6 meals a day! what a job!

[matthewr]

ve been eating 6 meals a day for amonth or so now, and there was one thing i was wondering how everyone else does it without living life like a hermit. it seems as though i cant go any where because i might not be able to acsess my meals. Do you guys do some serious planning or what? 6 meals a day has become such a habbit that i feel as though if i go any were and miss my meal ill get stressed out?

[PaPaLoAdS]

yeah i feel the same exact way.

i just wrote out my schedule on Excel hour by hour day by day.

you should see it, its something like

wake up
eat
(30 min later)
eat
(30 min later)
eat
(30 min later)
eat
(30 min later)
.
.
.
.
eat
(30 min later)
eat
(30 min later)
eat
sleep


you get like 2-3 hour windows of non eating times though so its all good

[Terry Monk]

I eat 10 meals a day. Don't talk to me about eating all the time. [img]tongue.gif[/img] j/k around matthew. Welcome aboard. It takes careful planning alright. It takes me about an hour on Sunday afternoon and about 20 mins each night to prepare my meals for the week/day. Here's my schedule:

5:45am
2 jumbo eggs 3 turkey sausage links
handful of blueberries or strawberries
vitamins
8 oz 2% milk

7:30am
low carb slimfast
1/4 cup trailmix

9:15am
can of tuna with fat free mayo
4 strips beef jerky
2 cheese sticks

11:30am
2 chicken breasts
3 oz. baby carrots
small handful strawberries (roughly 6)
2 tbls. natty pb
1 jumbo egg
vitamins

2:15pm
4 stips beef jerky
2 jumbo eggs
1/2 cup cauliflower
1 fruit cup - usually mandarin orange slices

about 4:00pm pre workout
1 banana

about 5:00 PWO
16 oz. 2% milk w/ 2 scoops protein powder/creatine/glutamine
1 banana

6:00pm
1 chicken breast/steak/turkey patty
1 cup long grain brown rice with salsa
1/2 cup veggies
1 can of baked beans

8:00pm
1 cup oatmeal
2 jumbo egg whites
1 banana

pre-bedtime
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1 cup skim milk
1 cup cold cereal

Totals: calories 4737.5 fat 158.5 carbs 417.5 protein 396

[Anubis]

You don't have to live like a hermit to eat every 6 hours. You should look into getting some protein bars that pack around 300 calories per bar, and/or make yourself some high calorie snacks you can take out with you (mixed nuts & fruit etc.)

[gobbla]

I'm seriously considering having 2-3 meals a day in liquid form. Price and convience are the driving factors for me.

[Terry Monk]

Originally posted by gobbla:
I'm seriously considering having 2-3 meals a day in liquid form. Price and convience are the driving factors for me.

Beer???? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Anubis]

Should I dare bring up the 1100 calorie drink GR?

[gobbla]

Originally posted by gymrat:

quote:

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Originally posted by gobbla:
I'm seriously considering having 2-3 meals a day in liquid form. Price and convience are the driving factors for me.

Beer???? [img]tongue.gif[/img] [/quote]MABEY...

[Johnka]

You'll get the hang of it. Try roasting about 3 days worth of chicken breasts, cook some stew in the crock pot, and throw a bunch of salads together in tupperware, and you've got yourself 24+ meals with relatively little effort.

[ichbinba]

tupperware is good... chicken breasts are nice.... but I'm really liking this beer thing!! The beer diet... hmm, possibly I should write a book? fitness books and fad diets being all the rage, I could probably make some cash. And what else would you expect from a milwaukeein?

[raymond3]

Yes tupperware is my best friend..my wife pre-cooks all my meals for the week on Sundays..if it wasnt for her helping me, eating 6 (clean) meals a day would be alot harder.

[Ogedei]

Me personally I don't have much trouble during the week.

I eat breakfast.

I eat on my :15

I eat at Lunch

I eat on my :15

I eat around 6:00

I eat when I get home.

Weekends?

I try and have a good breakfast and then good luck after that. All bets are off. I do my best, but Saturday and Sunday are def my weakness when it comes to food, especially now that I am over at Shannon's some weekends.

I wonder if I am capable of posting a message without bringing her up? [img]smile.gif[/img] hahhahah

Og

[emartin10]

Tupperware and a small cooler are probably your best solutions. When you're cooking dinner the night before, make extra - or get another pan going with tomorrow's lunch.

You can also buy a shaker bottle and some meal replacement shakes to have in your pack and all you need to do is add water and you have a meal.

Fruit and nuts are very portable, as are sandwiches. You shouldn't have any problem throwing some sliced chicken or turkey on bread with a few leaves of lettuce. When I was working, I always had a cooler with a spare sandwich and a piece of fruit in it in the event that I had to work late or whatever. I also kept a few cans of tuna and a big bag of almonds in my desk.

So it's possible, but you're right, it does take some planning. And if you have a crock pot, make Johnka's roast, it's freakin heaven.

E

[RacerBill]

I find it's not too bad, although I'm not bulking so my snacks are relatively light. Usually my day works out to this:

6:30 breakfast -- egg, egg whites, plain yogurt, berries and granola.

10:00 snack -- apple, piece of string cheese

1:00 lunch -- tuna sandwich, raw baby carrots, skim milk

3:30 snack -- Low carb yogurt, a few almonds

6:30 dinner -- chicken breast, steamed veggies

9:30 snack -- cottage cheese

The morning snack is at my desk at work. We're not allowed to eat non-finger foods at our desks, so I take a 5 minute break in the afternoon to eat the yogurt. I find everything for my two daytime snacks and lunch fits easily into a lunchbox.

[Terry Monk]

Originally posted by Johnka:
You'll get the hang of it. Try roasting about 3 days worth of chicken breasts, cook some stew in the crock pot, and throw a bunch of salads together in tupperware, and you've got yourself 24+ meals with relatively little effort.

You won't get better advice than this. Period.

[RipStone]

All great advice so far(besides the beer thing

Here is an article by John Berardi about this subject...

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=515037

Planning and preperation is what it comes down to for me.

[castufari]

Get some tupperware, they are your best friend. Really.

I cook a bunch of chicken breasts in advance then let them cool. Open your tupperware, line them with a handful of spinach. Put the breasts on, I usually chop mine up to make it easier to eat so I only need a fork. I add some nuts (peanuts or cashews or almonds) then some chopped fruit (peaches, oranges, etc). I then put my standard dressing, a little bit of EVOO and balsamic vinegar. If I'm in the mood I'll toss in a few chopped veggies if I need to get them out of the fridge. All this goes into the fridge. NOTE: I make one of them larger than the others for lunch.

For other snacks I'll pack small containers of cottage cheese and fruit. I don't mind CC, but with a little fruit it goes down easier.

There, I just saved you 20.00 since you won't have to buy the John B DVD that shows you how to do this. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I also keep a couple of bottles with whey in them ready to go. Somedays I'll mix the whey with milk, other days water depending on where I'm at.

[nyguy]

I work as a pest control technician and I find it extremely difficult to maintain several meals a day as scheduled. How do you guys manage?

[gobbla]

make sure you get things tha