[rockinrobin]

For the life of me I can't imagine having to set an alarm to remind myself to eat. That would never, EVER happen. I've been known to be forgetfull every now and then - but not when it comes to eating. I was never one of those folks who'd say, "Oh it's 2:00 and I've forgotten to eat". No sireee, not me.

During the week I eat about 7 times a day, sometimes 8. A bit less on the weekends.

It's definitely an individual thing. Eating small snacks throughout the day helps me loads.

[CountingDown]

6-8 times a day, depending upon a variety of things (activity level, schedule, travel, etc.)

Eating less food more often seems to be one of those aha things for me.

[PhotoChick]

It's not that I've forgotten to eat necessarily, but because of years of screwing around with my system - over eating and under eating - my hunger triggers are messed up.

So I can eat a normal sized lunch and breeze through the next 6 hours w/out thinking about it - especially if I'm involved in a good book, a work project, whatever. Then suddenly it's 6:30 and I've moved beyond hunger into absolutely ravenous and I could easily eat plates and plates of food. And sometimes would.

So there are days that I do actually set the reminder on my computer so that I'll have my afternoon snack. It means that at dinner time I'm not so hungry that I'll suck down 1000 calories w/out thinking.



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[SBD Sass]

6 times per day.

[Tomato]

On most days, I eat 6 times a day. But there are also days when I eat 5x or 7x a day - it varies.
I definitely don't need any alarm clock to remind me to eat every 3 hours. My stomach does it happily for me. I am hungrier in the a.m. than in the p.m. I can barely last 3 hours after my breakfast. Around 5 pm or so, my appetite goes into a "stand by" mode and I can last longer without eating.

[willow650]

I try to eat at least eat 5 times. Breakfast, snack, lunch, snack then dinner. I do that to keep from binge eating at dinner. Dinner is always the time I over eat till Im stuffed and so if i am already slightly full, or at least not very hungry then the food just isn't quite as appealing

[bargoo]

3 meals 3 snacks, about every 3 hours.

[purpleorc]

I eat 6 or 7 times a day. This way I never get to the point of being so hungry as I used to do and would eat everything in easy reach not even thinking about how many calories I would consume. Looking back now I shudder to think about how many I would eat mindlessly just because I had gone for hours without food.