ok to eat most of calories in one meal?
slemonfit
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i like to eat a huge meal before my workout because it gives me energy, if i dont i notice that i get tired more easily and i hate getting fatigued when i exercise
sometimes i eat like 900 calories for lunch with a lot of carbs, then a banana before i exercise, then workout and maybe lose about 600 calories, then maybe 300 calories for diner
i feel great when i start to jog and i feel like i have a lot of energy that i can keep going
i'm 5'1 and small frame, my recommended daily calories is 1200
today i just realized i ate 1200 calories for lunch (fries, cranberry juice, pumpkin pie, yogurt, sausage, fried rice, etc.)
so probably i will just have a tiny meal for dinner, maybe just a piece of chicken some salad and an orange.. so 1350-1400 calories for the day
im going to workout in a few hours, maybe jog/walk 5 miles or more if i dont feel too tired, so probably will lose about 500 or more calories from the workout
is it bad to eat all the calories in one meal?
sometimes i eat like 900 calories for lunch with a lot of carbs, then a banana before i exercise, then workout and maybe lose about 600 calories, then maybe 300 calories for diner
i feel great when i start to jog and i feel like i have a lot of energy that i can keep going
i'm 5'1 and small frame, my recommended daily calories is 1200
today i just realized i ate 1200 calories for lunch (fries, cranberry juice, pumpkin pie, yogurt, sausage, fried rice, etc.)
so probably i will just have a tiny meal for dinner, maybe just a piece of chicken some salad and an orange.. so 1350-1400 calories for the day
im going to workout in a few hours, maybe jog/walk 5 miles or more if i dont feel too tired, so probably will lose about 500 or more calories from the workout
is it bad to eat all the calories in one meal?
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As long as you can deal with any hunger surges sure.0
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sometimes i do get hungry, does it slow my metabolism?
if i get hungry after dinner usually if i eat fruit like orange, blueberries, or drink some tea then it helps
but i dont know if that affects my metabolism or not to eat only a little after dinner if i feel hungry0 -
People make too big of a deal about "slowing down your metabolism." The most your metabolism will slow is by about 20% without you experiencing a severe medical condition.
What does happen when you eat all of your calories at once is that you train your body to efficiently metabolize the food you eat into fat since your body will want to spread that energy throughout the day. While your body becomes good at storing fat it also becomes good at using it, because during the rest of the day it is using those fat stores for energy. The problem comes if you go back to your old eating habits, because you have trained your body to efficiently store fat and it is no longer using the fat stores as energy but the food you are eating throughout the day. This is why many people who binge diet end up putting on more weight than before.
This is why it is important to make eating habits that you can sustain for the rest of your life.0 -
Eating all of your daily calories in one meal sounds like a binge to me.
This doesn't sound healthy.0 -
Eating all of your daily calories in one meal sounds like a binge to me.
This doesn't sound healthy.
A "binge" is going extravagantly over your macro or calorie goals. If OP is staying within those goals it's not a binge.
Plenty of people here on MFP and in the fitness community do intermittent fasting, which is basically just what OP described--eating all your food in one sitting. There is nothing wrong or unhealthy about it, and will not hinder weight loss or fitness goals. If it works for you, do it.0 -
In the absence of a medical condition, meal timing and frequency is entirely personal preference. If eat most/all your calories in one meal and don't experience hunger/fatigue the rest of the day, then do what works for you.0
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Nope.0
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i dont really feel like im binging, i just ate lunch until i feel full and it usually comes out out to about 800-1000 calories sometimes a little more
i usually try to leave some for dinner but im afraid of not eating enough for lunch then i will get tired in my workout
id rather be a little more hungry at dinner than to feel fatigued at a workout earlier0 -
Eating all of your daily calories in one meal sounds like a binge to me.
This doesn't sound healthy.
A "binge" is going extravagantly over your macro or calorie goals. If OP is staying within those goals it's not a binge.
Plenty of people here on MFP and in the fitness community do intermittent fasting, which is basically just what OP described--eating all your food in one sitting. There is nothing wrong or unhealthy about it, and will not hinder weight loss or fitness goals. If it works for you, do it.
Context is everything isn't it? :laugh:
I totally wasn't thinking in terms of IF.
ETA: OP doesn't sound like she's doing IF0 -
i dont really feel like im binging, i just ate lunch until i feel full and it usually comes out out to about 800-1000 calories sometimes a little more
i usually try to leave some for dinner but im afraid of not eating enough for lunch then i will get tired in my workout
id rather be a little more hungry at dinner than to feel fatigued at a workout earlier
what kind of work outs do you do?0 -
NB: Intermittent Fasting does have certain risks to women.
http://www.paleoforwomen.com/shattering-the-myth-of-fasting-for-women-a-review-of-female-specific-responses-to-fasting-in-the-literature/0 -
Eating all of your daily calories in one meal sounds like a binge to me.
This doesn't sound healthy.
A "binge" is going extravagantly over your macro or calorie goals. If OP is staying within those goals it's not a binge.
Plenty of people here on MFP and in the fitness community do intermittent fasting, which is basically just what OP described--eating all your food in one sitting. There is nothing wrong or unhealthy about it, and will not hinder weight loss or fitness goals. If it works for you, do it.
Context is everything isn't it? :laugh:
I totally wasn't thinking in terms of IF.
ETA: OP doesn't sound like she's doing IF
Even if she's not actively attempting IF, that's essentially what OP's doing, whether it's on purpose or not. Which has been established as being perfectly healthy, if it works for that person. So it's not a binge (as long as they stayed withing their goals) and it's not unhealthy.0 -
I have lost over 100lbs. Most of those pounds were lost eating 2 really big meals a day. When I got under 200lbs, even after including weight training and cardio my body still looked like crap. The only thing that truly transformed by body (gave me muscle and definition) was eating 4 meals throughout the day (skipping breakfast). I believe the body needs adequate protein throughout the day and cramming my two meals a day for years just wasn't optimal for true muscle building.0
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Eating all of your daily calories in one meal sounds like a binge to me.
This doesn't sound healthy.
A "binge" is going extravagantly over your macro or calorie goals. If OP is staying within those goals it's not a binge.
Plenty of people here on MFP and in the fitness community do intermittent fasting, which is basically just what OP described--eating all your food in one sitting. There is nothing wrong or unhealthy about it, and will not hinder weight loss or fitness goals. If it works for you, do it.
Context is everything isn't it? :laugh:
I totally wasn't thinking in terms of IF.
ETA: OP doesn't sound like she's doing IF
And it also doesn't sound like she's binge eating. She clearly states that she likes to eat more before a workout because she feels it makes her less fatigued during.
OP, it doesn't matter if you eat your entire daily calorie allowance in one meal. Sometimes I eat more one meal because I'm hungrier, other times I don't...it's completely personal preference. If you feel better during your workout, I'd say you're doing something right. Do what your body tells you to do.0 -
i like to eat a huge meal before my workout because it gives me energy, if i dont i notice that i get tired more easily and i hate getting fatigued when i exercise
sometimes i eat like 900 calories for lunch with a lot of carbs, then a banana before i exercise, then workout and maybe lose about 600 calories, then maybe 300 calories for diner
i feel great when i start to jog and i feel like i have a lot of energy that i can keep going
i'm 5'1 and small frame, my recommended daily calories is 1200
today i just realized i ate 1200 calories for lunch (fries, cranberry juice, pumpkin pie, yogurt, sausage, fried rice, etc.)
so probably i will just have a tiny meal for dinner, maybe just a piece of chicken some salad and an orange.. so 1350-1400 calories for the day
im going to workout in a few hours, maybe jog/walk 5 miles or more if i dont feel too tired, so probably will lose about 500 or more calories from the workout
is it bad to eat all the calories in one meal?
That depends on what you mean by "bad."
Will it affect your weight loss? As long as you are still at or under your caloric deficit for the day the answer is NO.0 -
OP, are you netting less than 1200 calories a day?0
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i just, jog on the treadmilli dont really feel like im binging, i just ate lunch until i feel full and it usually comes out out to about 800-1000 calories sometimes a little more
i usually try to leave some for dinner but im afraid of not eating enough for lunch then i will get tired in my workout
id rather be a little more hungry at dinner than to feel fatigued at a workout earlier
what kind of work outs do you do?
for example today i did about 7 minutes warmup, 52 minutes @ 4.5 mph (walked for a minute after 3 minutes, thought i was getting tired but then when i started up again i felt like i had a lot of energy)
walked about 10 mins, then 20 mins @ 4.5 mph, walked 10 mins, 5 mins @ 4.5 mph, walked, 15 mins @ 4.5 mph (i might have broken it down into 5+10 mins i dont remember exactly)
total i jogged about 7 miles, and walked 1.5 (today i tried to run a little longer than normal, yesterday i jogged 4 miles with some rest in between each mile, at 4.8 mph, at the end i was pretty tired and couldnt continue
if i dont eat enough then i cant go on for that long
i dont know what it was that i ate today but it helped me through the workout and i felt energetic most of the time. the other day after 4 miles i was pretty tired but today i wasnt that tired and could continue, during the last 20 minutes i had to break it down more, at the end i was tired but if i pushed myself maybe i could have gone on a little more, but i was pretty tired and its the most ive jogged so far
i hate going to jog and then running out of energy
i dont really need to eat so much if i just use elliptical or arc trainer, only for jogging and especially continuously or i get tired and find it very difficult to do even a few minutes at a time
tomorrow ill probably just do a light workout on a arc trainer
i just ate some almonds and blueberries afterwards
usually i do like 1250-1350 calories on days i dont exercise and if i do then more (sometimes in the last few weeks i think a couple times i ate 1500-1800 calories a day, but it varies)
but yesterday i did about 1350 calories and jogged and i felt ok, a little hungry in the evening but not that much i just ate some blueberries and drank some tea and didnt feel that hungry anymore
i added the carbs from the food i ate at lunch, total over 150 grams
the pumpkin bread had 45 grams0
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