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5 lbs. I turn 40 in September and I want to be on my way to my ideal weight then. Losing 8lbs in 5 weeks is a great result. How I look at it, you have to break down a wall. I just got done with a three day fast Im now Im starting this diet today. ) They suggested to skip dinner. I can have a normal dinner at tea time, healthy eating, meat,fish with veg. Throughout the day I drink water and tea. I typically aimed for between 1500-1800 calories a day. as my gym friends said the older we are, the less calories burnt. I was unhappy about something in my life and this was my way of pushing back. On this diet can i eat the foods i normally eat. I am very proud of my achievement but its all thanks to you. Being In control of your destiny is a great feeling. I must admit I ate normal hearty meals, the only thing I scrapped was bread. I do love coffee, and I can buy a whole pound of coffee and make it myself at home for less money than a single cup of one of those fancy coffee shop concoctions i use to buy several times a day. The simple idea behind one meal a day is that your task is simply to eat fewer calories than your body needs. I drink tea or coffee (both decaf) and fresh juice and 1 smoothie, again anytime during the day. I think half the battle is believing you can do it, seeing your success has motivated and inspired me so much. My husband showed me your blog, he started doing this a few days ago and he said he loves it. The article was about his capability as a leader, not about dieting or weight loss, but as an aside it was mentioned that he ate only one meal a day. Very yummy indeed and when having hunger pangs during the day from not eating knowing what my evening meal would be sustained me. If I have a big breakfast and some chocolate milk then I could weigh 240. I decided to try this, after all, like most other overweight people, I had tried absolutely everything over the last 10 or more years with zero success. I have been reading your blog for a while now and was so inspired by your weight loss success with one meal a day. Our body weight is determined by the amount of energy that we take in as food and the amount of energy we expend in the activities of our day. Such is the beauty of this diet, fasting during the day means my stomach feels fuller quicker at meal times and stops me over eating. Basically, on the farm I get up at 7:00 am and do all the hot sweaty work like hand harvesting food, hand weeding, moving dirt (with a shovel), construction, etc. I just reasoned that most of what we see regarding diet and weight loss is either wrong or designed to get us to part with our money. Only working there for 1 month but I gain up to 5 kg. For dinner, I ate whatever I wanted plus dessert. You then try to have a piece of fruit as desert. There were some days I got greedy and that slowed my progress. The problem is I end up not just tasting the food, but actually eating it. Two years ago I was 226 pounds and I have this diet to thank for that. What I do now is drink coffee (with Equal) for breakfast and another for lunch. I am 74 kilos and need to get down to 57 by end June 2014. Good luck as you continue towards your goal. Eat what you want once a day and still lose weight. I got to a point where I started to doubt almost everything I read and wanted to see for myself. I have tried so many things and I had honestly forgotten the one meal a day diet. This week, I decided to start drinkin g water and things have not been going well. Hi Clair, well done on the early progress. I pretty much went into a state of depression. I have to try and drink at least 2lts of water from 6pm. There are millions of people in the world who survive on a lot less food than I do. Build up fitness and exercise regimes slowly and deliberately to get the most enjoyment and benefit. I am at the moment, fantasising being down by 80lbs. Once you get the hang of skipping breakfast then you have that meal out of the day. I started eating only meal last week and lost half a stone, but i did it by not eating or drinking anything at all until 6pm. I spent more time researching the best way to lose weight than I invested in actually doing something about it. I did a few months of low carb, and a few months of one meal per day and took lots of time off between diets. I am exercising as well so i am seeing positive results quickly. When I began having the cravings around 10pm I finished of the rest of the food in the pan. What is the best way of shifting the final bit of belly flat around my stomach. I like how you say the snack is to fight off hunger pangs and not to have a pleasurable experience. I came across this site whilst researching calorie restriction and the effect on mood. I am back from vacation and ate waaaaaaay more than once a day. I have been trying to drink more water to fill up. Anyway, if I wanted to drink it I would, but more than likely only at the weekend. I finally got into it after quite a few false starts and managed to lose 2olbs. I like doing this diet as i enjoy socialising and i do not want it to affect my life going out for meals with friends etc. I am no nutrition expert nor am I a doctor, but in my own personal experience of 4 years of eating 1 meal per day it does more harm than good in the long run. I enjoyed reading the posts here and have just embarked myself on a similar quest. It feels good to cut free of the trivialities and see the future for what it could be if we make just a few small changes in the present moment. I would drink lots of water or coffee with no sugar. Hello David i have got a question for you and anyone else who is interested. You can read conflicting arguments both of which seem very credible and you become paralyzed by confusion and uncertainty. You can lose several pounds and see no real difference in the way you look. I started 1 meal a day 3 days ago with the following aims:-. Its funny that eating less gives you more energy. Hi Jake, I aim to eat around 1500 to 1800 calories. Same thing because of work etc no one knew I was on a one meal a day plan. Does anyone of you have the one meal at lunch. The Dude, thanks for dropping by and sharing your success. Snacking a few times a day is no bad thing. I started this about few days ago — to be on 1-meal a day strictly. It could be the time of day you weigh yourself. I am not necessarily on a strict one meal diet but it is very close, I have two Biscuit and tea(whole milk and sugar) first thing in morning followed by a smoke. If I do not lose any more weight by end of January, then I know that this meal plan is not for me. All the while I am also tending to chickens, goats, dogs, meat rabbits, and my daughter. I generally get hungry around 11. I had a cup of tea when I got to the office, and I was fine until mid morning when I started to get hungry. This was my high estimate of weight loss. My initial motivation to get going with the diet came from negative emotions. I found your site because I just started this diet and went looking for others trying it. Thank you, I have some similarities with you. I may do that at some point, but for now, I find that my priority is to lose the weight first, however I can do that, and this kind of diet has allowed me to finally stick to weight loss plan. for five weeks now, I have been eating one evening meal a day and having fruits for breakfast and lunch. Things still going well and I am finding it easier to stick to this and the hunger pangs are becoming more easier to manage and ignore. I want to lose another 58lb by Christmas and I figure I can if I lose around 2. Update day 15 and weight down to 13 stone 12 target is 12 stone 10. Skip breakfast, have lunch with enough carbohydrates, Then Dinner with Low carbs or with carbs. I never want to go anywhere or do anything anymore because o this weight. As I continue my own fat loss journey I may well decide to experiment to discover for myself whether the conventional fat loss wisdom holds true. My target weight is stone 12 stone 10 and i continue to feel amazing. There are lots of great comments and perspective from others who are trying to make this diet work. i am aware not to be too obsessive so am prepared to have some neutral days. Then I eat dinner around five after I come home. Add to that the fact that a heavy lunch made me sluggish at work, and then I decided I had to go to extreme measures. Since I just started yesterday, I have no results to post yet. Also, what type of snacks were you eating. Today was the first full day I tried this approach. The last thing you want having waited all day to eat, is to sit at a table with your family and referee fights and arguments between the kids. I do plan to drink at least 2-3 lts of water. Losing the last of the fat has been more difficult. The first twenty took me five months and the last ten took me just one month. I have a question for you: After you lost the first 20 pounds and waited a while to lose the last 10 pounds, how long did you wait and did you continue with the 1 meal a day. In fact for me that has been the toughest part but ultimately very rewarding. One meal a day, plus quality food, organic, farm raised etc. In a short period of time I went from 140 to 176. Thanks for sharing the important point of being too strict and highlighting that there can be medical implications and complications. Those of us who continue to get up after we fall will surely reach our goals. You are going to feel hungry on a diet, learn to get comfortable with it. I was told the reason for this was because I was eating too seldom, the body and brain assume food is scarce so it will store more. I am 35kg overweight. Cheating is creeping into my day and the small cheats are really starting to add up. I am hoping to get under 150 within the next 2 months, and hopefully stay there with the right exercise and diet. I was all the way back up to 176 when a weight loss contest began at work. I did not weigh myself, but I knew I was losing weight because my clothes were getting much looser. You mix it with water (you have to, all you will burn your throat), and slug it. I actually feel healthy while doing this diet, And this one meal i have is lunch not dinner. Judging by the pictures I saw, the man looks in great shape and clearly manages to find enough energy to go running every day AND command the day to day operations of the military in a war zone. I immediately lost weight by the second day of doing this. I found I was able to make up for it by making slight alterations to the quantities of food I ate. I have been eating one meal a day for years like my father has done his whole life. I find a small sugar free Greek yogurt or hard bolied egg with a fresh fruit is fine, then maybe a handful of almonds and another fruit mid afternoon if I need it. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. It makes sense that I need fewer calories to maintain 175 lbs than 205 lbs. I eat very light breakfast and drink coffee, just to accompany my husband and my kids like most of normal people do. You really try to get more vegetables, protein (any meat and eggs) with fat (olive oil) and a little bit of carbs (rice, potatoes, beans, pasta) in to your plate each day. I go to the gym and workout but i dont do enough weights to bulk up. I would love to hear how you get on, so please do come back and let us know. All we seem to do when they come to town is go out to eat, constantly. I think i have only been eating about 1000 calories per day which is not enough. So much of your success on a diet comes from what you tell yourself. Make yourself happy first and that happiness has a way of spreading. Also, and more telling, I had to buy new jeans this week. Third world body builders put on massive muscle on dreadful diets. According to myfitnesspal log I have had a calorie deficit of 150-200 calories below my 1600-calorie limit every day. Yesterday i went for a run, only about 2 or three miles, no food, and it was a piece of cake. Fasting suits me especially on weekdays (working days). I stumbled across this site and it looks like the perfect plan for me. The Gall Bladder is a one way organ that stores concentrated bile to add to digestion when fats arrive in the gut. I think the trick is to always keep the body 2nd guessing, as in changing the amount of calories and meals every day. It looks like we do have some similarities. Hi Shannon, it sounds like this might suit you quite well. Not great but just keeping my head above water. In that way the body never goes into starvation mode as it never knows from one day to the next how many calories its going to get. I have also developed digestion problems, such as diarrhea and bad stomach pain after a meal. 00am 1 apple. , as much as I want. I have always found that eating that many times a day to stay full just seemed too tedious. I plan to wean myself off the morning smoothie (perhaps save it for dinner, since I love it so) and replace it with an apple. Evening meal meat and 2 veg, dessert fruit and yoghurt. The idea of adopting a one meal a day diet first came to me when I read an article about an American General, Stanley McChrystal. Sticking to any diet for a long period of time is going to be challenging, so you have to do it in a way that feels least like a diet. I too will keep this quiet as I feel the more I announce im on a diet the more I fail. i monitor my mood using a scale of 1 to 10 were 1 is practically suicidal and 10 is elation. We now know today that nothing on the face of the earth gets more complex with time (ie evolution), but rather all things after being Made tend towards the simple or breakdown in complexity. I think that is likely something promulgated by people who freak out when they feel one bit of hunger and cannot deal with it. If two meals a day is shouting out to you as the way to keep it sustainable, it has to be worth experimenting with for a while. My Basal Metabolic Rate (from a website) is about 2500 calories. I work from home while my husband works in the city. I vowed right then and there that I would not let myself hit 170. Being able to eat a full meal in the evening without counting calories feels amazing. On the other hand, i hate sleeping hungry. I find it works the other way around too, and WHAMMO a sudden gain. Sorry about the kg and cm, German influence. Because, naturally when one cannot afford food, there will be a tendency to choose the cheapest food items on offer. Breaking down 1600 between 2 meals though is definitely easier, and I like that I am letting my stomach have a rest. If i am eating one meal a day which i am will that do it on its own or do i need to refine my strategy. 6 today. I trained myself to want food at certain intervals, get hungry, etc. The evening meal is not an open ended thing. Then I realized that this is exactly or close to the 1-meal a day plan. In addition the temptation is to replace carbs with fat which is double the calorie density of carbs or protein. I maintained this weight for 3 years, even after I stopped being so strict on the diet. I too have heard that the older we get the fewer calories we need. If two meals works best for you, you should definitely stick with that. I should tell you how am following this diet, I drink a cup of coffee in the morning before going to work and another cup around midday with lot of water throughout the day. I typically will go to sleep at about 11:00 pm after I have put all the dogs to bed. The key to mental strength is to tap into areas of your life where you are ALREADY STRONG. I wish you all the best in reaching your goal. No counting, remembering when to eat next etc. At that point i was frustrated at my efforts at weight loss. I do need to ask, is it ok to drink 2-3 cups if coffee with sugar, no milk or cream. The problem is that even though I am over the moon for losing the weight, i am uneasy with the notion of not drinking water. On weekends I still eat pizza, pasta, ice cream and chocolate, not as much as I used to but enough to make me happy and ready to start the week again eating one meal a day, this meal is usually very healthy but sometimes not but I still lose weight despite this. Project your eating plan through that powerful part of your psyche. I did do one meal a day at the age of 19 and I lost 50 pounds. On Monday I feel bloated because I eat more on the weekend. However. Remembering the following simple healthy eating guidelines and putting them into practice can lead to weight reduction without the aid of any special diet plans, weight loss programs, fitness books, or medications. You start to make better choices (not always but often enough to make a difference). So glad to read your story and know there are others out there who are experiencing the benefits of this lifestyle. I wish you well, and I look forward to hearing about your progress. It is very motivational and inspirational to read about all the success that others have experienced who are also eating one meal a day like myself. I think in summary, the trick is to have a new eating plan to take over from the one meal diet and then to monitor your weight periodically. Last week, I ate between 6 and 7pm, but this week, I eat between 6 and 9pm. How would you like a stronger immune system or better sleep. I have not been exercising but have promised myself that once I got under 200 I would start. I enjoyed eating once because I could have small meals and still have my favourite biscuits or even some chocolate after my meals. I never felt craving just a healthy hunger before dinner times. Last time I weighed (a week ago) I was down 16lbs. I am a lady aged 32 and I have been having trouble losing weight. I am about to start, I only have 4 kilos to lose, nonetheless, i have a couple of questions that maybe you could help me answer. I do drink a cup of coffee and then another one or tea three hours later, with a light snack, maybe a piece of bread or fruit. Thank you for the affirmation I needed to stick to what my instincts have told me for many years is best for me. Ordinary, regular food served up in decent portions that fills your belly and keeps you feeling satisfied for hours afterwards. Anyway thats the negative stuff out of the way. I hardly drink and I do not smoke, but still, I am not surprised when I ended up having gastritis and ulcer. I eat my one meal around 6:30 and 7:30 everyday. Not too fast and not too slow but still allows you some room to manoeuvre. When i first got depression i scored myself a one. I am also doing such thing by taking a meal in morning every other day. I did eat some of the things you mentioned but not all the time. Without a doubt my own progress was slowed down because I refused to count calories. I have over 3 stone to lose and normal diets dont work as they all revolve round food too much, so you are constantly handling food throughout the day, fatal. This book gave me the insight I needed to see this thing through and re-train myself. I have long suspected that starvation mode (in the context of dieting) was a myth and I also suspected that the metabolism thing was just rubbish too. Every now and then I may squeeze in a small snack. Im really looking forward to getting slim for the summer, i am currently at 10st7 my starting weight was 10st9 and i would like to get down to 8 stone. If I like to plan things, then I make detailed plans of what I will eat and when. During the First Gulf War they apparently had to airlift a couple soldiers to Germany because of critical digestion issues caused by them. Eating one (roughly) balanced meal at the same time every day is about as simple as it can get. Or do i have to follow a strict diet eating only veggies and fruits. Did you find eating two meals on Sunday make eating one meal on Monday more difficult. I used to be under 115 pounds all my life. As my new years resolution i decided to do the one meal a day diet as it worked so well for me before (previously i lost 3 stone doing this a few years back). I read your reply very carefully and i reread your original post on the one meal a day plan that worked for you. I decided on New Years Eve that I didnt want to be fat anymore and if I didnt start the year right I never would. I need to cut out around 30-35 lbs too, so I hope to have the same experience you had within 5-6 months from now. There are just some days when I have to snack. I generally find that I do enjoy eating a small breakfast within an hour of waking after having fasted since 7PM or so the previous evening. How long did it take you to lose that much weight. This is my account of how I lost a significant amount of weight when I adopted the idea of eating one main meal a day. I gave the wretched thing to my wife and she ate it. They get injured and disillusioned and let the eating plan slide. But I intend to start walking more once I get under 200 lbs. Or perhaps it does work to keep your metabolism going, but the fact is that severe deficits also work, and the one meal a day (without a drastic deficit, works great too. To be honest, it was tough for me to handle food and NOT indulge. I should add that this was not visible to me in the mirror, am just glad I was not discourage. I am sure the health benefits realized by losing several pounds will be good. I have been toying with the IF lifestyle and doing loads of research for a while now. The biggest benefit I get from eating once is that I can prepare a healthier, more rounded meal. Snacking is dangerous for me, I have to be so careful or the flood gates open. AND it will take me at least a week of starving to shed them. Its so empowering creating meaning and purpose in my life because i feel in control. If you get to the end of your meal without really tasting and savoring it, you might not feel inclined to go through it all again tomorrow. If I sat down at the table to liver and bacon casserole I would not be a happy bunny. This caused my weight to go up to 148 after the birth. The Tea has sugar (no milk) and might be complimenting the energy from lunch. For a long time I suspected that it was possible to lose weight eating a normal balanced(ish) diet. I want to stress that I am not paying attention to WHAT I eat or HOW MUCH I eat. Having the discipline to keep going and make the progress you have made is well worth celebrating. I would have done some exercise last week but I got a wicked sunburn on my lower back and then I got sick. I made a conscious decison not to take on any additional exercise other than walking once or twice a day with the dogs. There is no way to lose weight without feeling that feeling (whatever that feels like to you). Being at home with the little ones is tough. Action between the sheets can help you get all of this and more. I then began going throughout the day without eating, and in the evenings when I got off would actually go through a drive thru such as Taco Bell or whatever I wanted. Sandwiches, chicken burritos, fish tacos, soup, fish and rice, lean hamburgers, etc. Let me know David how you are getting on with your diet i am very interested in the concept of fasting and mood so would be interested on other folks experiences. No need to get the supposed optimal balance between protein, carbohydrate and fat. The first time I started eating one meal a day, it was totally accidental. I know from my own experience that it takes persistence and it takes time. Thanks for leaving a comment (and a compliment). If I work all day and am focused then food becomes secondary. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. I started this diet few days ago and I feel great. 25 more lbs to go. Its mental torture to watch this and a diet killer. I feel as if I was ment to find ur article thank you again. Limit your salt intake, because you will retain water on a high salt diet. To me, a calorie is a calorie, and so long as you have a deficit, you will lose. For dinner, I take buckets of vitamins as well as my cholesterol medicine, then I feast. She keeps munching or eating every hour and keep offering me. Which is largely why I stopped weighing myself and trusted the feel of my waistband and the view in the mirror (and later, the tape measure). So David thank you for your advice and tips on this method of weight loss and for sharing your heart. Hi Krystal, I think you summed it up very nicely. Your weight loss is stready and not too extreme. Unless you want to exercise A LOT, you have to decrease the amount of food you eat. You must do your own research and you should consult a medical professional before embarking on a diet. On a day to day basis tracking weight can be tough but you just have to have faith that as long as you stick to your eating plan the weight will come off. old, 5ft10 220lbs and the goal is 175. 30am) I began heaving terrible cravings. before 1:00 pm when it gets too hot. I am excited because most of what everyone has said on here, comments about not liking to eat breakfast because you tend to eat more, is simply my experience, so I relate to what everyone has said. I appreciate your sharing your experience on this blog. Thank you so much for sharing your story with us. The first thing I did was substitute Diet Mountain Dew for my normal Mountain Dew. I lie to eat big meals, my husband is a fantastic cook. As of tomorrow I am going to do it and keep my own little blog. I started this diet exactly a month ago now simply bcos I was tried from carrying excess weight around. Just out of curiosity i am 57kg and want to drop down to 50kg in preferably a month or two maximum. I do have a mid morning snack (boiled egg or celery or apple) and mid afternoon snack (like the mid morning one) then eat my meal after 5 sometime. With 4 low fat crackers I had the half of the pan. I have fallen off the wagon for a couple of days, but back on today. I still eat really well, and lose weight and build (a little muscle) all at the same time. Life is already complicated enough, so make it simple. not very fat but I do have this gut that ive been trying to get rid of since I was About 14 years old. I plan on taking a Cup of tea with milk and sugar, If i feel weak. For the past months, after we moved to new neighborhood, I was trying so hard to blend in. not that I am hungry but as a habit. Obviously, I had to watch the plate size, because I wanted to lose those saddlebags, but now while maintaining, I have my huge dinner, my dessert on weekdays,and indulge profusely on weekends. I actually enjoy food more and look forward to dinner with my family more as well. Anyhoo, I will drop back during the week and let you know my progress and check up on yours. Instead of dividing up my calorie intake between a breakfast that I never really wanted in the first place, and a so-so diet lunch and then making do with the few calories I have left to eat a weird meal different to everyone else in the household or at at the restaurant. My youngest is now 5, so the baby days are long gone. I use a small dinner plate and fill it to the edges. The scales showed a difference of 3 lbs in two weigh-ins within 10 seconds of each other today. I was so struggled and never lost any grams. Actually, I started out first with intermittent fasting to gain the control of when to eat. Want to have my dinner between 6pm and 8pm and never let anything pass my lips after that. There are a few different mental attitudes that really help. Soman, there are no rules to this diet, you just make them up to suit yourself. Gone were my days as a single guy who ate a light lunch, ran 4-5 miles at night, and then gorged on a pound of beef (with no carbs) at around 11 pm with a beer, resulting in a reasonably fit physique for me. I was just surfing the web and found your blog. Tracking is a good idea because it shows you the trend. The thing that keeps discouraging me is my weight on the scale which is still the same at 93kg. I am happy to have lost weight, but I am uneasy about not drinking water because I know I should. I ended up getting all the way down to 157 before stopping. I felt good about myself and had so much energy. I think that counting calories is the better way to go with this diet. I am currently at 116kg and mt goals are small my first being to get to 110kg and so on. I so often feel this and giddy too when I am dieting especially when I tried the one meal a day diet the first time like a year ago and did quit for that reason back in the days. People in the old days used to eat twice a day. I also have progressed in my exercise and now walk for a bit over an hour, 3 days a week. I get around this by having a cheat day every Saturday. I was wondering what types of food you would eat when you did eat. It was so bad that around 5pm I was seeing everything around me as food. Still no sign of depression coming back and i love being on this journey of self discovery. I choose to eat aroiund 5 or 6pm because it fits in with family life. I wake up around 5:30 am M to F, and I would go through the motions of eating breakfast because I thought it was the right thing to do. If I do get hungry, I would pop in a few grapes, or two or three crackers. I will explain what Stavia is at the end of this post but now let me go back to the morning. Instead tap into areas of your mentality where you have a track record of success and power. I think you have the balance exactly right. It seems like so much to lose because my body just wants to hang onto this weight. I am totally amazed at how little food I really need. 5 meals a day. Today I weight 61kg (I m very short) and I will let you guys know how much I loose next weekend. See it as a long term thing but also something where you get to win or succeed every day. If you mean deep-fried food, I guess that would make sense. Just one thing, what does it mean when you wake up still really full from the night before. After I lost the first 20lbs I was pretty much straight into the next 10lbs. Granted I have only done 2 days with 1 meal per day as, like you I plan to eat lunch on the weekends. I think you added a great point to the discussion in that you touched upon the impact of budgetary restraints on your eating habits. However, as I decide to follow this life style, I believe I will stick it it. When I started out on this I had some very powerful reasons to want to achieve my goal. I had some very specific reasons for choosing this approach and I had tried other methods first. Actually, I think the spam is limited to the General Discussion board. Having said this, I honestly think that your issue is due to WHAT YOU EAT, RATHER THAN HOW SELDOM YOU EAT. A plate full of lard is obviously different to a plate full of lettuce. I would have many lunch appointment with many new moms around here. With a wife (who cooks good meals) and a baby and a lack of time to exercise, I gained a LOT of weight. Of course you can tweak it to suit your needs, but as a general framework, it works quite well. This was not due to a conscious efford, basically I was studying, working and then did my degree etc and I only had time for the evening meal, or my body seemed to be happy, perfectly tuned, I did not put on weight and I did not lose weight, I was in perfect weight. And 2) I am worried about what will happen when I re-introduce lunch to my diet. Most of dieting is mindset, breaking old habits and forming new ones. Mostly meals based around meat, chicken or fish, with either potatoes or rice, and vegetables. Rather than give up and quit, tread water for a while. I find that I often learn more from my failures than my successes. Hi guys, I really am struggling for over 10 yrs now. Fortunately, because the early stages of my diet were largely trial and error I got a chance to experience the quick way and the slow way. I deal with this by eating only a moderate calorie reduction every day. Best of all you feel good about the whole thing. So, the scale is always wrong in some way or another. I now feeling hopeful that I will be able to loose more weight. I then continued drinking tea, but the cravings began hitting me again and again, every damn hour: 1:30pm, then 3:30pm, then 4:30pm. After some careful shopping and studying, I discovered that for the same amount of money or less than what I was spending on junk food, there were some much more nutritious foods I could eat. This allows me more freedom to eat the foods I really enjoy in moderation at the one larger evening meal. I needed it to be simple and inexpensive. Now my mind which previously craved sugars and carbohydrate seems to know what is good and what isnt. When I feel hungry it reminds me that there are others much worse off and if they can go without food for days, then I can certainly manage it for a few hours. I do some running although not consistently maybe 4 times a week. I keep seeing stories about people who change what they eat radically in order to lose weight only to go back to their old diet and put the weight back on. It would have killed me to wait a whole day just to tuck into a bowl of salad and mung beans. I also enjoy the fact that I feel satisfied during the evening so I get the psychological boost from spending a few hours with food in my belly. 54 pounds in 5 months was an amazing feeling. So on days where I am REALLY hungry, and decide to make an early big meal, then at night right before bed, I will have a small bowl of fiber cereal (with a little milk) and an apple- so that I go to bed with food in my stomach and can sleep. they say 10lbs loss is a dress size smaller, and i want to be 4 dress sizes smaller so watch this space as Arnie once said I WILL BE BACK. Thanks again for all the encouraging and enthusiastic remarks. I am way thinner but not food obsessed and actually find organising only one meal a day quite liberating. Hiya, I agree completely with all that you say. Sort of need a bit of encouragement here. What I love the most about this, though, is that I sleep so well when I go to bed with an empty stomach. After a while everything I ate turns to runny bowel movement. If it takes you a little longer than most, so what. ALL the best to you too and all on this thread. Discover common skin conditions like psoriasis, rashes, and more in the collection of medical photos. I wanted to do push ups and sit ups every day. Besides, starting early stretches your stomach out so you eat more to feel full. There have been some days when I am really hungry either mid morning or early afternoon. My question is once I get to my goal weight how do I maintain it. I must admit that I too am surprised at the number of people trying this diet. After thinking about your reply especially the comments that im in the early stages of my weight loss plan im taking your advice on fine tuning what can work best for me. I am struggling to figure out what diet to follow that will work. At least for me I have found that the more I eat, the more I want to eat. I weighed myself at the start so that I have. The great thing about this is I eat what the familiy eats. The beauty of this diet is that it prevents the one mouthful leading to another effect, which was my downfall and the only reason I ever got fat in the first place. The vacation may be an interesting challenge for you but you can definitely come out the other side better off. But found myself struggling a bit of late and would gladly appreciate any advice or tips on how to get back on track and succeed like you did. However, I have found a few techniques that seem to help. It will be interesting to see how this works out now. So maybe 2 meals a day would work well for you. The tape measure is a great way to monitor your progress and an inch is a fantastic achievement. I eat all the regular foods like pasta, pizza, potatoes, bread, rice, chciken, fish, beef, pork, pies, pastries, cakes, ice cream and lots of fruit and vegetables. I started out yesterday at 102. I eat eggs, rice (1 -2 times a week ) and one meal. I am not greedy to get back to 110 pounds. The way I always saw it, one meal a day is more natural from an evolutionary standpoint. I definitely liked two meals a day and I did lose some weight doing that. Reading some of the other comments and your story I am Super excited to start this. I also have lots of meat and little carb. Just another question, i cant always have my meal at the same time for some reasons but always between 6-8 pm so can i have my meal for ex: the first day at 6 the second at 8 the third and 6:30. I am actually at DAY 1 of this diet since having stumbled upon your blog yesterday. Adopting this as mid to long term lifestyle change helps. My expectation was to lose 1. During this time I met my fiance, and got pregnant with my son. On week one, I was seeing a daily loss result on the scales but annoyingly it seems to have stalled for the last five days. Some of my progress pictures from earlier in the year. All they see is me sitting at the dinner table in the evening eating what they eat, enjoying my food and feeling full and happy afterwards. I am confident i will hit my target as i am at least half way there. The thing is, you have to learn to live with this. The small snacks are a brilliant idea because they keep you on track. I need to catch up on a few things around here, including replying to those of you kind enough to leave comments. There are many companies sell Stavia but I prefer this label because it is organic and the others seem to taste bitter. The prospect of always being within 5 or 6 pounds of my ideal weight instead of 35 or 36 pounds is exciting. My beverage of choice is plain old tap water. bag of chicken quarters at Walmart for about 6 dollars (American), lots of frozen veggies on sale for pennies a serving, and some fresh fruit that comes in large bags much cheaper than buying loose fruits by the pound. I keep on sipping iced tea through out the afternoon. Still going strong eating once a day, but having some difficulty establishing a cut off time for not eating. I used to do Judo (when I was younger and less broken) and the weight categories were in Kgs. This is pretty much how I feel about the whole deal. I have to thank you and everyone who has kept me motivated. EVEN if I get to 115, I will feel healthy and fit into all of my clothes. Now in my 40s i dont want to be a 6 or an 8 but i want to be a darn lot smaller then i am, so tomorrow will be my first day trying it out, how much i weigh isnt the issue so i am not going to weigh myself i am going to go off my clothes size. I had to have another small snack and cup of tea in the mid afternoon because my stomach was growling so loudly. Also, your website is very interesting to say the least. The slow process teaches you something about yourself and helps you to change the eating habits that got you overweight in the first place. The problem is that physically there is a big difference. I started drinking spirulina powder with water this morning. My stomach is smaller and my thighs are getting smaller. I would described my dinner but am African, our food is different. What I would like to know is whether you ever drink alcohol and if so beer, wine or spirits. I have lost 9kgs (which is around 20 pounds) in about five months. Well, that depends on whether you can handle it. I can really relate to you wanting to keep it to yourself. But these foods are generally very HIGH carbs foods such as breads, sugary cakes, pastas with added preservatives and treatment agents which are all very bad for the digestive system. Though things are still tough, I am taking back control of my life, starting with my weight. I am overweight by 25 kgs (55lbs) and have been struggling with for the last ten years. I realised that I was eating more and during the school year, I only had time for 1 or 1. I work out twice a day and eat one substantial meal for lunch. I strongly love this one meal a day plan just need to find the best way to make it sustainable for me looooong term. I am done with all that pressure thanks to your website. Hey, i wanted to start this diet and i had a question. A piece of fruit here and there is a great way to get through the day. I wrote earlier and just thought I would check in. Alright so ill take it into consideration that certain foods have to be eatin in moderation. I am back down to 165 within 2 weeks but struggling to keep it going. Maybe you feel the same way, but for me it was more important to do something about my weight, see some results and feel good about what I was achieving. When I stepped on the scale a week ago and saw my weight, I was mortified. Somehow that sinks into my subconscious mind and helps me on the days when I under-eat. I particularly like the way you no longer feel like a victim of circumstance. It was all trial and error in the beginning and I made a lot of errors. But I feel so much better already, not to mention how much better I look. For one week I did not eat or drink anything, even water, until 6pm. Which I almost never did but I could if I wanted to. Taking on exercise as part of your diet may seem like a good idea, but my own experience is that exercise hampers my efforts. Hi Julie, you sound very upbeat and excited about this. Anyways on the one meal a day diet: I used to do that in High School along with running every day and dropped from 203 lbs to about 158 to get in shape for AROTC (although I was really skinny runner type, and after a couple months of PT was up to about 170 from putting on muscle). I used to exercise hours and hours a day just to maintain my weight. I intend to stick with the one meal a day plan pretty much forever, because it lets me have the body I want without obsessing over calories. But I sure as heck would like to have it. By the way, I once lived on nothing but MREs for 2 months and lost 20 pounds as a result. For me, the tea with whole milk and one sugar got me through the day. I do need to work on being more physically active though. It would be the worst thing in the world to faint while at the wheel of a car or operating machinery. That internal clock has now been reset and its great being in control. And over time, for those who feel inclined to do so, we can make changes to the types of food we eat. It tastes like pond water which I guess it is actually. I made sure my evening meal was small to medium size and as I stopped feeling hungry, my meals got smaller. The diet has improved my sense of mastery so that i feel that i can shape my life rather than be a victim of circumstances. In about 8 months I lost 55 pounds, bringing me down to 125. This is not about starving myself this is about controlling when I eat so that I can be assured of creating a moderate caloric deficit every day. So far i feel wonderfull and the old Gary is returning. I hope this is possible with this diet. I decided to eat one meal a day with only an apple or piece of fruit during the day. I thought it was going to be easy for me to stick to the diet, but I deviated from it when family came to town. I did only one 24 hour day to challenge myself. But instead of stuffing myself with any food that I can put my hands on, this time I decided to stuff myself healthily. Had I done so I think I would have lost the weight a lot quicker. Sorry Jackson as a nurse I just cannot let that one pass. During the day I do however drink cups of tea (with two sugars) as I find that helps. And ill make sure that my One meal a day consist of mostly healthy foods majority of the time. The beauty of eating one meal a day is I ate what I wanted and I ate with the family. The meal will be big enough to fill my stomach and even make me feel slightly too full. Snacking at other times in the day is fine, but of course the trick is not to continue eating. When I tell people what I weigh, no one can believe its that high. Recently, I did gain a few kgs. Fantastic read and just want I was looking for. I sort of new before that i was overeating to cover up negative emotions but didnt have the power to stop myself. If any readers of your blog also can share tips,ideas or light snack suggestions that get them thru the day that would be appreciated big time on my part. I hope this lifestyle change will get me back to my normal self. I also found that putting in two good days at the start of the week where I ate a small meal in the evening, would allow me to be less stringent for the rest of the week. I did notice yesterday when I weighed myself in the middle of the day I weighed 235, so I knew it was just a matter of time until I weighed that in the morning. Instead I take my reward from having stuck to the eating plan. So wait ten or fifteen minutes and then eat your dinner in peace.
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Sir i do ur efforts and congratulate that you are doing this. A big part of why this works for me is how I feel about it. Excersing was not for me and eating salads put me into a bad temper. I tell myself that the hunger is a good signal and that if my body really needs energy it can get it from my fat stores. Thank you David your comments are very kind and positive. Tell yourself you have what it takes to get the job done. Hoping to have some summer support for one meal a day. And when I did start back eating I over ate every time so what weight I did lose I gained back and more. Do it for how it will make you feel to have achieved a small step towards your goal every single day. Now, this is the interesting part: until 30 of age I was eating (generally speaking) once a day (at dinner). My only guess as to why my weight loss has been so rapid is that I was simply eating far too much food, and had a large surplus of calories. Also any time during the day I can have a yoghurt and banana. There were times when the reasons and the feelings associated with them faded, but I always found I was able to tap back into them. I also eat a balanced diet so that I get the nutrients I need. Maybe some of it is water weight, and maybe some of it is fat. Needless to say my clothes have gotten tighter. I even refused a dessert which is highly unusual for me. I have planned to change this and decided that today would be the day id finally post on here as i think we could all deffinitely spur eachother on to lose weight. I thought this would be a place where I can post my results along the way. Whether you are trying to lose 5 pounds or more than 50, the same principles determine how much weight you lose and how fast your weight loss will occur. Drinking water seems to cause hunger pangs, whilst not drinking anything, including water, I can go the whole day without feeling hunger. I am a mom of four, age 48, 175 pounds, looking to get to about 125. I am now 38 yrs old and six months ago my sister passed away and a few weeks later my 17 yr old dog passed away too. It then becomes much more of a lifestyle than a diet which helps to keep the weight off. Until, I guess, I got used to eatting the real lunch. It was difficult to tell because for me it was mostly guesswork. Therefore, it is extremely hard for me not to eat anything. I like your blog David so thank you for sharing. I am sleeping much better with my empty stomach than with full one. Anyway, your plan to leave it for two weeks feels like a good one. The one meal a day thing is a bit of a mad idea, but it can be adapted to suit your own needs and modified as you go along. If I got it 80% right on a daily or weekly basis I could end the day or the week feeling good about my achievement. I have been doing one meal a day for 6 weeks and it is working well. And whilst I do eat one meal a day, quite often I eat more than once a day, I just try to eat one main meal. I am very glad to come across your article. But I also found it way too hard to eat rabbit food multiple times a day for six days a week with only one or two cheat meals on the weekend. This suited me at the time as I could eat at a restaurant next to my workplace and as I then lived alone I could have soup in the evening. If anyone has some snack ideas, I too would love to hear them. Your diet is actually is THE MOST HEALTHY DIET FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME. My weight can fluctuate up to FIVE POUNDS in a given day. and 65 pounds overweight. It might not fall off like some of the other fad diets like the atkins diet, (no carbs what-so-ever) but it may come off. You are right about others saying that I look slimmer. There are certain things I avoid like sodas, but from time to time I still enjoy a glass of cola. This is a routine I follow during the weekday and I have my cheat days on the weekend as well. You mentioned the wild variation in your calories and although I have nothing to back it up, I think that can be a good thing. Could you tell me what you eat on your cheat days. Eat two meals a day and gradually work back to having one when you feel like it. If I go out and work on my farm weeding crops, building, moving dirt, etc then I could easily weight 236 by 2:00 pm. Regarding the second issue, I will be the first to admit that I am mentally addicted to the idea of lunch. I posted a few comments on here, last year and started the one meal a day lifestyle with your advice and support and the support of many on here. I was so impressed by it, I decided to investigate it more. In fact I got it wrong a lot in the beginning. And in Theravada Buddhism, monks may only have one meal a day before noon, and that was considered the middle path (half way between 2 and 0). I needed to the time to arrange my return and I wanted to make sure I rememebered my summer for something other than my diet. While I hardly ate chocolate or cream cakes in the past I began eating the food items that I did not used to eat. Of course, if we drop calories too much or increase the energy output too much, the body will adapt to slow the rate of fat loss and preserve energy thinking that food is obviously in short supply. All morning until 11:30am I was perfectly fine but around 11:30am (which is my danger zone. 5pm per week. I wanted to do push-ups and sit-ups every day. Then, I hardly eat any thing after that until dinner as I never enjoy eatting alone during the day, unless I have a lunch appointment with my girl friends. Where I am not successful is keeping it off. The exact weight is less important than the trend. I pretty much ate anything I wanted, but to be fair I already had a reasonably balanced diet with fruit and vegetables featuring strongly in many of my meals. I write this as if a friend had asked me to describe the diet. I could have done it quicker but the price for the quick result was more than I was willing to pay. Hey David im 17 years old and i wanted to start this diet. Here is a quote which i found the other day which i feel is bang on the money. Not only this i take only home-cooked food and no packet food, no oily food for the last 2 moth. I have been asked most by women how to stay slim while I still eat dinner as most of them skip dinner just to stay in shape. I like eating good food (pizza, fried rice, bacon, etc) and I like feeling full, but I can deal with hunger, so one meal a day was the obvious diet for me. The opinions stated here are my own, I am not medically trained nor am I a qualified nutritionist. I too only eat dinner, with no snacks to speak of during the day, MAYBE a piece of fruit if I stumble across some. So this one meal a day diet is the best of both worlds. Will keep you guys updated with my weekly weigh ins xx. I would feel terrible if you tried this and it made you poorly. Bile is not returned to the gallbladder if unused in digestion. I drink lotsa water, coffee (no sugar or cream) or tea (plain) all day long. Keep in mind that this can be a long process and try to get your feelings of success from sticking to your plan rather than the apparent lack of physical results. So basically I will be fasting till dinner time, but I will be drinking water through out the day. Your advice for maintaining the weight makes perfect sense and is much appreciated. I am going to now track weight loss and see if I cant get a little slimmer with one meal a day and some excersize. Just know that what you want to do is possible and that you can do it. The one trick that was working for me was that i would make sure that 1-meal was really tasty or something i really looked fowrard to eating (for example) a nice cut of steak w a baked potato and veggies and a nice dessert like a slice of chocalate cake. And as you doubtless know, comfort eating often seems like a way to relieve the stress. An example of a successful no-diet weight loss program. I live in Bavaria, maybe we could share more of our experince about the One meal a day:-). I have not check my weight but I feel very light. As you know yesterday was my first day of trying this diet. I can imagine you feel very happy, and so you should, because you did all the hard work, you made the sacrifices and you showed the discipline to stick to the plan. Perhaps what you need to do is give it some more time. I want to start back because eating once a day is liberating for me. I keep a case of water in a small fridge in my workshop on the farm. Understand that the real result is not what the scale says but whether you stuck to your eating plan. (I was 165cm, 57 kgs. Having a wider window during which to eat sounds like a great way to do it. Two meal with one of them eaten late evening, like suppertime, also works very well for me and I sometimes slip into that routine when I get bored with just one meal. Your story really spoke to me, especially since I am a stay-at-home mom with a preschooler. 5 kg. I do excercise 2-3 times a week, 2 hour session, but not Saturday-Sunday. Not particularly scientific, but if nothing else it gives me a nice reward every 7 days. It looks like a promising forum with some nice people. I realised i had lost that signal which said Gary your eating far too much. I am now married, 34 yrs. You can eat whatever you want since its once a day. A little will power during the day goes a long way. This is about a 1250 calorie deficit per day. David if you know of any or if you can start one please post it here on your blog ( I check your blog regularly:). So, I was doing some reseach about age and gain weight. This really seems do able for me and I want to be sure to give it a decent try. This resulted in me making a slight gain in weight. This is especially true of sugar and carbs. One problem with the weight loss industry is that there seems to be a counter argument for almost everything. Thankyou so much for this amazing insight into your Journey, and a double thankyou for confirming to me and reminding me what I have to do. What has amazed me the most is that it is like my hunger has been switched off, I used to be starving hungry an hour after breakfast each morning, then hungry again after lunch and in the evening I could easily put away another big meal and desert and was ALWAYS craving things. They constipate you so badly that you get stomach pains after eating them for two days. So make sure you tell yourself things that will benefit you. I needed it to be something I could sustain over a long period of time and something I could adapt to a permanent lifestyle when I lost the weight. I generally do this at least 5 times per week and the weekend 2 meals per day. Any how i lost another one pound today so weight is now 13 stone 13. Down from 177 several weeks ago to 171 as of today. Live better and be healthier with these quick nutritional tips from the experts. I can eat them TODAY, just not right now. I am 43 years old. This got me down to 172 in less than 5 months. If I get hungry during the day, I eat some natural almonds or a spoon full of yoghurt or have some coffee and that seems to work. I started work and found that as I was so busy, I was only eating dinner with my family (I lived at home with my parents at the time). So, I have decided not to weigh me every day. If I want fish and chips occasionally I dont feel guilty, but I prefer to eat proper food. Today, I weighed myself and WOOOW I lost 1 kilo (2. Today is Sunday and i am down to 14 stone. I will only be eating 1 meal a day, nothing crazy. Hence why so many studies contradict each other in dietary research. I managed to sneak in a bag of chocolate popcorn yesterday and justified it. This diet is making me feel wonderful, walked into work today with a spring in my step. But I want you to know that I fell off the wagon A LOT to begin with and had quite a few false starts. Superfoods are super but they are also expensive and they are not the miraculous missing link in a successful diet. So far i have gone from 11 stone to 10st 4 but i has taken me a couple of months and i dont know whether my metabolism has slowed down or im not drinking enough water but i cant get the rest off. I admire your resolve to stick to the plan 7 days a week. I really want to Take Part in the race, and i want to lose weight too. Mixing the two approaches helped me (albeit unwittingly) to keep my interest and helped me to accommodate whatever was going on in my life at the time. Nothing else was working, not eating three healthy meals a day and not running long distance several times a week. Like you, on weekends I will eat twice, with snacks. The law of diminishing returns certainly seems to kick in. I wanted to say thank you for this article I have two children under two and Im a stay at home mom. David, I am excited about doing this, but I have type 2diabetes,can I still do this one meal a day. My readings in the am are around 120, I am not on any insulin. Again this weight fluctuates even throughout the day. It could be the frequency with which you weigh yourself (ie the quality and quantity of your data). Like you say, the type of diet working for every individual probably varies. It pays to have a rough idea of how many calories your food has but if you start to micro manage your food intake it starts to get tedious and adds an extra pressure. Its now day 8 and i continue to feel wonderful. I hope it continues to work well for you, and thanks for taking the time to leave a message. By the way: STAVIA is a natural plant that looks a bit like sage or mint. Besides who says that eating once a day is less healthier than eating 6 times a day. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. I started it in January of this year and my progress is a 70 pounds of weight loss. I should probably also mention I lost about 100 pounds doing so. 5 this was a great weight for me. I do not mind keeping this lifestyle at all. I used to be so skinny and then my 30s hit and my weight has crept up and up. You just do it your way and in your own time. I think you will eventually see the difference in the mirror but if not maybe taking photos will help you. The way we feel determines what we do, so make sure you feel strongly about it. At 5 foot 7. Mankind was made to eat big meals rather than munch all day like the 6 meals a day has you think. The most important thing for me is that I eat fewer calories than my body needs each day. In the evening i went out for a meal with some friends and i went to a steakhouse. You mentioned a lot of great things there, but the key for me was how you said it made you feel. You are rewarded by eating your favorite meals every single evening, and because of that, unlike other diets, this diet is sustainable. A lot of people would think that if you only eat once a day that you would be lethargic, tired or unproductive. Yes i can have a tendency to overthink so good advice. I just found this but wanted to share that I followed a similar regimine about 3 years ago and lost 110 lbs. My own experience has taught me to master the mindset of the diet first and then progress to the strenuous. You sound very motivated and disciplined which is a great inspiration to us all. Today is my first day and I am so ready to do this. I would say that I need to lose a GoOd 15-20 pounds. I have an app called myfitnesspal on my iPhone and I use it to track my food and exercise. Give it another little while and you may discover that your scale weight drops by a pound or two overnight. Eventually I was able to transition to one meal. I think this is an ideal diet for me as there is only one rule. From listening to David, losing slowly is definitely the best option. I would also drink green tea with some vinegar and honey in it which helped suppress my appetite after dinner. Hi Gary, I love the honesty in your writing. Things are still tough, but I want control of my life again, so I decided to start with my weight. Within 3 or 4 days, i lost about 3 pounds. My weigh in days are saturdays so if i want to have a relaxed day and eat a little more when i go out with friends then i can. One of the biggest favours I did for myself with this diet was to ignore all the conventional wisdom about starvation modes and the like and I just got on with it. I see opportunities every were before there was sadness and despair. No matter how long it takes me I will lose this weight. I often observe in the fasting participants that by four days of fasting, concentration seems to improve, creative thinking expands, depression lifts, insomnia stops, anxieties fade, the mind becomes more tranquil and a natural joy begins to appear. I am over 40, no children and I need to lose 30 pounds. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. Sometimes, I just go out with Protein-Shake with low fat milk or coffee or simply drink water. First weigh in is this friday so its exciting the fact that every friday im going to post my weight loss for the week. Being able to eat the things the family eats makes it all so much easier. So far i have had some improvement but until monday this week was still struggling. I really really need to lose at a minimum about 60 pounds. I started following a similar eating plan about a year ago. Good stuff Renier I downloaded and read last night. lb) since yesterday. I ended up having a few bites of chicken kebab (a handful) which ended the cravings. I have given myself rules about what I can eat each day and I dont deviate. If you get to within 80% of sticking to your eating plan then you will do just fine over time. Eating during the day just makes me tired and bloated. Also i was thinking that i am the only guy doing this way, but really got impressed and motivated seeing that there are many people in the world who are thinking in similar lines. A meal is the food I want plus the dessert I want. And besides, I find it easy to eat one meal a day without getting hungry. I look at your pictures and I can see such a difference in your body. The same motivation also got me back on the diet after I fell off the wagon a couple of times. Eating one meal a day is WAAAYYYYY easier for me than eating many small meals. A human being is far more flexible with eating adaptability than most nutritionists or health experts are willing to admit. At first I was worried that it would hurt the weight loss, but not at all- I continue to lose steadily. When my health started to suffer, I realized it was going to cost me a lot more in the long run to continue my poor eating choices than to find a way to eat healthier. Extended periods of fasting can lead to feeling faint or dizzy. The most important thing is to do something. The relaxed approach worked very well for me for the first 30lbs. Keep at it and please let us know about your porgress. Right now, I am planning to make sure that my body gets adjusted to this meal plan, I will not worry about weight lost and then, I will worry about losing weight. My plan is to get a forum or message board going for those who want to write about their own progress or simply get some encouragement when times get testing. I was 150 in high school, and after starting a desk job ballooned up to 226, when I decided it was time for a change. My blood sugar, cholesterol level etc were all optimum. If I feel I need a burst of energy then I drink a 5 Hour Energy drink. I love your attitude to falling off the wagon. I keep a pitcher of splenda sweetened tea in the fridge in the house. Fifth, if I have to eat something then I go ahead and eat enough to get me to dinner. The diets sometimes claim that the timing of meals is crucial for optimum fat loss. Ive been at the same weight for a while now. When I had a similar problem I started measuring myself with a tape measure and it showed that I was losing fat whilst not losing weight. I am 19 years old going on 20 soon. Working through lunch and into the early afternoon is a bonus. The thought of doing that keeps me going all day, and means that I can put up with small bland snacks for the rest of the day. Over the years I have associated my failure in dieting with failure in other areas of my life. I go for about 1000 calories on my dinner plate and the other 800 comes from the dessert and any snacks I eat during the day. I pretty much eat anything and everything that takes my fancy. I have not weighed under 200 for many y
