How to eat small meals daily?

[Anonymous]

So I haven't been exercising lately because I am not losing weight and I've put some back on but the reason for this is because I'm still eating too much for what I can take and I have no clue what I'm doing when it comes to eating small meals every day. I have read up on articles and websites and all it says is use a small side plate or have a mixture of salad, meat and a handful of carbs like rice but it's not helping me figure out what's small still. I've tried this and I'm still eating too much and not losing weight at all, I definitely need a pair of scales but currently I keep going back and forward from my parents giant meals to then back to trying to eat less but I still can't get the grips of it. Any practical ideas of what I can do to implement small eating into my daily life even when I'm at college? I want to make it as easy as possible for myself not super complicated.

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P.s I'm limited on my budget and what I can eat, I have to mostly eat what my family makes but trying to impliment what my parents eat into something healthy is harder than it is at college as I got more variation there, were all very limited, I can buy celery, lettus, onion and a pepper once a week with some lemon juice but at home it's hard to figgure out how I can make it smaller with how much they make.

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Is there any way I can turn my parents huge meals made for 3 into a small meal? the things we eat is chilli concarni (that includes rice), spageti bolognes ether with penne pasta, spegeti or that italian spinicah and white spegeti, mince meat, sausages, sometimes gammon slices, cheese and ham omellete, sometimes cheese and egg pie with those chunky chip thingies, noodles, and Sundays we mostly have a Sunday meal with chicken, vegies, roast potatoes and yorkshire puddings, I can see though we

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Really lack in the vegetables department, I buy my own salad and sometimes fruit to try and make up for it but I feel I am still not getting enough of it in my diet, I want to be able to only eat a little of what my parents make but replace the rest with vegies without making the meal too huge.

[kheserthorpe]

A serving of lean meat is about the size of your palm, or a deck of cards.

A serving of carbs is about the size of your fist.

If you're not slathering dressing on vegetables, and they are non starchy you can eat them unlimited.

Starchy are generally roots or seeds, rather then leaves/etc. I.e. potatoes/yams/corn/peas are starchy.

[WoIIie]

Use tupperware containers and premake meals 3 days in advanced. So if you wanted 6 small meals per day, prepare 18. Stick to what you make and your portions will be under control.

[paigems]

Can you maybe try to count your calories one day? Not permanently (that would suck), but just for one day so you can get a feel for how much food need in a day and how much you are actually getting. That way if you find you're getting way too many calories you can try to cut back on the food that contribute to it.

[paigems]

If you're limited on what you eat and it's not super healthy then you just have to eat less of it and work out more.

[funkadelic5]

Don't eat small meals. Eat 2-3 large meals. Don't follow inaccurate broscience.

[Asker]

That's too much :\ I eat 2 smaller meals and a big meal and it's too much, eating that much doubles the calories, the big meal is the thing that's too much but I just want to eat smaller with every meal, 2 pieces of toast and some fruit or a yogurt I last 4 - 5 hours alone on that, 4 hours on really active days, 5 when sitting around.

[funkadelic5]

You should be eating 2-3 meals I mean, if a "small" meal fills you up, then that's enough.

[Asker]

Yeh reason why they say small meals and a small one already takes about 4 - 6 hours to digest, depending on the person, I just wanna know what I ate ain't lying around in there so I can burn something off when I start working out again lol.

[funkadelic5]

That doesn't make any sense and all. You burn calories exactly the same whether you are digesting or not. It makes absolutely no difference.

[Asker]

You need to burn more than your intake in order to lose weight that's why, eating small meals helps a lot because for sure your going to be burning more than you ate.

[funkadelic5]

Eating small meals has 0 effect on the net amount of calories you ingest. You can have few large meals and many short meals, etc. Eating small meals specifically does nothing. I eating usually 2 meals a day and I stay very lean.

[Asker]

Nah id not eat like 6 small meals like they tell you ha ha that parts bull as nobody has time, I normally eat 3 meals a day but even just one large meal is too much for me with the 2 small meals as I technically just ate for 2 on that big meal lol or maybe 3 even, I can't tell any more ha ha my parents make too much as they feel we wouldn't have enough but it's way more than enough. It would actually cut down on calories a lot eating just small meals as the one big meal probs contains a lot.

[Asker]

Really, your not meant to eat that much unless you got a super metabolism and don't put on weight but most of us do it's a lot slower so we can't even eat 6 small meals, only about 4 small meals a day but that's it really, that's all id probs end up eating anyway.