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The whole point with many meals a day is not waiting to have a giant munchie to eat, because when you do so you'll look for high-fat, high-sugar food and devour an insane ammount of calories in minutes before your body triggers a sensation of satiety. Then depending on your genetics and level of activity, you will get malnourished, obese or both.

You stopping having hunger pangs in the mornings after some days is your body adapting to your schedule. As long as you don't go lunch with a blackhole in the stomach and are mindful about what you're eating, it's fine. Still, eating something in between is important to avoid wild sugar peaks and helps improving cognition performance if your job is intellectual.




> The whole point with many meals a day is not waiting to have a giant munchie to eat, because when you do so you'll look for high-fat, high-sugar food

When I eat more meals a day and then suddenly have a longer gap than I'm used to, I find it easy to do that.

When I systematically east 1-2 meals a day, I adapt to that pattern in 2-3 days, and then have no problems eating a diet where getting sufficient fat is actually hard, and where I often find I have to add some "easy" carbs to meet my calorie requirements because the sheer volume of food I am due to eat for my lunch makes it an annoying chore.

Part of the reason I don't like the "many small meals" approach is because I then quickly adapt to getting hungry many times a day, and the chance of getting hungry at a time I can't eat makes it very easy to snack on unhealthy foods.

> You stopping having hunger pangs in the mornings after some days is your body adapting to your schedule.

Exactly. With no need for many meals a day.

> Still, eating something in between is important to avoid wild sugar peaks and helps improving cognition performance if your job is intellectual.

Not my experience at all. I get the "wild sugar peaks" when I eat irregularly and/or when I consume lots of easily digested sugars. But since I don't get hungry very often while do intermittent fasting, I have no problems eating a lot of my fat and protein first, at which point I don't generally want much sugar, and my diet ends up being foods that are digested fairly slowly. I do get a bit tired shortly after lunch, but I quickly get more energy again and conversely my mornings are generally far more alert than they used to be with lots of small meals.


Still, eating something in between is important to avoid wild sugar peaks and helps improving cognition performance if your job is intellectual.

I am not sure if this is true. I think in people without diabetes, insulin does it's job and regulates your blood sugar pretty well during a fast and I think cognition is better when a large amount of your body's resources are not being used to digest food.


Maybe, but it seems to me the trick is not to end up developing type 2 diabetes by repeatedly spiking blood sugar to the point the pancreas gives up.




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