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Subject: Is it OK to increase the blocks?

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02/06/2004 5:08 PM Alert 
My schedule is a bit crazy so timing and scheduling meals have been an incredible challenge. Here's my question. Is it OK to increase my blocks by 1? I need 12 in a day, but find that because a large amount of time elapses between meals, I am always hungry. Here is my typical schedule: Wake at 5am. Eat (1block) at 6am Arrive at work at 8am Eat remaining 2 blocks of breakfast at around 8:30am [i:c02a4c1c31]Here is where I would like to put 1 additional block at around 11:00)[/i:c02a4c1c31] Gym workout at around 12:30 or 1 Eat lunch at around 2pm (3 blocks) 1 block snack at around 5:30pm (I'm usually starving by this point) [i:c02a4c1c31](TOO MUCH TIME ELAPSES BETWEEN HERE, too)[/i:c02a4c1c31] Home by 9:00pm Eat dinner at 9:30pm (4 blocks) 1 block snack at around 10:30PM I just feel like there's too much time elapsed between meals, and breaking it down any further would be tough. Any thoughts? Thanks!
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02/09/2004 4:12 AM Alert 
Have you thought about moving some of your late night blocks to earlier? Sounds like you are most active midday. If you added an 11:00 block and removed your late night snack (which is 1/2 hour after a meal, so it doesn't really make sense anyway) and changed your lunch to 4 blocks, and decreasing your dinner to 3 blocks you would have the same # of blocks, but more fuel when you are more active. I can't imagine trying to sleep at 10 PM after eating 5 blocks within an hour! The reason for the late snack is to keep us in the zone while sleeping, but 5 blocks is pretty excessive for this, especially if you are in bed just an hour after eating. Schedule: prebreakfast 1 block breakfast 2 blocks snack 1 block lunch 4 blocks snack 1 block dinner 3 blocks Just a thought. Sometimes I find it easier to eat a 2 block snack myself, and then not have my late night one (especially nights when dinner is particularly late and I'll be in bed in 2 hours or so.) There is leeway in this. Good luck experimenting! ronica
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