How Often Should You Eat to Lose Weight or Build Muscle?
You Google “how often should you eat + to lose weight or build muscle.”
You click on the first search result (‘cuz, surely, the first one must be trustworthy).
You scroll down and you see:
“Eating small, balanced meals every 3 hours boosts your body’s fat-burning potential” or “eat frequently, every 3–4 hours, and aim for 6 small meals during the day to build muscle.”
Since you know slightly less than bugger-all about sports nutrition, you find yourself wondering whether this is true or some sort of brain-wasting disease affected the author and he’s full of a load of old baloney.
Let’s do some scientific wanking — let’s dive into different scenarios and see how meal frequency affects fat loss and muscle growth.
You’re Obese or Overweight Beginner Lifter Who Wants to Lose Fat
Aragon et al. carried out a meta-analysis on the effects of meal frequency on weight loss:
*Meta-analysis is an unbiased study to determine conclusions because it reviews all relevant studies…
