OMAD (One Meal A Day) (sardines, burger, tuna, avocado)

[Mikala43]

Well, it works for me, and is backed up by my doctors. So you do you!

[otterhere]

But surely your insulin level fluctuates throughout the day? That's the whole point of fasting: to level it off somewhat and reap the benefits.

But we've wandered far afield of the gustatory pleasures of OMAD.

[vision33r]

Originally Posted by Mikala43

Well, it works for me, and is backed up by my doctors. So you do you!

That is the problem, I'm no longer trusting many doctors with outdated knowledge. There's a lot of recent data that can only be interpreted by doctors with advanced medical knowledge.

Insulin resistance has been recently identified as a serious problem and it has not been widely accepted by medical doctors because they weren't trained in medical schools.

It took several doctors that researched and discovered the mechanism of liver health, blood sugar changes to make sense of how insulin plays a huge factor in longevity and overall health factors.

Anybody who has insulin resistance need to do intermittent fasting before it's too late. When the doctors start telling you that you are having pre-diabetes. Why didn't they warn you before it started? A lot of doctors today are very insincere about metabolic health or just lack of formal knowledge of the subject.

I've seen many doctors over the years and none were able to cure my ailments and just kept prescribing me meds. Once I switched my diet around and start intermittent fasting all those conditions went away. Why didn't the doctors tell me to lose weight and fix my diet?

[Gerania]

Someone has to tell you to lose weight?

[Mikala43]

Originally Posted by Gerania

Someone has to tell you to lose weight?

That was my first thought.

[old_cold]

Question.
No way can I do a one meal a day thing but routinely go 12 to 16 hours.
Supposedly, it takes about 8 hours for the stomach to empty so wouldn't the body start feeding on "itself" anytime after that?

[Arya Stark]

Originally Posted by vision33r

I've seen many doctors over the years and none were able to cure my ailments and just kept prescribing me meds. Once I switched my diet around and start intermittent fasting all those conditions went away. Why didn't the doctors tell me to lose weight and fix my diet?

I have never trusted doctors. Seen them mess up too much. I do my own research and blood tests and only go to the doctors if they have tests that I want. I will never understand people who say "well my doctor said"... I could care less about what my doctor said unless i can find independent studies / medical consensus that agrees with them.

I flat refuse any medications most of the time. On the short period I did not...every medication had to be quickly discontinued due to damage to my body.

I give you credit for trying to convert people (though I wonder why they are posting here if they don't want to OMAD) but I doubt it will work. Most people do what they want and are willing to pay the price for it. And, I do think that some diets -- even if they work in a different way can be good for some people. Such as vegetarian.

I was surprised this week to get back a ferritin test that was high -- just slightly -- I believe it was due to too much red meat. So even on the Keto / fasting diet you have to be careful. Yes my blood sugar is WONDERFUL and so is my insulin, but it does me no good if I am overdosing on Iron. But again, I lay that at the feed of my incompetent doctors. I believe these simple and cheap tests should be run on a yearly basis for every patient they could not be more cheap and avoid problems. But they don't.

Thank god for Elizabeth Holmes lobbying to get blood tests done without your doctor.

[otterhere]

Originally Posted by old_cold

Question.
No way can I do a one meal a day thing but routinely go 12 to 16 hours.
Supposedly, it takes about 8 hours for the stomach to empty so wouldn't the body start feeding on "itself" anytime after that?

Not quite yet. You still have glycogen in your liver and muscles for the body to use for energy. It's about at the 16-hour mark that it has to start accessing your stored fat. Every hour after that is bonus fat-burning.

[newdixiegirl]

Originally Posted by Mrs. Skeffington

I started eating OMAD (before it even had that name) many years ago, when I was desperate to drop 15 pounds of stubborn baby weight right after the birth of my youngest. I'd tried drastically cutting calories, but that wasn't working. Then someone recommended the book "The Carbohydrate Addicts Diet" to me. I paid attention to the first chapter, where Dr. Rachel Heller described how she had lost a great deal of weight eating only one meal a day (the diet plan prescribes eating two low carbohydrate meals and one "eat-anything-you-want-but-keep-it-balanced Reward Meal", to be consumed in an hour).

I didn't bother with the "low carb meals" (I was impatient to have that baby weight gone FAST), so I started eating only the one meal a day (like Dr. Heller originally did), dinner in the evening, which I consumed in an hour. During the day, I'd have only black coffee and water. In less than two months, I was thinner than I was pre-pregnancy. I had no cravings during the day, and wasn't hungry or tired from the lack of food. I even did an intense exercise session every morning to accelerate the weight loss. I had that one meal a day to look forward to, knowing I could eat what I wanted (within reason). I didn't treat it like a "binge"...I tried to keep it balanced, with meat, potatoes (or other carb) and vegetables. And sometimes an alcoholic beverage or two or dessert with it.

Sometimes it seemed like I was eating enough food for a third world country at that one meal, but the pounds continued to quickly drop.

Almost 30 years later, I've kept the weight off, although I'm not as strict about the hour time frame (I've never been one for eating breakfast). If a few pounds are creeping up (like they did during the Covid lockdown), I go right back to the hour time limit.

I admire your self-discipline. Do you typically eat twice a day now when you're not trying to cut calories?

[prospectheightsresident]

I generally OMAD during the work week, but not consciously; it just works out that way and it generally is my post work meal. I refuse to wake up at the time needed to eat breakfast before work.

On the weekends, I'll eat 2-3 meals a day.