I'm finally skinny.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

What was your start and end weight?

[Anonymous]

Do you drink coffee or alcohol?

[Anonymous]

What time is your meal?

[Anonymous]

One meal a day? one?

That's crazy.

[Anonymous]

Yes! Having an eating disorder will help you lose weight! Ground breaking stuff here OP.

[Anonymous]

I had a giant blueberry muffin for breakfast and I'm skinny too.

I like my way better.

[Anonymous]

I can't swing this type of lifestyle. I get a headache by 10 am and I will full on faint by 2pm if I haven't eaten. I just need food every few hours like clockwork. My husband can go all day and just eat dinner when he is busy and overworked and I just don't understand how his body can tolerate that! We are both normal weights so it's not like he has fat reserves to keep him going and I don't or vise versa.

[Anonymous]

Me too, OP. Most people eat far more food than is necessary. As we age our bodies need less but we like eating for other reasons.

[Anonymous]

So you starve yourself.

I hope you aren't doing permanent, irreversible damage to your health.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I drink coffee and wine. For a while I was v strict about this and ate ONE MEAL NO SNACKS but now that I am on month in and have gotten the general vibe of how my life and body works when I eat this way, I will give you the outline below. A lot of people on this forum have called what I do "intermittent fasting" I guess. But I'll tell you what I do.

I wake up and generally speaking I never eat breakfast anymore. I do drink coffee w whole milk. So I look at my day and basically figure out when I will be social, and that's the meal I eat. Usually its dinner bc I'm with my family. But I work full time and have lunches and breakfasts sometimes so I take that into consideration.

Then I go about my day. My hardest hump is 10-11am. But in reality, if I were to time that, I'd feel uncomfortable for about 15min. So I wait out that time and legit the rest of the day is a breeze. I come home and make dinner, we normally eat a protien, veg and whole grain. If I feel like a glass of wine I normally have two.

I don't do this if it affects me in anyway that's not related to feeling hungry. So if I I really feel awful for some reason, if I am sick, if doing this woud be weird socially, things like that. Then I will eat, obviously. But generally speaking I'm eating like this 90% of the time. And I can look at my week and know--oh ok on Saturday we're going to a BBQ so that will be my meal. Or--ok on Sunday we're doing brunch and dinner w friends so this week stick to your plan tight.

Doing this has freed up SO MUCH brain space bc I never thiink about what I should eat. I just don't eat until I do eat and then I eat what's there and what I feel like.

Oh and I drink insane amounts of water.

[Anonymous]

Oh OP again. I am 5'7, I was 163 and now I am 145. I am not scary skinny at all, about a size four.

[Anonymous]

Yes, yes, and yes. I am 5'5, weigh 120, 43 yo. Not scary skinny, not fainting with hunger. Four years in my body has adjusted beautifully. On days when I eat more than one meal I feel uncomfortable. I fast for 12 hours and then feel right as rain.

[Anonymous]

so when your family is eating dinner (and you've already had lunch, let's say), do you sit with them at the table and keep them company, or go to a different room? that would be hard for me!

[Anonymous]

I did the same thing and I think it makes great sense . I have coffee in the morning and make lunch my main meal. Maybe a tiny dinner portion if I’m really hungry

Agree it is so much easier to just not eat than to worry about healthy eating