1 meal a day diet good or bad?

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  • DmaMfz
    DmaMfz Posts: 125 Member
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    Frequency does not matter. Eating a reasonable deficit according to your TDEE is what matters.
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
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    Lillymoo01 wrote: »
    elisa123gal wrote: »
    Seems people with binging and eating disorders do the 23 hour fast thing... just remember..how you lose your weight is how you will have to keep it off. I could and would never want to live like that..so why do it.

    For some it can lead to eating disorders, but for others it is a very valid way of controlling hunger to enable them to stay in a deficit. These people could easily maintain this way of eating for life. Meal timing is a very individual thing and there is no one size fits all approach.


    From what I have learned from people here that probably know much more than I do about the subject is that some people that are predisposed to have certain eating disorders are triggered by VLCDs. I don't doubt that there are other triggers or perhaps for some poor souls it was always just a matter of when not how. Eating one meal a day does not have to be a low calorie diet.

    I routinely eat 1600-1700 calories for lunch and then a 200-300 calorie dinner. It is not OMAD even though I am capable of it and I have done it enough to know. I suffer from insomnia and on nights where I am up super late the mental aspects of going from lunch time until early in the morning with no additional food is hard on me even if I am not hungry. However, eating a very light dinner with specific macros helps me control my acid reflux most days with no medication. If I eat breakfast I am hungrier for the rest of the day which makes it harder to maintain a deficit. I eat this way because it makes my life easier. It could be with weight loss some of the driving forces of this eating pattern will minimize. I will cross that bridge when I get to it.
  • 1houndgal
    1houndgal Posts: 558 Member
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    Icarus098 wrote: »
    So I am pretty astounded about how everyone in life suddenly becomes an expert dietician when you mention being on a diet so I’ve decided to ask people who have real knowledge about weight loss. I have been told by many people that 1 meal a day will lead to the slowing down of my metabolism and that my body will enter “starvation mode”. I have been on a diet for the past 6 weeks and I have successfully lost 16 pounds whilst only eating 1 meal a day. Does it matter how frequently you eat in a day? Surely calories in and calories out are the only thing that matters for weight loss.

    For some folks, one meal a day is too strict for health's sake. People with certain medical issues find intermittent fasting can excaberate their symptoms.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,398 Member
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    Everyone's different. I could not just eat one meal a day as I need lots of food and salt to keep my bloodpressure half up. My blood sugar is stable, but people suffering from low blood sugar probably would have problems as well.
  • bpotts44
    bpotts44 Posts: 1,066 Member
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    elsie6hickman wrote: »
    From a blood glucose perspective (which is not just limited to diabetics) one meal a day doesn't cut it. It's best to have a stable blood sugar all day long. And only eating one meal a day means that you are likely going to overeat. Not to mention you will likely feel tired all day when your blood sugar gets low. If you eat only one meal a day, it's best to eat a big breakfast and a few small healthy snacks during the day.

    Not true. As long as you don't over eat carbs your liver very much can control blood sugar in a 24 hour period regardless of meal timing.
  • kds10
    kds10 Posts: 452 Member
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    I eat two meals a day plus snacks in between. Basically I skip breakfast and do not eat after supper (which typically I finish by 5:30 or 6:00) I have lost 25 lbs in four months doing this. Yes I am hungry by lunch but when I used to eat a large breakfast at 6:30 a.m. I would be just as hungry at lunch.

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