Food timing question :)

[angielorna]

So I think I have everything I need about what to eat or how to eat it (thought I'm sure questions will come up along the way).

My question does timing matter -- or how you break it up?
So I understand that skipping breakfast is preferred (done), and it's better to eat all your food in 2meals (or 2 meals and 1 snack, if need be), no snacking.

Does it matter if I eat most of my food at one meal and just a little at another meal? I find it hard not to eat much in the eve. So if ate a small lunch (say 200-300 cals), can I eat the rest in a big supper meal? Does it make a difference? I'm looking at this particularily since my gruelling cardio will be in the eve as well.

Thanks in advance,
Angie

[LilithWiser1979]

A lot of us are doing 3 small meals, just delayed so that breakfast time is skipped. I have no idea if a 1000 calorie dinner is a bad idea, but I'd guess that trying to even it all out so that you have three 500 calorie meals might be better, since then you have less in your stomach at dinner and then blood sugar is lower for longer. I know big meals with both carbs and protein keep blood sugar up for longer.

[carmella_marie]

You're trying to convince your body times are tough, so you don't want to be eating huge meals. It will also be easier to avoid snacking if you space it out a bit more, lots if ladies on here do 12, 4 and 8 pm around. 500-600 cals each.

[angielorna]

Perfect! The more meals the better, IMO.
Thanks for the feedback.
Angie

[atomic sagebrush]

you can have 3 meals. 2 or 3 meals, both are fine, whatever works for you.

PLEASE please please eat your meals in the pattern and size that is going to work FOR YOU. Trying to stick to a meal pattern that is not going to work for you where you can barely function is not what LE Diet is meant to be about. This should be relatively easy to stick to and if you're miserable and counting the second till you can eat again, you're doing it wrong.

If you find it easier to eat a light lunch, then a larger evening meal, that is fine. But you don't need to feel locked into ANY eating pattern on an every day basis - some days you may need to eat in a different pattern and that is fine.

[atomic sagebrush]

You're trying to convince your body times are tough, so you don't want to be eating huge meals. It will also be easier to avoid snacking if you space it out a bit more, lots if ladies on here do 12, 4 and 8 pm around. 500-600 cals each.

some of the recommendations in the diet are because not everyone sticks to it that strictly - if a person weren't following most of the diet recommendations,t hen yes it can help to avoid large meals, but people who are doing most of the diet stuff really don't need to worry that much about "large" meals because on a 1500-1800 cal diet you really just can't eat that much.

What I want people to avoid are big huge holiday-type meals that contain thousands (plural) of calories and take forever to digest. not an 800 calorie meal, those are fine.