I mean a big, healthy meal with enough protein, carbs, fats and so so on. Is it possible? Have any of you done it?

Most likely not. You'd be hard pressed to get all your required nutrients for the day. Im not saying its impossible (as Im sure someone some where has done it) but the fact of the matter is that it is very unlikely.

By the way, this should be in the nutrition and supplements section. ;)

I can get stronger
on 2 meals but not 1.

it would have to be a warrior type
where you eat like three meals in a one sitting time span.

I have done it before and worked.

I've tried it...it sucks. 3+ meals a day works much better for anabolism, hormone upregulation, and overall wellbeing.

Look up "Lean Gains" by Martin Berkhan.

don't sumo wrestlers eat like once a day to get really big? if that's true it must be possible.

fat man calves!

I have a muscle mag with an article about a bodybuilder who just ate rice and beans once a day,and he was a beast.

Still not something i would do.

Plus when would you be eating this meal? As a breakfast or post-workout? Also, you would have to eat like 200+ grams of protein in that one sitting to get in enough for a 24 hour period, but your body couldn't effectively use that all at once so I would say it is pretty much impossible.

Why would you want to?

If you can get all your calories in then probably. That would mean you have to eat at least a 3000 calorie meal and get enough protein. I'm guessing it would be almost impossible.

you fucking kidding me? Gaining muscle on one meal a day lol? If it could happen 99% of the people on these boards would be pro-bodybuilders. Most often then not the answer for all these 'I can't gain any muscle' threads is simply 'eat more' and you asking if it is possible to gain muscle just by eating one meal a day? lol...

You could potentially gain muscle off one meal a day.

But you could also 'potentially' finish a book by only reading one word every 2 minutes as well...

If you're Sergio Oliva, then yes. If you're not Sergio Oliva, then probably not.

I can't believe a thread this ridiculous has gotten more than one reply. The answer is no, if you had read even a single article on this site you would have figured that out.

Read more, lift more, eat more.

Can you, as in me or 99.99% of the population gain muscle on one meal a day, NO. If I started today on the one meal a day plan I am pretty sure I would lose muscle and feel miserable.

you, as in is it possible for ANY human to gain muscle on one meal a day I say yes.

I am sure that if I first starved myself down to a near death weight then started eating one good meal a day I could gain quite a bit of muscle.

Is it likely this is a smart plan if you have a choice, no...

If you're starting out at 6 foot and 135 lbs then you might...

2 is definitely possible if your an eating machine, just 1 I'd have to see it to believe it.

Well, if you can sit-down and keep eating for about 3 hrs... unless you can have all the veggies, fruits and nutritious calories in a couple of mouthfulls.

That said, I think it's possible. I've been doing Martin Berkhan's intermittent fasting (8 hrs feast, 16 hrs fast) during a mass-gaining phase. Sometimes, after my workout, if I was short on time I could stay eating for 3+ hrs until meeting my macro-micronutrient count. Well... this was technically two meals if I count the peri-workout nutrition as a meal.

You'd better experiment and tell us. This approach has been working for me, but every organism is different.

Yes.
of course you can gain muscle from 1 meal, but that means that meal has to have the calories that all you're meals put together would usually have, also this type of meal would most likely take 3-4 hours to eat, so essentially you're doing something called Intermittent fasting, usually done with paleo type foods, such as berries//vegetables// and meat only, under the pretense that when we were evolving we hunted all day, and ate and rested in the evening before sleep.

Edit: uhh sorry prettymuch repeated what the guy above me said, carry on

TC wrote an article years ago about the Chanko Diet, which was based loosely on the sumo approach of smaller, huge meals in an effort to put on weight. I've known a few trainers over the years who eat this way, but to be honest, I think you really need to have a good metabolism on your side if you don't want to just become softer than you might want.

S