Eating All Of Your Calories In One Meal

Since the same amount of calories is consumed, then yes. However, if I eat 1500 calories in one meal, I would feel extremely bloated!

Sometimes I'm doing this. I mean I don't eat all my calories at once but I'll have small lunch (300 kcal) and eat the rest (1100) at dinner. I'm losing on average 1 - 1,5 pound a week, so it doesn't make difference at all.

I couldn't imagine eating that much in one meal. I would be overstuffed. But I guess it's possible if you were to go to fast food or a restaurant to eat for sure or say Thanksgiving day. But my problem would be eating the calories in one whole meal like that and likely getting hungry again later in the day and eating too much at that point. That's how I got myself where I am now.

My husband has eaten this way his entire adult life. 1 cup of black coffee at 8am and then nothing till 7pm. He eats a huge balanced meal- which is far bigger than I could eat. His weight is more or less constant and he is a big muscular man who lifts heavy weights all day as part of his job. Not something I could do but he has suffered no detrimental effects from it.

It's like one meal from a fast food resturant, I'm sure we've all done it at one point in our lives. Yes, they would still lose weight if thats their calorie allotment.

You get used to it. I did that from mid teens to early forties. I have loss, maintained, and gained weight through it. Don't think I could or want to get back to that routine.

I couldn't do it. Say the meal was at noon. I'd be hungry beforehand, feel sick afterwards, and be ravenous later in the day. If the meal was later in the day, I'd be ravenous beforehand, and feel sick afterwards. There'd be no upside for me.

However, I realize we are all different and this method may work for some people, as strange as I may find it.

I eat all of my 1200 cals in two meals (sometimes one), generally in a period of 6 hours. It's apparently a form of intermittent fasting. And it works well for me because I'm not forcing myself to eat when I'm not hungry - no difference in loss than when I tried to do the 3 meals+snacks thing.

Yes I did this for a while and enjoyed it. Ate dinner around 6pm and dessert around 10pm. I enjoyed it and had no problem losing weight. I only recently started spreading out my calories.

I tried it a few times... it doesn't work for me. Even if I have a huge meal at 10am, I'm always hungry when 6pm hits.

Whitezombiegirl wrote: »

My husband has eaten this way his entire adult life.

Mine too. More or less.

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I did this at the recommendation of an acupuncturist. I knew better at the time, but followed it in a moment of weakness. I did it for 45 days and then went off. It was horrible (for me). It really doesn't matter, weight loss isn't helped or hurt as a result. The acupuncturist's theory was you could eat whatever you want one time per day and not track calories or care about what you're eating because it would be hard to overeat. I lost a bunch of weight but was irritated, cloudy head, tired, and couldn't train. I know a lot of people do this, but it was a disaster for me. When I went off it, I basically continued eating whatever I wanted but now whenever I wanted and gained the weight back with interest. I've been so much more successful focusing on CICO and meal planning.

In theory, yes. It would be REALLY hard to stick to it, though.

Unfortunately I think a lot of my friends eat this way and it is how they stay thin (not healthy, but thin). I have a theory that this is also how they can drink so much alcohol without gaining noticeable weight. They eat all their calories in one large meal, then drink whatever remaining calories they have. I can't live like that, I'm too hungry during the day lol.