alt Hacker NewsI've lost over 100lbs in the past year.
* I only eat one meal a day (supper). It's usually a very large meal, very high in lean protein.
* I avoid sugars and starches of all kinds and minimize other carbs (fruit, root veg, grains).
* After eating, I do 30 minutes on the treadmill.
For a middle-aged woman (a category which finds it particularly hard to lose weight) this has worked rather well. I can eat as much meat, (non-root) veg, dairy and soy as I want and I just keep losing weight.
So no, calorie restriction isn't the 'only way'.
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What you've described is calorie restriction.
You restrict calories to one meal where you can't possibly eat 2000 calories at once with the ingredients.
Exercise + starting off at a high weight helps further.
How do you know that spreading that one meal out throughout the day wouldn't have the same effect? I bet you'd have more energy as well.
Unless you have tested this, I find it hard to believe that this isn't really just a caloric deficit compared to whatever you were doing before losing weight, assuming the same activity level.
What you describe in your diet is significant calorie restriction...
isn't one meal a day another form of calorie restriction though?
It's very difficult to not be in a calorie deficit when you only eat once a day and are consistently active.