Everything works.
For my body type, appetite and overall past experiences I follow a protocol very similar to the one SH has mentioned. Works well, is simple, effective and has gotten me leaner and currently is getting me bigger.
I think everyone here has good points. I understand multiple spread out feedings for someone with:
A) a fast metabolism and an equally shitty appetite…therefore, needing to get a lot of cals in per day.
b) an already “big” person who needs a lot of cals per day.
I don’t believe in any other logic to the 6 meal a day or 5 or 7 or 8 or w.e. due to “stoking your metabolism”…nor “Staying anabolic”…nor “only being able to digest X amount of protein”.
Look…if you eat a shitload of food in one sitting, you will digest it…it just takes longer. If this weren’t the case, and the “excess” just went to waste…you’d have a lot less fat people in this world, because they wouldn’t be digesting all of those giant 5kcal burger meals. Think about it.
6 meals a day is great for some and impractical and unneeded for others. 8 meals a day are great for some and impractical for others. 1 meal a day " " " " " " " " "… Intermittent fasting fits perfectly for certain people and others claim to feel like shit. I think my point is made. Stop reading articles and taking what is said in one particular article as law that needs to be followed. There are more nutrition camps around nowadays than I can count. And, a lot of them make valid points for their case. I think everyone on this board will agree that finding a starting point based on some articles is great…but you need to be able to tweak things to fit your body, life and goals better over time.
For me…I really can’t feel satisfied at all unless I sit down and have ATLEAST 1200-1500 calories in a sitting. And even then…it can be a count down until I eat next. Most people I train with though…they don’t understand that…and they do just fine eating 500kcal meals spread out over the day. Secondly, I only weigh 155lbs…my needs versus Prof. X needs are very, very different. I think if he could stuff his needs in 2 meals or so…he’d probably be able to make a case for professional eating.
[quote]Jungleman wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]Jungleman wrote:
[quote]John Mclane wrote:
Thing is, if someone needs 250-300mg of protein a day, then 6 meals - with 50mg of protein per sitting = 300 grams od protein - seems the way to go for me, especially as it would be hard for the body to take/digest more than 50gms of protein a day at any one time, or am I wrong?[/quote]
That’s a great point. I was always taught I could only take in/process 45grams for every hour and a half.[/quote]
There is no evidence supporting that, but even if it were true:
Say it takes 10 hours to digest a meal, that’s 300 grams of protein you can get out of a single meal.[/quote]
No, 45-50 from every meal, and the rest is turned into waste because you’re body can’t process that much at once.
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Exactly
I’ve been changing up my diet a lot, I’ve been keeping a food journal though. It looks like I’m consuming a lot more carbs than I originally thought. I didn’t even mean to, some of it is from fruit and vegetables. I’m trying to overhaul my eating and lifting habits. The next up will be getting a concrete lifting plan together.
By the way, is there a reason there are articles written on doing certain workouts for just 6-12 weeks? Is that for people that already have a strong foundation? I usually go by a flexible plan all year round.
[quote]John Mclane wrote:
[quote]Jungleman wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]Jungleman wrote:
[quote]John Mclane wrote:
Thing is, if someone needs 250-300mg of protein a day, then 6 meals - with 50mg of protein per sitting = 300 grams od protein - seems the way to go for me, especially as it would be hard for the body to take/digest more than 50gms of protein a day at any one time, or am I wrong?[/quote]
That’s a great point. I was always taught I could only take in/process 45grams for every hour and a half.[/quote]
There is no evidence supporting that, but even if it were true:
Say it takes 10 hours to digest a meal, that’s 300 grams of protein you can get out of a single meal.[/quote]
No, 45-50 from every meal, and the rest is turned into waste because you’re body can’t process that much at once.
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Exactly
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What you’re missing is that digestion doesn’t happen “at once” and the stuff you eat sits in your guts for many hours as it’s broken down and assimilated. The stuff you eat at 8 am is going to end up in your gut at the same time as the stuff you eat at 11 am and 2pm. This isn’t complicated. In the process of consumption-digestion-absorption-expulsion, digestion is the rate-limiting factor.