Skipping Meals to Stay Within Calorie Goal

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  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    No, I would make a dinner of large quantities of vegetables. Have like a baked sweet potato (no butter!) and a big pile of green beans, steamed, with a little salt.
  • parkscs
    parkscs Posts: 1,639 Member
    terar21 wrote: »
    Eat. I know plenty of people fast and it's ok and works for them but that is their intended weight loss program, not a fail-safe "crap, I just need to skip tonight and wait for food tomorrow." I think there's a difference between waking up and saying "I really want to have a hearty meal for lunch so I'll skip breakfast today" and "I'm so hungry but I don't have enough calories for dinner so I'll wait until tomorrow to eat."The latter could lead to binge behavior. If your body is truly hungry, you should just eat, especially when it isn't going to put you over maintenance.

    The problem with that logic is that it's based on "listen to your body" BS. If you've eaten your calorie target for the day, your body is not "truly hungry." Your body has plenty of nutrients to carry you into the next day and it also has fat stores it can tap into as needed - it could go for days without food if it had to. In short, the notion that "your body is truly hungry" is just bull and an excuse to eat over your target.

    Now if you're miserable, of course you can exceed your calorie target for the day and the sky will not come crashing down. But let's not BS about it and make it out like your body is starving. The body is fine and the person in question just wants to eat more than their target allows on that given day.
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    fluffyasacat wrote: »
    maidentl wrote: »
    fluffyasacat wrote: »
    Skip dinner. What's the incentive for planning better tomorrow if you're going to give yourself a pass when you hit your TDEE min-afternoon? Unless you're skipping every meal skipping meals isn't going to kill you.

    This is just silly. We don't need to be punished for screwing up. And he didn't say he hit his TDEE, he said he hit his calorie goal.

    Sorry, not TDEE then... calorie goal. You think skipping meals is punishment? How bout dieting in general? Is that punishment? You need to think about caloric restriction a little more objectively. No one is being punished - reducing caloric intake is a thing you do when you want to lose weight.

    The way I personally am dieting is not punishment, no. I am not constantly hungry and/or miserable. I understand that you must reduce calories to lose weight but I further understand that going over on one day doesn't destroy everything.
  • fluffyasacat
    fluffyasacat Posts: 242 Member
    47Jacqueline wrote: »
    I have some mfp friends who skip dinner. I don't know how they do it. If I was ever in that situation, which I wouldn't be, I would either eat dinner and not worry about it, or if I was trying to lose weight, I'd take a walk or a class and then have dinner.

    When people say "I would never be able to do the diet you're doing", I always reply "Yes, I don't think you could".

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