The Unofficial Guide to Eating ONCE a Day.. Like a Boss!

[Sick_beard]

I think from looking at the available research on the topic of meal frequency, the rational conclusion would be that meal frequency, or how often you eat or how you choose to spread your calorie intake throughout the day is ultimately a matter of practicality and personal preference.

Some people may find it convenient, others impractical, but there's no good reason to engage in the pointless ritual of eating by the clock (eating every 2, 3, 4 or however many hours.) BUT, there ARE good reasons to intake all your food in a smaller "eating window" and remain fasted for the remaining time. These benefits include:

- Reductions in brain insulin signaling which lead to prolonged lifespan and anti-aging mechanisms
- Improved cardiovascular risk markers, including lowered triglycerides and LDL-C numbers
- Inducing Growth Hormone secretion
- Maintaining muscle mass and preventing atrophy of adult skeletal muscle
- Improved muscle protein synthesis

... and the list goes on, but I think these are the most relevant benefits for bodybuilders in general.


My Results/ Expereince:

I've been experimenting with IF (intermittent fasting) for a long time now, but it's not until a few months that I starting eating one meal a day, and I have to say I instantly fell in love with the idea. I used to be that guy carrying my lunch bag with me everywhere and neurotically timing my meals every 3 hours or so... not anymore.

Now I just plan my meal 5 mins before I go to sleep knowing exactly how many calories I'm gonna be eating the next day. I wake up, prepare the food, enjoy my feast, and I don't have to worry about macros and what not for the rest of my day. I never eat out, I don't feel hungry and my diet (and therefore my body composition) is 100% under control. Nothing is left to chance.

And I've been making great gains eating once a day. My body is fully adapted by now. Here's a before/ after pic and from start to finsih I've been eating 1 meal a day. I'm still 15 days into my 1st cycle, but so far I'm happy with the results:


(The pic on the left is 6 months old, the one on the right today)

Meal example:

This is another meal example. It's what I had this morning. And for the record, it tasted awesome




Ingredients:

Supplement:
Optimum Nutrition - Fish Oil, 6 softgel
Universal Nutrition - Animal Pak , 2 pack
Universal Nutrition - Animal Flex, 1 pack

Shake:
Almond Milk - 4 cup
4 Berry Blend, Frozen - 3 cup
San Marino Mix Salad - 5 cup
Gaspari Intrapro Protein Isolate - 4 Scoop
Allmax Creatine Monohydrate - 5g

Macaroni & Omelette:
Egg - 5 eggs
Ground chicken - 18.5 oz
Honey Garlic Bbq Sauce - 4tbsp
Roasted Oats - 0.65 cup
Chopped Onion
Shredded, pealed almonds
Macaroni - 4 cup
Ketchup - 5 tbsp

Calories:
3,515 calories
321 protein
364 carbs
90 fat

[Sick_beard]

Anyone gonna start eating 1-2 meals/ day??

Growth Hormone secretion, preventing catabolism, muscle protein synthesis... you have to be tempted at least! lol

[Back In Black]

Nope!

[Aziz]

Why would you eat once a day? Anyways what are you running
Pretty amazing results for 15 days.

[The Bear 79]

Would you follow a blind man into 6 lanes of traffic.....................then why would you expect anyone to follow your flawed BS...................


Further more, I say you're a troll, you saw the influx of "nay sayers" that rose to attention the last time you spewed this ignorant bullshit & now you're back for round two because you're a troll & you like to stir sh!t up.

[The Bear 79]

You will never be any more than the stick you are now with a regime like that. FACT.

[Sick_beard]

Would you follow a blind man into 6 lanes of traffic.....................then why would you expect anyone to follow your flawed BS...................


Further more, I say you're a troll, you saw the influx of "nay sayers" that rose to attention the last time you spewed this ignorant bullshit & now you're back for round two because you're a troll & you like to stir sh!t up.

I saw people are interested in the topic, even my thread about God turned into a meal frequency debate.

Now I'm posting scientific information to back up my claim, explaining my approach and sharing my experience/ results.

You have yet to do either of these. All you do is talk sh*t. You sir, are the troll.

[< <Samson> >]

I don't like calling BS too often. . . Buuuut, those pics are not 15 days. Each peck is like 40% bigger.

[Sick_beard]

Why would you eat once a day? Anyways what are you running
Pretty amazing results for 15 days.

I'm 15 days into a test e cycle, but these pics are 6 months apart. All the while eating 1 meal a day, that's the point I'm trying to get across.

[Sick_beard]

I don't like calling BS too often. . . Buuuut, those pics are not 15 days. Each peck is like 40% bigger.

They're not. I have a cycle log running with my actually "before" pics and cycle progress. Read the post above.

[Lunk1]

I will say...plan flawed or not. I enjoy food so....why limit that enjoyment to once a day if I can have it several times a day!

[Sick_beard]

I will say...plan flawed or not. I enjoy food so....why limit that enjoyment to once a day if I can have it several times a day!

The less often you eat, the more you appreciate food. Eating that one meal for me is like sex, and I'm satisfied for the day.

[Lunk1]

The less often you eat, the more you appreciate food. Eating that one meal for me is like sex, and I'm satisfied for the day.

Your doing something wrong lol. Sex is like Chinese food...I'm full for a few hours but the cravings for more return, food is the same way! I dont want to make myself miserable once with food I can enjoy a few times throughout the day.

I'm not saying I buy the 6-8 meal idea but 3 or 4 is nice for me

[Soar]

That pasta looks like my mid afternoon snack

[Sick_beard]

That pasta looks like my mid afternoon snack

Wtf! It's a huge plate, trust me.

[krugerr]

I follow an Intermittent Fasting routine, and I couldn't do just one meal a day. I don't try and fit 6meals in my window, but I aim for lunch, snack, post-work out and dinner.
I can't see how 1meal benefits much more than IF. All you're doing is extending the fasting window and suffering for that extra un-needed time.

[Sick_beard]

I follow an Intermittent Fasting routine, and I couldn't do just one meal a day. I don't try and fit 6meals in my window, but I aim for lunch, snack, post-work out and dinner.
I can't see how 1meal benefits much more than IF. All you're doing is extending the fasting window and suffering for that extra un-needed time.

It's again personal preference. If I were suffering, I wouldn't do it.

[Shsm]

I don't like calling BS too often. . . Buuuut, those pics are not 15 days. Each peck is like 40% bigger.

Yeah, thats what I was going to bring up. If the time frame between those 2 pictures was only 15 days I would've been blown away, regardless of the use of PEDs to accomplish it.

Still great progress for 6 months though. I love food too much to attempt this...but f*ck 6-8 meals a day. 3-5 spread through the day is just right.

[austinite]

No thanks.

[krugerr]

It's again personal preference. If I were suffering, I wouldn't do it.

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte


More power to you. Ill stick to what works for me, and the rest of the bodybuilding community, eating.

[frank13]

bla bla bla stupid thread i eat 1 time a month 140,000 cal in one sitting it works great and the best part is i only poop 1 time a month yay

[krugerr]

bla bla bla stupid thread i eat 1 time a month 140,000 cal in one sitting it works great and the best part is i only poop 1 time a month yay

You should right up a bogus thread and then tell people it's the only way to gain lean muscle.

[frank13]

You should right up a bogus thread and then tell people it's the only way to gain lean muscle.

im on it

[krugerr]

im one it

Invite 'The Bear' to comment on your idea, and then dismiss his obvious lack of knowledge.

[The Bear 79]

Invite 'The Bear' to comment on your idea, and then dismiss his obvious lack of knowledge.

HEY..............! Was that a cheap shot...?!?!?

[frank13]

hahahhahahah

[Sgt. Hartman]

So many people in this game make progress in spite of what they do and yet somehow convince themselves its because of what they do.

[krugerr]

HEY..............! Was that a cheap shot...?!?!?

Sorry Bear!!
I'm gutted that you're unable to post pictures by the way, I would love to see a before/after for one of your blasts. The same as I really want to see Austinites before/after on his current cycle. I do appreciate your situations, I'm just curious what that amount of gear does to people! I have this image of you chewing down scoops of protein powder in between deadlifts!

[Sick_beard]

The Bear could benefit the MOST of out all people from this thread. He needs to get up at 3am, 6am just because he religiously has to eat every 3 hours...

Now if you take a minute to look over the research, you'll realize this is simply silly. And you don't have to eat once a day either, but both eating protocols work just fine and anything in between is just as good. The POINT is that you don't need to torture yourself by neurotically eating by the clock in the fear of "going catabolic"

I know, I used to be there, and damn is it liberating to get that idea out of your system.

[Sick_beard]

So many people in this game make progress in spite of what they do and yet somehow convince themselves its because of what they do.

So that's the conclusion you got out of all this?? Sigh

Just read the post above.

[krugerr]

I know, I used to be there, and damn is it liberating to get that idea out of your system.

It clearly shows from your years of training and diet knowledge. Come back when you break the 200lb barrier.

[bigZthedestroyer]

If I ate 1 meal a day, I would have 5-6 other periods during the day where I was extremely pissed off that there was no food in front of me

[Sick_beard]

It clearly shows from your years of training and diet knowledge. Come back when you break the 200lb barrier.

211lb this morning *insert middle finger*

and I'm only 15 days into my cycle...

[The Bear 79]

Sorry Bear!!
I'm gutted that you're unable to post pictures by the way, I would love to see a before/after for one of your blasts. The same as I really want to see Austinites before/after on his current cycle. I do appreciate your situations, I'm just curious what that amount of gear does to people! I have this image of you chewing down scoops of protein powder in between deadlifts!

I don't chew them...............I snort them..........

[krugerr]

I don't chew them...............I snort them..........

Ahh

[EyE]

f*ckin hilarious

[The Bear 79]

211lb this morning *insert middle finger*

and I'm only 15 days into my cycle...

Let's see how much of that you keep after your body is rid of the compounds that force growth & all you're left with is nothing more than single meal per day that barely amounts to maintenance.

[Sick_beard]

Let's see how much of that you keep after your body is rid of the compounds that force growth & all you're left with is nothing more than single meal per day that barely amounts to maintenance.

On the risk of sounding cocky, I have to say I'm smarter than you think bear. I know my body, I know how to eat and I know how to train.

I wouldn't worry too much about me.

[>Good Luck<]

Hey I know someone who eats once a day..my dog.. He's alive and well. You should be fine

[Sick_beard]

Hey I know someone who eats once a day..my dog.. He's alive and well. You should be fine

You actually accidently brought up a good point. Most all animals eat at most once a day and go the rest of the time on that one meal. Our ancient ancestors would've not survived if they had to eat 6 meals a day with protein shakes in between. Having a constant source of food is a new phenomenon, one which has created more health problems than benefits.