Are 2 meals per days enough or not?

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Like for exemple : Meat and vegetable at lunch and pasta at dinner. 
I'll skip breakfast and all the sweet things

farscryer0 · Accepted Answer

Personal trainer here, and three meals per day are key.

At a minimum.

The optimal solution is to eat 4-6 times per day, using small portions, and with the largest meal of the day being an early breakfast. Think about this, your body is craving nutrients after a good night's sleep (7-9 hours), because it spent time and resources repairing and rebuilding bodily systems. Breakfast helps set the metabolic tone for the rest of the day -- you skip it for a long enough period of time, and your body goes into crisis mode and stores everything consumed.

So, a big breakfast first, and then little meals throughout the day. And if you don't have time to eat except at designated break periods, use a meal replacement shake. But only drink a reduced portion of it, like half of it or so. The reason behind this is that you want your stomach to be constantly working all day, constantly "burning" small meals instead of one huge meal. This kicks up your metabolism and helps you to lose weight, even if your don't work out often.

Why?

Because if your body "knows" its getting a steady, routine supply of nutrients every day, it will start using stored calories (fat) for other things. It won't store so much because resources are always flowing in. The trick to this that your body is a highly adaptive, multi-systemic organism, and like every organism on the planet, it strives for an end goal of routine homeostasis, a steady and functional balance between effort and efficiency.

Never skip breakfast. Never.

oddwaffle · Accepted Answer

Should be more than enough. Unless you have snacks then 2 meals is too much.

Through out human history, the body is designed to go for days without meals and you can subsist on tiny snacks like nuts and such. If you would spend a couple seconds thinking: how did people lived in caves when they couldn't store their food in a refrigerator? Most fruits are seasonal and can not be kept for more than a couple days and hunting would take days to get you a really really lean meat that will last for a day before they stink. Grains rot in a couple months without proper storages.

I would suggest you to fast (eat nothing) for 1 day a week. Studies are being conducted on the effects of small fastting periods on chance of illness like diabetes and heart attacks. There seem to be a link in eating regularly and increased chance of getting diabetes.

Goldie757 · Accepted Answer

For the goal of weight loss, a healthy breakfast should be the first thing on your mind when you wake in the morning. This important meal will jump start your metabolism and provide the energy you need to start your day.

When you routinely skip breakfast, you are telling your body that "no food is available at this time of day", and your body will respond by storing calories (in the form of fat) from the day before to compensate. The signal you want to send to your body is that food is readily available at all times of the day-in small quantities.

Eating smaller meals frequently throughout the day provides your body with just enough energy and nutrients to make to the next meal without having to stockpile calories for "a rainy day". To lose weight, ideally, you should be eating 5-6 small meals or snacks during your waking hours and a healthy breakfast is the best way to start.

teatea111 · Accepted Answer

Breakfast is really important and by skipping it you're doing more harm than good. Aslo it depends on the times you eat too. Most people eat every hours give or take a few hours. If you're skipping breakfast to lose weight then I suggest you stop that and instead try eating small meals throughout the day. You won't have to starve yourself and it keeps your metabolism running well I heard. Some people eat multiple small meals throughout the day instead of eating 3 large meals to lose weight along with exercise.

DarkIndividual · Answer

If you're going to skip a meal, do NOT let it be breakfast. You need that. Unless you work a night job, breakfast is the meal that matters most.

I suggest skipping lunch, if you're going to skip one meal. You can eat breakfast, have a snack a few hours after noon, then eat dinner. That's what I have been doing for two or so years. It doesn't affect my health, and my stomach is used to it so I don't even feel hungry at lunch.

My only warning to you, though, is to pay attention to your body's needs. If you find yourself tired from skipping lunch, or feeling faint at all, you definitely should eat. Maybe replace the meal for a snack? Stay safe.

ConsultantIsBack · Answer

You'll want to spread out your meals throughout the day more, smaller meals. Just to have a steady stream of nutrition, not so much the "eat more meals to boost your metabolism" -- That's a myth mostly. A recently debunked myth, so I assume you'll get guys on here preaching that.
And pasta at dinner, you'll want to avoid having carbs at night, it's better to have it earlier in the day (and if you can make it whole wheat pasta that is much better).

But ya I assume your fitness goal is to lose body fat? Definitely focus on a daily caloric deficit and maybe some fasted cardio routines. Good luck!

ksoma · Answer

if you have to do that, better off skipping lunch than breakfast.
Also, better to have carbs during the day (so you will burn them) then as your last mean of the day. So meat and veggies should be dinner.

If trying to lose weight, remember that dropping your regular calorie intake below a certain level isn't safe. So don't starve yourself.

Pac-Man · Answer

When I used to shred my only meal for the entire day would be a bag of chips, and I would run 10 km. I am not saying you should do that but 2 meals is definitely enough.

However, what I would do if I were you is have breakfast and skip dinner because throughout the day you will be able to burn the breakfast but whats the point of dinner? You would just go to sleep, so you dont need the calories.

Hans222 · Answer

You could probably live on 2 meals but than the breakfast would need to be extensive - enough to make it through the day until dinner.
A direct collegue of mine does that every day and she looks okay :D
No breakfast is not a good idea, your body needs energy to start the day!

Red_Arrow · Answer

The body is designed to have meals throughout the day. It is most apparent in type II diabetics who control their diabetes with a proper diet that is properly spaced out to maintain proper levels in you. A lot of pre-diabetics become diabetic by not getting proper intakes throughout the day.

And breakfast is critical. The body has gone without for many hours and is in need of intake at that time. Skipping breakfast can definitely strain and possibly damage your body.

GingerGuy · Answer

If you're not hungry then you're fine. I've only ever had 2 meals a day all my life but not for weight loss, just cause. I skip lunch though. They say the best thing is to eat several times a day, but small portions. I don't know many people that eat like this but supposed to be the best way lol

akadatank44 · Answer

Probably not enough. Figure yoir out your caloric needs to lokse weight. Get your diet on track then you will loose weight because 80% of loosing weight is through diet. 1 to 2 pounds a week is a healthy weight loss goal. Those who loose more than that a week are more likely to gain it all back.

UncagedAgent · Answer

Sounds fine, as long as you don't feel like you have low energy, there's nothing wrong with dropping calories. I would say that you should switch your meals up a bit and avoid heavy carb meals before you go to sleep, they're harder to digest and you would "waste" their energy.

Still though, two meals is fine as long as you make sure you feel healthy.

hellokitty_baby · Answer

If those two meals are high enough in calories then you're fine. I'm like that too I eat breakfast but I don't get hungry again until 7pm so I make sure my dinner makes up for lunch and is full of veggies and lean meat

Cmasterson · Answer

Not enough, especially if you're trying to loose weight, the time from when you sleep to the morning is when your body NEEDS food, try to eat all three but smaller portions.

Anonymous · Answer

Stopping yourself from eating because you want to lose weight isn't the right thing to do, you should be eating 5 times a day, breakfast being the most important meal in the day, you should watch what you eat and combine it with exercise

Josht11 · Answer

I wouldn't advise skipping breakfast you have no energy throughout the day, I don't have a lunch though so it's possible to skip.

Curmudgeon · Answer

It would be better to have more frequent small meals than just 2 bigger ones? (Given the same total food intake)

DianeDuffus · Answer

As long as you get a minimum amount of calories it's all right. Take a vitamin pill. Calories must be more than 1100

KittieCat · Answer

Don't skip meals, it messes with your blood sugar and metabolism. 3 meals and a snack or two is good

sunlite · Answer

not enough, skip dinner instead! you need breakfast to give you energy for the day

Azgeda · Answer

If you make them 1200 , 1500 calories meal, then sure.

puncakegirl · Answer

It's better to have smaller frequent meals than to have two big meals during the day.

Zorax · Answer

Yes, I think 2 meals are quite sufficient for one day, but it depends on the person.

daremetwo · Answer

No skipping breakfast is a gad idea that is the most important meal of the day.

worldscolide · Answer

Presently i eat two meals a day. so i dont think its an issue.

fueledbythc · Answer

I eat when I'm hungry but I never skip breakfast when I go out.

93stepsawayfromhome · Answer

I need breakfast. If I only wake up in the afternoon I do skip a meal sometimes but I usually just have dinner really late in that case.

Decentguy · Answer

its enough i think but i head that breakfast is very important.

RasAlGhul · Answer

Not not no no never skip the meal on the morning its when u can eat more and more hc

Raveen · Answer

eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper

margarida · Answer

That isn't even healthy.

LittleSally · Answer

Maybe if you want diabetes...

bcromartie · Answer

Why are you skipping meals?

John_Doesnt · Answer

Skipping breakfast are you insane?

CaramelCookie · Answer

Skipping meals makes you gain weight by the way.

Anonymous · Answer

Not enough  Eating healthy is about quality

SnowHearth · Answer

You need at least 3.

apple24 · Answer

Not enough!

Kitty5970 · Answer

I need more food

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