Green tea diet success story -

Green tea diet success story
I would feel terrible if you tried this and it made you poorly. Yesterday i went for a run, only about 2 or three miles, no food, and it was a piece of cake. I plan to weight myself tomorrow and will use that and the benchmark to start. This resulted in me making a slight gain in 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. 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. The phrase herbal tea usually refers to infusions of fruit or herbs made without the tea plant, such as steeps of rosehip, chamomile, or rooibos. only difference is that i was drinking milk all over the day and full meal in the evening. I started following a similar eating plan about a year ago. 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. I still eat really well, and lose weight and build (a little muscle) all at the same time. I last did this way of eating in my 20s and it worked fabulously for me. It may be critical for people with diabetes or hypoglycemia and other conditions to eat regularly throughout the day, but for a plain old food addict like myself it just perpetuates the obsession and preoccupation with food by all the shopping, planning and preparing of meals and snacks for each feeding. Anyway the reason I am posting is this is currently day one of the diet for me. So this one meal a day diet is the best of both worlds. You can read conflicting arguments both of which seem very credible and you become paralyzed by confusion and uncertainty. I would break down 1600 calories into little chunks thru the day — 250 calories here, 100 there, and then I would be so hungry at dinner I overate every time. 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. I do need to work on being more physically active though. For me that time is 6pm which gives me an hour to eat and limits my opportunity to damage my diet. Some of my progress pictures from earlier in the year. A meal is the food I want plus the dessert I want. I started out yesterday at 102. I went from my normal weight of 140 lbs to 176 lbs within 3 months. Tracking is a good idea because it shows you the trend. Without a doubt my own progress was slowed down because I refused to count calories. I did do one meal a day at the age of 19 and I lost 50 pounds. This allows me more freedom to eat the foods I really enjoy in moderation at the one larger evening meal. I wrote earlier and just thought I would check in. Sorry Jackson as a nurse I just cannot let that one pass. There have been some days when I am really hungry either mid morning or early afternoon. Instead I take my reward from having stuck to the eating plan. No matter how long it takes me I will lose this weight. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience. This was my high estimate of weight loss. How can it be natural for people to eat every 3 hours. I also eat a balanced diet so that I get the nutrients I need. I am a mom of four, age 48, 175 pounds, looking to get to about 125. Superfoods are super but they are also expensive and they are not the miraculous missing link in a successful diet. I eat an Atkins bar for lunch and drink tons of water through the day. Unfortunately your weight is not an accurate indicator of fat loss. 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. Limit your salt intake, because you will retain water on a high salt diet. Nothing else was working, not eating three healthy meals a day and not running long distance several times a week. 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. The vacation may be an interesting challenge for you but you can definitely come out the other side better off. old, 5ft10 220lbs and the goal is 175. Until, I guess, I got used to eatting the real lunch. I realised that I was eating more and during the school year, I only had time for 1 or 1. The biggest benefit I get from eating once is that I can prepare a healthier, more rounded meal. But I knew sticking to not eating at all, for several days was not my cup of tea. Then, I moved to a new city, live alone and changed everything. I can eat them TODAY, just not right now. This is pretty much how I feel about the whole deal. I think that counting calories is the better way to go with this diet. I really believe everyone is different so everyone will respond differently to diets, something you have clearly shown and I am grateful to you for sharing. Last week, I started back on eating one meal a day and I actually lost half a stone ( 7lbs). 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. 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. I love to exercise, first thing in the morning, for about 1 hour a day 6 days a week in addition to eating only one meal a day. If I feel I need a burst of energy then I drink a 5 Hour Energy drink. Also is it OK to exercise to speed up the weight loss. I have been reading your blog for a while now and was so inspired by your weight loss success with one meal a day. 2. I am 74 kilos and need to get down to 57 by end June 2014. So glad to read your story and know there are others out there who are experiencing the benefits of this lifestyle. 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. One meal a day was a means to an end for me. I have decided to stop drinking water and and do a complete dry fast till 6pm. My logic was that I could save the calories I was drinking (and not enjoying) from the shakes and add them to my evening meal so I could enjoy a good sized meal with my family. The Dude, thanks for dropping by and sharing your success. I hope this lifestyle change will get me back to my normal self. Hello my name is Gary i am 51 years of age single and have just had the worst 18 months of my life following a loss of job and a relationship beak up. Hi guys, I really am struggling for over 10 yrs now. I looked better but more importantly i felt great at that weight. In the evening i went out for a meal with some friends and i went to a steakhouse. Besides, starting early stretches your stomach out so you eat more to feel full. I write this as if a friend had asked me to describe the diet. 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. 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. I would drink lots of water or coffee with no sugar. Yes i can have a tendency to overthink so good advice. I immediately lost weight by the second day of doing this. I have not weighed under 200 for many years so its very encouraging. Your story really spoke to me, especially since I am a stay-at-home mom with a preschooler. 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. My target weight is stone 12 stone 10 and i continue to feel amazing. Is it because of the low level of sugar in our blood or what. I admire your resolve to stick to the plan 7 days a week. I work out twice a day and eat one substantial meal for lunch. Throughout this process I set numbers that would trigger me to do something about my weight if I hit them. At the moment it suits me to have one main meal (slightly smaller than I would usually eat) and then a good sized snack of something awesomely tasty just before I go to bed. Life is already complicated enough, so make it simple. I am very glad to come across your article. I find it works the other way around too, and WHAMMO a sudden gain. you can clean up your diet a little at a time. To me, a calorie is a calorie, and so long as you have a deficit, you will lose. Somewhere along the line I think we have to learn to make better choices about our nutrition and this diet has been a great way for me to do that. 6 today. I was so impressed by it, I decided to investigate it more. See it as a long term thing but also something where you get to win or succeed every day. With a wife (who cooks good meals) and a baby and a lack of time to exercise, I gained a LOT of weight. I had more energy, slept better and felt good in myself. I enjoyed eating once because I could have small meals and still have my favourite biscuits or even some chocolate after my meals. Make yourself happy first and that happiness has a way of spreading. Do you cut out carbs or just eat a regular meat and 2 veg. 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). It really helps to pick the positive angle and just get back to it. I was doing this for some time and as you said, it is working good for me. The relaxed approach worked very well for me for the first 30lbs. One thing I had to remember to do was to recalculate my maintenance calories for my new weight. For example,last night I had salad, oven cooked fresh salmon with soy and ginger, brown rice (a lot) and broccoli and 3 glasses of red wine. Its more of a mental challenge to stick with this in my opinion, but the further you go, the more encouraged you are. 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. 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. By the way, I once lived on nothing but MREs for 2 months and lost 20 pounds as a result. My weight can fluctuate up to FIVE POUNDS in a given day. You are going to feel hungry on a diet, learn to get comfortable with it. Evening meal meat and 2 veg, dessert fruit and yoghurt. Thank you for the affirmation I needed to stick to what my instincts have told me for many years is best for me. I was wondering what types of food you would eat when you did eat. Also, what type of snacks were you eating. The scales showed a difference of 3 lbs in two weigh-ins within 10 seconds of each other today. I saw this site last year and started for a while. Recently, I did gain a few kgs. 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. I drink tea or coffee (both decaf) and fresh juice and 1 smoothie, again anytime during the day. Its great not to have to think about food all the time, which is what I always did, I was always hungry. I have fallen off the wagon for a couple of days, but back on today. Following a balanced diet as outlined by the NHS is good enough. I maintained this weight for 3 years, even after I stopped being so strict on the diet. You are right about others saying that I look slimmer. Over the years I have associated my failure in dieting with failure in other areas of my life. 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. David, just like you, I do not have breakfast. 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. My question is once I get to my goal weight how do I maintain it. So instead of just eating from 6-7pm, I eat from 6-9pm. 5 months now and have gone from 220 pounds to 199. Today is my first day and I am so ready to do this. The prospect of always being within 5 or 6 pounds of my ideal weight instead of 35 or 36 pounds is exciting. At 5 foot 7. It requires practice and practice often brings failure. I needed a diet that limited my choices and left me to make only good decisions. Pests of tea include mosquito bugs of the genus Helopeltis (which are true bugs that must not be confused with the dipteran ) that can tatter leaves, so they may be sprayed with insecticides. I have strong hunger pangs and i seem to have increased my eating window from one hour to three or even four hours. I am struggling to figure out what diet to follow that will work. For me, this has been the most successful diet ever. I would have done some exercise last week but I got a wicked sunburn on my lower back and then I got sick. Hey, i wanted to start this diet and i had a question. Tea, however, was not widely consumed in Britain until the 18th century, and remained expensive until the latter part of that period. A human being is far more flexible with eating adaptability than most nutritionists or health experts are willing to admit. You just do it your way and in your own time. I can have a normal dinner at tea time, healthy eating, meat,fish with veg. Jennifer, it was good to see an update from you. (I was 165cm, 57 kgs. I have been discussing this with my friends and you know the same old age formulas are there every where. I am currently at 116kg and mt goals are small my first being to get to 110kg and so on. 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 came across this site whilst researching calorie restriction and the effect on mood. Just out of curiosity i am 57kg and want to drop down to 50kg in preferably a month or two maximum. I saw you drank tea alot during the day but i am not a tea or coffee drinker. The simple idea behind one meal a day is that your task is simply to eat fewer calories than your body needs. That will fill up my stomach and I can get on with my day and not worry about food until dinnertime. I felt good about myself and had so much energy. Therefore, it is extremely hard for me not to eat anything. There are some pictures here from my 10,000 push up challenge. I am not greedy to get back to 110 pounds. i am aware not to be too obsessive so am prepared to have some neutral days. 30am) I began heaving terrible cravings. I would have many lunch appointment with many new moms around here. Down from 177 several weeks ago to 171 as of today. Keep at it and please let us know about your porgress. I am just wondering though, did you ever have trembles at some stages. In India, tea has been drunk for medicinal purposes for a long but uncertain period, but apart from the Himalayan region it seems not to have been used as a beverage until the British introduced tea-drinking there much later. This worked so well because I promised myself I could have three courses everyday if I wanted: Soup, main course and dessert. 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. 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. You mix it with water (you have to, all you will burn your throat), and slug it. Sorry about the kg and cm, German influence. My youngest is now 5, so the baby days are long gone. I feel as if I was ment to find ur article thank you again. You can eat whatever you want since its once a day. For me, the tea with whole milk and one sugar got me through the day. The most important thing is to do something. I could have done it quicker but the price for the quick result was more than I was willing to pay. Today, I tried drinking a liter of water an hour before noon. My honest suggestion to you is that you learn to cook healthily. I even felt embarrased by month small portions when eating with friends. The food I was eating was homely, traditional, stews with vegetables, a bit of meat and carb and fat. I too only eat dinner, with no snacks to speak of during the day, MAYBE a piece of fruit if I stumble across some. While I hardly ate chocolate or cream cakes in the past I began eating the food items that I did not used to eat. Not only this i take only home-cooked food and no packet food, no oily food for the last 2 moth. Seriously though, you should be very proud of yourself. 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. I wanted to limit the times between which I could eat a meal because it took away any other choice. Anyway, I got overweight again so I want to use this method. 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. I think you are nicely placed for anotheer good month (one day at a time, of course). I enjoyed reading the posts here and have just embarked myself on a similar quest. I guess if you could classify it as snacking. But now, I really need to lose at least another 15 pounds. Two principal varieties are used: Camellia sinensis var. But I want you to know that I fell off the wagon A LOT to begin with and had quite a few false starts. From time to time I have no doubt I will run 2-3 miles, again without eating before doing it. It was so bad that around 5pm I was seeing everything around me as food. Eventually I was able to transition to one meal. Thanks so much for all your advice, great post. 5 kg. I then went through a very trying time and no longer felt in control of my life and as a result, I put everything back and because I stopped working out, I look and feel flabby. Excersing was not for me and eating salads put me into a bad temper. 54 pounds in 5 months was an amazing feeling. Sorry for the delay in approving some of the comments, and apologies for appearing to ignore you. My blood sugar, cholesterol level etc were all optimum. Yes, around my waist, clothes are looser, but my stomach looks arwful, much more bloated looking. I also have lots of meat and little carb. Does anyone of you have the one meal at lunch. I think i have only been eating about 1000 calories per day which is not enough. 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. Eat two meals a day and gradually work back to having one when you feel like it. Anyway, your plan to leave it for two weeks feels like a good one. 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. I think this is an ideal diet for me as there is only one rule. I started the 1 meal a day a couple weeks ago (with a snack too) and have lost 6 pounds. A piece of fruit here and there is a great way to get through the day. A plate full of lard is obviously different to a plate full of lettuce. I am a lady aged 32 and I have been having trouble losing weight. sinensis, which is used for most Chinese, Formosan and Japanese teas, and C. Sandwiches, chicken burritos, fish tacos, soup, fish and rice, lean hamburgers, etc. So far i feel wonderfull and the old Gary is returning. Though things are still tough, I am taking back control of my life, starting with my weight. 5pm per week. Understand that the real result is not what the scale says but whether you stuck to your eating plan. This caused my weight to go up to 148 after the birth. I will only be eating 1 meal a day, nothing crazy. Today I weight 61kg (I m very short) and I will let you guys know how much I loose next weekend. Taking on exercise as part of your diet may seem like a good idea, but my own experience is that exercise hampers my efforts. But I feel so much better already, not to mention how much better I look. I now feeling hopeful that I will be able to loose more weight. I even refused a dessert which is highly unusual for me. The first twenty took me five months and the last ten took me just one month. I am way thinner but not food obsessed and actually find organising only one meal a day quite liberating. Skip breakfast, have lunch with enough carbohydrates, Then Dinner with Low carbs or with carbs. Best of all you feel good about the whole thing. I hope the diet is still working for you. 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. 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. By the way: STAVIA is a natural plant that looks a bit like sage or mint. There were some days I got greedy and that slowed my progress. 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 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 am sleeping much better with my empty stomach than with full one. While on this diet i wanted to go jogging or walking everyday to speed up the weight loss process. I am 43 years old. I have been toying with the IF lifestyle and doing loads of research for a while now. When it is the only one of the day i wanted to take my time tasting the textures were normally i would just gulp without hardly chewing. When I stepped on the scale a week ago and saw my weight, I was mortified. I sort of new before that i was overeating to cover up negative emotions but didnt have the power to stop myself. I look at your pictures and I can see such a difference in your body. I needed it to be simple and inexpensive. Regarding the coffee, I think one of the best things about this diet is that you can adapt it to suit yourelf. I eat very light breakfast and drink coffee, just to accompany my husband and my kids like most of normal people do. The one meal a day diet, has been working great for me. 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. Because of modern environmental pollution, fluoride and aluminium also sometimes occur in tea. Snacking is dangerous for me, I have to be so careful or the flood gates open. I love only eating 1 lunch a day as I feel I sleep better at night without needing to digest food in my stomach. So, I was doing some reseach about age and gain weight. There are many companies sell Stavia but I prefer this label because it is organic and the others seem to taste bitter. Then I found a 10 lb. The key to mental strength is to tap into areas of your life where you are ALREADY STRONG. 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 found the best way for myself by experimenting and I still do experiment. I failed a lot to begin with, and I fail less often now. 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. It sounds like you have a good thing going on there. 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. There have been times when I felt tired too, but they were short lived and as with your own experience I found that over time I became less tired and infact I had more energy throughout the day. Dave,thanks for the encouraging words that I truly need right now. David, I am excited about doing this, but I have type 2diabetes,can I still do this one meal a day. I was unhappy about something in my life and this was my way of pushing back. In addition, there may be Lepidopteran leaf feeders and various tea diseases. See also: Phenolic content in tea and Health effects of tea. The food is all over the place in my office. Eating during the day just makes me tired and bloated. 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. The tape measure is a great way to monitor your progress and an inch is a fantastic achievement. 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. Actually I have been losing weight with the 6meal plan but all of a suden I just stoped losing for the past 2 months. I have also developed digestion problems, such as diarrhea and bad stomach pain after a meal. 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. For dinner, I take buckets of vitamins as well as my cholesterol medicine, then I feast. If things get really tough, there are many local food pantries, churches, and charities that can help. I have not check my weight but I feel very light. Needless to say my clothes have gotten tighter. I took part in the fasting period of Lent earlier this year and gave up eating two meals, so just had the one in the evening. I did only one 24 hour day to challenge myself. The problem is that physically there is a big difference. I know this is once a day, but I decided to do breakfast and then dinner. I admit I did not read the entire thing, But I have been eating 1 meal per day for 4 years because I am poor and I have gained 20 kilos from doing so. I am a confirmed believer and want to get down to 250lbs in the next three months. 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. Gary, overthinking is also an affliction of mine. I hate every kind of apple, but they are very nutritious and have lots of fiber. Thank you so much for sharing your story with us. So, your body uses the energy that it gets from the food that you eat. Still going strong eating once a day, but having some difficulty establishing a cut off time for not eating. If I was going out to dinner, I just had a bowl of soup at lunch. Well done of dropping the 11 pounds and good luck on getting to your 25lb target. I have honestly never been successful with losing weight, never been able to lose more than a few kilos and thanks to you I know I have finally found what works. I was just surfing the web and found your blog. Hoping to have some summer support for one meal a day. For one week I did not eat or drink anything, even water, until 6pm. 5 lbs. In fact, when I eat in the morning, especially heavy breakfast, I get stomach ache. The most important thing for me is that I eat fewer calories than my body needs each day. It would have killed me to wait a whole day just to tuck into a bowl of salad and mung beans. On the other hand, i hate sleeping hungry. So my main goal is to lose the last bit of fat (15lbs). All morning until 11:30am I was perfectly fine but around 11:30am (which is my danger zone. I wanted to do push ups and sit ups every day. Today, I weighed myself and WOOOW I lost 1 kilo (2. Camellia sinensis Kuntze with two species of butterfly by Nicolaas Meerburgh, 1789. 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. So David thank you for your advice and tips on this method of weight loss and for sharing your heart. Also, your website is very interesting to say the least. I really really need to lose at a minimum about 60 pounds. If two meals works best for you, you should definitely stick with that. It tastes like pond water which I guess it is actually. They get injured and disillusioned and let the eating plan slide. I do not mind keeping this lifestyle at all. I pretty much eat anything and everything that takes my fancy. If I want fish and chips occasionally I dont feel guilty, but I prefer to eat proper food. I think that the bottom line is that in order to loose weight, you have to eat less calories than you burn. This is a routine I follow during the weekday and I have my cheat days on the weekend as well. Sort of need a bit of encouragement here. as my gym friends said the older we are, the less calories burnt. For me I wanted something close enough to my normal diet. I can really relate to you wanting to keep it to yourself. I am overweight by 25 kgs (55lbs) and have been struggling with for the last ten years. At the time I read it I was busy eating six small meals a day, going to the gym and running almost every day. All that matters is that you get back on and keep trying. 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. 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. I realised i had lost that signal which said Gary your eating far too much. I had to force myself to eat and felt even worse. Ive been reading this website for quite a few days as i googled One Meal a Day diet as this is the only type of diet that has ever worked. I trained myself to want food at certain intervals, get hungry, etc. Having said this, I honestly think that your issue is due to WHAT YOU EAT, RATHER THAN HOW SELDOM YOU EAT. ) They suggested to skip dinner. I just discover I need to stick to my one hour window by reading some of the comment. But instead of stuffing myself with any food that I can put my hands on, this time I decided to stuff myself healthily. The opinions stated here are my own, I am not medically trained nor am I a qualified nutritionist. The way I always saw it, one meal a day is more natural from an evolutionary standpoint. If I do get hungry, I would pop in a few grapes, or two or three crackers. Unfortunately, I went through some major tough times and and everything went out the window. Within these botanical varieties, many strains and modern clonal varieties are known. With force reductions and the government looking for ways to cut back, Sailors are being let go for not being within body composition standards. 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. On this diet can i eat the foods i normally eat. I know it was only because I stopped caring about taking care of myself during the last six months tho. It can be hard to fall asleep when hungry, especially in the beginning when I was still adjusting to not grazing from the time I wake up till the time I go to bed. I do plan to drink at least 2-3 lts of water. Having the discipline to keep going and make the progress you have made is well worth celebrating. Having a wider window during which to eat sounds like a great way to do it. 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. 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. Anyhoo, I will drop back during the week and let you know my progress and check up on yours. Anyway thats the negative stuff out of the way. but yes, if I really wanted to eat something I would. 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. I needed a diet that suited me and my existing lifestyle. So its a case of experimentation and finding out what works for me. From listening to David, losing slowly is definitely the best option. 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. I do go to bed early, as suggested, though. ALL the best to you too and all on this thread. Be advised: The effectiveness of diets vary from person to person and I cannot guarantee that taking this approach will work for you. Give it another little while and you may discover that your scale weight drops by a pound or two overnight. Last week, I ate between 6 and 7pm, but this week, I eat between 6 and 9pm. It then becomes much more of a lifestyle than a diet which helps to keep the weight off. One meal a day, plus quality food, organic, farm raised etc. I would say that I need to lose a GoOd 15-20 pounds. before 1:00 pm when it gets too hot. It looks like a promising forum with some nice people. Tea-weighing station north of Batumi, Russian Empire before 1915. During this time I met my fiance, and got pregnant with my son. Thank you, I have some similarities with you. And over time, for those who feel inclined to do so, we can make changes to the types of food we eat. I weighed myself at the start so that I have. Mankind was made to eat big meals rather than munch all day like the 6 meals a day has you think. 25 more lbs to go. 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. Sometimes, I just go out with Protein-Shake with low fat milk or coffee or simply drink water. In addition the temptation is to replace carbs with fat which is double the calorie density of carbs or protein. But if you have any doubts at all you should see a doctor. Once you get the hang of skipping breakfast then you have that meal out of the day. I got to a point where I started to doubt almost everything I read and wanted to see for myself. 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. Also, and more telling, I had to buy new jeans this week. 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. I was happy that I knew enough and was willing to adjust along the way. It could be the frequency with which you weigh yourself (ie the quality and quantity of your data). I vowed right then and there that I would not let myself hit 170. I caught this on your blog and it made me laugh. I have to try and drink at least 2lts of water from 6pm. Instead tap into areas of your mentality where you have a track record of success and power. I turn 40 in September and I want to be on my way to my ideal weight then. I generally do this at least 5 times per week and the weekend 2 meals per day. Hi Julie, you sound very upbeat and excited about this. Good luck and thanks for leaving a message. A little will power during the day goes a long way. It needs to be simple because as a work at home parent with full time responsibility for the childcare, my life is already complicated enough. That is a fantastic summary and reflects my own experience and thinking. A lot of people would think that if you only eat once a day that you would be lethargic, tired or unproductive. Eventually, by shopping and planning carefully and taking advantage of coupons, sales, and free items offered with a minimum purchase, I found it was actually costing less than eating out or loading up on junk. I think the trick is to always keep the body 2nd guessing, as in changing the amount of calories and meals every day. If you get to within 80% of sticking to your eating plan then you will do just fine over time. HI evryone today i intend to share this good news to those who have been discouraged in anyway. I never want to go anywhere or do anything anymore because o this weight. Its now day 8 and i continue to feel wonderful. I agree with you on trying to make this diet not feel like its a diet,and to m ake it as close to my normal and still giving me results. lb) since yesterday. 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. 5 meals a day. I had some very specific reasons for choosing this approach and I had tried other methods first. 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). When I began having the cravings around 10pm I finished of the rest of the food in the pan. There are certain things I avoid like sodas, but from time to time I still enjoy a glass of cola. I read more of your blogs the other day and you write very intuitively. I could easily see myself eating a chicken salad for my evening meal (during the summer at least). Then I eat dinner around five after I come home. and 65 pounds overweight. This is about a 1250 calorie deficit per day. So I am back to say I have started the diet once again, about 3 weeks ago, and have stuck to it to a tee this time with no issues and thus far have lost 11 pounds. In the future I will gradually add to treats if I want to, but I need to know what I can eat each day, it works better for me and I dont pick. I started it in January of this year and my progress is a 70 pounds of weight loss. It is generally used in Japanese and Latin American cooking. This type of diet suits my lifestyle perfectly and I wish I had found out a long time ago. 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. After alot of false starts, I managed to stick to it and lost 20lbs. Being able to eat a full meal in the evening without counting calories feels amazing. Throughout the day I drink water and tea. Where I am not successful is keeping it off. Instead of getting on with doing something positive you end up in a perpetual state of inaction and unable to commit. The small snacks are a brilliant idea because they keep you on track. Hence why so many studies contradict each other in dietary research. As you know yesterday was my first day of trying this diet. 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. It seems like so much to lose because my body just wants to hang onto this weight. And besides, I find it easy to eat one meal a day without getting hungry. My failure to lose weight has bothered me for years and eventually I came to associate it with failures in other areas of my life. Any how i lost another one pound today so weight is now 13 stone 13. I work from home while my husband works in the city. I was also drinking almost every night back then too. Hi Sonam, sorry for the delay in replying to you. I must admit that I too am surprised at the number of people trying this diet. Will shorten the window for eating to an hour and then find something to occupy my mind and time. Ive been at the same weight for a while now. I started drinking spirulina powder with water this morning. Midmorning(around 11:00) I eat fruit with low fat plain yogurt. for five weeks now, I have been eating one evening meal a day and having fruits for breakfast and lunch. I have tried so many things and I had honestly forgotten the one meal a day diet. For dinner, I ate whatever I wanted plus dessert. The first thing I did was substitute Diet Mountain Dew for my normal Mountain Dew. Two years ago I was 226 pounds and I have this diet to thank for that. It would be the worst thing in the world to faint while at the wheel of a car or operating machinery. Actually, I think the spam is limited to the General Discussion board. I made a conscious decison not to take on any additional exercise other than walking once or twice a day with the dogs. I am 35kg overweight. My stomach is smaller and my thighs are getting smaller. It could be the time of day you weigh yourself. I used to exercise hours and hours a day just to maintain my weight. So the more I feel it, the more progress I am making. Feeling lethargic mid afternoon is a productivity killer for me. For the past months, after we moved to new neighborhood, I was trying so hard to blend in. Had I done so I think I would have lost the weight a lot quicker. You mentioned a lot of great things there, but the key for me was how you said it made you feel. Hiya, I agree completely with all that you say. With 4 low fat crackers I had the half of the pan. I eat my one meal around 6:30 and 7:30 everyday. Can I tell you that I have been eating this way for around 3 months now and I have effortlessly dropped 15 kilos. What I wanted to say was congratulations on the successful weight loss. Extended periods of fasting can lead to feeling faint or dizzy. After I have my mind set to loose some weight. I am hoping to get under 150 within the next 2 months, and hopefully stay there with the right exercise and diet. I run because I like to run a couple of times a week, but I go for higher intensity over shorter distances which also seems to help. 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. Eating one meal a day is WAAAYYYYY easier for me than eating many small meals. In fact I got it wrong a lot in the beginning. I am also doing such thing by taking a meal in morning every other day. I am constantly hungry and I have increased my window of eating from one hour to three hours. Just know that what you want to do is possible and that you can do it. In fact for me that has been the toughest part but ultimately very rewarding. , as much as I want. Maybe one day you could describe your food to me, I would love to hear about your diet. Mostly meals based around meat, chicken or fish, with either potatoes or rice, and vegetables. I love your attitude to falling off the wagon. I wish I had thought of doing this sooner. When I started out on this I had some very powerful reasons to want to achieve my goal. Which I almost never did but I could if I wanted to. Like you im not counting calories and all foods are allowed when having my one meal usually i have it in the evening. 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. I keep a case of water in a small fridge in my workshop on the farm. 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. 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. Its so empowering creating meaning and purpose in my life because i feel in control.


Anyway, when I started reading about OMAD I thought I would try it. Also any time during the day I can have a yoghurt and banana. If I sat down at the table to liver and bacon casserole I would not be a happy bunny. There is no way to lose weight without feeling that feeling (whatever that feels like to you). After a while everything I ate turns to runny bowel movement. You sound very motivated and disciplined which is a great inspiration to us all. I was able to stave it off with a handful of almonds. Thanks again for all the encouraging and enthusiastic remarks. 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. You must do your own research and you should consult a medical professional before embarking on a diet. 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). 5 this was a great weight for me. I thought this would be a place where I can post my results along the way. Your weight loss is stready and not too extreme. Update day 15 and weight down to 13 stone 12 target is 12 stone 10. Thanks for leaving a comment (and a compliment). Why better than any refined or unrefined sugar. Eating one main meal at dinner time of what you actually WANT to eat rather than what your told is healthy makes this way of eating easier to sustain for life. Within 3 or 4 days, i lost about 3 pounds. Snacking at other times in the day is fine, but of course the trick is not to continue eating. I hope this is possible with this diet. Only working there for 1 month but I gain up to 5 kg. I drink herbal tea all day with a small amount of maple syrup and lemon throughout the day. A big part of why this works for me is how I feel about it. My beverage of choice is plain old tap water. Again this weight fluctuates even throughout the day. I hope it continues to work well for you, and thanks for taking the time to leave a message. I think that having the main meal at lunch time is better in several ways. Hello David i have got a question for you and anyone else who is interested. I choose to eat aroiund 5 or 6pm because it fits in with family life. Oh and i forgot to mention my weight today stands at 12 stone 8 a drop of 30 pounds. I go to the gym and workout but i dont do enough weights to bulk up. 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. 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. Now my mind which previously craved sugars and carbohydrate seems to know what is good and what isnt. 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. I mean dinner on a two-meal-a-day diet will still be big like it is now. I come back to eat very light during the day. Because, naturally when one cannot afford food, there will be a tendency to choose the cheapest food items on offer. I have lost 9kgs (which is around 20 pounds) in about five months. All the while I am also tending to chickens, goats, dogs, meat rabbits, and my daughter. 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 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. I am sure the health benefits realized by losing several pounds will be good. I am now on a journey which i hope will be a positive and life encompassing one. I plan on taking a Cup of tea with milk and sugar, If i feel weak. I do excercise 2-3 times a week, 2 hour session, but not Saturday-Sunday. When I started preparing the bulk of my meals at home, I realized that I could have scrambled eggs and toast or a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast instead of donuts or cold cereals loaded with sugar. Like you, on weekends I will eat twice, with snacks. Or do i have to follow a strict diet eating only veggies and fruits. Could you tell me what you eat on your cheat days. I want to start back because eating once a day is liberating for me. At that point i was frustrated at my efforts at weight loss. I used to be on a prescription drug a few years back that seriously suppressed my appetite and it just occurred to me that this was exactly how I ate. Its funny that eating less gives you more energy. I want to look at this as something I can adapt to for the rest of my life. I know from my own experience that it takes persistence and it takes time. This is my diet, no breakfast, lunch 12. I once did this kind of diet, but unknowingly. I was so struggled and never lost any grams. Your advice for maintaining the weight makes perfect sense and is much appreciated. Im also doing 30 minutes on a step machine with free weights every 2 or 3 days just to feel strong in my body but i realise that its not central to my weight loss as you rightly said, its more a bonus or add on. I am back from vacation and ate waaaaaaay more than once a day. Let me share with you all, my first experience with this diet. Maybe some of it is water weight, and maybe some of it is fat. I used to do Judo (when I was younger and less broken) and the weight categories were in Kgs. I am doing 1 meal a day and fruit but recently the last week ive not had any fruit. I want to stress that I am not paying attention to WHAT I eat or HOW MUCH I eat. The exact weight is less important than the trend. 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. 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. 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. 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. Things are still tough, but I want control of my life again, so I decided to start with my weight. Its David from May 2012 in the post up above. I wish you all the best in reaching your goal. 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. I like how you say the snack is to fight off hunger pangs and not to have a pleasurable experience. I ended up getting all the way down to 157 before stopping. I have been dieting now for a year off and on. The earliest written records of tea come from China. So much of your success on a diet comes from what you tell yourself. I am very proud of my achievement but its all thanks to you. 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. I think you have the balance exactly right. Daily walks with my dog of 3-4 miles have done nothing to help me lose, lifting weights at the gym did zero. The law of diminishing returns certainly seems to kick in. She keeps munching or eating every hour and keep offering me. Eating one meal a day got me from 205lbs to 175lbs over a reasonable time. Even eating one good meal per day is not as easy a diet as I thought it would be. Soman, there are no rules to this diet, you just make them up to suit yourself. Ordinary, regular food served up in decent portions that fills your belly and keeps you feeling satisfied for hours afterwards. When you start eating like this, you will see that there is hardly any difference in terms of cost but it will be better for you even if you can eat only once a day. I read your reply very carefully and i reread your original post on the one meal a day plan that worked for you. The results can be seen pretty quickly certainly within a week. Did you find eating two meals on Sunday make eating one meal on Monday more difficult. I think you will eventually see the difference in the mirror but if not maybe taking photos will help you. And I guess it depends what you mean by oily food. According to myfitnesspal log I have had a calorie deficit of 150-200 calories below my 1600-calorie limit every day. This diet is making me feel wonderful, walked into work today with a spring in my step. I get around this by having a cheat day every Saturday. I found I was able to make up for it by making slight alterations to the quantities of food I ate. Today is Sunday and i am down to 14 stone. The way we feel determines what we do, so make sure you feel strongly about it. Breaking down 1600 between 2 meals though is definitely easier, and I like that I am letting my stomach have a rest. You need to apply common sense to this diet. There are just some days when I have to snack. It gave me something to look forward to and kept me from raiding the larder. I live in Bavaria, maybe we could share more of our experince about the One meal a day:-). I am back down to 165 within 2 weeks but struggling to keep it going. 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. 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. When i first got depression i scored myself a one. Most of dieting is mindset, breaking old habits and forming new ones. This week, I decided to start drinkin g water and things have not been going well. EAch time I tried to lose weight I was successful. My expectation was to lose 1. And as you doubtless know, comfort eating often seems like a way to relieve the stress. I feel fuller doing this vs eating six times a day. I am actually at DAY 1 of this diet since having stumbled upon your blog yesterday. I really would like to be back to 170 or less. I am exercising as well so i am seeing positive results quickly. On Thursday I started the 1 meal a day approach and you know what, I lived. Unless you want to exercise A LOT, you have to decrease the amount of food you eat. 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. What I love the most about this, though, is that I sleep so well when I go to bed with an empty stomach. Just one thing, what does it mean when you wake up still really full from the night before. Please see my disclaimer at the foot of this post. And when I did start back eating I over ate every time so what weight I did lose I gained back and more. I generally get hungry around 11. I would also drink green tea with some vinegar and honey in it which helped suppress my appetite after dinner. 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. Project your eating plan through that powerful part of your psyche. 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. I should add that this was not visible to me in the mirror, am just glad I was not discourage. So, the scale is always wrong in some way or another. 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. 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. It was all trial and error in the beginning and I made a lot of errors. Granted I have only done 2 days with 1 meal per day as, like you I plan to eat lunch on the weekends. Eating one (roughly) balanced meal at the same time every day is about as simple as it can get. I also tried the healthy approach, not really dieting, but watching what I eat and doing heaps of exercise. I pretty much went into a state of depression. It took me a while before I was able to where you are. No counting, remembering when to eat next etc. I find that I often learn more from my failures than my successes. I must admit I ate normal hearty meals, the only thing I scrapped was bread. There are millions of people in the world who survive on a lot less food than I do. When I tell people what I weigh, no one can believe its that high. And exercise seems to make me hungry, I am going to start this one whole meal a day, mashed potatoes, pasta salad and yes something sweet but small. i monitor my mood using a scale of 1 to 10 were 1 is practically suicidal and 10 is elation. Then I realized that this is exactly or close to the 1-meal a day plan. I never felt craving just a healthy hunger before dinner times. I was 18, and had gone from being a skinny child to weighing 180lbs by the time I finished college. I know it works for me because I did this ten years ago and lost 20 kg in 4 months, from 105 to 85. One problem with the weight loss industry is that there seems to be a counter argument for almost everything. I have been doing this for 2 months with great success (32 lbs lost). I decided to eat one meal a day with only an apple or piece of fruit during the day. 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. I am done with all that pressure thanks to your website. If I do not lose any more weight by end of January, then I know that this meal plan is not for me. I have argued to exhaustion with people about this ridiculous concept of eating small meals a day every few hours. I use a small dinner plate and fill it to the edges. How long did it take you to lose that much weight. I wanted to do push-ups and sit-ups every day. It makes sense that I need fewer calories to maintain 175 lbs than 205 lbs. My biggest achievements were the result of negative motivations I felt. Being adaptable is an amazing characteristic to have, it will serve you well. Until last month, holidays started and I started putting on more. How I look at it, you have to break down a wall. I really want to Take Part in the race, and i want to lose weight too. I have been doing one meal a day for about 2. Well, that depends on whether you can handle it. Like you say, the type of diet working for every individual probably varies. 00am 1 apple. 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. My big lunch makes me feel satisfied all day. 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 would like to start this as well. I used to go to class at 8am, with back to back classes, I did not any time for lunch. The beauty of eating one meal a day is I ate what I wanted and I ate with the family. I know that you put the weight back on again but sometimes when life hits you hard you just have to find a way to survive. There are lots of great comments and perspective from others who are trying to make this diet work. Third world body builders put on massive muscle on dreadful diets. Its mental torture to watch this and a diet killer. I went from 238 to 244 and back in 7 days. I used to be under 115 pounds all my life. I typically aimed for between 1500-1800 calories a day. You can lose several pounds and see no real difference in the way you look. My initial motivation to get going with the diet came from negative emotions. I have not been exercising but have promised myself that once I got under 200 I would start. How I Lost Weight Eating One Meal A Day: I lost 30lbs over 5 months eating 1 meal in the evening. You can adjust as you go along. 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 would love to hear how you get on, so please do come back and let us know. 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. If I have a big breakfast and some chocolate milk then I could weigh 240. I actually enjoy food more and look forward to dinner with my family more as well. The Gall Bladder is a one way organ that stores concentrated bile to add to digestion when fats arrive in the gut. I find that it intensifies my irritability, so I think I may have to limit my coffee to a twice weekly (during weekends) indulgence. I found your site because I just started this diet and went looking for others trying it. Anyway, if I wanted to drink it I would, but more than likely only at the weekend. I have been doing one meal a day for 6 weeks and it is working well. I keep a pitcher of splenda sweetened tea in the fridge in the house. On Monday I feel bloated because I eat more on the weekend. If it takes you a little longer than most, so what. Hi David, thanks for taking the time to make a comment. I find that business with the weight happens to me too. 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. During the First Gulf War they apparently had to airlift a couple soldiers to Germany because of critical digestion issues caused by them. 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. Actually, I started out first with intermittent fasting to gain the control of when to eat. Bile is not returned to the gallbladder if unused in digestion. I particularly like the way you no longer feel like a victim of circumstance. So, I have decided not to weigh me every day. Here is a quote which i found the other day which i feel is bang on the money. 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. Being at home with the little ones is tough. 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. Rather than give up and quit, tread water for a while. 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. In a short period of time I went from 140 to 176. So basically I will be fasting till dinner time, but I will be drinking water through out the day. No need to get the supposed optimal balance between protein, carbohydrate and fat. I spent more time researching the best way to lose weight than I invested in actually doing something about it. If I work all day and am focused then food becomes secondary. I know I do have a lot of body fat around my middle, but I thought with eating once a day, cutting down on carbs and killing myself at the gym would show good results. When I get it badly wrong, I start over again the next day. I am now married, 34 yrs. 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. Hi Krystal, I think you summed it up very nicely. Thanks for sharing the important point of being too strict and highlighting that there can be medical implications and complications. I have to say Thank you for your honesty and sharing your experience. I often worry that some people think diets like this are a license to eat 1500 calories of chocolate every day and end up effectively starving themselves. 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. Regarding the second issue, I will be the first to admit that I am mentally addicted to the idea of lunch. Hi Shannon, it sounds like this might suit you quite well. If I like to plan things, then I make detailed plans of what I will eat and when. I too will keep this quiet as I feel the more I announce im on a diet the more I fail. I had to have another small snack and cup of tea in the mid afternoon because my stomach was growling so loudly. I knew I was in it for the long haul so it was motivation for me to be strict throughout the week. Now, this is the interesting part: until 30 of age I was eating (generally speaking) once a day (at dinner). I stumbled across this site and it looks like the perfect plan for me. It will be interesting to see how this works out now. 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 strongly love this one meal a day plan just need to find the best way to make it sustainable for me looooong term. I do need to ask, is it ok to drink 2-3 cups if