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I often found that when I eat earlier in the day and try hard to spread out my food intake I'm furiously hungry at night and I've already used up my calorie consumption for the day. However I often find that If I wake up, and Eat a small meal. Wait quite a while before hitting the gym (basically I've already used up the food and then spend time at the gym, I come home and I end up cramming my the rest of my calories in broken up meals over a period of only about 8 hours or less. (some times I don't even get the morning one in). Now I've no problems w/ hunger or energy during the first 8 hours of the day. I actually perform better in the gym if the meal I had in the morning was quite small and pretty much all used up before I hit the gym.
I was always worried that the cramming of my meals into this little 8 hour time period was really hurting me. So I constantly tried to make sure I broke it up further and as a result found it much much harder to stick to my calorie limit for the day because later in the day when I was actually hungary I would have already used up a good portion of my alotted intake.
Now realizeing that quite possibly it doesn't not matter quite as much, cutting will become much easier, as I can return to eating 1 light meal, take a huge break from eating during the period where I'm not hungary and then have the majority of food during the 8 hour period where I actually am.
The small meal thing just didn't seem to blunt hunger later in the day. Hunger lvls were the same at the end of the day whether I had already consumed 1200 calories or 300 calories.
Thankyou again, now I can put my mind at a little more at ease eating in a mannor that makes cutting much easier on the appetite.
So now I understand that so long as this Crammed eating mannor doesn't effect my energy lvls (hell it actually helps it) or cause me to eat over my days calorie allottment its pretty much ok.
So basically the broken up meal thing was developed and flaunted for
1. its steady lvl of energy?
2. Its help on staving off binges?
So, being that 1. Doesn't seem to effect me at all.
and 2, actually ends up doing the opposite of its desired effect. Its not neccasarrily better than my small meal, huge gap then 8 hour streamed calorie chunk? (I do eat many meals but there pretty close since I have only 8 hours to space the rest of the calories (its a bit bulked after training since I have my post work out eating then not too much later supper)
ok I'm getting a bit long winded now, I just want to make sure, that I'm not hurting my self here, I can put up w/ the hunger but if it really doesn't help me any why bother.
I was always worried that the cramming of my meals into this little 8 hour time period was really hurting me. So I constantly tried to make sure I broke it up further and as a result found it much much harder to stick to my calorie limit for the day because later in the day when I was actually hungary I would have already used up a good portion of my alotted intake.
Now realizeing that quite possibly it doesn't not matter quite as much, cutting will become much easier, as I can return to eating 1 light meal, take a huge break from eating during the period where I'm not hungary and then have the majority of food during the 8 hour period where I actually am.
The small meal thing just didn't seem to blunt hunger later in the day. Hunger lvls were the same at the end of the day whether I had already consumed 1200 calories or 300 calories.
Thankyou again, now I can put my mind at a little more at ease eating in a mannor that makes cutting much easier on the appetite.
So now I understand that so long as this Crammed eating mannor doesn't effect my energy lvls (hell it actually helps it) or cause me to eat over my days calorie allottment its pretty much ok.
So basically the broken up meal thing was developed and flaunted for
1. its steady lvl of energy?
2. Its help on staving off binges?
So, being that 1. Doesn't seem to effect me at all.
and 2, actually ends up doing the opposite of its desired effect. Its not neccasarrily better than my small meal, huge gap then 8 hour streamed calorie chunk? (I do eat many meals but there pretty close since I have only 8 hours to space the rest of the calories (its a bit bulked after training since I have my post work out eating then not too much later supper)
ok I'm getting a bit long winded now, I just want to make sure, that I'm not hurting my self here, I can put up w/ the hunger but if it really doesn't help me any why bother.
