5 or 6 meals a day diet....
 

ok at the place i worked at last summer a lot of the guys were on a diet where you ate 5 or 6 small (fist size) meals or snacks a day... and then one day a week you gorged and ate a ton... it was supposed to help speed up your metabolism...

if anyone knows more about this diet and could gimme details it would be much appreciated...

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It works great, actually. I did it for a year and had great results. It's actually how you're designed to eat anyway.. kinda like grazing.

i found a couple sites about it if anyones interested....
http://www.hussman.org/fitness/#basics
and hmmm i cant find the other good one i saw earlier...



well since im in college and eating from the dining halls it would prolly be pretty tough to follow the eating stuff too strictly... but i could get extra fruit and carry it out of the dining hall for later... and i could pick up some protien shakes and use them too...
as for working out like it says too... im tryin get a friend to go with me... much easier to be motivated if your not goin alone...

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Hey JStrider,

You can check out this out.

http://members.shaw.ca/bodybuilding/index2.htm

Don't let the lack of fancy design deter you. I have used this site quite a lot to learn about different techniques.

discipline is sticking with eating great for those 5-6 meals and 6 days. On the 7th day...pizza, doughnuts, icecream, burgers, candy, cheesecake, soda, orange flavored chicken, BigMac, etc... oh my god, I'm salivating.

5-6 works great. Sticking to it and being consistent (where it works) is the hardest part. :)

yah... ive been doin it... been stealing apples from the cafeteria... next time i go to walmart im gonna buy some cottage cheese and some protien shakes...
anyone got any recomendations on what kind of shakes to buy?

This is diet used by the majority of all bodybuilders, professional or not out there. The idea is to keep the metabolism continiously absorbing nutrients from food throughout the day, rather then gorging ineffeciently on three huge meals.

The exact details beyond the design of 5-7 smaller meals taken at 2-3 hour intervals depends on your goals: whether you're looking to lose weight or gain mass.

personally, I've been on a bulking diet made in this manner for a while now. And if thats your goal, realistically eating large amounts of calories (3500 for me) in 3 meals is just impossible. And the only real problems I've found with this diet is having to make so many meals a day. But if you have a good diet plan put together, its simple to just cook up everything in the morning and eat it pre-made during the day.

And as for shakes, if you're looking fora meal replacement, why not just make your own? Milk, oats, whey protein, flax seed oil, the list goes on. You can easily duplicate the nutritional claims on most liquid meal replacements fora fraction of the cost.

oh and as a final word of advice, for your cheat day, don't totally flip out and destroy an entire weeks worth of work. The point of these days is to provide a mental break. Physically, there is no need to go overboard. So instead of gorging on a Big Mac, just fry up a lean steak and make your own. Everything within moderation, as they say.

I'd just like to note that you should be working out regularly when you start this diet. It's not good for you if you start the diet before you start working out.

buncha small meals is better for you