Do NOT skip out on a meal!

susannamarie

I'm too full by that point to eat anymore. I am at 1500 Cals a day. I can barely eat that amount even with breakfast.

You should *absolutely* continue doing what's working for you, as long as it continues to work.

Some people also psychologically need to eat breakfast because they can't stay away from the cupcake truck if they're fasted. They should also eat breakfast.

But not *everyone* needs to.

Jotell

Thank you Susannamarie for those kind words. And you are right! Not everyone is the same and needs to do the same thing as our bodies are all different. People are this thread don't seem to remember me saying, every body is different so I am NOT pointing this out to just one person.

tmauck4472

....drink tons of water! It's a natural diuretic and flushes all sorts of toxins from your system.

Now I am confused....I thought a diuretic is something that removes water from the body. How can drinking water remove water from the body? And I also thought the liver was the only thing that removed toxins from the body. I would be educated on these points, please.

Drinking water makes you pee therefore your getting rid of more water than the water you drank. Actually drink a beer and see how much you pee.

Acg67

Thank you Susannamarie for those kind words. And you are right! Not everyone is the same and needs to do the same thing as our bodies are all different. People are this thread don't seem to remember me saying, every body is different so I am NOT pointing this out to just one person.

I can not stress this enough! When you skip out on a meal or don't eat all of your calories your body will go into starvation mode and hold onto EVERY calorie it can not knowing when it will be fed again! Trust me, I KNOW.... I didn't eat my calories and GAINED 3 pounds! Now that I am eating ever 2-3 hours with healthy snacks and healthy meals I am losing!!! Every body is not the same, I get that. But, every body DOES and WILL hold onto everything it can! So, Please don't starve yourself to lose weight! It's NOT going to work and you'll only be hurting yourself.

Jotell

"Every body is not the same, I get that."

MustBeTheRows

Wow, I've seen a lot of misinformation in this forum. But wow, just wow.

iWaffle

I appreciate your desire to help. Are you familiar with any research on the effects of short term fasting? You may be surprised at how efficient and resilient the human body is.

I never skip breakfast as a habit but I some times fast breakfast and lunch for religious reasons. Doesn't affect me other than guarantees a dip in the scale that day. I dont' advocate regularly skipping meals but an occasional day where you fast one or two meals isn't bad for you at all. I think it's actually a great exercise in mental discipline in controlling your food intake and it helps you at other times when you're tempted to binge on food. Mentally you're prepared for the battle because you've practiced already.

As you mentioned some people do practice short term fasting on a daily basis.

nammer79

I've got way to much fat to go into "Starvation mode" but with that said I'm to greedy to not eat my calories sure sometimes I skip a meal or two but that just means a larger meal later on in the day ... I eat when I'm hungry or when I feel like it or when I'm happy or sad hell i even eat when I remember too after a busy day of forgetting to eat.

Thanks for your advice but we are all different I shouldn't skip meals because I need to keep my glucose levels steady but as long as its at a good level I eat when I need or want to ... keeping my calorie goals in mind but not worrying to much about them as long as I'm close.

nlhill79

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Jotell

Wow, I've seen a lot of misinformation in this forum. But wow, just wow.

What's your advice? Any is good! I love to learn! Please and thanks!

Crochetluvr

....drink tons of water! It's a natural diuretic and flushes all sorts of toxins from your system.

Now I am confused....I thought a diuretic is something that removes water from the body. How can drinking water remove water from the body? And I also thought the liver was the only thing that removed toxins from the body. I would be educated on these points, please.

Drinking water makes you pee therefore your getting rid of more water than the water you drank. Actually drink a beer and see how much you pee.

That's because the alcohol acts as a diuretic...not the water. If you drink water, you pee LESS, not more because your body utilizes more of the water.

usmcmp

I skip breakfast and snack and only eat between noon and 8. Still losing. I'm pretty sure the lean gains website has links to research showing that intermittent fasting has actually been shown to help speed up metabolism. I'd look it up for you, but I don't really care. Just wanted to add my two cents that skipping a meal isn't going to do the dramatic damage you are suggesting.

Sidesteal

sure sometimes I skip a meal or two but that just means a larger meal later on in the day

^ This is essentially a good logical way to look at how Intermittent Fasting works and one of the reasons why for SOME people, it's a nice method. You're saving your calories so that you can have a big meal or two instead of a bunch of little meals.

BeautyFromPain

People, please don't listen to this nonsense.
A caloric deficit is how people lose weight, if you gained weight you were inaccurately counting calories. Plain and simple.
There sure were tons of people in the holocaust who were still fat from starvation mode, or what about those starving kids on the world vision commercials...total fatties!

Gimme a break with the eat 2-3 hours every day small meal crap, the reason people lose weight doing that is because AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU ARE IN A CALORIC DEFICIT!

People choose their 'diets' around their lifestyle, I have lost 80 pounds and I have been able to eat popcorn, ice cream and hamburgers, etc and fit them into my daily caloric totals all while not eating breakfast! OH NO! **SARCASM ALERT**

You should probably do a little more research before preaching BS weight loss gospel on MFP.

Sidesteal

I skip breakfast and snack and only eat between noon and 8. Still losing. I'm pretty sure the lean gains website has links to research showing that intermittent fasting has actually been shown to help speed up metabolism. I'd look it up for you, but I don't really care. Just wanted to add my two cents that skipping a meal isn't going to do the dramatic damage you are suggesting.

^ Correct, and I already posted the links above, from leangains.

Captain_Tightpants

first I was like :huh:
then i was like :noway:
and then I lol'd

Sidesteal

If I posted some peer reviewed research that strongly suggests that you are wrong, would you read it and moreover are you open minded enough to consider changing your position on this?

I would be really interested in reading it. -

Me too!!

See my first reply on page two.

usmcmp

I skip breakfast and snack and only eat between noon and 8. Still losing. I'm pretty sure the lean gains website has links to research showing that intermittent fasting has actually been shown to help speed up metabolism. I'd look it up for you, but I don't really care. Just wanted to add my two cents that skipping a meal isn't going to do the dramatic damage you are suggesting.

^ Correct, and I already posted the links above, from leangains.

Thank you! Figured someone would be on that!

nlhill79

Got it! Thanks for posting. I am reading it all right now. I was ALWAYS told to eat breakfast, but for real.. I don't ever feel like eating breakfast. I HATE eating in the morning. It's aggravating. If I have to consume something I just like water. I don't even understand why I hate it so much. I think I just don't like chewing anything in the morning. I thought I was just weird. And I also was told that was going to make it to where I couldn't lose weight.

Sidesteal

Got it! Thanks for posting. I am reading it all right now. I was ALWAYS told to eat breakfast, but for real.. I don't ever feel like eating breakfast. I HATE eating in the morning. It's aggravating. If I have to consume something I just like water. I don't even understand why I hate it so much. I think I just don't like chewing anything in the morning. I thought I was just weird. And I also was told that was going to make it to where I couldn't lose weight.

For you specifically, I would try skipping breakfast for a week or so. BE SURE to eat all your calories by end of day so that you're still eating the same total amount of food as you are now, just don't eat breakfast and eat those calories later. See how you enjoy it. You'll probably love it.

crzyone

I wish I had the problem of NOT eating enough calories or skipping meals.

Pomoch325

Drink water, pee LESS?? What?!

The liver is not the only organ that rids the body of toxins, ask anybody in renal failure.

Nataliaho

Got it! Thanks for posting. I am reading it all right now. I was ALWAYS told to eat breakfast, but for real.. I don't ever feel like eating breakfast. I HATE eating in the morning. It's aggravating. If I have to consume something I just like water. I don't even understand why I hate it so much. I think I just don't like chewing anything in the morning. I thought I was just weird. And I also was told that was going to make it to where I couldn't lose weight.

For you specifically, I would try skipping breakfast for a week or so. BE SURE to eat all your calories by end of day so that you're still eating the same total amount of food as you are now, just don't eat breakfast and eat those calories later. See how you enjoy it. You'll probably love it.

And remember, this can go hand in hand with eating calories late. Just as you don't need to eat breakfast, you are totally fine to eat as late as you like, all provided you stay within your limits

SmartWhatever

I skip meals all the time. I didn't eat lunch today- I had 2 cups of tea. And I'm not in starvation mode and I consistantly lose weight ever week whether I skip a meal or not.

Jotell

Thank you EVERYONE for all of your great responses! I will be taking notes of everything and taking them with me to the nutritionists I will be seeing tomorrow as part of my class project. SideSteal, if it is alright with you, there was another post you had done with the Don't and Does Not. Would you be ok with my copying that information down as well?
This has been a great experiment for me to see who has what opinions! Thank you everyone for adding your advice and opinions!

Sidesteal

Thank you EVERYONE for all of your great responses! I will be taking notes of everything and taking them with me to the nutritionists I will be seeing tomorrow as part of my class project. SideSteal, if it is alright with you, there was another post you had done with the Don't and Does Not. Would you be ok with my copying that information down as well?
This has been a great experiment for me to see who has what opinions! Thank you everyone for adding your advice and opinions!

You can use any of the posts I have written. Some of them are pure smart-assery on my part though. I'm not sure which post you are referring to.

Jotell

Yo lighten the f**k up.. Dumba$$

To who are you referring to kind sir?

kris4chloe

In my opinion it is not the skipped meal that is the problem. It is what you do with the rest of them.

When I was 100 lbs heavier I regularly skipped breakfast in an effort to "save calories" but then would just succumb to a binge later because I got to hungry.

Some people are able to skip breakfast and eat a sensible meal or couple meals later one.

Some people are able to eat smaller meals every few hours and spread out their calories.

Or some people as myself skip a meal here and there, or eat every couple hours on other days, or eat lighter at breakfast to save up for a bigger lunch. But in the long run what matters is that I get in my alloted calories.

I am sorry but I really have a hard time believing it when someone says they are stuffed and can't eat another calorie? When I try to eat lower fat, lower calorie items I am full for a bit, but hungry pretty quickly. If I make sure to get some good fat and protein then I am satisfied for a longer time but the calorie count is typically higher.

Be honest, no one ended up here because they ate the appropriate calories every day, we are here because we didn't pay attention to what we were eating and/or how much we were eating.

My 2 cents.

Jotell

Thank you EVERYONE for all of your great responses! I will be taking notes of everything and taking them with me to the nutritionists I will be seeing tomorrow as part of my class project. SideSteal, if it is alright with you, there was another post you had done with the Don't and Does Not. Would you be ok with my copying that information down as well?
This has been a great experiment for me to see who has what opinions! Thank you everyone for adding your advice and opinions!

You can use any of the posts I have written. Some of them are pure smart-assery on my part though. I'm not sure which post you are referring to.

Don't worry, I will take out all of the smart *kitten* comments Luckily for you I don't become offended easily. You have some great information, and I would love to know how you came about all this knowledge! Have you studied nutrition and body training?

mrschappet

I take things out of context sometimes

hhhhhhmmmm and you want me to take your advice WHY? ... just sayin ;-)