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Daily Caloric Intake Question

By , About.com GuideApril 6, 2008

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About.com Nutrition Forum member guy2kx asks:

"I normally only ate two meals a day in the past. I would wake up around 11 AM and eat lunch as my first meal, and then have dinner at 7:30pm for six days a week. During the other one day, I would actually wake up at 8am and eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner for that day.

Now, I understand the idea of metabolism and how eating less normally will cause my body to be adjusted to the lower daily calorie intake (only lunch and dinner).

If I want to lose weight under the prior conditions, (six days eating only lunch and dinner, since I wake up later) and one full day of three meals, would I have to take in less calories than then the days I only have lunch and dinner, since my body's metabolism is acclimatized to that low of a caloric intake?"

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