The one-huge-meal per day diet

[Cuts]

O.k., so I just pigged out on some Chinese food and cereal for dessert, and I was thinking, hypothetically speaking... could one get good results off of eating just ONE meal per day? Let's say I do AM training and/or cardio, wait an hour, and then eat a BIG meal like 1-2 hours after that... say around 1500cal. And that's all I ate all day. What do y'all think would happen?

 

[The Shadow]

Terrible - you will lose weight but it will be half muscle

 

[ZKaudio]

back in the day some bodybuilders employed this method. It's called the warrior diet. There are some cool anabolic effects, as this big meal is usually eaten right after training.

 

[nclifter6feet6]

O.k., so I just pigged out on some Chinese food and cereal for dessert, and I was thinking, hypothetically speaking... could one get good results off of eating just ONE meal per day? Let's say I do AM training and/or cardio, wait an hour, and then eat a BIG meal like 1-2 hours after that... say around 1500cal. And that's all I ate all day. What do y'all think would happen?

dont eat shit like that man, atleast more protien. yeah one meal a day is fine. it doesnt matter if u spread 3000 calories throughout the day or eat it all in one meal, you will weigh the same

 

[Mr.X]

O.k., so I just pigged out on some Chinese food and cereal for dessert, and I was thinking, hypothetically speaking... could one get good results off of eating just ONE meal per day? Let's say I do AM training and/or cardio, wait an hour, and then eat a BIG meal like 1-2 hours after that... say around 1500cal. And that's all I ate all day. What do y'all think would happen?

Ouch! this brings back bad memories from about 1 year ago, we had a thread w/ about 300 replies about this topic, w/ both sides of the argument.

Yes, it is hypothetically feasible, as long as you take in less calories then you use. Possible, but there are so many things I can say to counteract this as being a health issue as well as insulin problematic issue.

You can try it, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Mr.X

 

[MrMakaveli]

I bought the book and tried the warrior diet..I learned 2 things. First: Ori Hofmekler has NO ability to write especially history. Second: The diet sucks, I did it..I quit...I ran far far away from the book.

 

[Cuts]

Yeah y'all are probably right, but the feeling of really stuffing my face until I feel like I'm gonna explode is truly gratifying sometimes. Oh well, I guess it's back to 5 tiny meals/day for me ...

 

[big_bad_buff]

i don't see why this wouldn't work, if you had your protien shakes every 2 hours or so of the day, to keep your muscle, but i wouldn't know, i never tried it.

 

[StRoNg_WoN]

You want to stablize your blood sugar throughout the day... so I wouldn't do it... I couldn't train on a diet like that... I'd feel too tired...