how often should you eat??

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Permalink Reply by Mera/Feather Story on June 22, 2012 at 12:20pm

If you haven't been doing this very long, it can be difficult to prepare yourself for eating large enough meals so you don't have to eat so often.

Sometimes I eat up to 5 times a day, but usually I only eat 3 times a day.  I do that by making sure my meals are completely filling which can be difficult to tell at first.  For awhile I would think 500 calories a meal was a lot and I would think I was full, then I'd be hungry again not long afterwards.  Once I tried eating 1000cals a meal, I started to notice that at about 500 cals I would start to "feel full" but if I continued eating I felt great.  If I stopped at about that 500 cal point I would feel full for a few minutes, but I came to recognize that feeling as the half-way point.  Not truly fullness, some strange illusion probably related to actual digestion and not hunger.

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Permalink Reply by Vice Abattoir on June 22, 2012 at 12:39pm

i usually graze throughout the day. Whenever i feel like it, but i make sure i've drunken atleast a bottle of water when i wake up and another before i sleep, and hopefully one more inbetween.

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Permalink Reply by Nathan on June 22, 2012 at 2:42pm

You will get used to it as time goes on. Your stomach is simply not used to the volume yet.

It was hard to eat enough when I first started, but it's very easy for me now to eat 1000 calories in a meal, even if it's cantaloupe.

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Permalink Reply by Raw.Army.Wife on June 23, 2012 at 12:56pm

thanks everyone.. yeah i am just starting out. that what i was thinking about my stomach i'll just give it some time :)

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Permalink Reply by Banana Dude on June 23, 2012 at 1:29pm

I keep hearing "get your calories in early" I'm lucky that being a big eater I can get down 20 bananas in a smoothie for breakfast and the same for lunch, then a big salad at night (I put half the lettuce in my morning smoothie otherwise I couldn't get through it).If I don"t get the calories in early I start to get a bit panicky, i think its food addictions or something I tend to fall off the wagon.

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Permalink Reply by ola johansson on June 23, 2012 at 10:11pm

If you find it hard to get the calories in eat higher sugar content fruit and as much high water fruit as you can.

I usually eat a lot of dates, raisins and bananas. if i eat to much acidic fruit i get stomach pain and can't eat so much. especially apples, usually eat 3-6 times a day depends on how active I am and the higher sugar content food usually less meals.

good luck!

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