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> I think you are mistaking calorie restriction with fasting. I don't think so - the comment said "one meal a day" which is clearly a kind of fasting. Even th
by FartyMcFarter 4y ago
> I think you are mistaking calorie restriction with fasting.
I don't think so - the comment said "one meal a day" which is clearly a kind of fasting.
Even the "16:8 diet" is referred to as intermittent fasting, and it's not as extreme as eating only one meal a day.
- twawaaay 4y agoYou are right about the fact this is fasting. But the parent wrote "Does such caloric restricted diet allow one to maintain muscles and/or strength?" Which means he is asking about caloric restriction responding to comment about fasting.
- dspillett 4y agoI'd say the parent's question is perfectly valid: “He gets by on one meal a day of 1500 calories.” implies, in fact outright states, a calorie restricted diet as well as a temporally restricted one.
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- naasking 4y ago> Which means he is asking about caloric restriction responding to comment about fasting 1,500 calories per day is calorie restriction for an adult male of this size.
- FredPret 4y agoYou can eat 5000 calories in one big meal after fasting, or spread put over smaller meals without fasting.
- FartyMcFarter 4y agoTrue, but the topic was "one meal a day of 1500 calories" for a muscular individual, i.e. fasting together with a calorie deficit.
- sk0g 4y agoMost people would struggle to finish a meal with half those calories, and rightly so - it's excessive. Strongmen could go over that amount a day when bulking, maybe, and that's about the semi-practical limits of the human body (while maintaining at least some semblance of health).