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But, but… Neoliberalism is for your good and anything socialist is bad.
It’s time to end neoliberalism.
Unless those meals are teeny tiny, 3 meals a day reliably means weight gain for me
Yep ditto. I have to stick to 2 a day most of the time and do regular cardio. Shit sucks
Did you count the calories on those meals? Because my meals are always pretty much exactly on 450kcals, so that’s only 1350kcals. With a Banana, a proteine shake, milk coffees and a chocolate bar that would still be way below 2000kcals.
I haven’t eaten three times a day in almost 20 years. Nothing to do with money - I just like black coffee in the morning and nothing else.
Breakfast is against nature and I am ready to die on this hill.
Try telling this to my kids…
Okay once again very slowly for the people in the back:
“Kids’ metabolism != adults’ metabolism”
You’ll gain fifteen pounds a year eating like this.
I’ll gain fifteen pounds a year eating like this.
We are not the same.
The actual statistic of the headline is that people surveyed reported that over the last two years they “sometimes” or “regularly” no longer ate three meals a day because of inflation and the fall in their purchasing power.
When I order food they often have a minimum order value in money. It’s usually so much, I just can’t eat more than one meal. I know in advance, so I skip breakfast and get full at lunch, then skip diner too, because I’m still full.
Just out of interest: have you considered preparing your meals yourself?
I do that sometimes, but I’m rich so I usually don’t feel like doing it.
This. Skipping a meal to afford food delivery is not a financial problem. It’s like saying “I am poor because I can only afford to drive one way with my Lamborghini and have to walk home”.
You misunderstood: I’m not doing it to afford food delivery, but because the restaurant I’m ordering at has a minimum order value and I don’t want to throw half of it in the trash.
For example: I want pizza and it’s 12€, but the place won’t deliver for orders less than 20€. So I have to add some idk lasgna or a second pizza. I end up with food for more than 1 meal, so I skip the other meals to be able to eat it while it’s fresh. Simetimes I save a bit fir later, but it’s nit the same quality.
Sorry, I indeed misunderstood. Looks like, I was not the only one. So, you’re not wasting money, neither do you waste food. It seems you’re just a camel :)
I mean, there are good reasons why people would choose to order food rather than cooking it: no time between three jobs, disabilities and so on. My comment wasn’t meant as an offense.
You don’t eat three meals a day because you have no money.
I don’t eat three meals a day because I want to lose weight.
We’re not the same.
You don’t eat three meals a day because you want to lose weight
I don’t eat three meals a day because shit is it already 5 pm? Why did my hunger response not say anything? Time to eat my entire daily caloric allowance in one sitting
We’re not the same
I do both, so kinda the same but not quite?
Its actually contra productive to skip one meal for that, just eat but less.
Why is it contra productive? If their daily calorie intake goes down than it is effective. That’s all that matters. Doesn’t matter if they achieve that trough intermittent fasting or calorie restriction.
because your metabolism consumes the most calories - and if you don’t eat anything, it’ll just slow the process of consuming calories.
So, to keep it running, you have to give it at least SOMETHING to work with.
do you have a source for that? I would like to read more about that claim
That’s not saying anything about fasts in the range of 12-24 hours, it’s talking about severe caloric reduction over months.
As you seem to like that site, have a paragraph that actually talks about this stuff even with citations! Actual papers!
All our calories are consumed by the metabolism. It’s like saying that all the wood fed to an oven is consumed by fire, it’s in the definition of the thing.
And, no, skipping meals doesn’t slow down the metabolism. What kind of survival strategy would that be, be hungry but don’t have energy to gather and hunt food? Up to about 48 hours of fast you get a metabolic boost on the order of 4 to 16%, then it returns to baseline before going down. And this isn’t fucking new and no I won’t cite anything because it’s been known since we can fucking measure it. If you find a source contradicting it it’s going to be some fad diet propaganda, not actual science. Searching online you’ll find papers and bad scans of graphs from the 70s but the data should go back at least to the 40s or so.
These mechanisms are practically identical in pretty much all living critters on earth as they’re very old because evolutionary speaking food insecurity is the rule, not the exception, meaning our genome is accustomed to it and our bodies right-out need periods of fast to switch on certain crucial programs, such as autophagy – which isn’t just starvation-grade “let’s eat all the muscle mass” but also “hey that skin is quite loose now let’s shrink it a bit”. General maintenance work, gotta rip out and recycle some old stuff once in a while to keep everything running smoothly.
And that’s before getting hunger and satiation hormones into play. “Just eat less calories” is kinda hard to do when you’re choosing the maximally difficult way to do it – compare and contrast the Minnesota starvation experiment. Sure all those diet comparisons generally show that equal reductions in calories imply roughly equal reductions in weight but have a look at which diets are ad-lib (eat as much as you want, but only certain stuff, or at certain times of day), or not (eat only so and so many calories), and how well people are able to actually keep those up.
Nah man, two meals a day is whete it’s at
OMAD!
On any given day I can eat 1-4 meals.
It depends if I’m hungry. Mostly it’s 2 meals and I stop when I’m full.
I think it helps that I treat food like fuel rather than something I actively enjoy doing. On the days I’m more active I’m more hungry and so eat more.
There is no point to this comment other than to put out my odd relationship with food I guess.
That’s okay, we all have our quirks.
When in really into the zone (whatever zone that might be) I tend to not have any appetite and “forget” to eat. But that doesn’t happen all this often. Also, I just like good, or basically yummy food. Makes it kind of hard to change your habits and eat junk only about once weekly.