Lose Body Fat Eating One Meal a Day For Rapid Weight Loss

Only eating one meal a day? WAIT! Isn’t that gonna slow down my metabolism? Or make me lose muscle and cause all my gains that I worked so hard for disappear? Or even make me store more body fat? Discover the SHOCKING truth on the benefits to eating one meal a day.

The truth is that you can eat once a day without destroying your metabolism, without losing your gains and you could even burn fat for rapid weight loss while eating once a day all the while reaping great health benefits.

By:  Tim Ernst – Founder of Body Blitz Max, 180 Muscle and Barbell/Dumbbell Ripped Muscle Complexes

I know this may sound crazy because mainstream Fitness and nutrition advice is always to eat five to six small meals a day.

It’s too bad that these people giving mainstream advice don’t know that there’s really nothing inherently wrong about only eating one meal a day.

Now this doesn’t mean that you can’t do the whole eating one meal a day thing totally wrong causing you to gain a bunch of weight.

It also doesn’t mean that eating 5-6 times a day puts you in the clear and automatically guarantees weight loss.

Meal frequency does not play as much of a vital role in the fat loss process as the food quality and quantity.

If you eat the same exact amount and the same exact type of foods between 3 meals 6 meals or just 1 meal the effect on the amount of weight gained or lost should essentially be the same.

It would kind of be like filling up a cars gas tank with 4 Separate quarter tank fill ups versus just filling it up once with a full tank.

If it’s the same amount of gas it’s going to produce the same amount of energy and after you go through all that energy that’s when your body starts to dip into your fat stores for additional energy.

Your metabolism will be no slower with one big meal than a bunch of smaller meals.

Study

In fact in 1966 there was a study done on a man that lost over 276 pounds while on a 382 day fast where he ate nothing except for vitamin and mineral supplements prescribed by his doctor.

His name is Angus Barbieri and he holds the Guinness world record for the longest fast ever an astonishing 382 Days

Now even though this is a little extreme, it does show that when your body is low on calories it doesn’t just go into a starvation mode and shut down your metabolism.

Your metabolism does slow down when you cut calories whether you cut them out of each meal or you just don’t eat as many meals throughout the day or like in this case you just don’t eat at all.

However, it’s not like your body is being run without using energy.  Your metabolism in this case is being fueled by fat cells and you can (as shown in this study) go from 456 pounds to 180 pounds without eating at all.

Now this is not at all what I recommend in fact this is very dangerous and a study like this wouldn’t even be ethical nowadays, but just keep in mind that it’s not like you’re metabolism is just going to shut down and you’re going to somehow exist without burning any fat.

The energy to even breath and have your heart beat has to come from somewhere.

In this particular case the man in the study only regained 16 pounds over the course of five years and studies show that people that eat less frequently and fast for the purpose of weight loss end up maintaining it easier than those that do it through calorie restrictions imposed on their daily meals.

There are other starvation diets where they starved a group of people and at the end of it all as soon as they started eating normally again their metabolisms came right back up to normal.

Keep in mind that these are extreme cases and eating once a day is not going to put you into a starvation mode.

Eating one meal a day (the effect that it has on your metabolism) is the same effect that cutting calories throughout the day would have on your metabolism.

So what’s the benefit of eating once a day versus Multiple times a day.

Benefit #1

Well first of all chances are very high that if you only eat once a day you’re going to have a harder time eating enough calories to gain weight than you would if you’re eating all day.

It’s a lot easier to have a satisfying meal while cutting or dieting when eating just one meal a day because you can have all of your calories at once in that one meal.

Eating once a day and fasting have been shown in studies to have benefits on the longevity of your life.

It’s proven with multiple studies that if an animal has 30% less calories throughout its lifetime it’ll live 30% longer.

If eating once a day can get you to eat less calories throughout your lifetime there’s no reason why you’re not getting this same benefit.

Benefit #2

Another benefit is that you don’t have to cook a bunch of meals and worry about eating them and grazing all day.

By not worrying about eating all day you can be a lot more productive.

Because between prepping your meals and taking the time out of your day to actually eat them, you’d be surprised but you could easily lose a couple hours that could have been used productively.