Eating once a day is the worse way to try to shed excess pounds. In fact, by eating only once, your body goes into starvation mode and begins to store more of the calories from your meal as fat. Our bodies adapt and will change in order to keep us alive.
It is healthier to eat 4 to 6 healthy mini-meals throughout the day. Your metabolism will actually increase because your body is no longer in "survival mode." You also provide your body with nutrition and fuel to last the entire day.
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btw, i’m starting myself this week, planing on 1200-1500 calories and an hour of exercise a day on average (femle 5ft9, 160lbs). will let you know
Hi Marleen,
For me, since I don’t use this as a diet to lose weight, but just eat once a day, I’ll let you know what I eat. It’s not a rule, today I had salad at lunch with naan bread and then leftover roasted veggies for dinner. But 99% only once a day. (it was a bday lunch…have to socialize
I keep grapes in the fridge if I crave something later in the evening and it doesn’t make me feel full before bed.
I think your approach sounds healthy if you eat food thats good for you. Regular ‘food’ isn’t always good calories or good for you
Lets see:
Salmon or chicken breast (200 cals) every day. (with spices, pesto, or teriyaki sauce). Maybe a pork chop once a month.
All the veggies I can eat which is carrots, beans, snap peas, corn, broccoli, broccoli and more broccoli, asparagus, lots of tomatoes. Potatoes and sweet potatoes once a week each give or take.
1tbsp olive oil if roasting them (140 cals)
lemon juice for veggies or on salmon
cheese (not everyday, but almost) 50grams goat cheese (100 cals) or asiago 50 grams = 180 cals give or take.
Every day I choose the main veggie and toss in smaller quantities of the other ones (always including broccoli and tomatoes), but I eat a HUGE (embarrassingly) bowl of veggies until I’m FULL. I go back for seconds only of veggies on a regular dinner plate that was full the first time around
But I dont really exercise. My weight stays the same. If I was motivated to exercise, I am positive I would lose weight and probably quickly. Sorry I don’t know how many calories I actually eat in veggies, but I’m up to about 500 on salmon, oil, and cheese, so the rest is veggies!
Best of luck to you, I know you will do well.
and, ofcourse, i’m 5ft9, 160lbs and will de starting next week planning on 1200-1500 calories and an hour of exersise a day on average.
Wow, Marleen. That is my exact height and weight and I was seriuolsy thinking about this as well. Are you doing the one meal a day for 12-1500 cal? Let us know how it works out! I did it before my wedding last year and it was great.
will defenately let you know Angie, and good to know it worked for you. want to do it al in one (three course?) meal, and the rest of the day only coffee with milk, sunflowerseeds/almonds only if i need it.
(sorry for the dubble post)
I have been eating once a day for 10 years. However, it is not a weight loss program. As a poor full time grad student, l had to sign up for 2 fellowships and was busy supporting two prolific profs, I also had part time job that combined with studies kept me going for 18 hours a day. Something just had to give and for me that food. By the time I graduated, my body got used to it that I have maintained since. Now I have two coffees in the day.
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