[quote]Professor X wrote:
Regularly has never meant OFTEN. Quit the bullshit.
[/quote]
Look up the definition of regularly
Yes it does/can mean often.
Frequently. Often. Same thing.
That’s why I said that would be you disconnect, which it is.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
Could you please explain this above post?
You can use yourself as an example because obviously you know the most about that.
Can you give an example and use yourself to explain this post?
I think that would be more informative than vague bullet point “facts.”
Thanks.[/quote]
How are they vague?
Those are variables that can affect meal frequency. There are others but I would consider those highest priority. If you have a real question, please be more specific because there was nothing vague there at all.[/quote]
You are being purposefully dense.
I asked a question.
I was trying to contribute to your thread by asking for an example.
You seem like you just want to argue semantics.
If you don’t care about making this thread actually informative then just say so.
[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Regularly has never meant OFTEN. Quit the bullshit.
[/quote]
Look up the definition of regularly
Yes it does/can mean often.
Frequently. Often. Same thing.
That’s why I said that would be you disconnect, which it is.[/quote]
Dear God, then feel safe in the fact that I did not mean OFTEN which is one reason I didn’t write that word.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Regularly has never meant OFTEN. Quit the bullshit.
[/quote]
Look up the definition of regularly
Yes it does/can mean often.
Frequently. Often. Same thing.
That’s why I said that would be you disconnect, which it is.[/quote]
Dear God, then feel safe in the fact that I did not mean OFTEN which is one reason I didn’t write that word.
[/quote]
Please stop ruining this thread.
Lets stick to the topic of meal frequency and how eating regularly with regards to 6 meals a day doesn’t mean often.
[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Regularly has never meant OFTEN. Quit the bullshit.
[/quote]
Look up the definition of regularly
Yes it does/can mean often.
Frequently. Often. Same thing.
That’s why I said that would be you disconnect, which it is.[/quote]
Dear God, then feel safe in the fact that I did not mean OFTEN which is one reason I didn’t write that word.
[/quote]
Please stop ruining this thread.
Lets stick to the topic of meal frequency and how eating regularly with regards to 6 meals a day doesn’t mean often.[/quote]
Doofus, I am not telling people to eat 6 meals a day.
I don’t eat 6 meals a day.
Maybe if you stopped trying to find shit wrong in what I am writing you would understand it better.
whats the point in of this thread… discussion?
because it has already been PROVEN scientifically that meal frequency has no effect at all on body composition. it also does NOT speed up your metabolism like people use to say it did.
Seeing as some here clearly have issues with reading comprehension…here ae Cliff otes to what was written:L
I have eaten six meals a day.
I see a newb making eating a CONSISTENT pattern is a major priority for success.
I now see many variables as having more say in how often one should eat.
No one wrote here that everyone should eat 6 meals a day…
Regularly was not written to mean “often” but consistent.
…so those here to play word games, please exit the damn thread so an actual discussion can take place.
[quote]ryan.b_96 wrote:
whats the point in of this thread… discussion?
because it has already been PROVEN scientifically that meal frequency has no effect at all on body composition. it also does NOT speed up your metabolism like people use to say it did.[/quote]
The point was to get newbs and intermediates to understand how to control how much they eat and when they eat.
That requires going through some basics first.
Maybe if some of you allowed that to happen, you wouldn’t have to ask why a thread was created.
Spend less time trying to shoot down every sentence uttered and it may just get through.
[quote]TC wrote:
[quote]mbdix wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Due to differences in how fast food is absorbed, it my take one guy 2-3 hours for that last meal to move from his stomach to his intestines.
It may be another 4-6 hours until it moves through the intestines.
This means you generally do not base meal frequency on just how fast food moves through the body…because it would be a full day before that 1 meal is excreted…and days still before it is COMPLETELY out of the system.[/quote]
I know i could use google to answer this…
If i have a meal with spicy foods, or jalapenos, in the early part of the day. Then, that afternoon or evening take a shit. How come my ass burns from the jalapenos?
Also, In your opinion, I am lactose intolerant, if I drank a lot of milk and let it do it’s thing and then basically flush out my entire digestive tract. Would that in theory be like a cleanse?[/quote]
Transit time varies enormously. Some people have as short a window as 12 hours. However, as I understand it, certain foods can speed up the process as they’re slightly inflammatory (e.g. spicy foods).
[/quote]
Makes sense. Thanks.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Regularly has never meant OFTEN. Quit the bullshit.
[/quote]
Look up the definition of regularly
Yes it does/can mean often.
Frequently. Often. Same thing.
That’s why I said that would be you disconnect, which it is.[/quote]
Dear God, then feel safe in the fact that I did not mean OFTEN which is one reason I didn’t write that word.
[/quote]
Please stop ruining this thread.
Lets stick to the topic of meal frequency and how eating regularly with regards to 6 meals a day doesn’t mean often.[/quote]
Doofus, I am not telling people to eat 6 meals a day.
I don’t eat 6 meals a day.
Maybe if you stopped trying to find shit wrong in what I am writing you would understand it better.
[/quote]
Way to keep it professional and keep the name calling out of this.
You’re doing a great job of not saying much of substance in this thread so far.
That’s why I asked you to give some specifics or some anecdotal stories to actually explain but you declined.
I’ve offered you an olive branch in two threads this week.
Twice now I’ve tried to play nice and have discussions with you and it takes you one post to get argumentative and stray from “informative discussion” to “pointless arguing.”
You have no one to blame but yourself.
If you dont want to actually converse like a normal human when I try to have a conversation with you then Ill go back to discussing with people who are actually interested in it and just give you a hard time when you say dumb things.
[quote]mbdix wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Due to differences in how fast food is absorbed, it my take one guy 2-3 hours for that last meal to move from his stomach to his intestines.
It may be another 4-6 hours until it moves through the intestines.
This means you generally do not base meal frequency on just how fast food moves through the body…because it would be a full day before that 1 meal is excreted…and days still before it is COMPLETELY out of the system.[/quote]
I know i could use google to answer this…
If i have a meal with spicy foods, or jalapenos, in the early part of the day. Then, that afternoon or evening take a shit. How come my ass burns from the jalapenos?
Also, In your opinion, I am lactose intolerant, if I drank a lot of milk and let it do it’s thing and then basically flush out my entire digestive tract. Would that in theory be like a cleanse?[/quote]
That is a very good question. Some of the food is digested faster than other parts of the same meal.
Capsaicin is an irritant and passes through the digestive tract faster than some fats and proteins.
I do believe being lactose intolerant can have an affect on your desired eating times as well but through the action of decreasing absorption. I do not consider this “fact” but a medical opinion that the effects of intolerance like diarrhea can affect absorption of nutrients.
Also, no, diarrhea is not a cleanse. It is more like a gutter during a rainstorm. Shit just gets trapped in strange places.
I eat 5-6 meals a day instead of 2-3 because the quantity of food I would have to consume in those meals to meet my requirements would be massive. I’d be able to eat it all, but I’d feel like shit afterwards or at least be lethargic for a good bit. This is on a diet.
When I first started my diet way back when, I was on maintenance calories. The amount of rice and meat in one meal had me sitting there wondering if I could put it down. That was also on 5-6 meals.
Sure, you may not “need” to do 5-6 meals, just ensure you get your calories/macro’s every day, but it makes it a whole lot easier if you have time.
Like for me, I have to hit ‘x’ grams protein a day. When I go to the grocery store and buy 600 grams of chicken breast (3 meals) I don’t weigh it. I throw 3-4 pieces on the pan and cook them. I know in 3 days I’ll have consumed the 600 grams I needed for 3 days. Does it REALLY matter that one day was 205 grams, one 185 grams, and another 210 grams? I doubt it really does.
[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Dear God, then feel safe in the fact that I did not mean OFTEN which is one reason I didn’t write that word.
[/quote]
Please stop ruining this thread.
Lets stick to the topic of meal frequency and how eating regularly with regards to 6 meals a day doesn’t mean often.[/quote]
Aaaaand another argument about what was said and what wasn’t -lol.
The quote below is what PX wrote earlier.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
One thing I have learned…is that the “6meal/day” rule helped me early on.
It was a benefit to the skinny guy with no appetite to force myself to eat by a schedule. Doing that for years kept me moving in a positive direction, however, truth be told, you learn beyond rough outlines of thought the longer you work at getting to know your own body.
What is fact is this: As a beginner, you NEED to learn how to eat regularly. [/quote]
Maybe I’m reading incorrectly (not like I read and grade all sorts of confusing, poorly thought out papers every week or anything), but I certainly perceived the thread moving in the direction of learning to eat ‘regularly’ to mean just that (see any dictionary definition), especially after the author chose to reference his own experience as example. I can only guess that once other people started sharing stories of people not adhering to such a schedule that the direction shifted. Just my own interpretation though, wouldn’t want to speak for anyone else.
S
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
Maybe I’m reading incorrectly (not like I read and grade all sorts of confusing, poorly thought out papers every week or anything), but I certainly perceived the thread moving in the direction of learning to eat ‘regularly’ to mean just that (see any dictionary definition), especially after the author chose to reference his own experience as example. I can only guess that once other people started sharing stories of people not adhering to such a schedule that the direction shifted. Just my own interpretation though, wouldn’t want to speak for anyone else.
S
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Beginners should eat regularly or CONSISTENTLY. This has nothing to do with the number of times specifically.
Not to mention I just spelled this out on the previous page but you are still confused??
[quote]Seeing as some here clearly have issues with reading comprehension…here are Cliff notes to what was written:L
I have eaten six meals a day.
I see a newb making eating a CONSISTENT pattern is a major priority for success.
I now see many variables as having more say in how often one should eat.
No one wrote here that everyone should eat 6 meals a day…
Regularly was not written to mean “often” but consistent.
…so those here to play word games, please exit the damn thread so an actual discussion can take place.
[/quote]
It would seem to me that you are confused because you want to be.
Different roads to the same destination are there.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]ryan.b_96 wrote:
whats the point in of this thread… discussion?
because it has already been PROVEN scientifically that meal frequency has no effect at all on body composition. it also does NOT speed up your metabolism like people use to say it did.[/quote]
The point was to get newbs and intermediates to understand how to control how much they eat and when they eat.
That requires going through some basics first.
Maybe if some of you allowed that to happen, you wouldn’t have to ask why a thread was created.
Spend less time trying to shoot down every sentence uttered and it may just get through.[/quote]
i asked a a simple question of what was the purpose of this thread? then i cop a whole bunch of unnecessary arseholeness.
TC posted. All is well in the world and the rest is meaningless.
Was actually thinking of his articles when I started reading this thread.
And yes, I found smashing “trying” to keep the thread on track and making sure the message was getting thru and for people to not get caught up on their meaning of a word… Why is it the OP cannot clarify his stance? Not to be put on the spot, but to make sure we are all on the same page?
Bah.
[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:
I eat 5-6 meals a day instead of 2-3 because the quantity of food I would have to consume in those meals to meet my requirements would be massive. [/quote]
Good example. I used to do the same when my food intake was much higher than it is now. I probably got in around 5 meals at that time. In this case, it isn’t the number itself for the meals but looking at overall food intake.
I would base the frequency more on things like how long it takes for food to pass from the stomach (more comfort than anything else), overall daily caloric need ad training schedule.
However, I do thank that original frequency for teaching m how to make that all work.
[quote]mbdix wrote:
[quote]TC wrote:
[quote]mbdix wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Due to differences in how fast food is absorbed, it my take one guy 2-3 hours for that last meal to move from his stomach to his intestines.
It may be another 4-6 hours until it moves through the intestines.
This means you generally do not base meal frequency on just how fast food moves through the body…because it would be a full day before that 1 meal is excreted…and days still before it is COMPLETELY out of the system.[/quote]
I know i could use google to answer this…
If i have a meal with spicy foods, or jalapenos, in the early part of the day. Then, that afternoon or evening take a shit. How come my ass burns from the jalapenos?
Also, In your opinion, I am lactose intolerant, if I drank a lot of milk and let it do it’s thing and then basically flush out my entire digestive tract. Would that in theory be like a cleanse?[/quote]
Transit time varies enormously. Some people have as short a window as 12 hours. However, as I understand it, certain foods can speed up the process as they’re slightly inflammatory (e.g. spicy foods).
[/quote]
Makes sense. Thanks.[/quote]
On a side note. My personal belief is, take 3,500 calories, now you can break that down 4-6 meals a day if you want and it isn’t going to matter really. The most important thing about those meals isn’t how many meals it takes to reach those calories, but how well you chew the food up. I know I am guilty of not chewing my food enough. I think it might be in the top 3 of importance though. Total calories, type of calories, chewing
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]ryan.b_96 wrote:
whats the point in of this thread… discussion?
because it has already been PROVEN scientifically that meal frequency has no effect at all on body composition. it also does NOT speed up your metabolism like people use to say it did.[/quote]
The point was to get newbs and intermediates to understand how to control how much they eat and when they eat.
That requires going through some basics first.
Maybe if some of you allowed that to happen, you wouldn’t have to ask why a thread was created.
Spend less time trying to shoot down every sentence uttered and it may just get through.[/quote]
If that was the actual point then why mention a number in the first place? Why not just title the thread “optimal meal frequency for beginners”? Seems pretty obvious that what you’re claiming was the point of the thread and the actual point are (yet again) two very different things