OMAD Diet. Anyone Doing It?

[Mai72]

OMAD. One Meal A Day

I'm going to start Monday. I've been doing IF for some time. Love it. 2 meals a day. I'm going to try to condense my eating window in 1-1.5 hrs. I work late most nights, so I'll take my meals to work and ang them out while I'm working. Anyone try this? Thoughts?

 

[highland145]

Diet? =IMAD

Personally, six eating times/day. Might just be an apple but I don't like being hungry.

 

[ArchAngel777]

Diet? =IMAD

Personally, six eating times/day. Might just be an apple but I don't like being hungry.

This just proves how each of us are unique. If I eat the way you do, I am constantly hungry. The way I control my appetite and thrive is by eating two meals a day. Basically 16/8 IF protocol, which I did before IF ever became a "thing". If I eat breakfast, I tend to overeat. Now, people may say "That is a self-control issue" to which I say, "damn right", but if it requires less self-control to do 16/8, why wouldn't I?

For a large part of the population, 16/8 is their method to maintain balance in their lives. People will do what works for them and makes them the most comfortable. Of course, variations exist. But the prevailing mainstream wisdom of "Breakfast is the most important meal" is probably the biggest myth of all with all of its "It revs up your metabolism" type BS statements. Now, If you like big breakfast, and a smaller dinner or no dinner and it works for you, great! There isn't just one way or ideal specific times to eat. In the end it comes down to what works for you to maintain energy balance and it appears homeostasis works just fine for a number of eating patterns.

As far as OMAD, I tried it myself and I found that TMAD (two meals) was better for me. Towards the end of the fast, my body temp starts to drop, so putting something into the furnace brings my temp back up, provides a bit of an energy boost for a decent workout, only to top it off with a larger dinner type meal. OMAD just made it too difficult to get through the afternoon or an evening workout. Mind you, this was during a cut. It is very possible that maintenance on OMAD is much easier as the big meal would be restoring glycogen all through the night and provide enough to last until the next meal.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Nope, no OMAD for me. I eat starting about 5am when I wake up, and end before 7pm. It's more of about 6 small "meals" a day.

 

[Kaido]

I've done it. It's very convenient, and it's fun to eat an entire day's worth of food in one sitting, lol. Your stomach adapts to it in just a few weeks, and eventually skipping breakfast & lunch doesn't bother you at all. Bottom line is calories/macros per day - what you eat & when you eat it are up to you!

I currently do 7 meals a day, because I like food, and because larger portion sizes tend to make me sleepy (lot of food in gut = pegs my body's CPU at 100%, zzzzz...).

 

[Mai72]

I eat two times in a day, which is actually not good. Dietologists suggest that we should eat 5 times a day. Anyway, I try to eat as healthy as I can. And I also use some organic products which keep me active and energized. I find them very useful.

IMO. those dietologist are behind current trends. It's just not true. You don't need to eat 5X a day. There are so many benefits to intermittent fastening and prolonged fast. Lower levels of insulin, weight loss, you have power over your food habits, anti aging, etc. But, the biggest impact is autophagy. It's exciting stuff. Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the nobel prize a few years back in medicine for his work on autophagy. Autophagy is when our weak cells are devoured by our healthy cells. Your body is in self cleaning mode. But, to put your body into autophagy you have to fast for at least 24-48 hours.

https://www.livescience.com/56349-japanese-scientist-wins-nobel-prize-in-medicine.html

 

[purbeast0]

The whole concept of 'eating 5x a day' isn't just to say you are eating 5 small meals a day, it's supposed to also make it so you never reach the 'IM SO HUNGRY I COULD EAT A COW!' mode and overeat.

Same with the whole IF crap. In the end, all it's doing it making you eat less than you would if you weren't doing it.

Sure there is a bit more to it than that, but at the most basic level, you're eating less in certain scenarios versus other scenarios. And when you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight. But if there is more too it than just weight loss, there are benefits of doing stuff different ways.

To this day I do not understand why people think there is something magical to losing weight. It's such a basic principle.

I was also talking to my wife this past week about how I don't understand how people are so concerned about "looking good" and buying fancy clothes, putting on all this makeup, yet they are still fat. And in the end, the one thing you TRULY have control over is your weight. It's 100% on you and nothing else. Whereas many people don't have the means to buy fancy clothes, expensive makeup, or even changing their looks with what they were dealt in life.

 

[ArchAngel777]

The whole concept of 'eating 5x a day' isn't just to say you are eating 5 small meals a day, it's supposed to also make it so you never reach the 'IM SO HUNGRY I COULD EAT A COW!' mode and overeat.

This is absolutely correct. There is no magic to eating 6x a day, or 1x a day. The magic, is, how much total energy to ingest. There are advantages and disadvantages to each method.

I can easily down 5K calories in one sitting. If you struggle with an eating disorder, 1 meal a day may be a very bad idea. Additionally, it is possible that cutting with 1 meal a day will create disordered eating.

It is my personal belief that many eating disorders are physiologically induced - Not all, mind you, but many. I didn't struggle with disordered eating until I became "fit". Now I have a sweet tooth that is NEVER satisfied. Many other active and fit people say the same thing, though many will not admit it. There is a lot of fakery in the fitness world, whether it be abusing of drugs and stimulants, to hiding binge eating disorder, to faking how happy they are, to photo shopping images and picking the best possible pose. Only posing with a "pump". The whole thing is really a facade!

I got news for everyone... Getting very lean and looking great it a vicious cycle... That doesn't mean fitness is wrong or bad, not at all! But what you see in the media, people's instagram... Its mostly a facade. These people are broken underneath and very disordered.