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About five years ago I switched to one large meal per day (dinner) with a snack or two. Prior to this I lost nearly 40lbs by shifting my diet toward dominant pr
by stevewillows 9y ago
About five years ago I switched to one large meal per day (dinner) with a snack or two. Prior to this I lost nearly 40lbs by shifting my diet toward dominant protein and smaller portions. I also added in a good 30+ minutes of walking per day. Nothing fancy.
I also dropped almost all of my sugar intake. I drink about 3L of water per day and have one cup of coffee in the morning.
I've been able to maintain a healthy weight (6'4" tall, ~185lbs) and I rarely feel truly hungry. On the days where I have more than one large meal, I tend to feel tired and foggy.
Its completely anecdotal, but this pattern has worked out well for me.
The main issue with articles like this is that they propose lame diets that strip out enjoyment. If you want to eat eggs basted in butter, do it -- but balance that out with exercise or somewhere else in your diet. No use suffering so you can live a few extra years at the tail end of your life.
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- siliconc0w 9y agoI've settled into a similar pattern and have found it the most sustainable out of all the diets I've tried. I also recommend a few multi day water fasts a year as a sort of 'soft-reset' of your appetite/digestive system. You learn the difference between cravings and hunger and how marvelously tuned your body is for dealing with caloric deficiencies. People get so anxious and scared of hunger when it's no big deal. You're basically asking it to 'garbage collect' to conserve the energy you're burning which it doesn't seem to do normally when food is coming in every few hours.
- pitaj 9y agoAlso, most hunger is really thirst, but your body will output the same sensation.
- stevewillows 9y agoBack in 2013 when I finally made the full switch away from cigarettes and into vaping, one of the main benefits was my increase on water consumption. Vaping is naturally dehydrating (the propylene glycol in the liquid). Drinking about 2.5L or so per day really cut down on what I felt was a need to eat several times per day, like @pitaj said. Fasting is also fantastic. Its one of the few positive habits I have left over from my days in religion. The garbage collection analogy is an excellent way to describe it.
- netman21 9y agoIf you think about it, a ketogenic diet may be a form of continuous fasting since one tends to go into ketosis when one fasts. I had already given up gluten and alcohol, in an attempt to lose weight. Things really accelerated three weeks ago when I went full keto. Off one stone already. So called keto-flu was minor and easily addressed with a quarter teaspoon of salt. I am an inch shorter than you and shooting for 182 lbs.
- stevewillows 9y agoI find ketosis to be so interesting. Its never something I considered, but it does seem like I unknowingly tuned my diet in that direction. Congrats on dropping that much weight already! That's awesome. 182lbs will be an excellent weight.
- jjt-yn_t 9y agoI adapted a similar pattern but not so much by choice but had to reverse course from ' a new one on me' [1] , in other words persons knowingly gathering to eat food together at set times. [ breakfast...] half-year instance where not only the food was prepaid, but shouts were actually done that I was remiss in fully joining in... [1] set of diseases