I have been pursuing diets for weight control second, but overall health first. It's been almost a hobby of mine. The web has made it more fun because it's easier to research stuff and share experiences.
Here's how I got here to this once-per-day-plan.
I tried all kinds of diets. I did a calorie reduced diet promoted by the late Ray Walford (author of the 120 Year Diet and well-known researcher) for awhile, about 1300 calories per day.
Then I got into low fat. But low fat diets are high carb diets, something I didn't think about in the mid 1990s when I was doing low fat. Low fat diets should be called high carb diets.
Then I finally discovered low carb diets around 1997. That worked better for me. I did Protein Power and then Atkins and finally Paleo (where you eat only food that we are genetically designed to eat, basically meat, fish, poultry, eggs, veggies, no beans, no grains, no refined sugar.)
Eventually, early 2004, I found the Warrior Diet on the paleo maillist. By then, I had pretty much concluded I should be eating 6 times per day, small meals of mostly protein. It was outrageous when I found people who believed the opposite was true, that eating infrequently is best.
To my rebellious mind, it made sense and I loved the fact that "everyone" thinks it's crazy and unhealthy to "eat this way".
But I researched it. I read Ori Hofmekler's books and they made sense. What really convinced me is that this diet has science to back it up: several rodent studies that show that eating this way can lead to longer life and greater resistance to disease, WITHOUT the muscle wasting and deprivation of the low calorie diet I had been on (a la Ray Walford).
What you are supposed to do on this diet is get into it gradually: eat breakfast later and later, until you are eating say only lunch at 2 and dinner at 7. Then you move lunch up and finally eliminate it altogether.
In March, 2004, I went cold turkey (pardon the pun), and stopped eating during the day. Even though as I said, Hofmekler recommends gradually going to this diet, but I did it whole hog (pun again).
At first, I was very hungry and felt bad for a few weeks but then I felt great.
I have discovered great mental clarity now. Amazing focus and I do not have the ups and downs anymore. Before, I would get all antsy in the late morning, and then I'd feel kinda tired and low in the early afternoon. Now I feel great all the time.
I can work all day solid without a break and feel great mentally and physically.
I can even lift weights and not eat until the evening and still feel great.
Here is what I do. I eat nothing during the day. Not even a vitamin pill. I drink lots of water and some tea or occasionally coffee. Around 6:00pm I start eating. Last night I started with 3 eggs and cheese. Later I had my real dinner, pork chops in a mushroom cream sauce with fresh tarragon, buttered parsnips, yams, and a few pieces of chocolate for dessert.
The idea is to start with protein and eat a lot of different protein things, then have veggies and finally your carbs and some dessert. I don't always do it that way. Over the holidays I got into junk. But basically I do it this way.
Why does this diet work? Because the key to health is *fasting insulin levels*. That means, what is your insulin levels when you have eaten nothing? Your body has its own means of regulating blood sugar. If you eat all the time, your body gets screwy and always is secreting lots of insulin which is not healthy. If you fast most of the time and only eat off-and-on like this, your body re-learns to regulate its own insulin and blood sugar levels, and your fasting insulin level tends to get low.
One thing that does happen is this: when I do eat, I get very tired. That is because my body is very insulin sensitive now, which is a good thing. That is why the diet emphasizes eating at night. We are naturally designed to wind down, eat and get sleepy, I think. I try to eat early in the evening so I don't go to sleep with a full stomach.
For those of you who are type II diabetics -- you need to do your own research. Type II runs in my family big-time. I would have had it, had I not started down the road that led me here. I had a lot of health problems that were getting worse and they have improved a lot. I don't get sick much anymore. I am in better health at 44 than I ever was. You need to rely upon your own research because doctors are mostly very untrained and not nearly as knowledgeable as they think they are. Research this and discuss with your doctor but make your own decision. I believe that eating *frequency* is the key to longevity and health, rather than just *what you eat*. Studies are backing this up. This is the Next Big Thing. Remember you heard it here first on Bladeforums
) and no ups and downs that I used to have, after lunch for instance. So I am more productive, more mentally clear, and I feel much better.
). Obviously i don't eat the same stuff every day, 1-2 days in a week it's ~7 sardines + bread, sometimes it's junk food (like potato chips), somethimes some rice and 100 gram steak, some sweets/cookies to go along, etc. All in all i have apparently stabilised at said weight so my intake is obviously enough to cover my base metabolism + whatever [little] training i do. I do look quite "fat-free" though, no beer belly, no fat elsewhere on the body 
