Eating One Meal a Day and Not Exercising

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  • mydogisklunk
    mydogisklunk Posts: 2
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    sseqwnp wrote: »
    Zeroaccess wrote: »
    Weight Loss is I think 70-80 percent diet.

    To me eating one meal a day (and it sounds like your meals aren't meals) will cause your energy level to decrease making it difficult for you to perform your job. Also I the body isn't designed to eat one meal a day. I'm not a doctor hell I barely know what I'm doing day to day but if it doesn't seem right via common sense then it's probably not.

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    Actually the body's not even designed to eat every day. Constantly fed (6 small meals a day) is very unnatural.

    ^^This. I personally worry more about calories and macronutrients than meal frequency.

    Plenty of recent studies on meal frequency (copy/pasted):

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17413096
    This study compares 1 meal/d to 3 meal/d. In the experiment, subjects who only consumed 1 meal/d saw a decrease in fat mass, and the hormone cortisol.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8...ubmed_RVDocSum
    This shows no difference on the effects of 2 meals/d compared to 5 meals/d on DIT (diet induced- thermogenesis), BMR, and Energy Expenditure. Meaning, the 5 meals/d did not increase the metabolic rate.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19943985
    This study shows there was no difference in weight loss between subjects with high/low meal frequencies.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9155494
    Evidence supports that meal frequency has nothing to do with energy in the subjects.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11319656
    Yet again, no difference in energy in the subjects compared to 2 meals/d to 6 meals/d.
  • STUPID_GOPHER
    STUPID_GOPHER Posts: 37 Member
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    nothing wrong eating one meal a day, as long as you get enough calories. when you're fasting 18-24hrs you can drop a lot of weight. If you do 24hrs, the next day I would do 18-20 and then alternate it......doing 24 everyday is tough.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
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    I think with tracking you can figure out how many calories are getting in a day. Make sure it doesn't dip too low. Can you carry snack bars/protein bars/fruit with you to eat on the go?

    To help with the tiredness, I can think of a few things that could give you more energy. If you added a weight training routine every other day (HIIT can be as short as 12 mins a day) you can build muscle to better support your frame. To get more out of your 25,000 steps (congratulations by the way) try varying your pacing, like trotting for a minute then walking for a minute. This will build your cardiovascular endurance.

    For your feet, take care of them! Maybe step on a Dr. Scholl's http://www.footmapping.ca/ to see if an insert will help. Have two pairs of shoes at work and change shoes halfway through the shift, to change positioning and give your feet a rest.
  • MKEgal
    MKEgal Posts: 3,250 Member
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    How does NJ get around federal labor laws requiring breaks? :anguished:
  • darylsami53
    darylsami53 Posts: 4 Member
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    I eat one big meal a day usually tea and I have lost 6lb in the last 5 days. Not sayin it's right to eat one meal a day but I do and it works, do what you feel works for you hunny :)
  • sodakat
    sodakat Posts: 1,126 Member
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    lishie_rebooted wrote: »
    I skimmed the responses.


    I see absolutely nothing wrong with eating one meal a day and maybe a snack or two. As long as you're hitting your macro and micro goals and getting all the nutrients, there's no need to eat throughout the day.

    Since you've already got such a physical job, just make sure your MFP goals are taking that into account so you're not eating too little for the goal. You don't have to exercise

    I agree with this. I wish I wasn't hungry til later, or too busy or something, so I could eat just one large meal or maybe during a few hour time frame. Unless I came home from work starving which would make me shove whatever is handy in my mouth, of course. I don't make very good choices when I'm starving.

    Also OP, if you walk 15,000 steps a day it certainly seems like you are doing plenty of movement! With my short legs that would be 5 miles. (I have measured my stride and logged in Fitbit).

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  • farfromthetree
    farfromthetree Posts: 982 Member
    edited February 2015
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    Lissa, I think you are way too obsessed with diet and food. You have Instagram, Twitter, MFP, Spark People, Facebook, and You Tube accounts all which focus on food, and your "struggle" with weight loss. You have a very unhealthy relationship with food. Others on here have told you in the past(before you deactivated) that you need help, and I have to agree with them. You have made it a career to obsess about food and weight loss and then ask for help as if you were new to all of this.
    So before any of you pour your hearts out to try and help, just know your words will not be heard by the OP. I know how mean this sounds, your gonna have to trust me on this one

    oh..and wordpress.com

    darnit this is an old post...ugh!!

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