No, she encourages me not to go 18-24 hours without eating. She wants to keep my energy level up and she knows it's not healthy to lose weight by starving yourself.
I'm an outsider to this unhappy freak show of a thread, but I must agree with Mama. You shouldn't go 18-24 hours without eating. No-one should. Your body reacts badly. You certainly should make sure to eat three square meals a day.
But a square meal does not consist of double cheese burger and fries three times over.
Today I worked a short day, so I could slob about, and had a breakfast of a 4 oz piece of baked salmon (threw it in the oven for 30 minutes) and 12 oz of boiled brussel sprouts** (threw them in a pan of boiling water for 8 minutes; salmon and sprouts go well together, as does salmon and spinach; throw a few sliced-up mushrooms in the pan with the sprouts or spinach for variety). At lunch I went to the work canteen (more like a deli) and had ham, cheese, lettuce and tomato with a tiny scrape of butter on wholemeal bread (they do this just delicious at my work canteen, I could eat it forever). At dinner I had a tin of vegetarian bolognese, bought off a supermarket shelf and boiled up in a saucepan for four minutes, with a juicy whole grapefruit for dessert.
None of it bought in a restaurant for a 200% mark up. None of it requiring any real effort. And I imagine lovely acidic grapefruit in Oklahoma are juicier than in England, as we ship them over.
It all came to about £6 (approx $10) and I know it's not the healthiest diet in the world but it's better than what I read in this thread. Try it for a day! Especially (one slice of) ham, (one slice of) cheese, (lashings of) lettuce, (lashings of) tomato on brown bread, it's the loveliest tastiest thing in the world.
** It appears Thomas Jefferson introduced sprouts to the US and grew them at Monticello. Furthermore, sprouts are a traditional accompaniment to the turkey on Christmas Day in the UK. Therefore it's both unpatriotic and un-Christmassy for Bushie not to eat lots of sprouts. The fibre content is great.
