Hayley Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 I started trying to restrict calories during my three meals a day but then realized it was simply easier to skip a meal here and there verses get caught up in calorie counting. So I was eating only one, super-healthy meal at 6:30 pm every day and liking it - but lately I've intuitively wanted to eat my one healthy meal every 48 hours, instead of every 24 hours, so I've been doing that and it seems to be working for me. My only concern is that I seem to be a bit more extreme than other people here and I don't want to hurt my health. With my meal I do take Omega supplements and a good multi - and I make sure to get the nutrients I need with the meal. Anyone else like me? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgfoster Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Hello Hayley, I have only been on Cr with optimal nutrition myself for six months so cannot speak as a voice of great experience. Whilst maybe occasional alternate day eating would be ok i wonder long term if it would be detrimental.??? My main concern being getting the right amount of calories and nutrients in just one meal. I eat 1800 calories a day , hypothetically if i were to follow your eating plan i would need to eat 3600 calories in one sitting. This would not be possible if i were to be eating my usual large salads, raw or steam veggies, fruit and maybe a little fish. The volume would be too much for one meal ........and therefore i would not be meeting my nutritional requirements. Are you using cronometer? which i believe is essential, and incidentally i try to meet all my nutritional requirements from food without taking supplements and multi vitamins, however this is an individual choice which can be further guided by your chrono meter results/records. Kind regards Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deb belcore Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Also, I think it depends on your weight. Are you losing or trying to maintain? What is your BMI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Wow Hayley if your that disciplined to be able to eat every 48hrs. your capable of any layout plan that the seniors that have been doing this for yrs. advise you.!!!! I commend you for being that disciplined even if they say that's a no no. wish I had your willpower I don't think I've ever gone without food that long.Wow. You are going to be great at this!!!!!! Your like the Top Gun or will be with proper coaching. Yeah I'll watch your progress if I can track people on this thing. I joined that cronometer last nite. my BMI is like 26.1 I think I have to loose like 20 lbs. or so. and it says I should eat 1,024 calories to get there. O.k. back to the drawing board. nice meeting you thanks for the input, Cactus....... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prettyinpink Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 Wow! I can eat once every 24 hours but not for 48 hours. How do you manage that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael R Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 Also, I think it depends on your weight. Are you losing or trying to maintain? What is your BMI. If you're on CR, you're going to lose weight ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest trish Posted November 21, 2014 Report Share Posted November 21, 2014 yup i do , wanna increase it to one meal every 72 hours??? do such things for testing my own energy ,but i havnt gone beynd 48 hr mark i wanna form a group or say co person who wants 2 give it a try to extend it for 72 hrs.. dentalktalk@yahoo.com if anyone wants 2 join up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest temur Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 i have a plan to eat one time in a 3 days. now i eat 1 time in a 2 days easily. my record was 4 days. i did it several times. its not comfortable yet. vegetarian and keep dry diet, no water, no salt, no sugar... etc 1 day output in a week to relax. than eat 2 or 3 times, can drink juice ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Richard Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Hi hayley. Your not alone out there i also dont eat for days then will have a big meal and then fast for days again. I find it helps me to lose weight. Ive lost 3 stone in a month. But i also walk for 1-2 hours a day with the dog. You do feel sick when u exercise but thats the point you need to get past it. I think the longest i e been without food was 5 days. I also dring our green tea. I dont use milk or sugar at all. Keep it up. Hang in thre chuck. Xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeta Posted April 23, 2015 Report Share Posted April 23, 2015 I'm slowly transitioning to every-other-day fasting. I'm eating more one day, less the next, then repeating. There isn't a lot of evidence on longer fasts -- and I'd like to see more even on EOD fasting! -- but so far, having decreased what I eat by 500 or so calories on one day, and increasing by 500 or the next, I feel good, and sense, in some vague way, that I'm getting "hormetic goodies" on the low-cal day. Tomorrow I move to 600 calories "quasi-fasting". See Mattson's work on this, for ex: Dose Response. 2014 Oct 20;12(4):600-18. doi: 10.2203/dose-response.14-028.Mattson. eCollection 2014. Challenging oneself intermittently to improve health. Mattson MP1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267452/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunnie Posted September 12, 2019 Report Share Posted September 12, 2019 On 12/2/2014 at 6:47 PM, Guest temur said: dry diet, no water, no salt, no sugar Hi, I am very late to the party, and am curious about the dry diet. Someone give me clues and guidance, please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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