One meal a day to lose weight

yeah i don't have problems with people doing IF if it works for them, they are eating the right number of calories and eating the right kinds of foods good for them. My trouble with this is that desperate people will see this video and think "oh! all i have to do is stick to eating once a day!!!" and have no other information than that. Well come on, how many of us would totally fall on our faces with that plan? We LIKE TO EAT.

You are going to get lots of people who binge at that one meal because they think they can, and then a few hours later when they get the munchies, they will want to eat but oops! already ate a full day's worth of food earlier, will have to wait till tomorrow night to eat again! Or they will wake up and be hungry and want breakfast but nope, i cant eat until tonight! NOT GONNA HAPPEN, most of those people are going to head right for the kitchen. If they had the strength not to snack before, when they were eating several times a day, are they going to automatically have the resolve not to eat aside from that one meal? Why should they put themselves through that when they absolutely CAN eat every few hours and get great results. IF is fine, if you educate yourself. Just "eating one meal a day, anything you want" isn't the way to long term health and fitness, and I am sad for anyone who sees that video and things that is the magic trick they've been looking for.

I am surrounded by idiots like this. My mom, my cousin, co-workers. No matter how many times I tell them how easy it is just to make better food choices and to be active they still want to do the HCG, Atkins or whatever fad diet gets them quick results. They always fail and they always gain back what they lose.

You can't fix stupid.

Look at her eyes! Doesn't she look drawn out and knackered!? Palid skin. Yay, weightloss. But seriously, losing on the scale is not the be-all and end-all. Healthy is the biggest most important thing and she just looks ILL!

It was the brain dead--ness that caught my attention. How shes always looking up and trying to recall what she wants to say. Either shes just born dim or the 'diet' is doing her no favors.

Hey you guys posting links and cheering for 1 meal a day- did you watch to the part where she says she eats slim jims and crap for her 1 meal? This is not controlled fasting with sense- this is retarded and by defending her you are pushing forward NOT YOUR HEALTHY way - but her retarded way- get a grip please- lets help each other not spread craptastic ways to lose weight.

Bump to read later.

I didn't watch the whole video, but from what I did see...it doesn't seem like she is following any kind of guidelines. Like the above posters that said it's not the amount of meals you eat in a day but the amount of calories you are eating, this is what I found concerning. She states that it takes less and less to fill her up in her one meal, it seems like she is fasting all day, (except for a beef jerky or ice cream when she cheats), then eating as little as possible during her one meal. The examples she gave were two slices of pizza or Mcdonald's fries and one chicken nugget. Sounds like a recipe for disaster. If I were her close friend or family member I would be concerned that she was doing more harm than good to her health. Like I said, it's one thing to track your nutritional intake and eat it all at once. But that's not what she says she is doing.

Since you are supposed to be 18 or older to sign up for MFP, there shouldn't BE kids that will see it. Now granted, I know there are a few who lie about their age but we shouldn't have to censor ourselves because of it.

Semantics..vulnerable? So if someone who was ED posted with same title and same link that's ok? No forethought necessary?

Because, just like being under the age of 18 when signing up, it is against site rules to promote an ED. So no, you could not post about an ED and not expect to get in trouble. What that girl is doing, based on comments I've seen, is Intermittent Fasting (IF) which is a recognized way of eating and there are a couple of well known, long time members of this forum who do it. The real problem is that the girl isn't doing it in a healthy manner. She's eating junk (Slim Jims?) for her one meal, not exercising, and states that her goal weight is 87 lbs. Highly unrealistic (unless she's a pre-adolescent, again I haven't watched the video).

Doing IF is not promoting EDs nor is it an ED (if done properly).

Her meal is probably ridiculously small. My friend is doing IF and eats an entire rotisserie chicken as a meal. I'm pretty sure how many meals doesn't matter as much as what's in them.

Yea...thought that would get your attention. I was on youtube looking for clean eating videos and found this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4apj82Gql0&feature=related

This makes me so sad for her, and mad, because she is telling people to do this diet, and ALL the comments on this video are from people congratulating her, or asking her advice. Wtf??

that is SO wrong!!!! if you don't eat enough, you will not get the vitamins and minerals your body so desperately needs! plus you WILL NOT lose weight. your body will not release fat if you are not eating enough!

yeah i only mean that she means well, dispite she is making mistakes.

My point here is that you can do Intermittent fasting if done properly.

Its not "OMG!! One meal per day!?!?!?"

Thank god we have MFP. And poor her, she doesnt know about it.

smh*

Wow someone wrote that they are getting headaches and she responded saying it is NORMAL!!! ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME!? And she eats mcdonalds and crappy food for her one meal. Way to promote an eating disorder....

I ruined my metabolism doing something like this. Ironically, I wasn't really overweight at the time, so I didn't do it to lose weight. I was just lazy. I worked full time and didn't feel like eating breakfast in the morning or packing a lunch, so I got used to being hungry. Then I got pregnant and needed to eat more and gained about 35 lbs too much, which I never lost. My eating habits turned into binging and fasting, and since I was too lazy to cook when I binged I binged on fast food.

Not pretty. I am lucky I didn't gain more weight than I did.

So I've been spending the last 5 or 6 weeks working hard to change my lifestyle and repair my metabolism. I dealt with metabolism manipulation lot in my former career, so I've always known what to do, it was always just a matter of doing the work. You CAN fix a "ruined metabolism", but it's hard. And it so wasn't worth it to just be lazy.

Anyway, I don't want anybody to think that a ruined metabolism is a myth or that it can't happen to them. Metabolism is different for different people, and long term effects are different. But there will likely be an effect, and getting back on track and fixing it isn't easy.

Since you are supposed to be 18 or older to sign up for MFP, there shouldn't BE kids that will see it. Now granted, I know there are a few who lie about their age but we shouldn't have to censor ourselves because of it.

Semantics..vulnerable? So if someone who was ED posted with same title and same link that's ok? No forethought necessary?

Because, just like being under the age of 18 when signing up, it is against site rules to promote an ED. So no, you could not post about an ED and not expect to get in trouble. What that girl is doing, based on comments I've seen, is Intermittent Fasting (which is a recognized way of eating and there are a couple of well known, long time members of this forum who do it. The real problem is that the girl isn't doing it in a healthy manner. She's eating junk (Slim Jims?) for her one meal, not exercising, and states that her goal weight is 87 lbs. Highly unrealistic (unless she's a pre-adolescent, again I haven't watched the video).

Doing IF is not promoting EDs nor is it an ED (if done properly).

I am an IF. I know it can b done...but because I eat the way I do I choose friends who are not vulnerable to EDs and will therefore misinterpret my way of eating as supportive of their behavior (which can also mean bad food choices n no exercise) The OP deliberately chose a title that she knew would get attention for the very reason it did and then posted a link to someone who has the potential to further damage another with an ED and their view of food. It was self serving and self righteous.

I usually eat one meal a day.

And that meal is roughly 1400 calories.

nothing wrong with this at all if it works for you

I can easily eat one meal a day....there's nothing wrong with it. This whole idea of eating 3 meals and 2 snacks or 6 small meals a day is all a ploy.

Same. To think that humanity evolved to need to eat constantly in order to perform optimally is ridiculous. I generally eat one "meal" a day, too.

did you actually watch the videos? or are you just reacting to the "one meal a day is bad" comments without having seen this girl?

She talks about how at one point her one meal was a bag of chex mix from the vending machine. The second video she says her dinner is typically pizza or McDonalds (french fries and one chicken nugget). She admits that she regularly falls off the wagon (of course! because what she is doing is completely unsustainable.)

To quote her:
"I am really hungry, it's kind of tortuous"
"that hardest time is when I smell their food, and I know I can't eat"

sorry, that doesn't sound healthy at all to me. Yes, Intermittent Fasting is totally a legit way to eat. that is NOT what this girl is doing.

Honestly, I was just responding to the one meal thing. I was at work and couldn't put the sound on :P Watching it now and it's pretty awful....