In Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love, she spends time in Indonesia with Ketut Liyer, a Balinese medicine man of an unknown great age. Apparently, despite his heavy healing schedule while sitting cross-legged on his mat in his porch, he
eats only one meal a day – a typically simple Balinese dish of rice mixed with either duck or fish. He likes to drink one cup of coffee with sugar every day, mostly just to celebrate the fact that he can afford coffee and sugar.
Then, on the other hand, I know someone who regularly exercises in the gym quite vigorously and she eats about seven meals a day. And she’s not overweight.
What extremes!
Me, I like three squares a day. I try to cut back on the amount I eat at these three meals, but there are just three of them. And hardly ever any snacking.
How many meals do you require each day?
Best of health, naturally,
Nina