I only eat one meal a day.
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It's true she can lose weight eating one meal of fast food a day. Of course she can lose weight doing that. But I don't know why people found it necessary to even discuss that, because that's not at all what she wants to do. She wants to learn how to shop for and cook nutritious food on a budget. She hasn't done that before, by the sounds of things. I have no idea why people find it necessary to question half her premises, or turn an honest question, the answers to which could improve her quality of life, into fodder for a tiresome and unhelpful debate.0
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Well I have my ideas, but they'd get me a flag or two.0
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It's true she can lose weight eating one meal of fast food a day. Of course she can lose weight doing that. But I don't know why people found it necessary to even discuss that, because that's not at all what she wants to do. She wants to learn how to shop for and cook nutritious food on a budget. She hasn't done that before, by the sounds of things. I have no idea why people find it necessary to question half her premises, or turn an honest question, the answers to which could improve her quality of life, into fodder for a tiresome and unhelpful debate.
Unhelpful to whom? One, it's a discussion forum, discussions happen. Two, again, she hasn't provided a lot of details, so a number of options kind of had to fill in the blanks. If this, then that. If you're okay doing it or otherwise stuck eating one [proper?] meal per day, you can still get your macro and micro nutrients and you can still lose weight0 -
It's true she can lose weight eating one meal of fast food a day. Of course she can lose weight doing that. But I don't know why people found it necessary to even discuss that, because that's not at all what she wants to do. She wants to learn how to shop for and cook nutritious food on a budget. She hasn't done that before, by the sounds of things. I have no idea why people find it necessary to question half her premises, or turn an honest question, the answers to which could improve her quality of life, into fodder for a tiresome and unhelpful debate.
Unhelpful to whom? One, it's a discussion forum, discussions happen. Two, again, she hasn't provided a lot of details, so a number of options kind of had to fill in the blanks. If this, then that. If you're okay doing it or otherwise stuck eating one [proper?] meal per day, you can still get your macro and micro nutrients and you can still lose weight
To the OP, who posed the question and is (was) hoping for assistance with a practical problem in her actual life0 -
It's true she can lose weight eating one meal of fast food a day. Of course she can lose weight doing that. But I don't know why people found it necessary to even discuss that, because that's not at all what she wants to do. She wants to learn how to shop for and cook nutritious food on a budget. She hasn't done that before, by the sounds of things. I have no idea why people find it necessary to question half her premises, or turn an honest question, the answers to which could improve her quality of life, into fodder for a tiresome and unhelpful debate.
Unhelpful to whom? One, it's a discussion forum, discussions happen. Two, again, she hasn't provided a lot of details, so a number of options kind of had to fill in the blanks. If this, then that. If you're okay doing it or otherwise stuck eating one [proper?] meal per day, you can still get your macro and micro nutrients and you can still lose weight
To the OP, who posed the question and is (was) hoping for assistance with a practical problem in her actual life
She's not the only one reading and hasn't been back to answer a number of follow up questions. And she's got plenty of answers about eating on a budget. You can't know the remaining answers wouldn't be helpful to her unless you're some sort of mind reader
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It's true she can lose weight eating one meal of fast food a day. Of course she can lose weight doing that. But I don't know why people found it necessary to even discuss that, because that's not at all what she wants to do. She wants to learn how to shop for and cook nutritious food on a budget. She hasn't done that before, by the sounds of things. I have no idea why people find it necessary to question half her premises, or turn an honest question, the answers to which could improve her quality of life, into fodder for a tiresome and unhelpful debate.
Unhelpful to whom? One, it's a discussion forum, discussions happen. Two, again, she hasn't provided a lot of details, so a number of options kind of had to fill in the blanks. If this, then that. If you're okay doing it or otherwise stuck eating one [proper?] meal per day, you can still get your macro and micro nutrients and you can still lose weight
And the details she did provide, were more confusing than enlightening.
And to tomatoey:
It's not easy to come up with good answers when we don't even know what the question is!
Where has anyone proposed that the OP should eat only McDonald's??0 -
jenmarie72011 wrote: »I'm having a hard time eating healthy, I can only afford to eat once a day, and when It comes time to eat it's usually unhealthy, I don't buy the food, so I have no control over what there is to eat. Any advice, like cheap healthy meals to make.
You already lost 20 pounds presumably on the food your parents buy and I congratulate you !
Is the picture in your profile recent ? Because looking at it and if it is recent I don't quite understand why you want to lose another 45 pounds......
Yes it is current and I do need to lose 45 lbs , I carry my weight pretty well lol. I have lost 20 lbs, but my weight keeps fluctuating due to the way I eat and excersize, like I had said in my post, I only eat once a day and usually unhealthly which is probably why my weight loss isn't going how i want it beside they calories I do consume, just being store as fat because I'm not eating very much.0 -
jenmarie72011 wrote: »jenmarie72011 wrote: »I'm having a hard time eating healthy, I can only afford to eat once a day, and when It comes time to eat it's usually unhealthy, I don't buy the food, so I have no control over what there is to eat. Any advice, like cheap healthy meals to make.
You already lost 20 pounds presumably on the food your parents buy and I congratulate you !
Is the picture in your profile recent ? Because looking at it and if it is recent I don't quite understand why you want to lose another 45 pounds......
Yes it is current and I do need to lose 45 lbs , I carry my weight pretty well lol. I have lost 20 lbs, but my weight keeps fluctuating due to the way I eat and excersize, like I had said in my post, I only eat once a day and usually unhealthly which is probably why my weight loss isn't going how i want it beside they calories I do consume, just being store as fat because I'm not eating very much.
So much of this is wrong.
What type of food you eat and how often you eat doesn't matter as to weight loss. The only requirement for weight loss is to eat less calories than you burn.
Your body does not store fat because of what you eat, and not eating enough does not cause you to store fat either.
Also, you have 45 pounds to lose? In your profile picture, you look pretty small. What are your stats?
To me, based on your profile picture, it seems losing 45 pounds would make you very underweight, which is a red flag....
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There IS such a thing as starvation mode FYI, but you're extremely unlikely to go into Ketoacidosis without some sort of metabolic deficiency. Starvation mode doesn't matter in the context given by an earlier poster, but it does exist!
And one meal a day won't harm you if that's the way you want to eat, as long as you've got a dependable gall bladder!
A little off topic, but the majority of woman I know don't have a gallbladder anymore, most are overweight. I wonder if someone made a topic of people who wanted to lose weight are overweight and had their gallbladder removed and posted saying yes or no. It would be interesting to see if there was some correlation between the two.
Yes, there is a correlation between female sex, obesity, and gallstones. Any nutrition expert would know this.
The surgeon who removed my bladder said that recent research shows a strong genetic component to developing gallstones also. My great grandmother, grandmother and mother all had them, as did I. They were all about 18-20 and slim, my mother has had anorexia on and off and got them when she was quite skinny. I was the first obese woman in our close family to get them. It does seem to be a strongly female oriented problem.
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jenmarie72011 wrote: »jenmarie72011 wrote: »I'm having a hard time eating healthy, I can only afford to eat once a day, and when It comes time to eat it's usually unhealthy, I don't buy the food, so I have no control over what there is to eat. Any advice, like cheap healthy meals to make.
You already lost 20 pounds presumably on the food your parents buy and I congratulate you !
Is the picture in your profile recent ? Because looking at it and if it is recent I don't quite understand why you want to lose another 45 pounds......
Yes it is current and I do need to lose 45 lbs , I carry my weight pretty well lol. I have lost 20 lbs, but my weight keeps fluctuating due to the way I eat and excersize, like I had said in my post, I only eat once a day and usually unhealthly which is probably why my weight loss isn't going how i want it beside they calories I do consume, just being store as fat because I'm not eating very much.
So much of this is wrong.
What type of food you eat and how often you eat doesn't matter as to weight loss. The only requirement for weight loss is to eat less calories than you burn.
Your body does not store fat because of what you eat, and not eating enough does not cause you to store fat either.
Also, you have 45 pounds to lose? In your profile picture, you look pretty small. What are your stats?
To me, based on your profile picture, it seems losing 45 pounds would make you very underweight, which is a red flag....
I'm about 170 lbs and 5'3 I need to lose weight...0 -
jenmarie72011 wrote: »jenmarie72011 wrote: »jenmarie72011 wrote: »I'm having a hard time eating healthy, I can only afford to eat once a day, and when It comes time to eat it's usually unhealthy, I don't buy the food, so I have no control over what there is to eat. Any advice, like cheap healthy meals to make.
You already lost 20 pounds presumably on the food your parents buy and I congratulate you !
Is the picture in your profile recent ? Because looking at it and if it is recent I don't quite understand why you want to lose another 45 pounds......
Yes it is current and I do need to lose 45 lbs , I carry my weight pretty well lol. I have lost 20 lbs, but my weight keeps fluctuating due to the way I eat and excersize, like I had said in my post, I only eat once a day and usually unhealthly which is probably why my weight loss isn't going how i want it beside they calories I do consume, just being store as fat because I'm not eating very much.
So much of this is wrong.
What type of food you eat and how often you eat doesn't matter as to weight loss. The only requirement for weight loss is to eat less calories than you burn.
Your body does not store fat because of what you eat, and not eating enough does not cause you to store fat either.
Also, you have 45 pounds to lose? In your profile picture, you look pretty small. What are your stats?
To me, based on your profile picture, it seems losing 45 pounds would make you very underweight, which is a red flag....
I'm about 170 lbs and 5'3 I need to lose weight...
You're 170? Wow. You certainly don't look like it.
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jenmarie72011 wrote: »jenmarie72011 wrote: »jenmarie72011 wrote: »I'm having a hard time eating healthy, I can only afford to eat once a day, and when It comes time to eat it's usually unhealthy, I don't buy the food, so I have no control over what there is to eat. Any advice, like cheap healthy meals to make.
You already lost 20 pounds presumably on the food your parents buy and I congratulate you !
Is the picture in your profile recent ? Because looking at it and if it is recent I don't quite understand why you want to lose another 45 pounds......
Yes it is current and I do need to lose 45 lbs , I carry my weight pretty well lol. I have lost 20 lbs, but my weight keeps fluctuating due to the way I eat and excersize, like I had said in my post, I only eat once a day and usually unhealthly which is probably why my weight loss isn't going how i want it beside they calories I do consume, just being store as fat because I'm not eating very much.
So much of this is wrong.
What type of food you eat and how often you eat doesn't matter as to weight loss. The only requirement for weight loss is to eat less calories than you burn.
Your body does not store fat because of what you eat, and not eating enough does not cause you to store fat either.
Also, you have 45 pounds to lose? In your profile picture, you look pretty small. What are your stats?
To me, based on your profile picture, it seems losing 45 pounds would make you very underweight, which is a red flag....
I'm about 170 lbs and 5'3 I need to lose weight...
You're 170? Wow. You certainly don't look like it.
Yup, like I said I carry my weight well.0 -
jenmarie72011 wrote: »jenmarie72011 wrote: »jenmarie72011 wrote: »jenmarie72011 wrote: »I'm having a hard time eating healthy, I can only afford to eat once a day, and when It comes time to eat it's usually unhealthy, I don't buy the food, so I have no control over what there is to eat. Any advice, like cheap healthy meals to make.
You already lost 20 pounds presumably on the food your parents buy and I congratulate you !
Is the picture in your profile recent ? Because looking at it and if it is recent I don't quite understand why you want to lose another 45 pounds......
Yes it is current and I do need to lose 45 lbs , I carry my weight pretty well lol. I have lost 20 lbs, but my weight keeps fluctuating due to the way I eat and excersize, like I had said in my post, I only eat once a day and usually unhealthly which is probably why my weight loss isn't going how i want it beside they calories I do consume, just being store as fat because I'm not eating very much.
So much of this is wrong.
What type of food you eat and how often you eat doesn't matter as to weight loss. The only requirement for weight loss is to eat less calories than you burn.
Your body does not store fat because of what you eat, and not eating enough does not cause you to store fat either.
Also, you have 45 pounds to lose? In your profile picture, you look pretty small. What are your stats?
To me, based on your profile picture, it seems losing 45 pounds would make you very underweight, which is a red flag....
I'm about 170 lbs and 5'3 I need to lose weight...
You're 170? Wow. You certainly don't look like it.
Yup, like I said I carry my weight well.
Try a different scale?? You really don't look it.
Honestly, I would suggest taking measurements and maybe setting a body fat goal, because it doesn't look like you have 45 pounds of fat to lose. So a good portion of that loss would have to be muscle... Maybe don't focus on the number on the scale, but set other goals instead. Like 'wear a size 6', or '21-24% BF'.0 -
blankiefinder wrote: »jenmarie72011 wrote: »jenmarie72011 wrote: »jenmarie72011 wrote: »jenmarie72011 wrote: »I'm having a hard time eating healthy, I can only afford to eat once a day, and when It comes time to eat it's usually unhealthy, I don't buy the food, so I have no control over what there is to eat. Any advice, like cheap healthy meals to make.
You already lost 20 pounds presumably on the food your parents buy and I congratulate you !
Is the picture in your profile recent ? Because looking at it and if it is recent I don't quite understand why you want to lose another 45 pounds......
Yes it is current and I do need to lose 45 lbs , I carry my weight pretty well lol. I have lost 20 lbs, but my weight keeps fluctuating due to the way I eat and excersize, like I had said in my post, I only eat once a day and usually unhealthly which is probably why my weight loss isn't going how i want it beside they calories I do consume, just being store as fat because I'm not eating very much.
So much of this is wrong.
What type of food you eat and how often you eat doesn't matter as to weight loss. The only requirement for weight loss is to eat less calories than you burn.
Your body does not store fat because of what you eat, and not eating enough does not cause you to store fat either.
Also, you have 45 pounds to lose? In your profile picture, you look pretty small. What are your stats?
To me, based on your profile picture, it seems losing 45 pounds would make you very underweight, which is a red flag....
I'm about 170 lbs and 5'3 I need to lose weight...
You're 170? Wow. You certainly don't look like it.
Yup, like I said I carry my weight well.
Try a different scale?? You really don't look it.
Honestly, I would suggest taking measurements and maybe setting a body fat goal, because it doesn't look like you have 45 pounds of fat to lose. So a good portion of that loss would have to be muscle... Maybe don't focus on the number on the scale, but set other goals instead. Like 'wear a size 6', or '21-24% BF'.
Maybe it's jut the clothes I'm wearing but I really do weigh that much, but you're right I probably should focus on other goals like clothes sizes instead of my weight.0 -
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You still don't look like you weigh 170.0
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Cute dress!0
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jenmarie72011 wrote: »I just recently found a job, so maybe I can start to buy some of my own food, and I just want healthy food ideas that won't be too expensive.
Congrats on the job! Like others have said, foods like rice, beans, and lentils are cheap. Produce is cheap at many farmer's markets (farmer's markets billed as exclusively organic tend to not be so cheap.) To find one near you visit http://www.localharvest.org/farmers-markets/
If you sign up for the MyFitnessPal newsletter, you will get recipes and tips emailed to you a few times per week. Some of these may be useful:
10 Budget-Friendly Meals Under 400 Calories
10 Tips for Eating Healthy on a Budget0 -
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