How does /fit/ consume 5-6 meals per day? Trying to reduce body

>>38754477

>4034 / 2 - 1
>falling for the 5+ meals a day meme

>>38754493
Don't consume excess calories and I'm at the gym 6 or 7 days a week. Do a lot of cardio and weight training.

Only lightly toned and want to further reduce body fat.
Factors affecting my body fat are
Water consumption
Outdoor temperature
And meal sizes

>>38754551

No, factors affecting your body fat are:

1) Caloric consumption

That's it. You might think you're not consuming excess calories but if you're not dropping weight you've miscalculated your TDEE or underestimate your daily consumption.

Meal timings and frequency make no difference - look at the multiple success stories with intermittent fasting.

>>38754477
What kind of lifts are you doing and what kind of cardio? If you're doing 30 min on a treadmill you'll never see any results like if you jump rope or punching bag.

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>>38754551
>doing cardio
Yeah, if you want to lose all your muscle.
>>38754477
Just consume high protein meals, cut calorie intake by 500kcal a day, lift heavy weights in order to maintain strenght.

>>38754934

You don't lose muscle by doing cardio. Genuinely the worst of the broscience memes out there. You literally just have to eat a bit more to compensate if you're bulking.

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>>38754947
It's not a meme, when cardio is fucking up your lifts, especially when you are cutting. Doing cardio while cutting is the biggest meme of them all..

>>38754978

I'll just quote directly from the sticky:

"But what about cardio? Cardio is good for everyone because it improves your overall endurance and ability to exert yourself over an extended period. It promotes cardiovascular health and contributes to increased bone density. Additionally, it pretty much makes everything else function better: cardio helps stabilize hormone levels (increasing testosterone and increasing insulin sensitivity), improves endurance and recovery, helps the body fuel calories away from the fat cells and into the muscle, helps with weight maintenance/preventing the "yo-yo effect", generally keeps you healthy, and finally burns calories.

Cardio is neither required for burning fat, nor prohibited when building muscle - that's just an excuse by lazy people. All in all, resistance training is more important for looking pretty (yes, even for girls and pretty boys), but for general health, cardio is essential. Oh, and doing cardio in a fasted state provides no benefit, contrary to popular belief."

>>38754567
>>38754914
>>38754934
Thanks /fit/

I've been misinformed.

>>38754477
I literally only eat 1-2 huge meals when cutting.
Great for energy, time management and self control.

>>38755503
this desu, i lost 15lbs of fat and only like a tiny bit of strength doing daily intermittent fasting (big meal at 1 o'clock, big meal at 4 o'clock) didn't really get that hungry for the whole ten weeks