One One One Diet

LettingTheSmallStuffGo

Has anyone tried this diet and had success? One protein, one carb, and one fat at every meal. Veggies are free. Plus two snacks - each are one protein, 1/2 carb, and one fat. I'm on day 2, seems to be pretty easy and I'm not hungry. Seems to bring variety of food choices but also light to moderate structure to my day. I'm logging all my food in MFP - calorie wise it's about 1500 calories a day which I'm content with. The accelerated plan would cut probably an extra 200-300 cals a day out.

LAWoman72

Not this method specifically, but I've had much more success controlling my appetite when I pair my carb with a protein, and of course, many veggies are filling without adding many calories.

It still comes down to calories and always will, but as an anti-overeating mechanism, it seems to help.

TavistockToad

marisagreear wrote: »

Has anyone tried this diet and had success? One protein, one carb, and one fat at every meal. Veggies are free. Plus two snacks - each are one protein, 1/2 carb, and one fat. I'm on day 2, seems to be pretty easy and I'm not hungry. Seems to bring variety of food choices but also light to moderate structure to my day. I'm logging all my food in MFP - calorie wise it's about 1500 calories a day which I'm content with. The accelerated plan would cut probably an extra 200-300 cals a day out.

One fat what?!

LettingTheSmallStuffGo

Yep. She lists fats as avocados, bacon, butter, chocolate, coconut, cream, eggs (also could be a protein), mayo, olives, salad dressing, sour cream, oil, etc. most are 1 Tablespoon, avocado would 1/4 of one. Bacon is 2 strips unless it's thick then it's 1.

TavistockToad

marisagreear wrote: »

Yep. She lists fats as avocados, bacon, butter, chocolate, coconut, cream, eggs (also could be a protein), mayo, olives, salad dressing, sour cream, oil, etc. most are 1 Tablespoon, avocado would 1/4 of one. Bacon is 2 strips unless it's thick then it's 1.

So I can eat a pack of butter in one meal and family size chocolate bar the next as my 'one' fat... Nice! Count me in!

Sued0nim

What on earth?

Man, the way things get so complicated

I prefer weighing and logging but if it works for you

lemurcat12

marisagreear wrote: »

Has anyone tried this diet and had success? One protein, one carb, and one fat at every meal. Veggies are free. Plus two snacks - each are one protein, 1/2 carb, and one fat. I'm on day 2, seems to be pretty easy and I'm not hungry. Seems to bring variety of food choices but also light to moderate structure to my day. I'm logging all my food in MFP - calorie wise it's about 1500 calories a day which I'm content with. The accelerated plan would cut probably an extra 200-300 cals a day out.

No, it sounds like way too much work and I'm not even sure how you'd measure stuff. Like if I have two vegetables, is that 2 carbs? Or do we go by the total carb grams, so it's not even 1? What's "a fat"? What if I have some meat with fat and cook the veggies in olive oil?

Thus, it seems pointlessly annoying and complicated like any named diet.

That said, I generally try to have protein and veggies and a bit of fat at every meal and usually have some additional carbs at at least 2 of them, sometimes all three. Focusing on balance in this way works for me. I also do 40-30-30 (although I think preferred macro make up varies from person to person). Though I don't worry about getting my balance at each meal achieving it for a whole day generally means that all have at least some carbs, fat, and protein.

WalkingAlong

marisagreear wrote: »

Has anyone tried this diet and had success? One protein, one carb, and one fat at every meal. Veggies are free. Plus two snacks - each are one protein, 1/2 carb, and one fat. I'm on day 2, seems to be pretty easy and I'm not hungry. Seems to bring variety of food choices but also light to moderate structure to my day. I'm logging all my food in MFP - calorie wise it's about 1500 calories a day which I'm content with. The accelerated plan would cut probably an extra 200-300 cals a day out.

One portion of each, right? There are a lot of diets structured like that. They're easy to follow and sensible. A lot of people prefer that sort of 'counting' to calorie counting.