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Originally Posted by ennay
...there isnt any golden rule that says 3 meals is best...its just what worked with the industrial revolution.......
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You have given good advice and what you say is the right thing to do,but I am not going to agree with this theory of the Industrial revolution. People in India have been eating 3 meals a day since vedic times. Farmers have been doing that hundreds of years before the industrial revolution in the west. They eat at 7p.m. and sleep early. That goes the same for ancient south american culture. They would hunt the whole evening but eat their kill only at dinner time.
The concept of eating more than 3 meals is a result of......I really dont know what to call it.....you can say the "modern culture" and fast foods revolutions.
Fast food companies wanted you to eat more so they even invented the word "brunch". Nobody wanted to eat. After the industrial revolution you could say with corporate revolutions. You needed to have business meetings with "high tea". We needed to eat something in the evening because we started eating late so there was a long gap between lunch and dinner. We were sleeping late. So eating early was not an option or one would feel hungry late at night.
Coffee shops started stocking cookies, pastries and just because they were on display we started eating them.
Eating 3 times a day is the golden rule. But we have destroyed that habit.
But right now it is impossible to force a person whose main intention is to lose weight to follow this golden rule. Do what works best.
Like mandalinn82 said eat any way as long as you keep the stay well within your calorie limit.
Dont get me wrong here ennay the rest of the advice that your giving is spot on. I just wanted to correct you on "golden rule" in a perfect world and perfect state of mind and body 3 meals a day is the best. It just that with our current lifestyle it maybe be impossible to do that and 4-5 meals is now the norm. It was not something that worked with the industrial revolution. Infact many industries have a late morning tea break and an evening tea break. When first introduced workers would only drink liquid hot or cold, but now they all started to eat in those breaks.