I'm finally skinny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know how people do this and cook for their families. I am stuck in the kitchen where I snack. I would love to be binge-watching something with a glass of iced tea and nothing else instead of cooking dinner but I have too many mouths to feed. I think about food all freaking day--what to put in the lunches, what to make for dinner, what to make for dinner the following night. I would rather not think about food at all.

Eh, most of us aren’t the house cooks. I have a full-time job, hobbies, and a personal life.

So what do you feed your kids then?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^because there's no way you are getting the necessary, probably even the minimal, amounts of protein, minerals, nutrients, and fiber that you need daily. There's just no way

Weight is only small part of the picture when it comes to your overall Health and Longevity. The obsession with it to the exclusion of all else is mind boggling

Why no way? One meal a day can be nutritionally balanced. NP but I do one meal a day that’s 1500-1800 calories. When I eat three meals a day I can easily put away2500 calories or more no problem as a 5’7 female which is why I’m overweight. It’s sooo much easier for me to eat fewer calories eating one meal a day.

OP might be undereating though.

OMAD is in fashion right now among fitness people and habitual dieters (just like intermittent fasting). It's a way to get in fewer calories (duh). But most of those people track their macros to make sure they are getting in enough protein and a minimum amount of fat, in addition to supplementing with things like fish oil. Doubt OP is doing this.

It's really a thing among "fitness people"? I consider myself a "fitness person" and I couldn't imagine performing well in a hard workout if I hadn't eaten for hour and hours. This kind of diet seems incompatible with fitness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know how people do this and cook for their families. I am stuck in the kitchen where I snack. I would love to be binge-watching something with a glass of iced tea and nothing else instead of cooking dinner but I have too many mouths to feed. I think about food all freaking day--what to put in the lunches, what to make for dinner, what to make for dinner the following night. I would rather not think about food at all.

Eh, most of us aren’t the house cooks. I have a full-time job, hobbies, and a personal life.

So do you not have kids? Or they just fend for themselves and eat takeout?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^because there's no way you are getting the necessary, probably even the minimal, amounts of protein, minerals, nutrients, and fiber that you need daily. There's just no way

Weight is only small part of the picture when it comes to your overall Health and Longevity. The obsession with it to the exclusion of all else is mind boggling

Why no way? One meal a day can be nutritionally balanced. NP but I do one meal a day that’s 1500-1800 calories. When I eat three meals a day I can easily put away2500 calories or more no problem as a 5’7 female which is why I’m overweight. It’s sooo much easier for me to eat fewer calories eating one meal a day.

OP might be undereating though.

OMAD is in fashion right now among fitness people and habitual dieters (just like intermittent fasting). It's a way to get in fewer calories (duh). But most of those people track their macros to make sure they are getting in enough protein and a minimum amount of fat, in addition to supplementing with things like fish oil. Doubt OP is doing this.

It's really a thing among "fitness people"? I consider myself a "fitness person" and I couldn't imagine performing well in a hard workout if I hadn't eaten for hour and hours. This kind of diet seems incompatible with fitness.

Sorry, PP. Zumba isn’t considered fitness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^because there's no way you are getting the necessary, probably even the minimal, amounts of protein, minerals, nutrients, and fiber that you need daily. There's just no way

Weight is only small part of the picture when it comes to your overall Health and Longevity. The obsession with it to the exclusion of all else is mind boggling

Why no way? One meal a day can be nutritionally balanced. NP but I do one meal a day that’s 1500-1800 calories. When I eat three meals a day I can easily put away2500 calories or more no problem as a 5’7 female which is why I’m overweight. It’s sooo much easier for me to eat fewer calories eating one meal a day.

OP might be undereating though.

OMAD is in fashion right now among fitness people and habitual dieters (just like intermittent fasting). It's a way to get in fewer calories (duh). But most of those people track their macros to make sure they are getting in enough protein and a minimum amount of fat, in addition to supplementing with things like fish oil. Doubt OP is doing this.

It's really a thing among "fitness people"? I consider myself a "fitness person" and I couldn't imagine performing well in a hard workout if I hadn't eaten for hour and hours. This kind of diet seems incompatible with fitness.

I agree. That was my first thought. But here on DCUM the consensus is that fitness is useless lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^because there's no way you are getting the necessary, probably even the minimal, amounts of protein, minerals, nutrients, and fiber that you need daily. There's just no way

Weight is only small part of the picture when it comes to your overall Health and Longevity. The obsession with it to the exclusion of all else is mind boggling

Why no way? One meal a day can be nutritionally balanced. NP but I do one meal a day that’s 1500-1800 calories. When I eat three meals a day I can easily put away2500 calories or more no problem as a 5’7 female which is why I’m overweight. It’s sooo much easier for me to eat fewer calories eating one meal a day.

OP might be undereating though.

OMAD is in fashion right now among fitness people and habitual dieters (just like intermittent fasting). It's a way to get in fewer calories (duh). But most of those people track their macros to make sure they are getting in enough protein and a minimum amount of fat, in addition to supplementing with things like fish oil. Doubt OP is doing this.

It's really a thing among "fitness people"? I consider myself a "fitness person" and I couldn't imagine performing well in a hard workout if I hadn't eaten for hour and hours. This kind of diet seems incompatible with fitness.

I agree. That was my first thought. But here on DCUM the consensus is that fitness is useless lol

Lol. No, on DCUM any type of diet other than “everything in moderation” is an eating disorder. Check out all the reddit fitness subs and you’ll see OMAD all over the place, including among people that are competitive bikini/fitness/physique competitors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^because there's no way you are getting the necessary, probably even the minimal, amounts of protein, minerals, nutrients, and fiber that you need daily. There's just no way

Weight is only small part of the picture when it comes to your overall Health and Longevity. The obsession with it to the exclusion of all else is mind boggling

Why no way? One meal a day can be nutritionally balanced. NP but I do one meal a day that’s 1500-1800 calories. When I eat three meals a day I can easily put away2500 calories or more no problem as a 5’7 female which is why I’m overweight. It’s sooo much easier for me to eat fewer calories eating one meal a day.

OP might be undereating though.

OMAD is in fashion right now among fitness people and habitual dieters (just like intermittent fasting). It's a way to get in fewer calories (duh). But most of those people track their macros to make sure they are getting in enough protein and a minimum amount of fat, in addition to supplementing with things like fish oil. Doubt OP is doing this.

It's really a thing among "fitness people"? I consider myself a "fitness person" and I couldn't imagine performing well in a hard workout if I hadn't eaten for hour and hours. This kind of diet seems incompatible with fitness.

Perhaps you’re not familiar with the concept of bulking and cutting? Just because you haven’t heard of something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Have you heard of dry fasting? PSMF?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^because there's no way you are getting the necessary, probably even the minimal, amounts of protein, minerals, nutrients, and fiber that you need daily. There's just no way

Weight is only small part of the picture when it comes to your overall Health and Longevity. The obsession with it to the exclusion of all else is mind boggling

Why no way? One meal a day can be nutritionally balanced. NP but I do one meal a day that’s 1500-1800 calories. When I eat three meals a day I can easily put away2500 calories or more no problem as a 5’7 female which is why I’m overweight. It’s sooo much easier for me to eat fewer calories eating one meal a day.

OP might be undereating though.

OMAD is in fashion right now among fitness people and habitual dieters (just like intermittent fasting). It's a way to get in fewer calories (duh). But most of those people track their macros to make sure they are getting in enough protein and a minimum amount of fat, in addition to supplementing with things like fish oil. Doubt OP is doing this.

It's really a thing among "fitness people"? I consider myself a "fitness person" and I couldn't imagine performing well in a hard workout if I hadn't eaten for hour and hours. This kind of diet seems incompatible with fitness.

NP. It can be. Your body just has to adjust. Earlier this year I became determined to lose my baby weight (about 30 lbs) and I signed up for a half marathon for added motivation. I found myself only eating one meal a day not intentionally but because I was so busy at home at with DB. I just wouldn't have a chance to eat. Then when my DH would get home, I'd go workout. So sometimes all I could fit in was a couple light snacks before I'd leave to go workout. After a while, it just became normal for me and I wouldn't even be hungry. But now that I'm back at work I just can't go an entire day without eating so my solution so far has been to have a big breakfast and a small lunch and dinner. I lost the 30 lbs btw

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know how I do it? and maintain? I have one meal a day. Any meal I choose. Generally eat whatever I feel like having.

I've tried a million things for years and it's like, oh. If you don't eat much, you will lose the weight. That's the secret guys.

Isn't this already a diet fad...the fasting diet where you only eat every X hours, but it can be whatever food you want?

[Anonymous]

I'm wondering how many of the snarky, nasty DCUM posters would be that way if they weren't hangry all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You probably lost fat and muscle, but mostly muscle.

+1 plus the alcohol on an empty stomach can't be good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^because there's no way you are getting the necessary, probably even the minimal, amounts of protein, minerals, nutrients, and fiber that you need daily. There's just no way

Weight is only small part of the picture when it comes to your overall Health and Longevity. The obsession with it to the exclusion of all else is mind boggling

Why no way? One meal a day can be nutritionally balanced. NP but I do one meal a day that’s 1500-1800 calories. When I eat three meals a day I can easily put away2500 calories or more no problem as a 5’7 female which is why I’m overweight. It’s sooo much easier for me to eat fewer calories eating one meal a day.

OP might be undereating though.

OMAD is in fashion right now among fitness people and habitual dieters (just like intermittent fasting). It's a way to get in fewer calories (duh). But most of those people track their macros to make sure they are getting in enough protein and a minimum amount of fat, in addition to supplementing with things like fish oil. Doubt OP is doing this.

It's really a thing among "fitness people"? I consider myself a "fitness person" and I couldn't imagine performing well in a hard workout if I hadn't eaten for hour and hours. This kind of diet seems incompatible with fitness.

I agree. That was my first thought. But here on DCUM the consensus is that fitness is useless lol

Lol. No, on DCUM any type of diet other than “everything in moderation” is an eating disorder. Check out all the reddit fitness subs and you’ll see OMAD all over the place, including among people that are competitive bikini/fitness/physique competitors.[/quote

Eating disorders are rampant among people who are into competitive fitness. And one meal a day is starvation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Although I would not be able to do this one-meal-day thing i will say that several decades ago my college boyfriend did the same thing. he was 50 pounds overweight and just decided to eat one meal a day. He could eat as much as he could stuff in, but just one meal. He lost the weight, and to this day he has kept it off (we are still in regular touch). He now eats big once a day and very light the other 2 meals. For him, big meal is at night; light breakfast and lunch.

that's different than eating only one meal per day. I eat a very light breakfast because I can't handle food in the morning. I eat a small lunch and eat a snack during the day, then eat a lightish dinner. The trick is smaller portions (some cases really small, like a 5 yr old size meal) frequently, low cal foods, and movement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Although I would not be able to do this one-meal-day thing i will say that several decades ago my college boyfriend did the same thing. he was 50 pounds overweight and just decided to eat one meal a day. He could eat as much as he could stuff in, but just one meal. He lost the weight, and to this day he has kept it off (we are still in regular touch). He now eats big once a day and very light the other 2 meals. For him, big meal is at night; light breakfast and lunch.

that's different than eating only one meal per day. I eat a very light breakfast because I can't handle food in the morning. I eat a small lunch and eat a snack during the day, then eat a lightish dinner. The trick is smaller portions (some cases really small, like a 5 yr old size meal) frequently, low cal foods, and movement.

That’s the trick for YOU. Smaller frequent portions didn’t work for me. IF has and is so much easier for me to stick to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Although I would not be able to do this one-meal-day thing i will say that several decades ago my college boyfriend did the same thing. he was 50 pounds overweight and just decided to eat one meal a day. He could eat as much as he could stuff in, but just one meal. He lost the weight, and to this day he has kept it off (we are still in regular touch). He now eats big once a day and very light the other 2 meals. For him, big meal is at night; light breakfast and lunch.

that's different than eating only one meal per day. I eat a very light breakfast because I can't handle food in the morning. I eat a small lunch and eat a snack during the day, then eat a lightish dinner. The trick is smaller portions (some cases really small, like a 5 yr old size meal) frequently, low cal foods, and movement.

That’s the trick for YOU. Smaller frequent portions didn’t work for me. IF has and is so much easier for me to stick to.

Yes, this. Why do some people INSIST that every body is the same? Small, frequent meals are terrible for me because it makes me feel hungry all the time. I am able to control my weight pretty much without effort just by sticking to two full meals a day. I just don't think about food the rest of the time, which is so freeing.