Great question Thomas. Yes, 4-5 meals per day WILL catch up to you later in life. Football players are a great example. While lean in their college days while eating 4 to 5 meals daily, many of them inevitably rebound later in life with excess weight.

Bulk comes from Hormone Intelligence courtesy of three meals per day. 50% Healthy fat, 25% protein and 25% carbs are general percentages to follow. Organic bacon and eggs is great.

Thomas,

Highly fucked up corn syrup will have its d-day. It’s a big topic in my upcoming book, which is a GIANT Stinky Sulfur Award on the whole industry, due out on shelves in October. Look for it in Wal-Mart.

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“The important note here is that she went into this cycle VERY lean and while on it, was supplementing with natural insulin mimics and lifting heavy weights. Without these supporting variables, such an eating frequency can in fact lead to fat gain. Note that it didn’t here, and I was monitoring her habits 24/7 to make sure of it. It works for men too, but not without the supporting supplements.”

Yes. I’m not that familiar with metabolic typing.

Insulin mimics in that they herd glucose out of the bloodstream and into the gates of muscle cells to prevent fat storage.

Dose and timing are very important. She won the Arnold Classic with this approach.

My wife only did that for two weeks and, like stated above, was offsetting the negatives with potent insulin mimics – was doing this for a figure competition. Not all calories are created equal. I can’t specify the perfect number for you without running customization numbers. But 3 meals all the time is exactly what a person needs.

@Blake, Good point, exercise can mask the negative outcome of multiple meals per day. Eating three larger meals each day, at most four, will prove more valuable twenty to thirty years from now.

Hey, I had a question as to the myth on eating 5 meals and fasting. My situation is this: I’ve lost 120lbs over 18 months (360lbs to 240lbs) and I still have a lot of extra fat hanging around my chest, and stomach area. I exercise 4 times a week between 1 and 2 hours each time. I do heavy cardio (dance % Karate for 40mins, and the rest free weights, and crunches) My diet is normally less then 1500 calories a day. My goal is to lower the bulk of my upper body, and from what I read, eating 5 small meals a day would work against me. Do you have any suggestions as to what I could do differently? I’m 21 years old, if that helps come to any conclusion. Thanks for any information you can give.

~Isaac

JT – Thanks for the info.

I’ll give it a shot and see what happens.

I like to observe… sometimes in line with evidence, sometimes not, so bear with me and just enjoy my perception…

By and large (no pun intended) Europeans (say the french) generally eat a smaller breakfast than the average American, and certainly not sugary cereals, over-sized bagels or eggs, sausage, hash browns, buttered bread and orange juice all in meal. Breakfast might be a light pastry, or a small portion of bread with and fruit or a small sized sweet drink (like juice). Also, europes addiction (like ours) to caffeine, so perhaps a coffee with cream & sugar). We use milk, soy and splenda… mmmmm, DISGUSTING!!! Have a cup of coffee with real whipping cream & real sugar and you’ll realized that your soy latte with splenda doesn’t even come close. You’re just become accepting of shoddy additives and substitutes. I’m ranting.

Lunch time comes and it’s time for dense food, wine, breads, salads with thick tasty & fatty dressing… not of this sugar-laden low fat BS we call dressing. AND, on top of it, smaller portions by our standards. *French drink wine on their lunch breaks. Imagine how good your healthy choice microwave slop would taste with a little buzz from a glass of wine! MMMMMMMM. I’ve been tempted myself to spike my red wine vinaigrette with some Merlot if it weren’t for the risk of my being fired!!!

Lunch hours are popular time to eat for more than one European country. Although less and less the case, Europeans are known to make quite a ordeal out of lunch, taking several hours off and returning (say) at 4 at which they work until 7PM. Anyway, mid-day (not immediately following a meal like we do) might be something sweet, but not sugar-dense like our sweets. I cannot tell you how many Europeans I’ve talked to in America that say our desserts are disgustingly sweet… think pancakes and birthday cakes with sugar-frosting instead of whipped cream. Even chocolate in Europe is way way creamier (more butter-cream) and less sweet. Wines have ordinances in Germany and cannot contain any sugar. Aged sweet wines are used to sweeten. If you aren’t seeing the improvement in quality of life between Americans eating and ours, you’re missing my suble point.

Now, dinner comes around and rules change with various countries… French however are known to eat late at night (like 9PM) but not the food we eat. Again, much smaller portions (but a variety) by our standards. Restaurants are open later than you’d imagine in America.

Then, later night it’s off to bed. I assume their generally light breakfast may be a result of such a heavy dinner the night before. My point is that the french are still per ca-pita thinner than Americans who are constantly being pushed to eat 6 meals a day, blah blah blah, low fat this, etc.., I NEVER really feel satisfied eating 6 SQUARE and equally divided caloric-ally controlled meals spread out. And the taste of low fat typically translates to sugary-sweet IR just plain bland. Food is a blessing. We are so fortunate to have such a variety and we settle for bland here because we’re too out of control to keep portions down and get some moderate exercise.

I’m not a food scientist, I’m merely making an observation… sure, if you do an intense work out each day (weights/cardio) you will stay thin because you’re using more calories than you’re likely eating (oh and you’re making yourself extra hungry too).

But, Americans are not largely active in a consistent way. I live in a suburb, mostly Caucasian and do you know who I see walking around most often. These groups of older Asian ladies and a few dog walkers. The rest are driving around in their cars & trucks, even to go to the store which is walking distance from our neighborhood.

In America If you work out you’re in the minority, period. And that includes walking, biking, hiking, etc. Jesus, I see fat people at Walmart on electric carts!!! And let me tell you, I’d bet these fat people are eating more like 6 meals a day, maybe more. Exercise is important since humans have been mobile throughout our history, even pre-history. This is likely what is making our body fat problem worse. But, obsession with muscle size and doing 40-60 minutes of boring cardio are not really our natural way of living by historical standards. We are long distance WALKKING creatures mixed with sprints and playful wrestling/games. I never young children lifting weights of running at the same pace for an hour straight. No, I see they sprint and stop, spring and stop and wrestle…. oh and guess what, they are laughing & smiling the whole entire time. When I go to the gym, everybody is so damned somber looking. It’s like watching zombies.
I love generalizing.

Holy Cow (haha)…. What a tremendous voice for sensible science and health. Yeayyyy. Do you happen to have any bio information regarding your departure from the pharma way? I think I may have found someone else to highlight as one of the rogue humans who make our world a better place. Love the reminders about truth via science. Beautiful!