To eat one meal a day

[Lemonite]

Trying to lose the last 10lbs to get to my goal weight.

It's the most stubborn 10lbs in the bloody world. I track every calorie, I drink only water, exercise a lot, no snacking between meals or takeaways, no treats, no booze, essentially no fun whatsoever!

But it's not budging. And that's at 1300-1400kcals a day, consistently. But the past 2 months I've not lost a gram.

So - that must be my maintenance kcals. Would it be unreasonable to eat one meal a day (dinner) of around 800-1000kcals to just get this 10lbs shifted? Would it mess with my metabolism?!

Any tips I'd appreciate!

I had reached same sort of plateau and exercising. Gave myself a weekend off and dropped some weight. Perhaps you need more calories if your exercising so much?

Blimey! What am I reading? Not just the OP but all the encouragement - this is not a healthy way to live. The level of exercise you’re doing on the amount of food you’re eating is not safe or sustainable.

Fad diets, competitive exercising, finding strategies to stop yourself being hungry. It’s like eavesdropping on a conversation between people with eating disorders.

Not just the OP but all the encouragement - this is not a healthy way to live

If you read up on intermittant fasting or things like 16/8 you'll see there are tangible health benefits behind eating this way. We're brought up that you're meant to eat three meals a day and anything that deviates from that is questioned but the three meals a day thing isn't necessarily healthly or ideal for everyone.

Eating this way has removed any desire I used to have to binge or eat unhealthily and my relationship with food feels good.

DH does but he's a recovering anorexic.

That way madness lies. You won't be able to maintain it anyway, even if you lose it.

I know - really weird and concerning - I feel as though I'm back at secondary school listening to my year ten classmates sharing tips on how to starve themselves.

This recent article says it’s still under researched but there is an association with eating disorder symptomology. It all warrants further research but the blanket recommendation of it as a healthy way to eat is concerning to me. theypubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34191688/

I’m not an expert but people have posted on Team RH for example saying how they used to really restrict themselves and never lose weight. They upped their calories and stuck to the right proportions of carbs, fat and protein and did 10-15k steps a day and the weight fell off/they lost fat.

because if you have spent years restricting yourself your body holds on to the fat. You train your metabolism to slow down.

This thread is so depressing. I can’t believe so many women are still so brainwashed by diet culture.

Obviously it’s great to look after yourself - Exercise because it feels good and makes you strong, eat because it tastes nice and nourishes your body. But all this starvation, calorie counting, deprivation, obsessing about a number on a scales is just beyond ridiculous. What’s going to happen when you suddenly reach this magic number??

You relationship with weightloss and food sounds extremely unhealthy. Why are those 10lbs so important to you? What will you do when you lose them and then find you keep having to overexercise and eat nothing to maintain it? What's your long term plan here?

If you did it twice a week, it would technically be fasting. Fasting does work.

I don’t understand some of the posts on here. OP may well have to restrict to 1000/1200 cals to lose the last few lb, but that wouldnt be her maintenance allowance as she’s going to lose weight on this amount. After she’s finished losing she can move back towards 1400 cals for maintenance.

If you were going to skip meals for weight loss, surely dinner would be the one to ditch? I'm not recommending that, but generally eating more at night isn’t good for weight loss.
more importantly, this won’t be maintainable weight loss without chronic undereating. 23% fat is on the low side of healthy for a woman.

I don’t mind IF or OMAD but if you do OMAD you need to make sure you get all your calories in that one meal.

Quite often I get to 6pm or 7pm and realise I’ve only had a few cups of teas and nothing to eat.

OMAD does work for me. When I actually consistently do it.

Especially when it’s hot weather ^^