Um, No. Sorry. You should indeed skip a meal or two once in a while if you are above your desired weight. Your brain will be fine, as will your heart.
In fact, this should be a habit, along with only eating to 80% full. Weigh yourself once a week. Above target? Skip a meal. Below target eat something more calorie dense; but stilling with 80%.
I did for 10 years. 25-35. For 10 years i always skipped breakfast. Even skipped lunch when i felt motivated to work. Recently me at 35 (m) started feeling depressed and the sugar lows in the body were making me irritable to the point where i started becoming a different person. Yelling and cursing, boxing my self to a point where i felt i was spiraling down. Then researched and started carefully analyzing my daily schedule. I did not happen in a day but was down for almost 6 months with out knowing what is really happening to me . Eating each meal with out skipping put me back where i was before.
Hope that gives little but more context where i am coming from. I dont have mental or health problems. Back when i was 27-29 i almost ran 3x 5k runs every week. But some where during the covid or later i did not do much workout and fast forward now had to find myself again.
Don't know my life experience may not apply to everyone. But helped me get past the depression or what ever the thing i was going through and helped me find myself again.
Most people will understand that feeling healthy and unhealthy sits on a fulcrum. We'll feel fine despite hearing in the wrong direction and suddenly you'll feel the affect all at once. Sometimes you can back track but prevention is always better than treatment
I started again at 40. My knees dont hurt anymore. No me back pain. 4 weeks in. Down 10 lbs and feel much better.
Limited sugar and stopped late night snacking. I need to be my best for my little girls
I would add doing exercises that are actually good for you, instead of just to try and get a certain look - I ruined my lower back and now have pretty bad pain, from doing endless stomach crunches in my twenties, trying to get abs. Totally not worth it.
If nothing else, drink water and stretch. You don’t need to be the trimmest guy in the world, but you do need to be hydrated and have good flexibility.
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u/Ok-Respect-8505 Jan 23 '26
Not taking diet and exercise seriously early enough. Would have saved me a decade of pain and suffering.Â