This is bad advice. You want to eat two large meals and a light one to minimize total insulin exposure. If you eat and snack all the time you keep insulin spiked up too much.
Working out six days a week to stay thin is completely ridiculous. Once or twice should be sufficient if you're eating right.
Hmm...I think eating five or six times a day is generally considered good advice because it assumes you've selected food that are whole grain/have a low glycemic index so that your insulin levels remain level throughout the day.
You don't want constant insulin levels. You want as much time with very low insulin levels as possible. You get that by eating two or three meals and avoiding snacks. It's also beneficial to skip a meal every now and then and have a longer than 12 hour fast.
As I’ve seen advice urging you to keep your insulin level constant throughout the day, and this is the first time I’ve seen anyone trying to contradict that, do you mind citing something?
Eating many meals a day keeps your metabolism up. Spiking insulin is only a problem if you're eating mostly carb-rich foods, and it will happen no matter how many times a day you consume it.
No it doesn't. It actually keeps your body in more of an anabolic and fat storing state, because of the constant insulin. Your body becomes poor at burning fat.
Longer fasting periods train your body to switch to running off fat reserves quickly. Metabolism does not slow.
We're now at "Yu-huh!" / "Nu-uh!", so I'll just add that what you're saying disagrees with every body-building, strength-training, weight loss and general fitness article and book I've ever read.
I do agree, though, that if you're eating, say, nothing but pasta and sugar for all of your meals, your insulin will stay high. But that's because of the food you're eating, not the frequency.
I'm aware frequent small meals is often recommended. It's just baseless. I'm not just talking about pasta and sugar. Snacking and many meals is bad, period.
Fasting periods raise growth hormone levels, snacking and insulin suppress growth hormone. You should fast an hour after lifting for this reason. If you eat immediately after lifting you shut down a large surge of growth hormone. (Bet your exercise articles didn't mention this either.)
No culture has ever done six meals a day. It's not going out on a limb to suppose we're made to eat two or three times a day.
You sound pretty certain. Could it be that opinions differ? And that yours is not the majority opinion at the moment? You might want to qualify your statements a little bit...
This is bad advice. You want to eat two large meals and a light one to minimize total insulin exposure. If you eat and snack all the time you keep insulin spiked up too much.
Working out six days a week to stay thin is completely ridiculous. Once or twice should be sufficient if you're eating right.