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Old Fri, Dec-29-17, 18:16
dcc0455 dcc0455 is offline
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Originally Posted by teaser

There are studies showing six meals aren't better than three. But what are the conditions? If you took in 50 grams of carbohydrate a day, splitting that into six servings might give the situation where the rate of glycogen synthesis is sufficient to handle most of the glucose load. Suppose you're taking in 300 grams of carbohydrate a day--that makes for 50 grams per meal, meaning that much of the glucose will need to be oxidized/used to synthesize fat. Once the numbers are small enough, splitting things into smaller meals might start to act a bit differently.


That may be the key. When I lost weight on three meals plus 3 snacks, I wasn't intentionally limiting calories to a specific level, but I was usually between 1300 and 1500 cal per day.
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