That's too much food, your must have felt like a bloated whore most of the time. 
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Some what, but not as much as you might think.
I was eating a lot but eating very clean, about 600 calories per meal, with the exception of breakfast which was around 700 calories. So I was eating a little over 5k calories per day.
I managed to stay relatively lean for a bulk, kept my cardio up the whole time.
The fattest I ever got was eating 5-6 meals per day, roughly the same amount of calories as when I was eating 8 and a late night shake.
All that said, I would never eat the 8 meal plus the late night shake schedule again...there is just no need.
These days since I'm not bulking at all but not really trying to diet down...more just trying to get into better and better shape, I take in 5-6 meals per day, somewhere in the 2500-3000 calorie per day range, and am keeping my cardio consistent. I eat two cheat meals each week end.
Goal is ton continue to get into better shape, body fat should continue to drop slowly with my calories in that range. After that, then I'll think about really bulking again...by "Really Bulking" I'm talking about within reason.
