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Three meals + snacks. I eat about every two hours because I am blessed/cursed with lightning metabolism. For the same reason, I can't touch refined grains or sugars because they make me hungrier than not eating in the first place.

I eat four meals and that includes a snack. I used to do 5-6 but actually got tired of eating so many times a day - yes tired of eating.

i eat half an english muffin for breakfast, and then dinner around 8:30. Sometimes I eat some pumpkin seeds in the afternoon. Lots of water, a little coffee.
I agree about the vacation phenomenon: I want three meals, substantial, when on vacation/traveling. What is up with that?

I eat 6 - 8 times a day on gym day and 4-6 on not gym day. 2 main meals (lunch and dinner) and 4-6 snacks. (2 AM before lunch, 2 post dinner, and on gym day 2 between lunch and dinner)

I have three meals a day. Breakfast (cold or hot cereal during the week, eggs and bacon or muffins/biscuits/scones on the weekend), lunch (usually leftovers, or a salad or soup with cheese and crackers or sandwich) and dinner. Also, I like to eat lunch and dinner precisely at noon and 6 during the week. On weekends, I wake up really late so I usually combine breakfast and lunch. I've tried the small meals/snacking thing and I don't really like it.

Weekdays are sooo different from weekends in my eating schedule. I'm working to lose weight right now, and weekdays are much easier. I eat about 4-5 times a day. Cereal w/milk and fruit for breakfast; green salad with tuna, or egg whites and whole wheat bread for lunch; pasta, veg and protein for dinner. Snacks after work and/or before bed include melba toasts, cottage cheese, popcorn, pickles, pepperoncini, etc.

It's hard to avoid eating when someone brings their famous banana bread or homemade salsa to work, but I do my best by eating a dry (unbuttered) small slice of the bread, and enjoying the fresh salsa on my cottage cheese instead of on tortilla chips. I only eat the homemade treats at work!

Weekends are sooo hard. I usually combine breakfast and lunch, but it's likely to be something that my fiance brought home from his shift the night before, like chicken parm or pizza. There are lots of cookouts and picnics, and I usually have one hot dog and a full plate of fruit or green salad, and the smallest cookie or brownie I can find. What kills me is the adult beverages. How am I supposed to refuse a mojito with fresh mint? Or two?

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Two snacks a day. Like cheese and crackers or some nice fruit like cantaloupe.
Dinner is off the hook, whatever is around from pulled pork to shrimp I always overeat.

I eat breakfast lunch and dinner. If there is ice cream or I have baked recently then dessert also. I seriously can't understand people going a whole day or more than 6 hours without eating. I have always read that eating breakfast and not skipping meals means you are more likely to not be overweight. I am 4'11'' and weigh 92 pounds and yet I still eat 3 well rounded meals and maintain a healthy weight. If I go more than 6 hours without eating I usually get light headed and am ravenous for food.

I try to adhere to the 3 main meals and two snacks in between, but I daydream about food all day long. Does that count?

I usually eat 1 small meal before going to work on weekdays, then I have a consistent and pretty large dinner every day. Thats about it for me, a strange work shift results in me having a strange eating pattern.

On the weekends I'll nibble all day and will either cook up something special or try a new (or old favorite) restaurant late in the day. I try and do that consistently for both Saturday and Sunday.

I don't think counting would a good idea. I eat whenever I'm hungry. At least three full meals or I'll snack and eat smaller meals throughout the day.

too too many

Five "meals." During the work week, I pack an old-school square metal lunchbox of stuff in the morning and eat out of it all day at work. I eat a good breakfast with fruit and something proteinaceous like a hard-boiled egg or a PB on whole-wheat English muffin. I have a 10:30 snack (usually a Baggie of air popped popcorn and a plain yogurt with cut-up fruit to put in it) , then lunch at 1 (a sandwich wrap or a big salad and a cup of homemade soup). Another snack at 4 or so (fruit, or veggies. My favorite is a cup of lightly salted edamame) which is the end of the lunchbox. When the lunchbox is empty, I know I am done eating until dinner. Then I eat a light, lean dinner (protein + two veg).

I started doing this about six years ago, dropped 40 pounds and have kept 30 of them off. I also find that I am less likely to stalk the vending machines when I know I have my lunchbox with me....Weekends, though, I eat whatever/whenever I want. (Hence only keeping off 30/40 pounds)!

I actually counted today. 6 my volume is severly limited so I tend to eat more often. The good part of that is it keeps my blood sugar rock steady.

I eat 6ish times a day. Very rarely do I eat an actual "meal".

Cereal, sandwich, more cereal, an apple, a couple of ribs, buttered bread.

Those were my meals today. >

weekdays and weekends are WAY different. I find myself eating all the time on the weekends (unless we are out actually doing something...)

During the week, I usually eat a light breakfast (hard boiled egg or greek yogurt or soy milk), snack on a handful of almonds before lunch, lunch is leftovers from night before or salad plus a piece of fruit. snack on some cheese when i get home from work and then we make dinner which varies but is usually lots of protein and veggies (although we have the occassional cravings for some carb packed dinners once in a while).

During the week, I eat smaller portions throughout the day - cereal and cold milk inthe morning, a few pieces of fruit, handfull of nuts, some string cheese or maybe a yogurt throughout the day. Then I get to the weekends, and for some reason, I cannot (CANNOT) say "no" to brunch, drinks with the girls, or trying a new restaurant. 'Tis a most vicious cycle, and I'm convinced that everyone (EVERYONE) who sees me at the gym thinks "That poor girl - she's been doing cardio here for months and hasn't dropped a pound." Ah well. :-)

@jackgib: Sounds like my eating habits exactly, except my almonds are after lunch rather than before. Strange!

depends on if im angry or not...

usually 3 meals and 1 or 2 snacks a day.
breakfast: cereal and a banana
snack: yogurt or apple w/ peanut butter
lunch: varies but usually salad with something else.
snack: yogurt, crackers
dinner: varies
the weekends are when it all falls apart....especially when alcohol is involved. in those cases, there is sometimes a 3AM meal!

All day

Wow - I actually haven't given this much thought since I got pregnant (my baby is now 3 1/2 months). I have a small breakfast when I first wake up (small bowl of oatmeal or cereal, or a Vita Top, and a small glass of milk or juice). When I get to work I have some eggs and 1 small turkey sausage link, and coffee. Then a piece of fruit about an hour later. Lunch is usually a big salad or a sandwich (always something healthy or I feel like crap-ola all afternoon) and another piece of fruit. Snack time around 4 (after I work out), usually a Clif bar or a yogurt. Then a small handful of trail mix when I get home, and a light dinner, followed by yet another piece of fruit. Water constantly all day.

You know - that's a lot of food!! I'm skinny now (yay breastfeeding!) but I imagine I'll have to tone it down when I wean the munchkin...

The constants in my (week)day are a latte for breakfast, and dinner around 7 or 8. And I pretty much have a coke when I get home from work/with dinner every day, unless we're having cocktails.

Aside from that, I'm all over the map. I might have a granola bar in the morning and a yogurt in the afternoon, or a few pieces of fruit, or I'll actually order lunch from work, which will be pizza or pasta. I try not to have any more coffee, but if I'm starving, I might run to Starbucks for another latte.

Twice, at least that's what I tell myself. I'm a cheesemonger at a natural foods coop so I'm in a graze all day.

as many times as possible!

Due to various medical conditions, I can't eat many solids in a day. I never eat breakfast, will have half a sandwich (if that) for lunch, and a half-portion of whatever I make for dinner. I don't really snack at all. And I don't particularly like sweet things, so no candy or dessert for me (although oddly, I love baking).

Three times a day except on weekends and other special days. I'm following the No-S Diet: http://nosdiet.com/

I'm tiny with a super quick metabolism; like many of you I eat constantly through the day. At least four times--lighter breakfast, two small 'lunchie snacks', and dinner is the only time i want a huge meal. I mean, I want real dinner. Often dessert, too--if only just a couple bites.
my blood sugar is often my worst enemy--have to stay armed to control it.

Is this a trick question?? Whenever I'm hungry!

I admit that I am trying to find a pattern here, but your posts are so disparate...which amazes me too. And I assume that most of us, despite our eating habits, are healthy?