One meal a day

Yeah, eating a whole chicken and dessert, etc. at night... Part of me doesn't worry about the timing of eating and another part of me wants to say that of course you can go all day without eating. If you consume "all" of your calories and just go to bed shortly after it's just kind of sitting in your stomach and burning the up the next day. I mean everyone is different and I say just do what works for you. Personally, I eat my meals and snacks pretty much all day long. In fact, I eat something about every two hours throughout the day. This keeps my digestive system and metabolism working all day long and into the night. I like to go to bed just slightly hungry and look forward to a filling healthy breakfast each day to start the process and jump start my metabolism for the day ahead. Different strokes for different folks I guess and again for me, moderation and forward progression is the key.

You mentioned that when you eat cereal or something like that in the morning you're hungry an hour later, well yeah... carbs will do that to you. Eat, burn it up quickly and crave more carbs. It's a vicious cycle that you should research. Protein and veggies in the morning work best for me.

this thread was better when we were all nekkid and covered in chocolate and whip cream holding spatula's.

Can't we go back to that?

that sounded like fun.

Somebody forgot to mention honey on the shirtless guys. Its "healthy" right?!

For real OP- just do you, and then report back your success! as long as you get ENOUGH, and your macros aren't crazy, and you get results who cares how? All roads lead to Rome...

Please review the Kreb's Cycle and how your body actually metabolizes calories. When you first wake up and are in a fasted state, your body can pull from carbohydrates (preferred energy source), protein (second choice), or fats (last choice) to create the energy your body needs for normal functioning. If you do not supply ANY calories when you first wake, you body will try to use whatever glucose your body has stored up for energy. Since you are in a fasted state and have no glucose to supply this demand, your body will turn to protein. If you do not consume any food, then the body is grossly efficient at converting muscle protein into the energy that your body needs. Unfortunately, the last choice for your body to pull calories from is the body fat that is stored ... because (keeping with the whole caveman logic) your body believes that you are preparing for famine and wants to hold on to that bodyfat as a last resort for being in a long-term fasted state.

Do your own research and learn about how the body functions before deciding how you are going to "beat the system" by doing what is convenient rather than what is right. Or keep eating one meal per day and see how much energy you have at the end of the day if you are truly active. It's your body, your choice .. right?

BTW, for the sumo wrestlers, yes .. they eat 1 meal per day and it is late at night. Why? So that their bodies will heal by promoting elevated hGH and seratonin levels while sleeping, and also to promote WEIGHT GAIN since your body has such a low metabolic rate while sleeping. But, again, do your own research. I already have done the research which is why I will not do these things or allow my clients to do these things either.

MrM27 - Thank you for the response, but please allow me to clarify when you tell me I'm wrong and then provide opinion over fact and do not even properly quote your own reference.

1. When carbohydrates are consumed, they are converted into glucose (1,2). From there, the glucose can take one of three pathways and either (a) be used immediately as energy, (b) become stored in muscles and the liver as glycogen, or (c) converted in fat and stored as such (2). So assuming I meant glycogen was wrong, since I meant glucose as that is what the body actually uses.

2. Your reference is a website from someone who does not even correct his post prior to publishing it, "Now, for the most part, all tissues in the body can generate energy (ATP for the biochemically minded) from either glucose or fatty acids. There are a few exceptions, mind you; the brain uses almost exclusively glucose but shifts to mostly ketones under certain conditions. What the brain can’t use is fatty acids directly for energy. There are a couple of other weird ones, a handful of tissues in the body that only use glucose: the retina is one, part of the kidney, there’s a third I’m forgetting." Certainly glad he did his research before making a post that others are going to blindly follow. But at least he states energy is generated from glucose and not glycogen (see comment 1). :noway:

3. Your body requires calories for fuel. Since the body can only metabolize and/or store a finite amount of carbohydrates (roughly 400-600 on average) in a useful manner, consuming all of your calories in one setting is generally a very unhealthy way to plan a diet (2,3). Instead, I would recommend talking to a certified nutritionist to figure out a plan that will work for you AS AN INDIVIDUAL. And if "10, 12, or even 16 hours is not going to trigger your body to prepare for famine" .. then what is the magical number that works? Please provide a reference.

Ultimately, it does not matter what anyone on this website posts, since it is free advice and does not provide any way of verifying the credentials of the people providing their "expert" opinion.

References:
(1) Thibodeau, G & Patton, K (2008); Structure & Function of the Body (13th Ed). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier & Mosby, Inc.
(2) Fink, H., Burgoon, L. & Mikesky, A. (2009); Practical Applications in Sports Nutrition (2nd Ed). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, LLC.
(3) Clark, M., Lucett, S. & Corn, R. (2008); NASM Essentials of Personal Fitness Training (3rd Ed.). Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.