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!

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