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3-Hour Diet or 3 Meals a Day?
DaltheJigsaw
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Experts debate how often we should eat for weight loss
By Elaine Magee, MPH, RD, LD
WebMD Weight Loss Clinic - Feature
Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD
To eat three meals a day or to eat six small meals a day: that is the question. If you have heard about or read Jorge Cruise's new book, The 3-Hour Diet, you would bet the answer is the latter. But many nutrition researchers out there say, "not so fast!"
Cruise's plan boasts a three-point approach: eat breakfast within one hour of rising, eat every three hours, and stop eating three hours before bedtime. He says this ritualized way of eating increases BMR (baseline metabolic rate), increases energy levels, and decreases appetite, among other things. While many nutrition experts agree that when it comes to weight loss irregular eating patterns and skipped meals can mean trouble for most of us, there isn't anything close to a consensus on whether we are metabolically better off eating three regular meals a day or spreading that out into five or six smaller meals.
Bonnie Liebman, nutrition director of CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest) would like to see the studies Cruise used to formulate his 3 Hour Diet. "If there are any good studies proving his point, they certainly aren't well established," says Liebman.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=56254
By Elaine Magee, MPH, RD, LD
WebMD Weight Loss Clinic - Feature
Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD
To eat three meals a day or to eat six small meals a day: that is the question. If you have heard about or read Jorge Cruise's new book, The 3-Hour Diet, you would bet the answer is the latter. But many nutrition researchers out there say, "not so fast!"
Cruise's plan boasts a three-point approach: eat breakfast within one hour of rising, eat every three hours, and stop eating three hours before bedtime. He says this ritualized way of eating increases BMR (baseline metabolic rate), increases energy levels, and decreases appetite, among other things. While many nutrition experts agree that when it comes to weight loss irregular eating patterns and skipped meals can mean trouble for most of us, there isn't anything close to a consensus on whether we are metabolically better off eating three regular meals a day or spreading that out into five or six smaller meals.
Bonnie Liebman, nutrition director of CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest) would like to see the studies Cruise used to formulate his 3 Hour Diet. "If there are any good studies proving his point, they certainly aren't well established," says Liebman.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=56254
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I always am captivated by the notion of eating once a day like that of monks and nuns. They often live long long lives and only eat once a day, often food which lacks substancial nutrition. Makes one wonder, is it really all physical, is it even 50-50, or is it mostly mental?
Not many studies have been done on humans but there are people who follow such a diet.
I am wondering about yogurt. It gives double chins...! Lol. Well...Dairy does from what I can tell from my own experience. I like what you outlined there. That is your main breakfast outline? I do toast with peanut butter and jelly or rice milk and cereal with fruits either frozen or cut...like an apple or a banana. I also drink green tea or white tea. I also sometimes do toast with butter, food fat. Usually once a week. I am thinking of actually eating dinner for breakfast or for lunch and then light food dinner time. Any thoughts?
I actually enjoy being hungry sometimes now, although it may sound weird I have grown acustom to it and it makes me appreciate food more when I actually do have it. It also has helped to prove to me exactly how powerful the mind can be, if something as essential as food can be negated to a certain extent with little problems, then what else can..?
before work ( I leave home at 6.30 am) coffee and 3 wholemeal biscuits
after work (8.45 -9.00 am) coffee, 2 slices of home made multigrain bread 1 with veg pate, the other blue cheese pate
noonish home made lemonade and mixed fruit and nut muffin and an orange
4.45pm avocado salad
leek and mushrooom pie and brussel sprouts
kiwi, orange and strawberries
7.30pm I will have green tea and a piece of whatever cake is on the go this week
9.00pm an apple
The only thing I don't like about my choice of diet is that I spend half the day in the kitchen and not always in mindfulness even though I do try
Thank you!
I am wondering about yogurt. It gives double chins...! Lol. Well...Dairy does from what I can tell from my own experience. I like what you outlined there. That is your main breakfast outline? I do toast with peanut butter and jelly or rice milk and cereal with fruits either frozen or cut...like an apple or a banana. I also drink green tea or white tea. I also sometimes do toast with butter, food fat. Usually once a week. I am thinking of actually eating dinner for breakfast or for lunch and then light food dinner time. Any thoughts?
I'm not a dietary expert by far, I try my best to be healthy but I'm lazy so convenience is a big part of what I eat. I don't know about dairy leading to fat gain, my understanding is its soley about calories in vs calories out.
Most of my knowledge comes from the book Healing With Whole Foods by Paul Pichford. Highly recommended.
I'm just counting calories.
There is a great site, if anyone is interested, www.caloriecount.about.com
It states how many calories you are to eat daily for optimum health using information you have entered, ie; weight, height, age, etc.
You enter the foods you eat, it grades you. You enter the exercise you partake in, it grades you.
It's a really great site to keep you aware.
Most of my knowledge comes from the book Healing With Whole Foods by Paul Pichford. Highly recommended.
This is my diet :
Egg white omelet and yogurt. Or oatmeal with fruit. Keep it at 500 calories. Sometimes I make lentils and put it into a tortilla with guacamole and eggwhites.
Snack : nuts, popcorn, dried fruit mix with granola, or some peanut butter and crackers.
Lunch : a 500 calorie sandwich
Snack : a few trisquits with cheese and fruit with a little dried meat.
Dinner : depending on how heavy lunch was usually a salad or some whole grain pasta with marinara. I read that carbs at night help you sleep.
So about 2000 calorie for a man is good. Add an hour of cardio 4 x a week to loose weight.
I have never counted calories, especially at the moment. Probably something like 400 a day or something :buck:
I have also heard similar wisdom worded as "It is always good to get up from the table a little hungry"
Key to a long life.
Also, I am gluten free and lactose intolerant..... anybody have thoughts on how I can integrate a healthy diet with buddhism?
Any thoughts on the BTD?