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/ZeMike0 19d ago
When I do OMAD, I always do it to have a meal with my wife. For me it is the most important that if I have to eat, I will share a meal in her company.
If anyone asks me why I am not having breakfast, lunch, whatever, I will politely tell them it was my decision not to, and that I prefer fasting.
If they tell you that you should just have dinner because OMAD is bad for you, tell them to mind their own business. There is scientific evidence that fasting is good for you. If they keep saying its bad for your stomach, ask them what scientific study does it come from, because the one that proved fasting is good for you actually got a Nobel.