Anonymous wrote:I'm going to try this.

In fact, I'm starting today, and having a big ass Mexican enchilada meal from a hole in the wall, for lunch. Nothing else til tomorrow. Will rinse and repeat for the next 2 weeks and see how I feel. Sounds completely doable for me.

I'm going to try this.

Anonymous wrote:I've started this sort of - eat in a 4 hr window midday. I have done IF for awhile but the shorter window is new. I do feel better and not deprived at all. I'm still eating a wide range of foods. To the pps who talk about disordered eating, can you tell me more? I'm genuinely asking because I don't want to go down a bad road. This seems to work better for me than counting or cutting out food groups like dairy or bread. I've tried WW in the past and it worked but I felt like I was focused on food 24/7. This way of eating feels like it frees up a lot of mental space.

This is exactly my experience. Mentally IF is so much easier for me than anything else i've tried. I have a longer window (11-7) but feel great. I'm only losing at 1/4 lb a week but I feel like it's sustainable. I think three meals a day has just been pounded into this culture and people have a hard time seeing it as anything but "disordered".

About 4 years ago I completely changed the way I ate. I went from always eating three meals a day to fasting until as early as 2pm or as late as 7pm depending on what was going on that day. When I'm not fasting I just eat whatever I want, I usually keep it healthy but I also don't say no to dessert if it's available. I'm 5'7 and went from about 165 to 145. My weight has stayed very constant since I hit the 145, it's like it's where my body wants to be. I like the way I feel when I'm fasting, at first the hunger in the morning was horrible, but then it went away and I just feel good. My mind is very clear and my body feels content. In the past four years my blood work has also improved. Good cholesterol went up and bad went down.

I've started this sort of - eat in a 4 hr window midday. I have done IF for awhile but the shorter window is new. I do feel better and not deprived at all. I'm still eating a wide range of foods. To the pps who talk about disordered eating, can you tell me more? I'm genuinely asking because I don't want to go down a bad road. This seems to work better for me than counting or cutting out food groups like dairy or bread. I've tried WW in the past and it worked but I felt like I was focused on food 24/7. This way of eating feels like it frees up a lot of mental space.

Anonymous wrote:Well I’ve been following this for the past couple weeks and it’s been triggering for me (from my childhood years).but I already can’t stop and feel incredible bc I can control not eating after 6pm. Scary and exhilarating at the same time. Like a high you’d get from drugs.

Not trying to be insulting, but I don't understand what this poster is saying. They're triggered because they can control not eating after 6:00 PM? They're triggered because they, like OP, are "finally skinny"?

Well I’ve been following this for the past couple weeks and it’s been triggering for me (from my childhood years).but I already can’t stop and feel incredible bc I can control not eating after 6pm. Scary and exhilarating at the same time. Like a high you’d get from drugs.

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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.

In one meal? That's a binge.

It is. But health is not the optimal outcome with this approach.

If skinny is your goal, then this would work.

I can't imagine that you get enough nutrients to be healthy though.

I used to do this. I was skinny but certainly not healthy. I had a roommate the same way.

If your goal is merely skinny, then you've reached your goal.

Anonymous wrote:I do this too. I don't like being full at night, so I eat my main meal at lunch. On weekends I have a light breakfast and an early dinner and that's it, although I do snack on weekends. I'm not skeletal, but I'm 5' 3" and over 50 and exercise regularly and this works for me.

I'm the same and DH eats this way too. BTW, I am not skinny at all, more like thin and curvy with an average BMI at 5'7" and 140. I have maintained this weight for 15 years.

My weekend schedule is the same as the PP, on weekdays I eat a light breakfast, heavy lunch (chipotle, kebabs, indian food, burger, thai food, or large salad) and only eat dinner about 1 time per week. The other nights I have nothing or may just have a latte or snack.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

How are you a size 4 at 145 lbs? I am your height and I weight 135. I am a size 6.

different body shapes, I guess

NP but body shape has a lot to do with it. The heaviest I have ever been is 138 (at 5’4”) and I was a size 4 in clothes, although I definitely look chubby in pictures. Currently low 120s and would say I’m average, not thin, and I’m a 2.

Anonymous wrote: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.

How are you a size 4 at 145 lbs? I am your height and I weight 135. I am a size 6.

different body shapes, I guess

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.

There has been some controversy about Novak Djokovic, former no1 in tennis for a long while. He has at one point cut out all the gluten and after that had the best results in his career, he had prior to that had been mocked by just about all the other players for having asthma, allergy, even mockingly "antrax"...According to media he then went further into being almost vegan but maybe with little fish. There is speculation that it is this eating and not his injury that is the cause of his bad results today. I have no idea if any of this is true, but if it is, there might be some truth to that. My DS is a college athlete and eats a ton of everything, meat being his favorite and still can't gain much weight at all. BTW, what on earth are competitive bikini models?

Anonymous wrote:Yes, eating in a disordered way that will mess up your metabolism will cause you to lose weight in the short term.

Also, eating less makes you lose weight.

SHOCKING!!

NP. I don't think it will mess up the metabolism at all. At least that is what all the new research is saying. That eating once a day doesn't make you lose muscle or slow down your metabolism at all. I have done the similar eating pattern here and there, and I can even go to my yoga class after just having coffee all day. Generally if I am going to exercise I will eat before it and then skip my dinner.

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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.

+2 what a snob