Pre diet food was always the first thing on my mind - now a few months on and I can normally go virtually hours without eating.
Can quite easily go without breakfast and lunch and eat at dinner time - However someone at work reckons this isn't any good for you. Can anyone shed any light on this?
Cheers

Hi Woking

I'm glad to see that this way of life has supressed your appetite. Isn't that a great feeling.

Now going without meals is not a good thing though. You need to keep your metabolism reved up and that needs food and exercise to do that. So whether you feel like eating or not you should have a good breakfast, with lots of protein to start the day, a healthy lunch and then less to eat in the evening. That way your metabolism is satisfied and at the end of the day you are not eating a lot and doing nothing afterwards.

So you do need to eat to lose weight and this should be spread out across the day with more throug the first half of the day than the second half.

cheers - will take note.

However I'm running about 3 miles every other night which also helps to the loss of apetite- your'e right though,, what a wonderful feeling !!

Hi Woking
I've found recently that I don't really feel like eating even tho' I know I am hungry, sometimes to the point of feeling a bit nauseous. I'm having to push myself to eat whilst not really fancying anything. I don't know if this is usually something that happens when LCing, but it doesn't feel particularly good.
Tree.

I've only eaten at lunchtimes - however I dont seem to have lost any weight
Do you think the weight will start going off again if I eat three times a day?

Hi Tree

If you are feeling nauseous, sounds as if you are leaving it too long before you eat. You should eat something, even if only as snack at least every 3 to 4 hours. If you don't want much try 30 g of nuts - Brazil, almonds, macademia. They have a high fat content and will be satisfying. I can't say I've ever had your experience. Take care.

Hi Woking

I see you were posting as I did the above reply. I think you will definely lose weight if you eat 3 times a day. I doubt if you are getting enough calories in your one meal at lunch time. If you don't eat enough then you will not lose weight as your body adapts and holds on to all it can. I used to have this experience with low calorie diets and now know better. Try it for a week and see what happens. You are doing a lot of running and that takes energy. It is a good idea to make your lunch time meal the largest meal of the day.

Let me know how you get on.

I too have lost my appetite and I am forcing myself to eat cause i dont want my body to go into starvation mode. Its weird for the first time in my life I cant be bothered with food!!

I'm struggling to eat at the moment too, I seem to go for days or weeks where I only want to eat one meal a day. I had a 3 week 'mini-stall' eating like this, for the last week I've upped to 3 meals a day with occasional snacks and this week had a loss

have you got your appetite back yet?

I'm another who's run into the "I'm just not hungry" issue But I'm trying to ensure that I push myself to eat around 1400 calories and 20-30g carb, even if I just don't feel like it

Isn't it nice not to feel hungry! I'm so glad that you are all trying to make sure that you eat regularly. Your body does need food and if it does not get at least the minimum calorie level it needs then you will not lose weight as your metabolism slows and your body goes into starvation mode.

When I was younger I did this to my body a lot with low calorie diets and now I'm finding so much harder to lose weight as my metabolism has permanently slowed.

Dr. Atkins (in DANDR) says that the program does not properly work unless you eat every 5-6 hours. Pre-Atkins, I ate one meal/day...supper...usually 2 hours or so before going to bed.

Bad idea. I'm currently eating 3x/day, consuming more calories than I was before, but only 1/15th as many carbs. And I'm losing weight at a decent clip.

I agree it doesn't seem to make sense to eat when you aren't hungry...but it has been working for me!