One big meal a day?
Espressocycle
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The other day,following a serious cheat day, I experimented with fasting from waking up at 9:00 until 5:00, at which point I ate nearly all my calories for the day in one sitting. I felt great!
When I eat all day, I have to be very careful with spacing my meals or I get blood sugar fluctuations, plus I am hungry all day. Also, I am currently doing 1,700 calories/day, and one satisfying meal for me is at least 1,000 calories. Thinking doing some daytime fasting a few days a week and maybe the occasional full-day fast might be a good option. Anybody tried this?
When I eat all day, I have to be very careful with spacing my meals or I get blood sugar fluctuations, plus I am hungry all day. Also, I am currently doing 1,700 calories/day, and one satisfying meal for me is at least 1,000 calories. Thinking doing some daytime fasting a few days a week and maybe the occasional full-day fast might be a good option. Anybody tried this?
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I have been doing Intermittent Fasting and like it!! I eat all my calories from noon to 8 pm. I don't know if I have lost weight but I feel so much better.0
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The warrior diet is like this. I do 2 or 3 24 hour hour fast a week.0
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Check out leangains.com0
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Yes. Check out www.leangains.com for example protocols. I do think Martin's site is probably the best resource for this practice.0
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There's some information about eating (kinda) like this in The Yoga Body Diet. Might be worth looking into.0
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This is not a good idea, it wll drastically slow your metabolism, which will initially cause you to gain weight, and will causeyu to lose weight at a drastically slower rate. Plus once you start eating normally again, youill gaineight back, bcuz ur of ur slow metabolism, and your body storing fat. also your body needs fuel to run the day. think of your body like a car, you couldn't rip and run all day on an empty tank, with the intention to fill up at the end of the day. you wouldn't make it0
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This is not a good idea, it wll drastically slow your metabolism, which will initially cause you to gain weight, and will causeyu to lose weight at a drastically slower rate. Plus once you start eating normally again, youill gaineight back, bcuz ur of ur slow metabolism, and your body storing fat. also your body needs fuel to run the day. think of your body like a car, you couldn't rip and run all day on an empty tank, with the intention to fill up at the end of the day. you wouldn't make it
Completely wrong.
How would it slow your metabolism? I'm sure our ancient ancestors ate every 2-3 hours to keep their metabolism going too.
If I fill my gas tank up completely full at night, the gas is still there to use in the morning and all day long0 -
This is not a good idea, it wll drastically slow your metabolism, which will initially cause you to gain weight, and will causeyu to lose weight at a drastically slower rate. Plus once you start eating normally again, youill gaineight back, bcuz ur of ur slow metabolism, and your body storing fat. also your body needs fuel to run the day. think of your body like a car, you couldn't rip and run all day on an empty tank, with the intention to fill up at the end of the day. you wouldn't make it
Um no...0 -
We wouldn't be on this site if we didn't have lots of extra gas in our tanks!0
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This is not a good idea, it wll drastically slow your metabolism, which will initially cause you to gain weight, and will causeyu to lose weight at a drastically slower rate. Plus once you start eating normally again, youill gaineight back, bcuz ur of ur slow metabolism, and your body storing fat. also your body needs fuel to run the day. think of your body like a car, you couldn't rip and run all day on an empty tank, with the intention to fill up at the end of the day. you wouldn't make it
Completely wrong.
How would it slow your metabolism? I'm sure our ancient ancestors ate every 2-3 hours to keep their metabolism going too.
If I fill my gas tank up completely full at night, the gas is still there to use in the morning and all day long
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This is not a good idea, it wll drastically slow your metabolism, which will initially cause you to gain weight, and will causeyu to lose weight at a drastically slower rate. Plus once you start eating normally again, youill gaineight back, bcuz ur of ur slow metabolism, and your body storing fat. also your body needs fuel to run the day. think of your body like a car, you couldn't rip and run all day on an empty tank, with the intention to fill up at the end of the day. you wouldn't make it
Completely wrong.
How would it slow your metabolism? I'm sure our ancient ancestors ate every 2-3 hours to keep their metabolism going too.
If I fill my gas tank up completely full at night, the gas is still there to use in the morning and all day long
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i did it in college after a diet. figured if i could wait until dinner and just eat that one meal, i could eat whatever i wanted and still maintain. eventually snack got added in, and it was downhill from there.
my opinion : not sustainable. it was fun eating big macs and chocolate pie every day, but the negatives outweighed the positives significantly. it didn't work.0 -
Shenanigans and broscience here.This is not a good idea, it wll drastically slow your metabolism, which will initially cause you to gain weight, and will causeyu to lose weight at a drastically slower rate. Plus once you start eating normally again, youill gaineight back, bcuz ur of ur slow metabolism, and your body storing fat. also your body needs fuel to run the day. think of your body like a car, you couldn't rip and run all day on an empty tank, with the intention to fill up at the end of the day. you wouldn't make it0 -
This is not a good idea, it wll drastically slow your metabolism, which will initially cause you to gain weight, and will causeyu to lose weight at a drastically slower rate. Plus once you start eating normally again, youill gaineight back, bcuz ur of ur slow metabolism, and your body storing fat. also your body needs fuel to run the day. think of your body like a car, you couldn't rip and run all day on an empty tank, with the intention to fill up at the end of the day. you wouldn't make it
Completely wrong.
How would it slow your metabolism? I'm sure our ancient ancestors ate every 2-3 hours to keep their metabolism going too.
If I fill my gas tank up completely full at night, the gas is still there to use in the morning and all day long
um no, the difference with ur body and a car, is that ur body continues to burn fuel at night, it never shuts off like a car. just bcuz there r websites that people give you that promote something doesn't make it ok 2 do it. Speaking from a medical point of view it is not ok. b4 u run to the websites that r being suggested, maybe talk to a nutrtionist (which I have), and get a little more info on how it may effect your body0 -
Shenanigans and broscience here.This is not a good idea, it wll drastically slow your metabolism, which will initially cause you to gain weight, and will causeyu to lose weight at a drastically slower rate. Plus once you start eating normally again, youill gaineight back, bcuz ur of ur slow metabolism, and your body storing fat. also your body needs fuel to run the day. think of your body like a car, you couldn't rip and run all day on an empty tank, with the intention to fill up at the end of the day. you wouldn't make it
lol broscience0 -
If you think that it's necessary to eat smaller meals through the day to keep metabolism going, you are either horribly misunderstanding your nutritionist...or they clearly have no idea what they are talking about.This is not a good idea, it wll drastically slow your metabolism, which will initially cause you to gain weight, and will causeyu to lose weight at a drastically slower rate. Plus once you start eating normally again, youill gaineight back, bcuz ur of ur slow metabolism, and your body storing fat. also your body needs fuel to run the day. think of your body like a car, you couldn't rip and run all day on an empty tank, with the intention to fill up at the end of the day. you wouldn't make it
Completely wrong.
How would it slow your metabolism? I'm sure our ancient ancestors ate every 2-3 hours to keep their metabolism going too.
If I fill my gas tank up completely full at night, the gas is still there to use in the morning and all day long
um no, the difference with ur body and a car, is that ur body continues to burn fuel at night, it never shuts off like a car. just bcuz there r websites that people give you that promote something doesn't make it ok 2 do it. Speaking from a medical point of view it is not ok. b4 u run to the websites that r being suggested, maybe talk to a nutrtionist (which I have), and get a little more info on how it may effect your body
What slows your metabolism is not eating ENOUGH in a day....ie your total calorie intake...and this takes time to be lowered...many days of eating extremely low levels of calories. Meal frequency has nothing to do with this.0 -
This is not a good idea, it wll drastically slow your metabolism, which will initially cause you to gain weight, and will causeyu to lose weight at a drastically slower rate. Plus once you start eating normally again, youill gaineight back, bcuz ur of ur slow metabolism, and your body storing fat. also your body needs fuel to run the day. think of your body like a car, you couldn't rip and run all day on an empty tank, with the intention to fill up at the end of the day. you wouldn't make it
Completely wrong.
How would it slow your metabolism? I'm sure our ancient ancestors ate every 2-3 hours to keep their metabolism going too.
If I fill my gas tank up completely full at night, the gas is still there to use in the morning and all day long
um no, the difference with ur body and a car, is that ur body continues to burn fuel at night, it never shuts off like a car. just bcuz there r websites that people give you that promote something doesn't make it ok 2 do it. Speaking from a medical point of view it is not ok. b4 u run to the websites that r being suggested, maybe talk to a nutrtionist (which I have), and get a little more info on how it may effect your body
Lol from a medical stand point? Yea do some more research then. I am a nutrition student. Surrounded by them, and am constantly learning how the body works.
If I eat 2000 calories in a 4 hour window in the evening my body will continue to use those 2000 calories throughout the next 20 hours. Just because you go to bed doesn't mean that all those calories are used up or completely gone.
Those are not just websites, peer reviewed clinical studies. Might want to read some0 -
Oh and guess what! I regularly eat all of my calories in a 5-6 hour window. 2 huge meals. MY metabolism works just fine
Broscience right back at you ;D0 -
This is not a good idea, it wll drastically slow your metabolism, which will initially cause you to gain weight, and will causeyu to lose weight at a drastically slower rate. Plus once you start eating normally again, youill gaineight back, bcuz ur of ur slow metabolism, and your body storing fat. also your body needs fuel to run the day. think of your body like a car, you couldn't rip and run all day on an empty tank, with the intention to fill up at the end of the day. you wouldn't make it
Completely wrong.
How would it slow your metabolism? I'm sure our ancient ancestors ate every 2-3 hours to keep their metabolism going too.
If I fill my gas tank up completely full at night, the gas is still there to use in the morning and all day long
um no, the difference with ur body and a car, is that ur body continues to burn fuel at night, it never shuts off like a car. just bcuz there r websites that people give you that promote something doesn't make it ok 2 do it. Speaking from a medical point of view it is not ok. b4 u run to the websites that r being suggested, maybe talk to a nutrtionist (which I have), and get a little more info on how it may effect your body
Yes because being a nutritionist qualifies you with a complete understanding of the complexity of the human metabolism. Nutritionist and doctors get it wrong all the time. However I can simplify. The human body is designed to store fat as fuel for times of famine. In western culture do to our prosperous nature and therefore the availability of food we are abundantly fat. Other cultures and religions have periods of fasting as part of their daily lives.0 -
ok b4 u shoot down da evidence, lettuce due sum research, k? omg lol ftwum no, the difference with ur body and a car, is that ur body continues to burn fuel at night, it never shuts off like a car. just bcuz there r websites that people give you that promote something doesn't make it ok 2 do it. Speaking from a medical point of view it is not ok. b4 u run to the websites that r being suggested, maybe talk to a nutrtionist (which I have), and get a little more info on how it may effect your body
The Claim
The notion behind eating smaller, more frequent meals is simple: spreading out one’s daily calories over six meals stimulates the metabolism, keeping it going at a faster pace and thereby burning more calories.
The Studies
Some studies have found modest health benefits to eating smaller meals, but often the research involved extremes, like comparing the effects of two or three large daily meals with those of a dozen or more snacks. Six meals, according to some weight-loss books and fad diets, is a more realistic approach.
But don’t count on it. As long as total caloric and nutrient intake stays the same, then metabolism, at the end of the day, should stay the same as well. One study that carefully demonstrated this, published in 2009 in The British Journal of Nutrition (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19943985), involved groups of overweight men and women who were randomly assigned to very strict low-calorie diets and followed for eight weeks. Each subject consumed the same number of calories per day, but one group took in three meals a day and the other six.
Both groups lost significant and equivalent amounts of weight. There was no difference between them in fat loss, appetite control or measurements of hormones that signal hunger and satiety. Other studies have had similar results.
For a more reliable metabolic boost, studies show, try exercise.
The Bottom Line
There is no solid evidence that six small meals a day instead of three will speed metabolism.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/health/23really.html0 -
That's because the human body is an amazing machine and can accommodate for that. It doesn't mater if you eat once or a dozen times a day. What matters is total caloric intake.
But going without for a while lets your blood sugar stabilize, and studies have shown that your HGH levels increase while fasted.0 -
I dnt know how any1 can think that starving themselves all day and binging at night is ok. Ur a nutrition student, but i'm a nurse and I worked at an eating disorder facility for 2 1/2 yrs. side by side with registered dietician, and my uncle is a certified nutritionist, and non of them would agree, so if ur a student and being taught its ok, maybe u need to look into a new program. anyways, to the OP, u obviously have 2 make the choice, just make sure you research, and make sure to make an informed decision. good luck0
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The whole car analogy confuses me every time. I don't put gas in my car every 3 hours, so why do I have to put food in my gullet? Lol and I am not a car either :P
Funny how people say "talk to a nutritionist they will tell you" but I am surrounded by them. Professors and students all day. Have not seen anything saying it will boost your metabolism. Only correlation stating that it may help with people's habits and preference0 -
Hehehe giggle giggleThis is not a good idea, it wll drastically slow your metabolism, which will initially cause you to gain weight, and will causeyu to lose weight at a drastically slower rate. Plus once you start eating normally again, youill gaineight back, bcuz ur of ur slow metabolism, and your body storing fat. also your body needs fuel to run the day. think of your body like a car, you couldn't rip and run all day on an empty tank, with the intention to fill up at the end of the day. you wouldn't make it
This is a great idea, it will drastically increase your metabolism, which will initially cause you to lose weight and will cause you to lose weight at a drastically quicker rate. Plus once you start eating normally again, you'll lose even more because of your supercharged metabolism and all your muscle. Also your body needs 8 cups of water to run daily.Think of your body like a motorcycle. You can speed down the highway doing wheelies but, if a cop sees you; you'll go to jail.
BAM Broscience at it's finest!0 -
I dnt know how any1 can think that starving themselves all day and binging at night is ok. Ur a nutrition student, but i'm a nurse and I worked at an eating disorder facility for 2 1/2 yrs. side by side with registered dietician, and my uncle is a certified nutritionist, and non of them would agree, so if ur a student and being taught its ok, maybe u need to look into a new program. anyways, to the OP, u obviously have 2 make the choice, just make sure you research, and make sure to make an informed decision. good luck
It's not binging if you stay in your calorie goal. It comes down to eating at a caloric surplus (gain weight) or a caloric deficit (lose weight). When you eat, how often, or the size of your meals doesn't matter.
Don't overcomplicate things.0 -
If you're within your calorie goals...that is not starving and binging. Do you honestly believe that feeling sated has anything to do with actually starving? The only downside to eating a large meal instead of smaller ones is that if you personally can't stand feeling hungry through parts of your day. That's the ONLY benefit to eating more meals spaced out. Weight loss effect will be identical.I dnt know how any1 can think that starving themselves all day and binging at night is ok. Ur a nutrition student, but i'm a nurse and I worked at an eating disorder facility for 2 1/2 yrs. side by side with registered dietician, and my uncle is a certified nutritionist, and non of them would agree, so if ur a student and being taught its ok, maybe u need to look into a new program. anyways, to the OP, u obviously have 2 make the choice, just make sure you research, and make sure to make an informed decision. good luck0 -
I would not call eating within your calorie goal "binging". Binging is disordered, uncontrollable eating.I dnt know how any1 can think that starving themselves all day and binging at night is ok. Ur a nutrition student, but i'm a nurse and I worked at an eating disorder facility for 2 1/2 yrs. side by side with registered dietician, and my uncle is a certified nutritionist, and non of them would agree, so if ur a student and being taught its ok, maybe u need to look into a new program. anyways, to the OP, u obviously have 2 make the choice, just make sure you research, and make sure to make an informed decision. good luck0 -
I dnt know how any1 can think that starving themselves all day and binging at night is ok. Ur a nutrition student, but i'm a nurse and I worked at an eating disorder facility for 2 1/2 yrs. side by side with registered dietician, and my uncle is a certified nutritionist, and non of them would agree, so if ur a student and being taught its ok, maybe u need to look into a new program. anyways, to the OP, u obviously have 2 make the choice, just make sure you research, and make sure to make an informed decision. good luck
In the nicest way possible, you are presenting misinformation. Meal frequency has aboslutely nothing to do with metabolic rate. Thermic effect of food is a function of macronutrient composition (to a small effect) and caloric intake totals. It is not frequency dependent. Fasting periods can reach 48-72 hours without detrimental effect.0 -
one meal a day works for many many people. some even consume about 80% of their calories in one sitting, and the rest is spaced out during the day.
personally, i like the 5-6 meals a day. its easier for me.0 -
I dnt know how any1 can think that starving themselves all day and binging at night is ok. Ur a nutrition student, but i'm a nurse and I worked at an eating disorder facility for 2 1/2 yrs. side by side with registered dietician, and my uncle is a certified nutritionist, and non of them would agree, so if ur a student and being taught its ok, maybe u need to look into a new program. anyways, to the OP, u obviously have 2 make the choice, just make sure you research, and make sure to make an informed decision. good luck
It is not binging. Binging is not structured and causes a large surplus at the end of the day. I am not starving if I don't eat for 16 hours either. The body does just fine without food for that long.
Nurses are not food scientists. When did they get their degree? They may need to go back to school for a while if they think it has a metabolic advantage.
My school program is great, one of the best in Iowa. No need for a new program.
Once again. MY metabolism works perfectly. I eat plenty, look great, feel great, and am not starving by any means.0
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