The Pros & Cons of Only Consuming One Meal a Day

The next question is from Lazy Lazier. Will consuming all my calories in one meal a day and not eating for six to eight hours after workout limit progress and or ruin my metabolism? I'm currently 5'6", 153 pounds, eating 2,600 plus or minus 200 calories, trying to recompose and maintain naturally skinny. Yeah, okay, so I don't understand what he meant by maintaining naturally skinny, but okay, so let's go back here for a second. Technically, I mean, maybe a little bit, you're not gonna build as much muscle. Maybe studies show that you probably want a protein feeding every four to five hours to increase protein synthesis. It's not a huge effect, so it's not a big thing. But let's talk about- It's definitely not gonna ruin your metabolism. No, but let's talk about the reality and the pragmatism of this. You're eating one 26 plus hundred calorie meal. That's a big sitting. Yeah, so how is that gonna affect your digestion? How is that gonna affect the food quality? Because I don't know about you guys, but eating 2,600 plus calories of whole natural foods is really hard. Also, show me- It's like a brick. Also, show me what it's gonna look like protein-wise. Yeah. To hit your protein, so you're hitting your protein. Let's assume this person, they're 153 pounds. Let's say they eat 130 grams of protein in that meal. Yeah, yeah, you don't- You ain't eating 2,600 calories unless it's garbage, hyper-palatable processed food or- Or if it's just, you know how much that is of chicken breast? You know what I'm saying? What is that? So you're eating four six-ounce chicken breasts in one sitting? And then you're throwing in other stuff on top of that? Yeah. Yeah, no, the pragmatism of that is, it's not great. I don't think it's a good idea. I also think it could encourage a bad relationship to food because let's say you are a unique person that can do this and you eat one 26 or 2,800 calorie meal with 120 grams of protein. You're literally daily restricting and binging because that's a binge mentality with that volume of food. And it does kind of encourage that. So pragmatically, behaviorally, I don't think it's a good idea. I mean, that's the stuff you have to consider here because technically, you're fine. Technically, you're not going to ruin your metabolism. Technically, you could get the macronutrients you need in one meal. I have done this before and been okay. So I just, I think you have to always consider long-term behaviors around this. And are you promoting the best behaviors? Is it realistic? So you got to weigh all that in. Yeah, I've tried this. Really, it's amounts to the digestion. That was the hardest part for me. And so it's like if you really can digest just fine and you can do fine with it, I mean, I guess that's an option but for most people, I would tend to think that they'd have an issue with that. It's making its way backwards. It's called OMAD diet, right? So it's making its way back right now. I did it. It was a warrior diet. Yeah, warrior diet. That's what they call it. No, when it's a single meal, I just call it, yeah, yeah, one meal a day. Warrior does it like at dinner only. You saw, what's her buddy? Mark Bell, I don't know if he's still doing it but he was promoting it just like a couple months ago. I don't know if it's still going on or not. So, I mean, the one thing I love about Mark is that he does all these different things and he shares with his audience. And I think that's- He's honest about his experience. Yeah, I think that's, I appreciate that. I don't think he's pushing one single diet. And I think really what I think he's trying to show is that there's a lot of different things that you can do. You don't have to follow this one diet. They all technically work if they're based off of less calories and you're trying to lean out. So that makes sense. But I think that's what you have to really consider is like, how practical is this? Do I enjoy doing, does it work well? And maybe this is incredible for your lifestyle. Maybe it's very convenient. I just don't understand how the average person can eat over 1300 calories of whole natural foods at one sitting and not feel- You really have to shovel it in. Not feel terrible, right? Not feel bad. It's too much. You got to digest it all. It's a lot of volume. I mean, I could do it with like shitty food. I could eat over 2000 calories worth of garbage because it's engineered to make me want to overeat and I'll feel terrible afterwards. Well, this was the hardest thing for me as far as maintaining my size. When I hit my peak size of like 235 body fat and like 220 something pounds of muscle on me, like that was so incredibly difficult to keep up the calorie intake. That was, and to do it without piling on ice cream or burgers and fries, I had to do that to hit those numbers and to push those limits is just tough. Yeah, right now I'm averaging about 3500 calories, which is a lot for me. That's over 1000 calories for breakfast, lunch and dinner if I'm only eating three meals. Imagine doing that one meal. This is not going to happen. Hey, if you enjoyed that clip, you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe.