I'm finally skinny.

[Anonymous]

Lol at the idea that competitive bikini models are really fitness oriented.

Let's ask what actual athletes do - I seriously doubt they eat one meal a day.

[Anonymous]

OP, can you promise to check back in about 18 months and tell us how long you were able to last on this and how much weight you've kept off?

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1. Two regular meals a day plus coffee with cream for breakfast is perfect for me. I'd be just super annoyed and distracted if I tried to eat several small meals throughout the day. Sounds like constantly having to think about and plan calibrated meals while also never feeling satisfied. I'm sure it works for some people, but would be terrible for me. I'd rather have fewer but more satisfying meals. I've never been a big believer in snacking anyway -- I feel like the American compunction to constantly eat is bizarre.

[Anonymous]

It would be interesting for these one-a-day people to post their weekly menus. I'd be surprised if they were getting enough calcium, protein, fiber and minerals and vitamins. Sure, you may be skinny but your colon and bones are probably suffering. Unless you take tons and tons of supplements

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be interesting for these one-a-day people to post their weekly menus. I'd be surprised if they were getting enough calcium, protein, fiber and minerals and vitamins. Sure, you may be skinny but your colon and bones are probably suffering. Unless you take tons and tons of supplements

Np. It would be interesting for all the naysayers and "disorder" screamers to list what they eat in a day. I'm not as strict as OP. i eat breakfast. But your body does not need so. Much. Food. Really. It IS that simple.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1. Two regular meals a day plus coffee with cream for breakfast is perfect for me. I'd be just super annoyed and distracted if I tried to eat several small meals throughout the day. Sounds like constantly having to think about and plan calibrated meals while also never feeling satisfied. I'm sure it works for some people, but would be terrible for me. I'd rather have fewer but more satisfying meals. I've never been a big believer in snacking anyway -- I feel like the American compunction to constantly eat is bizarre.

+2 I'm not a snacker either, so let's not generalize about Americans. But it does seem like people need to eat constantly. No, carol, you can't limit your portions but then keep eating "protein" snacks to "feel full" and expect to lose weight!!

[Anonymous]

It's interesting that people are so outraged by this. Clearly the OP is a healthy weight and not starving herself.

I'm a light breakfast, big lunch, light dinner, no snacks person. I end up fasting for 12 hours typically in a 24 hour cycle and unless I have a social occasion, rarely eat past about 6:30pm. It's super easy for me to maintain my weight doing this.

I just don't think what the OP is doing is so awful. I do think your body would adjust to it and be fine.

My personal observation is the small meal/snacky people are overly obsessed with planning/thinking about food. But whatever works for people.

[Anonymous]

I am doing IF (18:4) and keto. Only down about seven lbs in eight weeks, but I feel incredible.

For everyone who knocks OP, you have been brainwashed. Sugar/grains/carbs are horrible and the sugar industry, in kahoots with the government and healthcare industrty, hope you never find that out since it puts more money in their pockets (eat carbs, get fat and unhealthy, go on meds...)

IF has been proven to slow down the aging process, give you more energy, higher brain function and better memory recall.

But go on and keep eating your cornflakes and blueberry muffins for breakfast you feel like you can't skip because General Mills funded a study that told you breakfast was the most important meal of the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1. Two regular meals a day plus coffee with cream for breakfast is perfect for me. I'd be just super annoyed and distracted if I tried to eat several small meals throughout the day. Sounds like constantly having to think about and plan calibrated meals while also never feeling satisfied. I'm sure it works for some people, but would be terrible for me. I'd rather have fewer but more satisfying meals. I've never been a big believer in snacking anyway -- I feel like the American compunction to constantly eat is bizarre.

I believe it messes up people's natural hunger/fullness cues because they never actually feel real hunger and so they just eat all the time. This is actually sold as a benefit of the constant snacking by some diet plans...you will never feel too hungry, so you therefore won't overeat. But my experience is it just makes it so your own body doesn't provide any reliable cues as to what it needs and you just eat constantly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be interesting for these one-a-day people to post their weekly menus. I'd be surprised if they were getting enough calcium, protein, fiber and minerals and vitamins. Sure, you may be skinny but your colon and bones are probably suffering. Unless you take tons and tons of supplements

Supplements are a sham.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol at the idea that competitive bikini models are really fitness oriented.

Let's ask what actual athletes do - I seriously doubt they eat one meal a day.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2109091/fasting-could-make-you-faster

https://barbend.com/intermittent-fasting-benefits/

https://primedlifestyle.com/2018/01/07/why-top-athletes-only-eat-one-meal-a-day/

https://deadspin.com/the-greatest-male-gymnast-of-all-time-eats-just-one-mea-1818839852

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lol at the idea that competitive bikini models are really fitness oriented.

Let's ask what actual athletes do - I seriously doubt they eat one meal a day.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2109091/fasting-could-make-you-faster

https://barbend.com/intermittent-fasting-benefits/

https://primedlifestyle.com/2018/01/07/why-top-athletes-only-eat-one-meal-a-day/

https://deadspin.com/the-greatest-male-gymnast-of-all-time-eats-just-one-mea-1818839852

You can't possibly think those are credible information sources. Actual athletes fuel their bodies. They don't starve them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lol at the idea that competitive bikini models are really fitness oriented.

Let's ask what actual athletes do - I seriously doubt they eat one meal a day.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2109091/fasting-could-make-you-faster

https://barbend.com/intermittent-fasting-benefits/

https://primedlifestyle.com/2018/01/07/why-top-athletes-only-eat-one-meal-a-day/

https://deadspin.com/the-greatest-male-gymnast-of-all-time-eats-just-one-mea-1818839852

You can't possibly think those are credible information sources. Actual athletes fuel their bodies. They don't starve them.

You are wrong.
Accept it.
Look at medical journals and you will learn the same thing.
You have been BRAINWASHED
Calories in/out is incorrect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lol at the idea that competitive bikini models are really fitness oriented.

Let's ask what actual athletes do - I seriously doubt they eat one meal a day.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2109091/fasting-could-make-you-faster

https://barbend.com/intermittent-fasting-benefits/

https://primedlifestyle.com/2018/01/07/why-top-athletes-only-eat-one-meal-a-day/

https://deadspin.com/the-greatest-male-gymnast-of-all-time-eats-just-one-mea-1818839852

You can't possibly think those are credible information sources. Actual athletes fuel their bodies. They don't starve them.

And I guess if you don't believe it, then "that isn't a credible source" always works, right? So it fits your narrative?
Riiiight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lol at the idea that competitive bikini models are really fitness oriented.

Let's ask what actual athletes do - I seriously doubt they eat one meal a day.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2109091/fasting-could-make-you-faster

https://barbend.com/intermittent-fasting-benefits/

https://primedlifestyle.com/2018/01/07/why-top-athletes-only-eat-one-meal-a-day/

https://deadspin.com/the-greatest-male-gymnast-of-all-time-eats-just-one-mea-1818839852

You can't possibly think those are credible information sources. Actual athletes fuel their bodies. They don't starve them.

Why don't you actually read these articles with an open mind? I remember being shocked that ultramarathoner Scott Jurek was a vegan, which defied conventional wisdom about athletic performance. When I ran marathons in the 80s, carb loading, Gu and Gatorade were considered absolute necessities.

There isn't one "right" way to eat.