“I don’t have time for three meals a day, much less six. Can’t I just eat one meal a day and still lose weight?”
Nope.
Here is the short answer: Sumo wrestlers eat only one meal a day.
That’s right. Those massive, jiggling masses eat only one meal a day. As a side note for carb addicts, it is usually made up of mostly steamed rice.
Eating only one meal a day is the best way to put your body on the fast track to being the fattest it can possibly be. When you eat so infrequently, your body will automatically slow your metabolism so that you need fewer calories to do what you do all day. Then, when you do eat, your body will protect itself from what it perceives to be famine and take all of the calories you consumed in that single meal and convert them to fat for energy storage. The human body is an amazingly adaptive thing.
If you really want to lose weight, take all the food you would eat in that single, undoubtedly huge, meal and divide it into six smaller meals. Eat one of those small meals every three hours, throughout the day.
The pacing of your meals every three hours will cause your body to adapt to the regular energy source. Your metabolism will kick it up a notch and run at a much higher pace than it ever would on one meal a day. Making those meals small, snack sized meals will ensure that your body doesn’t get too many calories at each sitting and all those calories will be used for immediate energy rather than being stored for later.
Although you may think that starving yourself all day for the benefit of eating one large meal is a good thing, it is the worst possible thing you could do if you want to lose weight.