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[quote]T4 wrote:
P.S. Funny that we are all from Massachusetts![/quote]

Hey, who invited the Aussie? Just kidding DOA.

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[quote]DeadOnArrival wrote:
This isnt the article I was referring to, but it makes some good points http://www.arthurdevany.com/2005/07/four_meals_a_da.html

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Alright, seriously though…I just read the article, and I have to say, the guy who wrote it sounds like a whiny fuck. Here is what he has to say.

1. It is a hassle. It is hard enough to eat three meals that you prepare well with fresh ingredients. Four is just too hard to do.

So is going to the gym 5 days a week and busting your ass every time. So is getting up at 5am when you’d rather be sleeping. So is doing those last 2 or 3 balls out sprints when you think you’re going to puke.

2. It is so time-consuming that you are always rushing meals. This gives you no leisure at your meal time to enjoy the meal or your company. Usually, you have no company when you eat like this.

Bullshit, we’re not talking about a 5 course meal. How long does it take to eat an apple with some natural peanut butter, or drink a protein drink, or eat some low-fat cottage cheese?

3. You will eat poor foods. It is too demanding to do otherwise. You will end up eating protein drinks and bars and all manner of other poor food. Too little fiber, too few plant-based phytochemicals, and your meals will have a rather high glycemic index.

Why? Why will you eat poor foods. If you can prep 3 clean meals, why not 4 or 5 or even 6? Who says you can’t snack on the same thing twice, just prepare double and put it into two separate containers?

4. While it is important to avoid insulin spikes (they are by far the most damaging) it is not so good to have a continuous infusion of insulin in your system. They can produce atherosclerosis in lab animals by infusing insulin continuously. Not a good thing for your blood vessels I suspect.

Who said we were trying to have a continuous infusion of insulin?

5. Your basal insulin level will rise as a consequence of maintaining a constant level in your blood stream This is not good at all.

Not if you are eating low GI foods.

6. You constantly have food in your stomach. How can you do anything demanding in this condition? You can’t. And your stomach suffers from not having a break from continuous work; the mucosal lining breaks down and this is sometimes called diabetic stomach since some diabetics have to eat often to maintain their blood glucose levels.

Come on…we are talking about taking the same number of calories and dividing into more meals. You will have less food in your stomach than if you were to eat 3 large meals. This is crap.

7. You never experience hunger, a powerful trigger of gene expression that turns on DNA repair and heat shock proteins. So, your maintenance program is seldom activated.

Again, Bullshit. I eat 7 meals a day, and I am still hungry. If you train hard enough, you WILL be hungry.

8. You will, in general, have more fat mass than if you ate every other day and maintained the same body weight.

Show me that study. Who makes this stuff up?

9. There isn’t any evidence that this form of eating promotes health or the growth of lean muscle mass.

None? No evidence at all? Why do most, if not all successful bodybuilders eat like this? Haven’t they put on significant amounts of lean muscle? What better evidence do you want? Show me someone who eats once every two days and has as much LBM as a successful bodybuilder.

10. You weaken the growth hormone response you get from exercise and when you fall into REM sleep.

Huh? Another study I’d like to see. You weaken the GH response when you sleep because you ate 2 or 3 extra meals? I don’t even know he pulled this one from.

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I can see why bodybuilders eat more often. It’s to get more food in.
I have to eat like that to make decent weight gains. Personally I eat about 4 or 5 times a day dependiong on work, etc. But as far a s burning more calories, I dont notice any difference in BF% as long as I dont eat too much total.