I snack (apple and a snicker) around 4:00pm, eat dinner with family around 8:00pm.

All the time. Seriously, snack all the time, and you're ready for a work out any time, like when yer coworkers challenge you to sprint up the 7 flights of stairs at your office... gotta be ready to defend at the drop of a hat, my friend! :P

I eat around 6:45 AM, 8:30-9AM, 10:30AM , 12PM, 3:30OPM, and then depending on the day I either eat a small, easy to digest, meal around 6 then go work out and have another small meal after or I just eat regular dinner on days off.

Thats what I did. I get most of my day's calories before I workout, but make sure to eat enough afterwards to help my body recover.

I eat around six small meals a day. Starting with a smoothie or Odwalla bar on my way out to work, followed by oatmeal 60 to 90 minutes later, then lunch at 11am, another snack around 2-3pm (tuna or nuts with fruit or another odwalla bar), then something easily digestible 30-60 minutes before working out, then again after working out to aid recover, and finally a smallish dinner. Man, all I seem to do all day long is eat :)

-Bam Bam

Exactly: breakfast #1 before 6am, breakfast #2 around 8am, pre-lunch snack at 10:30, lunch at 1pm, post-lunch snack at 3:30, dinner at 5-5:30pm; maybe a snack at 8pm.

You do end up eating all day ;-)

   

First off, it's about time we've got a post about food, it's been several days.

Why do you not want to eat past 8 PM? I'm in the same boat, I usually do the 7:30, 10:00, 1:30, 3:30 snack/small meal thing, but I also eat dinner around 9 PM. I could not handle eating a dinner type meal at 3:30 and then trying to work out at 5:30.

I think the whole thing about it's bad to eat late is somewhat overrated.......maybe it's not the best thing for sedentary person. However, if you're working out for 2 hours, your metabolism is going to higher for several hours. If I didn't eat well after working out, I don't think I'd recover as well either.

Argue all you want about what time to eat, high protein/low, carb, it you're not eating past eight because of weight concerns, it's still all about calories in vs. calories out (and I've learned from experience).

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Nothing wrong with eating all day... Well, unless you miss a meal for some reason and turn into a hungry monster...

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Some people can have digestive problems, including acid reflux, if they eat too soon before going to bed. Others, of course, can eat a late night snack of tobasco covered broken glass without a problem (ah, to be young again).

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Do not forget to brush after every meal.

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