[quote]Vegita wrote:
DaahsirRoon wrote:
Do whatever works for you.
I can’t, if I do I might do something that makes me a “bro” in which case I’d rather not do what works because then I will be able to say I am not a “bro”. Know what I mean bro?
Later bro.
V
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Later brah.
[quote]ninearms wrote:
Lyle McDonald has just written a very informative article on this:
www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/
meal-frequency-and-energy-balance-research-review.html[/quote]
Ok so i read through this article and also read through a whole lot of his other stuff over the last few days to see what was up. From what I gathered, His idea that meal frequency doesn’t mean a lot is specifically dealing with eating to lose fat. Now of course if you are under maintenance calories, your body isn’t going to be storing much of anything at meals, so eating 3 times a day isn’t going to have any noticable effect. In other words, it won’t make you lose fat faster.
The negative tone he gives eating more frequently, is that if you are on 1500 calories per day, splitting it up into 250 calorie meals is likley going to make you hungry all the time and more likley to not stick with your dieting plan.
If you go into an article aboput mass building that deals with amount of protein intake, at the end of the article he lists 300 grams or protien for a 200 lb male athlete. He then splits the meal up into 6 meals to show how one would go about getting in that type of protein intake per day.
So I’ll re-hash my previous points and re-clarify them a little. For anyone who is trying to add muscle, who doesn’t weigh less than 120Lbs, 5 or 6 or 7 meals is probably going to be your best bet. You will be able to eat the calories and protein necessary to make the gains you are looking for and you will not get extremely Full, bloated, Indigestion, etc… from cramming 3 big meals down. If you are trying to stay the same and or lose weight, none of this applies, you aren’t going to be storing any fat or muscle, so it really doesn’t make a lot of difference if you eat 2 times a day or 12 times a day.
No one who reccomends that eating 6 times a day for gaining mass is a bro or a nuthugger, it is simply what most people find works best for the many reasons that have been outlined throughout this thread, sometimes colorfully, sometimes not.
V
I think the point there was convenience though, and that it didn’t really matter either way. Not everyone enjoys eating 80g of protein in a meal or whatever.
Personally I could rarely stand splitting my diet into less than 5 meals on a high calorie intake.
You bring up a good point though-I do wonder if there is a point where kcal intake is high enough that it would be negative to split into few meals because of digestion or hormonal responses or whatever. It would probably just make you feel crappy, and anything else related to effects on body composition is based upon a misunderstanding of how digestion works, but I don’t know. For all we know it could also go the other way and actually be better for mass gains. Interesting question for sure. Hmm