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Originally Posted by SUB-ZERO
I agree with your comment about overall calorie goal. However, if one were to start off the day with a huge meal, thus accounting for most of the days allowable caloric intake, then there leaves little room for the amount of meals he should be eating in a day (i.e., 3 meals instead of 5). By reducing the amount of meals in a day, ones metabolic system may slow down, therefore, burning less calories per day.
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That is a myth and has been proven wrong for many years.
There is no metabolic "fire" to keep feeding throughout the day - meal timing is irrelevant as is having several meals throughout the day. It comes down total calories and macronutrients during the 24hr period in a day.
See LeanGains aka Intermittent Fasting:
http://www.leangains.com/ Articles by Martin Berkhan and Alan Aragon.
See PubMed Articles:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19943985
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9155494
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There have been reports of an inverse relationship between meal frequency (MF) and adiposity. It has been postulated that this may be explained by favourable effects of increased MF on appetite control and possibly on gut peptides as well. The main goal of the present study was to investigate whether using a high MF could lead to a greater weight loss than that obtained with a low MF under conditions of similar energy restriction. Subjects were randomised into two treatment arms (high MF = 3 meals+3 snacks/d or low MF = 3 meals/d) and subjected to the same dietary energy restriction of - 2931 kJ/d for 8 weeks. Sixteen obese adults (n 8 women and 8 men; age 34.6 (sd 9.5); BMI 37.1 (sd 4.5) kg/m2) completed the study. Overall, there was a 4.7 % decrease in body weight (P < 0.01); similarly, significant decreases were noted in fat mass ( - 3.1 (sd 2.9) kg; P < 0.01), lean body mass ( - 2.0 (sd 3.1) kg; P < 0.05) and BMI ( - 1.7 (sd 0.8) kg/m2; P < 0.01). However, there were NS differences between the low- and high-MF groups for adiposity indices, appetite measurements or gut peptides (peptide YY and ghrelin) either before or after the intervention. We conclude that increasing MF does not promote greater body weight loss under the conditions described in the present study.
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