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You mean like by eating one meal a day?
Humans are foragers, our digestive systems are designed to constantly have something in our stomachs, that is because we need energy throughout the day (both for physical and mental exertion). What isn't immediately used for energy from that one meal will either be stored (as fat) or excreted. The fat stores only get tapped into by strenuous physical activity, so what's likely gonna happen is that you'll be hungry for most of the day, and once you do eat you will overeat (cause the thinking goes: oh it's only one meal, I have to eat for the whole day).
Please don't do it, it isn't healthy. My prediction is that you will be tired most of the time, you'll have trouble remembering things, you'll sleep longer, and you'll feel a general lack of energy for most of the day. Eating one meal a day is basically starvation with extra steps.
This is terrible reasoning and even worse understanding of human evolution. Humans evolved to not only be able to live without food for extended periods of time but to utilize fasted time to clean out metabolic junk. People have fasted for all sorts of reasons for longer than the "3 meals a day" diets existed. Imagine thinking humans would have evolved with such a massive defect that if they got without 3 square meals a day they just lay down and die.
Studies have shown that the body increases metabolism when in a fasted state. It's the bodies way of supplying you with energy so you can be motivated to go hunt and find food. It also increases focus and mental clarity. Similarly aiding in ones ability to locate food sources. The only reason people feel bad when going a few hours past their mealtime nowadays is due primarily to their bodies not knowing how to deal with it and be sure so much of people's diet has high amounts of processed carbs and sugars which causes massive fluctuations in blood glucose and insulin levels.
Additionally it is amazing diabetes prevention. Causing your insulin levels to drop to baseline between meals and increasing insulin sensitivity. I was pre-diabetic before I started OMAD many years ago. Within 3 months my levels were back to perfectly normal even when not practicing OMAD. My Doctor took me off meds and I haven't needed them since.
Here is a good video about some of the data behind therapeutic intermittent fasting.
https://youtu.be/7nJgHBbEgsE?si=wh8gN_YPkWA_4VdF
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