Concentrate meals into 2 or less meals per day? opinions

(Ryan) #1

Hello guys, i saw a video about Blake Horton , for those who dont know him , he’s a man who eats 4000 calories meal once a day and he keeps losing weight and having a lean muscle mass and has low percentage of fat.

So i thought about keto and people say that spreading the calorie intake per day over 5 or 6 meals per day is not so good method and versa, eating the same amount of calories per day in 1 or 2 big meals in day will be much better and will boost weight loss and you will feel better among the day.

I would like to hear your opinions about that and even if you know the science behind it, it will be great :slight_smile:

(Ryan) #2

For those who interested to watch this guy

(Janelle) #3

That guy doesn’t look like he’s just sitting around when he’s not eating. There is science behind intermittent fasting, which is what 1 or 2 meals a day is. However a person who actually needs to lose weight can’t eat that way (4,000 crappy calories at a sitting) and just lose weight. If you can, you’re 1. A guy. 2. Pretty young. 3. Doing something to expend those calories.

(Ryan) #4

No i didn’t mean to act like him, i just want to get opinions about cutting the meals per day to 2 or 3 instead of 6 or 5, if the method of eating less meals and bigger once is better than spreading it over all the day

(Short224) #5

Ugh this made me want to throw up watching him eat all that crap . How is that even possible let alone healthy.

(Short224) #6

To answer your question yes I hear of a lot people having success on one or two meals a day definitely something worth trying .

(Ryan) #7

But the result speaks by themselves

watch at this video and see that he stays very healthy somehow

(Short224) #8

It also looks like he works out a ton I don’t believe everything I read anyway.

(Janelle) #9

Dr. Oz? There are far more credible sources.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680567/

(Mike W.) #10

The science is, the less insulin spikes you have (eating) the more weight you will lose.

(MelissaH) #11

Many of us only 1 or two meals a day. My eating window when I’m not fasting is 4 hours. No snacking

(Allie) #12

I never eat more than twice a day. Decreased hunger and less frequent meals are one of the many good things about keto.

#13

I also eat once or twice a day. I eat if I am hungry and stop when I am full. I haven’t eaten 5 or 6 times a day in a really really long time.

(Diane) #14

Here is an article by Dr. Jason Fung regarding the benefits of time restricted eating.

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(Frank) #16

I much prefer to eat once per day. Sometimes I’ll have a bpc in the am, but usually not. Small lunch maybe 1-2 times a week. Omad is really my go to due to its simplicity. Granted I’m not pounding down 4000 calories but definitely 2000+ in the hour or so that I’m eating. Eating 3 meals a day much less 5/6 is not even on my radar anymore and I find it really uncomfortable when I do.

(Ryan) #17

2000+ per meal?

how much protein includes in that?

(Ryan) #18

Wow, it seems like everyone here is eating in average 2-1 meals per day, that’s surprising i thought that the answers would support spreading the meals for the day…

But logically i think, the body needs fuel all the time so when you spread your meals throughout the day, the body gets its fuel every couple of hours, but when you are giving your body a meal one a day or twice a day, logically he is starving and this is when he starts to search for resources to fuel himself.
So who is promising me that my body wont start to break the muscles to get fueled?

(Sophie) #19

I also only eat 2 meals a day. I love seeing how freaked out my friends get when they hear it. But seriously, we have an entire Sub-Forum dedicated to it. Go take a look!

https://www.ketogenicforums.com/c/fast/IF

(Frank) #20

Eating throughout the day is a big part of why the world is in the metabolic mess that it’s in. That along with an unnaturally high processed food supply results in high insulin all the time which results in insulin resistance and all of the other wonderful diseases associated with metabolic syndrome.