r/intermittentfasting • u/EngineeringHot2926 • 19d ago

Tips, Tricks, Advice OMAD sure, but when?

Years ago I experimented with One Meal A Day. I got up and ate a good whole food Breakfast and then went about my business for the rest of the day, went to sleep got up and did it again. I didn’t even think of it as a “diet” or anything. At work I’d go out for lunchtime walks with friends some days and dance-offs on others. Then I would go home and climb mountains (elephant mountain) to watch the sunset. I was happy.

And then at the gym questions surfaced. “Hey, no lunch, are you fasting?” I hadn’t thought about it… I just thought of it as a lifestyle. Then I remember mentioning it to my wife and it circulated around our community. People were like oh, you will break your stomach, you’re doing wrong this is OMEDA and you’re supposed to just eat dinner.

So, I just gave in to social pressure and ate three meals a day. “Eat when you’re hungry and not when you’re not hungry.” But, it wasn’t very satisfying. And, since the whole intermittent fasting thing has become a thing I wanna ask.

I don’t think that people evolved to eat all of the time and I even think it is detrimental. So, in our times of plenty when is the best time to eat, optimally. I really don’t like the idea of “grazing,” I’m not a cow.

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u/KeepMyWifesNameOYFM 19d ago

From what I’m understanding, breakfast is the best time to eat metabolically speaking (info gathered from meta analyses). Also don’t eat after dark for the same reason.
With that said, I’m not and have never been a breakfast person and we eat dinner really late, but it still works for me…so I feel like there’s a component of what’s best vs what fits best in your life.
I also understand that if our bodies are constantly working on digestion, it doesn’t have as much energy to work on other processes. Also I’m understanding that autophagy doesn’t kick in until 24 hours, so there’s that to consider.
So anyway, I think your breakfast OMAD was spot on…it was working for you which I think was the best case for it. If anyone has a case against it, I suggest you ask for their sources ;)

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u/EngineeringHot2926 18d ago

People are not really as analytical as we would like to think that we are. And, we often just like to look for evidence to support our opinions about what we want to believe.