How much food to eat?

[WilliamSmith]

I eat little breakfast, medium-large lunch, medium dinner.
I agree.. the ZOG-Chow make you fat, sluggish and stupid. I only eat organic chow and I don't eat out at all.

@Natural_Born_Cynic
@Cornfed

Back on the lighter topic of the actual thread "how much to eat" :
Even before I got interested in time-restricted eating, I also learned from xp not to eat much for breakfast despite the popular wisdom that it's supposedly the most important meal of the day. That is probably actually very true for many people, but I'm convinced some of us are just biologically wired differently and it doesn't work so well for our physiology to pile on a big meal first thing at all.

I used to be sick to my stomach in the mornings when I was little (partly because of pompous farm boys and logger town churls threatening me, but partly just my own physiology, LOL), and if I'd try to eat much food or drink coffee it'd often make me sick, so I'd end up not eating until at least around noon, then I'd mostly only eat a larger meal in the later afternoon.............

Anyway, the huge secret weapon I ended up discovering after I got into lifting weights in my early 20s was whey protein shakes (you just buy dried powder at an affordable cost and mix it with water and get around 20grams of protein with only a few grams of carbs that's very easy to digest), and that + some good vitamin supplementation (mainly d3 and multivitamins and some omega 3 supplements) has made it easy for me to feel energetic and get enough healthy protein to fuel muscle growth and not lose mass even without eating much until later in the day.

Some people are constituted quite differently though: Guys like Dave Draper who I personally consider one of the most based natural bodybuilders from the "Silver Age" of American bodybuilding said he thrived on wolfing down plenty of eggs, meat, oatmeal, etc, even starting from early in the day.

One other thing to mention here is the best bodybuilders are usually big advocates of eating intermittent regular but SMALL meals regularly (and actually scheduling these rather than just eating whenever they feel like it).

[jeniferbet]

I don't have a light mode, I eat when I want and what I want, girls don't regret anything

[MrMan]

I eat little breakfast, medium-large lunch, medium dinner.

Sounds like the usual Korean pattern.

How so?

That is how most Koreans ate when I was there. With the female teachers I imagine lunch was the only food they ate all day, which makes sense given it was provided.

I didn't get to see the pattern local Koreans followed. When I was there, I worked a split shift. I might have worked until 9:30 and had a 7:20 class, so I'd get home, eat some ramyun with a can of tuna fish (in brine) and an egg in it, or maybe a cheese or cheese and imitation crab stick sandwich in the toaster oven. Occasionally, I'd do pasta and sauce. Something quick and easy to I could eat and go to sleep. I would throw bread and some European sliced cheese in the toaster oven for breakfast. Lunch was my real meal, but that was because I didn't work in the middle of the day. I had time to go find something to eat and enjoy it.

[TruthSeeker]

I recommend you eat a lot of healthy food. Avoid deep fried foods, sugary food and drinks.

Basically your body will process the healthy food and discard what it doesn't need. (Matthew 15:17)

Avoid fasting. I knew a Pentecostal pastor who went on what he called a "7 day protracted fast" - no food, only water for seven days. He ended up taking a heart attack and died, but he was overweight to begin with.

[jeniferbet]

I eat what i want and whenever i want

[yick]

Oatmeal in the morning with honey and condensed milk and an assortment of seeds topped with applesauce and peanut butter - yummy. Alternately - eggs or fried tomatoes with some ham, bacon, sausage etc - two rounds of Russian bread - it is naturally rock hard so I toast it and eat it with Russian butter.

I eat a lot of salad for my main meal - once you do this regularly and go back to what you used to eat (for most people, crap!) you feel ill and depressed. The average person doesn't nearly eat enough vegetables and I believe this is why a lot of people are suffering from depression.

We probably eat far too much and far too much of the wrong thing.

[jeniferbet]

Eat as much as you can fit - this is the perfect solution https://betterme.world/articles/3000-calories-a-day/ now I eat 3000 calories a day, because I'm gaining weight, but I still try to eat only healthy food and a lot of proteins