Originally Posted by
WrightVanCleve
The idea of the small meals through the day is to keep your metabolism up where if you only eat 3 regular meals you have time in between where your metabolism slows
This "eat many times a day" stuff has been debunked. The seed of the idea was that there is some metabolic rise due to digestion, and the idea was by eating often one could raise metabolism. But it turns out that under study, the magnitude of this effect is proportional to the amount consumed. So if eating tiny amounts very often, the increase is small, if you just eat big less often, you get a bigger effect less often and it amounts to the same thing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/he...anted=all&_r=0
Increased meal frequency does not promote greater ... [Br J Nutr. 2010] - PubMed - NCBI
I've lost 45 pounds perfectly fine, eating most days twice a day, and a couple days just once per day. Bottom line is it's the total amount of food per week that matters, not how often you eat or when you eat.
because the body goes into starvation mode.
Starvation mode as is it is often described by people is also very much a myth, exaggerated/twisted way beyond what actually happens.