One meal a day... amazed!

[mrdazza1980]

I've been on and off with the warrior diet for about 3yrs now and I don't think I've had any negative affects. Body fat always goes down and always seem to keep my lean mass and even strength has been going up nice every week. Only thing I worry about is I read that doin this as guys over a long time can make our mood a little low, snappy and lower sex drive. At some point I've experienced all of these and more while eating this way but unsure if it's the diet or just the BS that comes with life at times, anyone else had any negative problems?

[NewLevel84]

I've gotten pretty good results doing the 1mpd.
Considering that 1 meal is huge. Typical for me is 12 eggs 12 oz broccoli 1 tomato 1/2 onion
1 bag oatmeal with a scoop of chocolate protein powder and a sit tin of peanut butter.

[NewLevel84]

Also once a week I eat an entire large pizza

[elias1877]

I've gotten pretty good results doing the 1mpd.
Considering that 1 meal is huge. Typical for me is 12 eggs 12 oz broccoli 1 tomato 1/2 onion
1 bag oatmeal with a scoop of chocolate protein powder and a sit tin of peanut butter.

lol thats not a huge meal? unless your pb is a couple thousand cals worth

[saint sinner x]

I've been on and off with the warrior diet for about 3yrs now and I don't think I've had any negative affects. Body fat always goes down and always seem to keep my lean mass and even strength has been going up nice every week. Only thing I worry about is I read that doin this as guys over a long time can make our mood a little low, snappy and lower sex drive. At some point I've experienced all of these and more while eating this way but unsure if it's the diet or just the BS that comes with life at times, anyone else had any negative problems?

Yea that's expected in the induction phase, remember there is only so much your body can assimilate the calories consumed with one meal, you are pretty much a lean mean fat burning machine with eating one meal a day regardless of macros due to the long hours without food... Similarly to the ketogenic diet or low carb diet same problems occur, you'll adapt.... Although I do reccomend cycling carbs with eating one meal a day, just have some days where you're eating more carbs than others but keep frequency the same such as eating one meal a day...

[HealingHands8]

you are pretty much a lean mean fat burning machine with eating one meal a day regardless of macros due to the long hours without food...

What a load of absolute bullchit.

[saint sinner x]

What a load of absolute bullchit.

studies have proven otherwise.

[HealingHands8]

studies have proven otherwise.

Please post which specific studies you are referring to.

[JimmyJumper]

Maybe it's just me.. But this sounds like a god awful diet.. How would eating 6 smaller meals not be healthier/more effective?

but I mean, what do I know.

[saint sinner x]

Please post which specific studies you are referring to.

http://www.alternet.org/story/152486...hy_do_we_do_it

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publ...cle_8981.shtml

http://www.medicaldaily.com/one-meal...iabetes-264103

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/3-mea...#axzz30MtpWtne

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2121099/


For reducing bodyfat and overall health one meal a day is superior to two meals a day or even three meals a day...

[HealingHands8]

http://www.alternet.org/story/152486...hy_do_we_do_it

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publ...cle_8981.shtml

http://www.medicaldaily.com/one-meal...iabetes-264103

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/3-mea...#axzz30MtpWtne

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2121099/


For reducing bodyfat and overall health one meal a day is superior to two meals a day or even three meals a day...

Only one of them is a study. Have you even read it? A few quotes from the study:

Subjects consuming a single large daily meal exhibit elevated fasting glucose levels, and impaired morning glucose tolerance associated with a delayed insulin response, during a 2 month diet period compared to those consuming 3 meals/day.

Each subject consumed the same amount of calories each day regardless of whether they ate one or three meals, and all subjects maintained their body weight within 2 kg of their initial weight throughout the 6 month period

Are these the real benefits you are referring to?

Now please provide relevant peer reviewed literature which backs up this claim:

you are pretty much a lean mean fat burning machine with eating one meal a day regardless of macros due to the long hours without food...

[JimmyJumper]

I hate to say this.. If you are a believer in this diet, I'm sorry, but you're just not very intelligent.

[devill1am]

I hate to say this.. If you are a believer in this diet, I'm sorry, but you're just not very intelligent.

Case closed ladies and gentlemen.

[notdisappoint]

Case closed ladies and gentlemen.

Hahah

[HealingHands8]

Typical behaviour from someone who touts unscientific nonsense. Links to so called 'studies', when questioned regarding specifics they are no where to be seen.

[ivansimic90]

this is working great for holiday feasts, not gram of weight was aded after turkey, pork and 8x baklava as dessert which is 2400kcal alone.

(Digression: furious pete had baklava chalenge and seemed like trouble eating 4k kcal baklava even on empty stomach?!, im really disapointed).

question: i dont like workout on empty stomach, it has no logic to me. is it okay to feast before
workout.
Or i can open my 4h feast with some meal before workout and finish feast after i come from gym

[kross65]

Years ago, when I was more seriously training for eating contests, I often would eat one meal a day for extended periods. And I would easily shed weight. I'm convinced that after a certain point, you cannot absorb any more calories in one given meal. So I do think one would have a larger caloric deficit eating 3 meals a day worth 2,000 calories each than simply eating one 6,000 calorie huge meal. I don't know if the one meal a day tactic would be particularly smart for bulking or strength building, however. But for cutting, it actually might make a lot of sense.

[richwetzel]

I have done this diet off and on a few times over the years before I even heard the term warrior diet and my experience is that it works.

I easily shed fat and got cut, felt strong, so for me, this has been fantastic. I feel good, strong, alert and very happy with it.