Meal Frequency

A cornerstone of the JumpstartMD Meal program is eating smaller meals more frequently, starting with breakfast every day. We recommend a three meal, two-snack daily pattern so that you eat at regular intervals roughly three hours apart to help feed your weight loss and fuel your metabolism.

In general, it is best to avoid skipping meals and snacks, while some people successfully forgo the morning snack and some might even skip both snacks.

Once adapted to burning fat preferentially for fuel, some members experiment with intermittent fasting by skipping either breakfast, lunch or dinner or shifting to a one meal a day eating pattern.

Either of the above snacking or fasting options can be acceptable as long as you are consuming your daily boxes, keeping up with fluid and electrolyte needs, achieving your goals, and feeling good.

For simplicity, keep breakfast and lunch focused on a few easily prepared JumpstartMD compatible options. That leaves more time and energy to focus on building more variety at dinner.

In the end, if you prefer not to follow a 3 meal and 2 snack dietary regimen, work with your clinician to personalize an eating schedule that helps you thrive.