Meal Size?

[mikiekimi]

Curious to know what the literature or your experience says about meal size when trying to either gain muscle or lose fat.

Any benefit to keeping meals under a certain size for weight loss? Any need for larger meals to gain?

For example, if a goal is 2400 calories per day, is there any advantage to eating 6 x 400 calorie meals vs 3 x 800 calorie meals assuming macros are the same?

Is this purely unique to an individual's metabolism and preference (compliance)?

[Robert Santana]

Everything is highly individual but if by evidence you mean "peer reviewed" research, then yes they have reported that smaller more frequent protein feedings are superior for increasing muscle protein synthesis. Now does that lead to increases in lean mass? Not necessarily because the peer reviewed data also reports no correlation between the two measurements. That and data on chronic diets is not very reliable since there is no way to verify dietary intake. My advice is stay at a minimum of 3 + a protein shake and you're probably fine.