06/20/2026
Spoiler: I didn’t dissolve, my metabolism did not shut down, and I didn’t eat my own arm by 10am.
Once I was out of bed, I found myself walking to the fridge out of habit. I was raised with the belief that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. So when I decided to switch to two meals a day, my body didn't take it lightly.
The first week was extremely hard for me. At first my body was asking for food, then it started searching for that old habit that it knew too well.
But by the end of that week, the mental negotiation just stopped. I wasn't standing in front of the fridge at 7am making decisions before I was even fully awake.
For the first time ever, I wasn’t eating because the clock said so, and I was relieved.
When I was eating five or six times a day, my body spent the whole day in fat storage mode, rarely getting a real window to burn anything.
Two solid meals changes that math entirely.
Longer gaps without food let your insulin settle, and your body gets actual time to work through what it already has.
This way, I wasn’t only losing weight, but I allowed my body to heal from all of the scars it got over the years with countless diets and plans that harmed me.
And after reaching my goal weight more than six years ago, this is still the same principle I use today to maintain my results. Over time, I naturally transitioned to one meal a day, but the key lesson was learning that I didn’t need to eat constantly to be healthy or successful.
How many meals are you eating in a day right now?