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I tried the one-meal-a-day regime. This is what happened

I tried the one-meal-a-day regime. This is what happened

Eating all your calories in a single meal, an extreme form of intermittent fasting known as OMAD, has many high-profile proponents. But does it work?

There are many long hours to get through when you’re eating just once daily. Getty Images

Breakfast and lunch are becoming increasingly unfashionable. Bruce Springsteen doesn’t eat them and nor do Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, former British prime minister Rishi Sunak, supermodel Naomi Campbell or English football pundit Gary Lineker.

They’re just some of the high-profile types who live off just one meal a day, a nutritional approach known by its acronym, OMAD. Spider-Man actor Tom Holland is yet another public advocate, recently telling Men’s Health: “Breakfast, lunch and dinner to me is an extortionate amount of food.”

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Luke BenedictusContributorLuke Benedictus is the Financial Review’s watch writer.

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