Is it normal that i eat one meal every few days?
I eat all my calories in one sitting and live off that for approximately 44-45 hours. It's probably not healthy but I'm losing weight.
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Why do you guys keep voting normal on stuff that's clearly not?
Also, isn't it common advice that not eating is a bad idea for losing weight? You have to at least talk to a physician about this stuff. It's not "intermittent fasting" to eat 2-3 times a week. Even Googling it, the most infrequent I saw was 3-4 times a week.
I'll save you my whole rant on not eating and just say eat a fruit.
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What do you think intermittent fasting is
It's fasting in intervals. Doesn't matter how long the intervals are.
Food hasn't always been readily available. You think our caveman ancestors had fruit to eat every day?
As long as OP gets adequate calories over the eating window when they do eat, the metabolism won't take a hit.Comment Hidden ( show )-
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Starvation is physiological. A healthy person restricting their eating window to one day out of three isn't necessarily starving, don't be dramatic. I agree I wouldn't recommend that type of IF but if an individual says it works for them, I wouldn't dissuade them either. It's not inadvisable, just unnecessary, so most people understandably wouldn't want to do that. However, if you are happy eating like that, then that's different.
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It's unnecessary to the point of being inadvisable and possibly harmful, which is why I compare it to starving. The body needs energy. If you're only eating one day out of three, especially if that alone is making you lose weight (which the OP did mention), then that's a pretty major caloric deficit. I can only imagine the damage that's doing and we don't even know what the OP's eating to achieve it.
The very fact that you guys think that's normal when none of you do it and nobody else does it just boggles me. The OP has given us no indication that he or she is happy, just that they don't like eating for whatever reason.
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ANY calorie deficit causes weight loss over time, that's what a deficit is
I have fasted for long periods of time before and do 20:4 intermittent fasting most days (4 hour eating window). It's not abnormal. It's part of every world religion and a huge trend in dieting right now. What OP is doing is conceptually normal, of course we don't know the details so we can't say whether the way OP is doing it is good or not.Comment Hidden ( show )
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Yes it's normal, a 2-day fast will starve you, but at least you're a healthy weight. I wouldn't eat until the end of the day, but that's just me, I get constipated from what seems to be the wrong foods. At least I was making stool, I need more fibre. I'd go all day without food and eat something decent to eat, in the middle of the night, this could be a plum jam sandwich.
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