A: No, it is not. "Your body needs to be refueled throughout the day," explains Patty Kirk, RD, nutritionist at The Cooper Clinic in Dallas, Texas. "Eat just one meal and you'll be dragging most of the time." And when you consumed 50 g of fat at one sitting - easy to do at one big meal - your arteries lose flexibility for the next 4 hours, a period of time that one researcher has described as a "heart attack danger zone." Eat three meals a day or a series of mini-meals on a regular basis.
If you are interested in trying a mini-meal diet, here is a sample day that you may want to try (based on a 1,800-calorie diet):
- 7:30 am - 1/2 cup unsweetened juice; 1 slice whole wheat toast with 2 tsp margarine and spreadable fruit; 1 hard-boiled egg (Nutrition Total: 320 calories, 44 g carbs, 10 g protein, 12 g fat)
- 10 am - 2 oz of natural cheese thinly sliced on 4 saltine crackers; 1 piece of fresh fruit; water/tea (Nutrition Total: 325 calories, 59 g carbs, 15 g protein, 19 g fat)
- 12:30 pm - 2 oz of turkey breast on whole wheat bagel with lettuce leaf and 2 slices of fresh tomato with 1 tablespoon of spicy brown mustard; 1 medium banana; 1/2 cup of 1% milk or soy milk (Nutrition Total: 405 calories, 76 g carbs, 18 g protein, 3 g fat)
- 3 pm - 1/2 cup of sugar free pudding; 4 vanilla wafers; 1/2 cup of 1% or soy milk (Nutrition Total: 211 calories, 30 g carbs, 7 g protein, 7 g fat)
- 6 pm -2 oz falafel with whole wheat pita halves; 1/2 cup broccoli; water/tea (Nutrition Total: 386 calories, 60 g carbs, 16 g protein, 12 g fat)
- 8 pm - 1 oz almonds; 1/2 cup unsweetened juice (Nutrition Total: 222 calories, 20 g carbs, 6 g protein, 14 g fat)
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