Are you eating 6 meals a day

If so, raise your hand. ((Hand)) Was it a hard adjustment for you?  Any upside?

  Sorta...

When I am maintaining I only eat 4 or 5

When I am losing I eat 8.

BTW - food jornal and loss begins again on December 26th

Woot for you going back to your journal and eating habits!!! :) I dont eat 6 times a day....so no raise of the hand. But I know my new diet pill is going to suppress appetite....which I know in my head sometimes I think I dont have to eat at all...but that leads to very bad things.... So I will be eating. But replacing 2 meals with protein shakes. Breakfast protein shake and Lunch protein shake...dinner well something healthy.... Thats the plan

Ummm.. not that I plan it.

I eat breakfast, lunch, dinner and graze when hungry in between.

EM

well, something like that is the goal - to keep the metabolism revved up...  Hard adjustment?  no, b-cuz of app suppressants used aggressively at the start and the understanding that hey, i laid down the money to be told to do it this way, so here i go, may as well try it.  The upside is that i do rarely feel incredibly tempted to indulge into off plan foods especially during my work day. I don't usually feel big, vacuous hunger, and even when i think I feel hunger, i can look back and realize that i have eaten and to give that craving of the moment some space. It usually works, too. When it doesn't go away after waiting a while,  i can trust myself to eat a little more, usually high fat items like pb on my crackers or nuts. Another upside:  keep the stomach capacity to a minimum. When I eat more than a couple hundred calories at one sitting, I can feel bloaty. Actually hard to eat more than 5 hundred at one spot anymore.

I'm more like Em on this one.  Yea I know six meals is what they say.  But I HATE the idea of grabbing six meals a day, or even thinking about it.   I would be thinking about food nonstop.  I have tried it for a while, but just like everything else I drifted off of it.  I really think you can just do fine eating three meals and a small snack or two in between if need be.  That is actually five meals if you want to get technical.  I just can't focus on six meals.  It's just not me.

The minimeals has worked for me.  It's staved off hunger.  Just was hard to adjust to.  Generally, I have meal, protein shake/bar and fruit, meal, protein shake/bar and fruit, meal, protein shake bar and fruit.  For a while there it felt overwhelming.  Now, normal and I feel physically better.