gather all day, stop for short breaks of meat, berries and tubers, then go hunt more.
10,000 years isn't enough time for us to evolve to the point where we can just stop 3 times a day, and gorge ourselves on the same total calories. The body gets what it needs, and stores the remainder as fat.

you eat 5-7 times a day regardless of your goals. if you wanna shed fat, you make sure those 5-7 meals give you a caloric intake that's 500 cals under your daily maintenance.
if you wanna gain muscle, you make sure that caloric intake is 500calories over your daily maintenance, or more, it depends on the individual, their level of physical fitness, sleep habits, and wether they are using hormones.

YOu're stuck on the number of meals, not the total food intake, which is really where fat loss or muscle growth is determined.
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about the consistency issue malk, i'm still consuming the same calories over the weekend food wise and i sort of realise that the beer at the weekend is holding back my fat loss, do you think that the 2 bad days will outweigh the 5 workout days?
 
depends on how bad those two days are.
if you held back 500 cals for 5 days, that's 2,500 calories.
But if on the weekend you drink 750cals in beer on both days, you just dropped your weekly calorie deficit down to 1,000 cals...which is essentially like being good 2 days, and then cheating the other 5.
 
i sort of figured it would be like that. ive cut down to about 8 beers over the weekend now considering i used to drink 20-30 :eek:
 
malk so 10,000 years ago people had 5-7 meals a day, which were fairly even? No, they had 1 large meal a day and grazed the rest of the day on small foods.
 
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