One meal a day.
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I have never tried it so I'm not sure. I think for myself I might be prone to binging but my ex father in law only ate one meal a day and he did fine. Maybe it's something you get used to. If it's your personal preference I say go nuts but if you think it's a clever way to stay in a deficit and you're forcing yourself... get ready to binge!2
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BrooklynBooty wrote: »That is ridiculous! I could never live on one meal a day. I eat 6 small meals a day and lost tons of weight. Your body needs fuel just like a car. When it starts to run low on gas you need to fill it up. Not overflow the tank but enough to get it to the next stop. If you don't it will just run on fumes which we all know is really bad for your car and starts to affect other parts.
That's how I feel about it.
I could never eat 6 small meals personally. Anyone on these forums has plenty of fuel in their tank haha. As long as your deficit isn't dangerously low, eat 1 eat 6; eat what you wish it makes 0 difference.5 -
It would be effective for putting me a jail after I killed someone from being hangry. Other than that, no it wouldn't be very effective for me. I would binge and eat far more calories than usual with smaller meals.3
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I've started an "Eat less than 1000Kcal per day at Breakfast and fast through the Day" diet and in a week I've reduced my Blood Sugar from avg 12 to 6.3 tonight. Lost over 2 Kilos as well. I've cut out carbs as much as I can too, so my one meal a day misses out pasta, potatoes, bread and rice.
Skipping Lunch hasnt been a problem, I drink more flavoured water to fill the stomach, but during the evening I wait until 20:00 to go swimming. I tell my Inner Child who does all the comfort eating, that I cant swim 2 hours before a swim, so that gets me thru until after the swim when its way too late to eat before bed.
That gets me thru to breakfast when I go down to the motel rest'rant & look at the All-You-Can-Eat Continental Buffet.
I hope to reverse my Diabetes 2.0 -
I've started an "Eat less than 1000Kcal per day at Breakfast and fast through the Day" diet and in a week I've reduced my Blood Sugar from avg 12 to 6.3 tonight. Lost over 2 Kilos as well. I've cut out carbs as much as I can too, so my one meal a day misses out pasta, potatoes, bread and rice.
Skipping Lunch hasnt been a problem, I drink more flavoured water to fill the stomach, but during the evening I wait until 20:00 to go swimming. I tell my Inner Child who does all the comfort eating, that I cant swim 2 hours before a swim, so that gets me thru until after the swim when its way too late to eat before bed.
That gets me thru to breakfast when I go down to the motel rest'rant & look at the All-You-Can-Eat Continental Buffet.
I hope to reverse my Diabetes 2.
you know for most people less than 1000 calories is not healthy right?5 -
cocoradical wrote: »BrooklynBooty wrote: »That is ridiculous! I could never live on one meal a day. I eat 6 small meals a day and lost tons of weight. Your body needs fuel just like a car. When it starts to run low on gas you need to fill it up. Not overflow the tank but enough to get it to the next stop. If you don't it will just run on fumes which we all know is really bad for your car and starts to affect other parts.
That's how I feel about it.
So you're saying that our ancestors are ridiculous for hunting and not eating for days before they catch a hunt. And that they would die in weakness after not eating for a day. We were not evolved to eat 4-6 small meals throughout the day. If that was so, people who do fasting would die very shortly throughout the fast. Our bodies actually evolved to store our macros effectively. That's why fasting is very efficient.
While I agree we're not evolved to need 4-6 small meals a day, you are wrong about the dietary patterns of ancient peoples. Yes, they hunted. But when they had killed a large animal or caught a net full of fish, they dried/preserved the excess meat and then ate that between "kills." You also forgot that humans gathered food. Nomadic hunter gatherers even sowed patches of crops so that as they migrated through, say next summer, there would be seeds/grains or vegetables to be gathered. This lasted for millennia before some peoples settled down and started agriculture in earnest. Studies of our human ancestors coprolites show that in a hunter gatherer diet of ancient peoples there was daily intake of food and most of the daily intake of food was from gathering plant based sources of food. Forensic studies of the Iceman and his kit and stomach contents back this up as well. So the idea of ancestors only hunting for food fasting between "hunts" for days at a time is a myth.5 -
I tried the "Warrior Diet" which is essentially eating one meal between 4 pm and no later than 7 pm, but you can eat all that you want until you are full. Although I didn't have all that much difficulty eating one meal per day, what I found was I would seriously overeat at night, so it didn't work for me.
The car analogy is novel, however people are not cars, we can run for quiet some time on empty.3 -
moonstroller wrote: »I tried the "Warrior Diet" which is essentially eating one meal between 4 pm and no later than 7 pm, but you can eat all that you want until you are full. Although I didn't have all that much difficulty eating one meal per day, what I found was I would seriously overeat at night, so it didn't work for me.
The car analogy is novel, however people are not cars, we can run for quiet some time on empty.
The car analogy is excellent but can be expanded. With obese people we are talking a car that burns 5 gal a day but has a 500 gal reserve tank (fat).
Whether we put in x1 gal at regular intervals or 5 gal once a day, we rarely ever pull from the reserve tank and never run on empty.
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Charlie Beans - I'm doing this under medical supervision.2
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zainabanwer wrote: »What are your views on the one meal a day diet, is it effective?
Just kill me it will be easier!!!
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zainabanwer wrote: »What are your views on the one meal a day diet, is it effective?
Yes. It's pretty easy too, once you've done it a few times. There is a 5:2 diet where folks eat 3 meals 5 days a week and one meal 2 days a week. People have ridiculous reasons why they don't think fasting is healthy. Think about it. If humans got weak and couldn't function without food for a day we all world have died off a long time ago. You actually think clearer and you are a better hunter when you're hungry!
Good luck!1 -
zainabanwer wrote: »What are your views on the one meal a day diet, is it effective?
Yes. It's pretty easy too, once you've done it a few times. There is a 5:2 diet where folks eat 3 meals 5 days a week and one meal 2 days a week. People have ridiculous reasons why they don't think fasting is healthy. Think about it. If humans got weak and couldn't function without food for a day we all world have died off a long time ago. You actually think clearer and you are a better hunter when you're hungry!
Good luck!
if you mean 5:2 IF(intermittent fasting) 5:2 is where you eat normally(could be maintenance calories or your regular deficit) for 5 days and for 2 days you eat 500-600 calories(some eat 800). not you eat 3 meals 5 days a week and one meal 2 days a week because if someone wasnt watching their calories those 3 meals could be high in calories resulting in weight gain.4 -
Yes. The calorie part is ok. One meal a day is fine too.0
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Ironandwine69 wrote: »It is not easy to get all your nutrition needs in one seating, especially protein. I like having one meal a day but the only way to get all your calories in one meal is either not clean eating or Thanksgiving dinner. So I stretch it and make it a 6 hour feeding window.
With that said, if I know I have a big meal coming ( going out or going to Mom's for dinner), I save my calories for that meal.
This can't be stressed enough. It would be very difficult to address macronutrient needs in one meal.
At least with 16:8 or other types of IF, you have a bigger window to be able to do so.8 -
BrooklynBooty wrote: »That is ridiculous! I could never live on one meal a day. I eat 6 small meals a day and lost tons of weight. Your body needs fuel just like a car. When it starts to run low on gas you need to fill it up. Not overflow the tank but enough to get it to the next stop. If you don't it will just run on fumes which we all know is really bad for your car and starts to affect other parts.
That's how I feel about it.
Do you stop every 1/4 tank to fill up or wait until you are near empty? I would guess it does not matter...6 -
moonstroller wrote: »I tried the "Warrior Diet" which is essentially eating one meal between 4 pm and no later than 7 pm, but you can eat all that you want until you are full. Although I didn't have all that much difficulty eating one meal per day, what I found was I would seriously overeat at night, so it didn't work for me.
The car analogy is novel, however people are not cars, we can run for quiet some time on empty.
The car analogy is excellent but can be expanded. With obese people we are talking a car that burns 5 gal a day but has a 500 gal reserve tank (fat).
Whether we put in x1 gal at regular intervals or 5 gal once a day, we rarely ever pull from the reserve tank and never run on empty.
Thanks, Theo, that helped me understand the analogy better.1 -
Ironandwine69 wrote: »It is not easy to get all your nutrition needs in one seating, especially protein. I like having one meal a day but the only way to get all your calories in one meal is either not clean eating or Thanksgiving dinner. So I stretch it and make it a 6 hour feeding window.
With that said, if I know I have a big meal coming ( going out or going to Mom's for dinner), I save my calories for that meal.
This can't be stressed enough. It would be very difficult to address macronutrient needs in one meal.
At least with 16:8 or other types of IF, you have a bigger window to be able to do so.
Yes to this. I tried one meal a day (unofficially, I didn't know it was a thing!) but felt famished even once I was full, probably from not having enough nutrients for my busy days. I eat very small protein focused meals early in the day now and one balanced meal in the evening.0 -
Im curious tho, Me personally I eat 5-6 times a day smaller more protein dense meals however, can you even absorb every nutrient from a meal if you only eat it all in one meal???0
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