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Possible to eat all your daily 1500 cal in one meal?

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  • CrabNebula
    CrabNebula Posts: 1,119 Member
    I do probably every Friday night. I don't log because liquor drunken me, but it has to be around the 1500-2000 mark. Good thing the only thing that matters in weight loss/maintenance/gain is the long term behavioral trend! Friday is the only day I eat like that.
  • Squirrel698
    Squirrel698 Posts: 127 Member
    As I discovered yesterday to my dismay and my scale confirmed this morning, the chocolate chip cookie skillet at Chili's is nearly 1,500 calories, just by itself. D: And that was just dessert ...
  • broseidonkingofbrocean
    broseidonkingofbrocean Posts: 180 Member
    edited March 2016
    If you were asking if you could eat your daily caloric intake in 1 meal for the duration of your diet.

    "Nutrition scientists from the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center examined diet habits of a group of normal-weight, middle-age men and women. Participants were divided into two groups: volunteers who consumed either all of their required weight-maintenance calories in one meal a day or in three meals a day. Researchers observed that "one mealers" had significant increases in total cholesterol, LDL "bad" cholesterol and blood pressure, compared with their levels when they ate three meals a day. In addition to these changes, "one mealers" had higher morning fasting blood sugar levels and a delayed response to the body's insulin."

    From the Herschel Walker diet on livestrong. If you're not familiar with him he eats all of his calories in 1 meal, its also stated that he hasn't released anything on his cardiovascular or blood glucose.
  • Anonycatgirl
    Anonycatgirl Posts: 502 Member
    It's easy to do when you're eating out or having a special-occasion meal. Log it as best you can and eat light (but not crazy light) tomorrow. It all comes out in the end.
  • shannonmelek
    shannonmelek Posts: 34 Member
    I love going to restaurants where they Include healthy menu.
  • endlessfall16
    endlessfall16 Posts: 932 Member
    If you were asking if you could eat your daily caloric intake in 1 meal for the duration of your diet.

    "Nutrition scientists from the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center examined diet habits of a group of normal-weight, middle-age men and women. Participants were divided into two groups: volunteers who consumed either all of their required weight-maintenance calories in one meal a day or in three meals a day. Researchers observed that "one mealers" had significant increases in total cholesterol, LDL "bad" cholesterol and blood pressure, compared with their levels when they ate three meals a day. In addition to these changes, "one mealers" had higher morning fasting blood sugar levels and a delayed response to the body's insulin."

    From the Herschel Walker diet on livestrong. If you're not familiar with him he eats all of his calories in 1 meal, its also stated that he hasn't released anything on his cardiovascular or blood glucose.

    Thanks, I love this kind of informative posts.

    I guess more meals tax the body less. Logical.
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