I'm supposed to be taking in over 3000+ calories a day. But by the time i reach my 4th, 5th, and 6th meal I'm still full. Should I still be eating? and if so, is my body just going to convert these last 3 meals into fat?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
This is a TRICKY situation and I have LOTS of experience here since I am more for diet and less for "drugs".
When you are NOT hormonally enhance force feeding for 99% of most average genetically gifted people will results in NEGATIVE results.
Things start going south due to major stress your entire body is enduring from giving it food when it is simply "rejecting" it.
Your immune system will lower, your digestion and ability to assimilate nutrients will suffer. Your ghrelin (gasto intestinal hormone) will decrease, while Leptin (fat signaling hormone) will increase, sending force fed nutrients into -----> ADIPOSE TISSUE.
Also cortisol increases, prolactin increases, testosterone in some cases decreases ------all due to force feeding and doing something your body is r e j e c t i n g.
If you eat around your "hunger signal" that is FAR better than forcing for the sake of "forcing calories." THink about this --- when you do force calories.....you get so full that often times you will SKIP your next meal or HELL, maybe next 4 meals of the entire day! Then insulin plummets rock bottom and you are now catabolic, yet to disgusted to eat more......
At least by eating WHEN hungry, you will eat when you body tells you to, and that is usually every 2-4 hours (give or take). Now you MUST give your body a NEED to be hungry. Train hard and intense. Perhaps do HIIT cardio. Stay active during the day....take care of your health w/nutritional gaps with proper supplements ie; enzymes, probiotics, echinacea (appetite stimulant), ginger etc.....
Now if you are on a ass load of hormones --- that changes things entirely....
-Matt