Is Eating One Meal A Day A Good Way to Lose Weight? (2 of 4)

Make sure this meal is calorie-rich to keep you fueled all day

If you do go the route of strictly eating one meal a day, one thing to note is how many calories you intake with that meal. Because this is your only opportunity to consume food, you should make sure this meal is high-calorie. Your body will be depending on this single meal to pull all its necessary nutrients and energy from. So be sure to pack in the calories. Aim for at least 1200 calories in this meal. This may sound like a lot for just one sitting, but there are ways to pack in a ton of calories for one meal. Focusing on foods with high-fat content and increased protein are good places to start. Another insider hack is to increase your eating window, that is if you are going to the intermittent fasting route. With an increased eating window, you can break the single meal up into two, making it easier to intake more calories.

Is this diet a better option than others?

There are other diet plans that are similar to the approach of only eating one meal a day. Alternate-day fasting is one of them, and is comparable from the perspective of restricting calories. But short-term fasting has been shown to have great health benefits, one of which is the improvement in blood sugar levels. This style of dieting gives participants 4 to 8 hours to consume food. To fast for 15 hours a day can help in a number of ways, including helping the body’s cells learn to better resist disease.