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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.

What year is this?

If you are invested in having kids with good eating habits and healthful diets, you cook. You might share cooking with a partner but most people unless they are feeding kids take out and school cafeteria food all year do have to prep food.

I can go a long time without food, usually don't eat until 11am or later but I then eat or snack for the other 12 hours of the day. I sometimes wonder if I had a decent breakfast (which I never will because I never want it) if I'd snack less. Anyway, I also distance run so not eating just really isn't much of an option ... might have worked at 20 but not at 38.

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.

What year is this?

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.

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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.

Why is it important to supplement with fish oil?

Omega 3’s

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.

this is intermittent fasting and it's not weird at all. But it depends on what you eat. This works best if you are not eating carbs in the form of breads and grains, and no sugar. The idea is to eat fat, protein and veggies. It keeps you blood glucose stable.

It's not a good idea to do it if you are eating sugar and grains (seeds), because of the insulin situation.

OP, I'm like you in that once my digestive tract is rev'vd up, I can eat all day and want to. But if I don't start, I'm not interested. So it's easy for me to do this method vs. any other.

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.

Anonymous wrote:One meal a day? one?

That's crazy.

+1 if I skip meals I get gas pains and hangry. The rest of me would be skinny, but my belly would be bloated, and people around me would suffer.

An easy and sensible alternative is to skip dinner. Have normal breakfast and late-ish lunch. Make dinner for the kids but put only celery carrots, red peppers, greenbeans, etc.

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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.

Why is it important to supplement with fish oil?

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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.

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.

Congrats!

I wish I could do this but I am.breastfeeding and fairly certain it wold tank my supply.

Anonymous wrote:If Op is eating reasonable and varied foods, why is this an eating disorder? Much of the world eats way less than us. If she is trying to get rid of even more calories or limiting whole areas of food, like, “oh, I just can’t ever eat cheese or never can I eat bread!” then I consider that more disordered than just happily eating one solid meal a day.

Much of the world doesn’t eat 1 meal a day. I lived in Europe—they are less than Americans, sure, but not just once a day. In Spain they had a small breakfast—coffee and something small. Lunch was usually quite big, small dinner, then sometimes tapas if they were out late. 3 times a day of eating isn’t abnormal for “the rest of the world”