I try to answer anything I can, based on PERSONAL experience and not from what I might read or see in books and TV shows.
Just like the media, most universities (if not all), the banking system and so on, the whole nutritional modern "system" and all these books that they are written and meant to help people, it seems like they are nothing else than another way the "specials" found to ruin others, especially whites. That's my personal opinion, it might sound "too much" to some people, but I think a good look in human nutrition's history could convince more people about my theory.
It's no secret that some of the greatest warriors, philosophers, inventors, explorers etc such as Ancient Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Gauls, Knights during the crusades, ate 4 to 8 meals per day, it's a historical proven fact. If you have noticed in movies or shows, such as Spartacus, The Gladiator, Troy etc you will see that most of the time, historical figures and warriors are chewing something, especially apples, grapes and other fruits.
The problem with modern people, regardless race, is that they think as a meal only something which includes meat, steak, burger, pizza and rest foods of this nature. Someone on this thread, said that he can't understand how one can eat up to 6 meals and I think that shows the whole philosophy most people have nowadays about nutrition.
For the record, according to Diogenes, ANYTHING (including a chew-gum) that energizes the digestive system inside the human body, is considered a meal...........I personally pick to believe what my great white ancestors said and taught us, than some modern "manual guides", which are nothing more than a "chosen" propaganda which makes my people in the western world, more obese, more weak and less manly year by year.
So 6 to 10 meals per day is a good start to change your philosophy and reach your goal. By meal i define an apple, a banana, even a glass of milk with a 10 calories cracker, so don't go too wild and loose.
The second and most important key is to get rid of expressions such as weight "loss"........you have a loss when there's death or you lose a loved person, an arm, an eye.....so why would you use such expression for your body? When I was in the Navy Seals, the fourth day of my training, I did quit an exercise and laid down on my back, i was out of breathe and I thought I would die from heart failure (one of the many times during my service), so the trainer came up to me and pushed me with his heavy boot on the back of my head as I was trying to stand from the ground, he asked me where I thought I was going and I said to him "I quit, I need to lose some weight and come back 3 months later to try again", he replied back to me " If you wanna lose weight to make it here, then cut a leg or an arm and get back in line son"............to this day I am thankful to him that he did not accept my cowardliness and attempt to quit, because probably my whole life and attitude would have never changed for the better, because of this incident (among others).
So I hope you get the point, you need to change philosophy and thinking first, then the way you feed your body..........body and mind go as one, if the philosophy won't change, nothing will. There's expressions you can use such as "getting fit, getting strong, getting muscular, getting power, not weight LOSS". Loss makes us weak and they want us WEAK, remember that!
Third and I finish, even though I would like to say more to such interesting topic, you need to realize that our human body is not designed to carry one specific weight from the day of our birth to the day of our final destination.............We are part of nature and just like the sea, the sky and the rivers, we SHOULD "transform" depending the location, season, temperature and so on.........this what Ancient Greek and Roman warriors&soldiers did, I guess they knew a little better than Oprah and her "special" panels
Let me mention myself as an example, I am 1,84cm tall (6 and 3/4 I believe in your system) and my weight during the year varies from 185lbs up to 220 (in the last 7 years, Navy Seals service and after). I feel as healthy and strong as it gets and now I can relate better and understand how people like Dan Henderson, Vitor Belfort, Randy Couture etc can look so fit, strong and healthy at 185 and 220 (for Randy 240 as well). I wish when I was an athlete competing in tournaments, I had the knowledge&experience I have now, or someone with knowledge could guide me and I would have achieved way more and in more weight divisions (I was an eternal super middleweight). Our body is historically and scientifically proven (from 17th century EUROPEAN researches) that includes "αποθηκευτικους χωρους", not sure how to translate this, but imagine it like a storage place in a mall. The main mall, can work fine if it's "full of products", even if the storage place is full, half full or even half empty right?
This is how our body works as well...........in Africa you would need a half empty storage place, in Sweden a half full one and in North pole a full one (by picking the locations I pick the weather and temperatures as well). Right now I weigh 186lbs and I deal fine with the 40 degrees of celsius in Greece. Three days in London I felt kinda cold, I would be more comfortable if I lived there being 205-215 lbs, it's all pure science.
I love the topic, thanks for the question
