EATING WITHIN A 2 HOUR FRAME DIET!!!

Quantumanthem

Hello,

I was wondering whether this works for anyone! I tried this when I was 16, but only for half a week and I felt awesome

Diet:
6:00pm- yoghurt, fruit, 2 bowls of vegetables
7:00- 500 cals worth of protein, e.g. salmon, vegetables, nuts

Altogether- 1200 calories, which is a 500 calorie deficit if I exercise. I will eat more if I exercise more.

Does this diet work?? I prefer this than eating regularly because I don't have to count calories all the time. I'm just afraid that it might slow down my metabolism. I will eat at the same time every day

Thanks!!

MelsAuntie

um...no.

supplemama

It really doesn't when you eat in any given 24-hour period.

1200 calories is adequate, just make sure you are meeting your nutritional needs.

tayloryay

Why only a 2 hour window? That seems arbitrarily small. Why not do a normal intermittent fasting window of 8 hours? It doesn't seem healthy to me to eat all your calories in one giant spike, but I'm not an expert. Seems like you'd have fewer hunger issues if you spread it out. Seems like it'd be very easy to undereat, quite severely, when trying to cram your entire day's allotment into 2 hours.

Sounds like a good way to develop an eating disorder.

missomgitsica

I think if it works for you fine,but I'd be willing to bet that something like this is only sustainable for a week at the most. I eat every few hours but I have my food planned out so I know how many calories I'm eating.

danprin1

Wouldn't you be hungry during the rest of the day???

kagevf

this can be done 2x/week.

if you do it everyday, you wont get to the goal weight you wanted. underweight eating will just make you gain weight.

why not just have a 24hr fast 1/week

then do a 16:8 IF 5x/week and eat 3 big meals after a workout.

and 1/week eat more than normal but not binge.

this way your metabolism will be in check.

mustgetmuscles1

Or you could just eat at a small deficit everyday and stop making it more complicated than it needs to be.

All that hocus pocus meal timing wont do anything except complicate your life and probably make you miserable.

JesterMFP

this can be done 2x/week.

if you do it everyday, you wont get to the goal weight you wanted. underweight eating will just make you gain weight.

why not just have a 24hr fast 1/week

then do a 16:8 IF 5x/week and eat 3 big meals after a workout.

and 1/week eat more than normal but not binge.

this way your metabolism will be in check.

I may have read the OP wrong, but I thought they were talking about a daily 500 cal deficit, which is a perfectly acceptable deficit for most people. Also, how does "underweight eating" make you gain weight?

JesterMFP

Hello,

I was wondering whether this works for anyone! I tried this when I was 16, but only for half a week and I felt awesome

Diet:
6:00pm- yoghurt, fruit, 2 bowls of vegetables
7:00- 500 cals worth of protein, e.g. salmon, vegetables, nuts

Altogether- 1200 calories, which is a 500 calorie deficit if I exercise. I will eat more if I exercise more.

Does this diet work?? I prefer this than eating regularly because I don't have to count calories all the time. I'm just afraid that it might slow down my metabolism. I will eat at the same time every day

Thanks!!

OP - this is a form of intermittent fasting. It's fine. It's the deficit that will make you lose weight. If eating within a certain time frame helps you stick to the deficit then it's fine. It is a bit more extreme than a lot of IFers - having a 4 hour, 6 hour, 8 hour etc eating window seems a bit more common. Experiment though, and find what works for you. Make sure you're getting enough fat.

kagevf

this can be done 2x/week.

if you do it everyday, you wont get to the goal weight you wanted. under eating will just make you gain weight.

why not just have a 24hr fast 1/week

then do a 16:8 IF 5x/week and eat 3 big meals after a workout.

and 1/week eat more than normal but not binge.

this way your metabolism will be in check.

I may have read the OP wrong, but I thought they were talking about a daily 500 cal deficit, which is a perfectly acceptable deficit for most people. Also, how does "underweight eating" make you gain weight?

good eye there young grasshopper...my mistake

what I meant was "under eating" not underweight eating ( sheesh that didnt make sense at all, DUH! )
under eating can cause problems, it stalls fat loss and for some gain weight (probably just water weight or maybe stress)
It usually happens when people are doing huge amounts of cardio and eating at anorexic levels. It completely throws hormones out of wack.

her tdee says to eat at 2002 cals. so IMO at 1500 cals is better than 1200cals.

neandermagnon

this can be done 2x/week.

if you do it everyday, you wont get to the goal weight you wanted. underweight eating will just make you gain weight.

why not just have a 24hr fast 1/week

then do a 16:8 IF 5x/week and eat 3 big meals after a workout.

and 1/week eat more than normal but not binge.

this way your metabolism will be in check.

I may have read the OP wrong, but I thought they were talking about a daily 500 cal deficit, which is a perfectly acceptable deficit for most people. Also, how does "underweight eating" make you gain weight?

500 cal a day deficit is too aggressive a deficit for someone who's already as thin as the OP



OP why are you trying to lose weight anyway? Your pic suggests you're already thin. If you still don't like how your body looks, eating at a 500 cal/day deficit isn't going to make you look better, in fact it'll probably make you look worse. You'd be better off focusing on an exercise programme that's going to strengthen up your muscles and firm up your body and give you definition. You might actually need to gain weight for this. But for some reason, most women think that they way to get a fit, sexy body is just to lose more and more weight until it somehow, magically, looks like an airbrushed magazine model's body. Well 1. even the models themselves don't look like their pics, otherwise, why would they be airbrushed? So aim for something real, not airbrushed. 2. to firm up your body and lose the flabby bits, once you're already thin, then what you need to do is exercise, because this firms up your body.

read this: http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2011/07/21/meet-staci-your-new-powerlifting-super-hero/

JesterMFP

this can be done 2x/week.

if you do it everyday, you wont get to the goal weight you wanted. underweight eating will just make you gain weight.

why not just have a 24hr fast 1/week

then do a 16:8 IF 5x/week and eat 3 big meals after a workout.

and 1/week eat more than normal but not binge.

this way your metabolism will be in check.

I may have read the OP wrong, but I thought they were talking about a daily 500 cal deficit, which is a perfectly acceptable deficit for most people. Also, how does "underweight eating" make you gain weight?

500 cal a day deficit is too aggressive a deficit for someone who's already as thin as the OP

Very true, I did not check profile page. :blushing:

daimere

I eat during "windows of time." Although I have never heard of a 2 hour IF frame. I've done 4-8 hours. But I still log and workout. I tend to eat the same foods over again. So it tends to be around the same cals every day.

Quantumanthem

um...no.

I would appreciate it if you could kindly elaborate...

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