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Dresden

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Lately, I've just been having bananas and coffee for breakfast and beer for dinner. My main meal is lunch, which is usually a big sandwich with soup, salad, and about a gallon of water.

I doubt it's healthy, but I'm obsessed with the sick feeling of the food hitting my belly. If I don't feel extremely full I don't fill like I ate anything. And after such a huge meal I rarely feel hungry for the rest of the day. I've been dealing with some real-life shit and I'm worried that I'm becoming a binge eater... goddamn.

Think it's unhealthy as fuck, guys? I should stop, I guess.
 
Dresden said:
Lately, I've just been having bananas and coffee for breakfast and beer for dinner. My main meal is lunch, which is usually a big sandwich with soup, salad, and about a gallon of water.

I doubt it's healthy, but I'm obsessed with the sick feeling of the food hitting my belly. If I don't feel extremely full I don't fill like I ate anything. And after such a huge meal I rarely feel hungry for the rest of the day. I've been dealing with some real-life shit and I'm worried that I'm becoming a binge eater... goddamn.

Think it's unhealthy as fuck, guys? I should stop, I guess.
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I lost 100lbs doing such a thing.

edit: except the beer part
 
I'm just worried that I'll start binge eating to relieve stress or something and get bloated like a whale. :lol I do eat a fuckton of food at lunch.

And yes, starvingafricankids.jpg and all that.
 
There's a lady in my office that does the same, except she only eats dinner.

She doesn't even drink water while she's in the office.

Also, I've read that a lot of the military generals like McChrystal and Petraeus only eat 1 meal a day and sleep 4 hours.
 
PetriP-TNT said:
MY HERO
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I usually like eating something while drinking, but after a huge lunch I don't even feel the need for that anymore. Unless I'm drinking with someone, I'll just finish a bottle or two before sleep.
 
Your metabolism slows down when you do that so if you start eating a lot you do run the risk of putting on weight.
 
Ah, the McChrystal bit is from here:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1946375_1947252_1947255,00.html

The two men are similar in many ways. Both are fierce ascetics — McChrystal eats one meal per day and sleeps four hours per night — and both are military intellectuals. "Stan was willing to have experiences that were outside his comfort zone," says Petraeus, who received a doctorate in international relations from Princeton. "He went to the Kennedy School at Harvard. He spent a year as a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He's a student of history."​

Different people are just wired differently.
 
Nothing wrong with eating one or two meals a day. Look up intermittent fasting - it has some really beneficial health effects.

Though I'd recommend against the beer meal.
 
I'd eat least eat SOMETHING for dinner. Lunch is my meal of the day. I don't care for breakfast so I just drink coffee in the morning and ride out the hunger pains until lunch where I eat alot then when I get home from the gym around 6:30 I eat a moderate sized dinner but not as large as my lunch.

Personally I don't really see the point of eating a huge dinner. The evenings is when I'm at my laziest just playing video games. No need for a bunch of calories swirling in my stomach. However at lunch I've got 5 more hours of work left and an hour of gym work so I take my calories then.
 
I guess it isn't too bad.

I might switch over to light beer, then. Are there any that don't taste like ass?

Teh Hamburglar said:
somehow i doubt dresden is in the military
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Of course not. :lol I'm certainly not an ascetic. I love my material shit.
 
I'm a one meal guy too. For some reason I can't eat anything for breakfast. I don't eat at work either (I get sleepy :lol ) so I eat one good dinner when I get home from work. Some times I eat late night snack but that is kinda rare. I have been going like this for my whole adult life and I'm perfectly healty ;)

edit: Well actually I drink 1liter milk a day so I guess that would count as second meal (?)
 
I never eat three meals a day anymore. It's usually two for me, and I ofter skip breakfast on work days.
 
Dresden said:
I'm just worried that I'll start binge eating to relieve stress or something and get bloated like a whale. :lol I do eat a fuckton of food at lunch.

And yes, starvingafricankids.jpg and all that.
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You are too far in your own head, come back to reality.
 
Yeah people are different types. My body can metabolize carbohydrates like no one's business but likes to retain fat. Just like other people work wonders eating 6 times a day but everytime I try doing that I put on weight so I go back to my two meals a day. Just got to find what your body likes.
 
I eat my biggest meal at lunch also, and occasionally if I'm very hungry ill eat at night. The biggest thing man is keep you sugar intake down, and stay around 2k calories (or whenever you should be for your weight/height)

Also, exercise really pays off, not just in how you look, but how well you sleep, think, feel, etc. Building a new habit of it is hard at first, but I once read that after 6 months of consistent exercise it becomes physically addicting to your body.
 
ronito said:
thirded.
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I think this is probably true for most people, but I firmly believe that there are individuals who's metabolism is just programmed differently (like people who can get by on 3-4 hours of sleep a night -- it's not normal, but it doesn't mean that it would have the same effect on their body as it would on yours or mine).
 
CharlieDigital said:
I think this is probably true for most people, but I firmly believe that there are individuals who's metabolism is just programmed differently (like people who can get by on 3-4 hours of sleep a night -- it's not normal, but it doesn't mean that it would have the same effect on their body as it would on yours or mine).
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oh absolutely.. but speaking generally that's mostly true.
 
CharlieDigital said:
Ah, the McChrystal bit is from here:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1946375_1947252_1947255,00.html

The two men are similar in many ways. Both are fierce ascetics — McChrystal eats one meal per day and sleeps four hours per night — and both are military intellectuals. "Stan was willing to have experiences that were outside his comfort zone," says Petraeus, who received a doctorate in international relations from Princeton. "He went to the Kennedy School at Harvard. He spent a year as a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He's a student of history."​

Different people are just wired differently.
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I wish i could sleep 4 hours a night, how the hell do they do it? Doesn't Obama apparently do this too?
 
Cindres said:
I wish i could sleep 4 hours a night, how the hell do they do it? Doesn't Obama apparently do this too?
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You should experiment and try it out for two weeks. I suspect that your body may be able to adjust if you space in some naps, too. Your first few days will probably be hell, but who knows by the end of week 2?
 
brianjones said:
this

if your body thinks its starving it stores as much fat as it can
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And if your body thinks it's hungry it makes you feel hungry.
Hunger comes before starvation.

Ignoring hunger for a long time then eating a large meal will do what you describe.
If he isn't hungry the rest of the day, this effect will not happen.

It is perfectly normal for your body to adapt to your feeding schedule and expect little or nothing in the morning, a big lunch, and little after if that's how you've been eating.

It's not the optimal eating schedule, sure, but it does not trigger the effect you're describing.
 
Kenak said:
Eating less is more healthy for you and will prolong your life.
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Yep, proportions have been getting larger and larger at an alarming rate over the past decades, we really don't need as much food as most think imo
 
breakfast is my smallest meal,
lunch is my biggest meal,
supper is my medium meal,

if my lunch is big enough than my supper can be smaller
 
Somehow I think you'll live.

I do a similar thing a lot, just with dinner. Although since I wake up later its probably more of a lunch.
 
Sounds like you are a twenty something male. I have started to eat breakfast, fruit or yogurt or something like that. Only a bagel if I am way hungover. Then a good solid lunch, not excessive, a snack then a light dinner. This has made me feel much better. I still like to have a drink, some vodka on the rocks or something at night, but I mind my calories with the rest of my meals so my enjoyment of alcohol doesn't become excess calories but part of my days planned allotment.

Mmmm booze for dinner.
 
What time do you get up and what time do you go to sleep? I'm fairly active so I don't think I could manage on that.

I met a guy years ago... a huge Ghanaian guy who worked in "security" for his government apparently. He only had liquid during daylight hours. Couldn't quite work out why but he was ripped as fuck.
 
Dresden said:
I'm just worried that I'll start binge eating to relieve stress or something and get bloated like a whale. :lol I do eat a fuckton of food at lunch.

And yes, starvingafricankids.jpg and all that.
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Skipping breakfast is what's leading you to eat a huge lunch, and that huge lunch is what's messing up your dinner.
 
I'm the exact opposite. I'm always taking in calories, at a slow but steady state. I don't eat big quantities of anything, but I space out my food and drink intake for the day over a period of about 8 hours. I've been 140 lb. since I was 16.
 
wine still has at least 30% less calories than your average beer.. and a lot less than heavier beers like stouts or even IPAs.

i drink a glass of kombucha + v8 juice for breakfast. then i'll have a normal sized lunch. i'll workout after work and then make a fairly large dinner.

alcohol and bad food on the weekends! :lol
 
I did that a lot when I was younger, but not a good idea to keep weight off in long run, it actually slows your metabolism.
 
i used to do that and i was over weight. i've since changed my lifestyle and now i'm at the weight i'm supposed to be and i eat 3 similar meals a day and a snack. although lifting weights and not drinking anymore soda is what is causing my weight loss.
 
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