has anyone alternated IF with one meal a day?
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Anonymous
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I'm trying the following with the goal of losing weight and increasing metabolism through short term fasting (which I read is the case, although it doesn't seem logical....). So far the two meals a day is easy (I do between 16/8 and 18/6), but I get hangry around 3 pm on the one meal a day/22-24 hour fasts.
Monday: eating window noon -7 pm (two meals-1400 calories) Tuesday: eating window 5-7 pm (one meal-5/600 calories) Wed: eating window noon -7 pm (two meals 1400 calories) Thursday: reating window 5-7 pm (one meal) 5-600 calories Friday: day off. two meals between noon and 7 (12-1400 calories) Saturday: two meals, dont count calories Sunday: dinner only; regular 5-600 calories. my workouts will be on the days I have a longer window of eating. |
Anonymous
| I’m sorry, am I reading this wrong or are you planning on going 3 days a week only eating 500 or 600 calories? |
Anonymous
| This post makes me sad. |
Anonymous
| This is a bad idea. |
Anonymous
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This is pretty much the only way I ever lost a bunch of weight. I did this 7 years ago and lost 50 pounds. I am now 25 pounds up from that and need to do it again.
I wasn't very strict about counting calories but I basically made a few tweaks one day (no milk, no desert or fried food) which would put me around 1200-1400 calories. The other day, I would have my morning coffee and fast until evening when I ate somewhere around 500 calories a day. I am a 50 year old woman with a smallish build so while the calories might seem low to a lot of people, they're not so low for me. It took me a year to lose those 50 pounds. |
Anonymous
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Doesn’t seem sustainable. Soon as you go back to eating normal you’ll just gain the weight back.
Why not just aim for eating in a small deficit every day instead of these extreme measures? |
Anonymous
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The point of OMAD (one meal a day) is that you eat all of your calories during the one meal. Not that you fast all day and then restrict calories.
You can't survive on OMAD if your caloric intake is only 500-600 calories. I had the best success with this when I was working night shift. I would get off work and immediately crash until around 3 or 4 pm. I woke up, got myself ready for going back into work, and then made my one meal for the day. It always consisted of 1500-2000 calories. That fueled me through work as long as I kept up my water intake. The times when I didn't have night shift, I found it much harder to do. I did lose a ton of weight but some came back once I went back to normal eating. |
Anonymous
| I just workout every day and eat two meals, plus a snack on my IF schedule. Rather than really deprive yourself and not workout - presumably bc you expect to have less energy, and you will - why not eat more, and work out more frequently. |
Anonymous
| Instead of dropping down to one meal, I switched to closing the 8 hour window at 4. Huge difference! Large meals at night before bed aren’t good for me. As with all diet advice YMMV. |
Anonymous
| This is seriously messed up. |
Anonymous
| Isn’t this just anorexia? |
Anonymous
Sure sounds like it to me. -former anorexic Many people hide behind extreme diets like “clean” eating, veganism, or IF to make their eating disorder socially acceptable. I sure did. |
Anonymous
| I follow the Obesity Code rules, so it's important NOT to restrict the calories in the day with IF, otherwise your metabolism will crash. So do 18/6 and in those 6 hours eat clean but enough. I eat everything but sugar and white carbs. |
Anonymous
This looks solid. I did a similar plan two years ago and I am in the best shape of my life. You are on the right track! |
Anonymous
| You're talking about averaging as little as 850 calories a day for 6 days of the week. I got down to <90 pounds doing that, but I had an eating disorder. |