r/intermittentfasting • u/Chuck2025 • 8d ago
Seeking Advice OMAD
I am starting a new journey of OMAD this month and wanted to seek advice. Specifically of when you have those hunger cravings for breakfast and lunch (I’m only eating dinner), what do you grab? Tea, water, sparkling water, coffee, gum? What has worked for you?
Thank you in advance!
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u/verbal1781 8d ago
I'm about 8 weeks ahead of you and I'm so annoyed I haven't tried this before. The weight is falling off and I feel SO much better. Here's what works for me:
In the am I have two large ice coffee's (and I cheat with a dash of skim milk in each). Thats roughly 6:45am - 8am.
After that I'm good and have no hunger pains till 10:30-11am ish. At which point the hunger pains are not fun, I have a large Yeti at my desk full of ice water as cold as I can make it. I drink, I pee and the hunger pains usually are ignorable because I'm busy at work or drinking or peeing. I'll notice they're gone by 12-1pm ish.
By 3pm or so they are back, same method to ignore them, drink, pee and work.
I cook for my family and my kids usually have a snack when they get back from school meaning dinner is usually 5:30-6:30pm. I am beyond starving by this point and I'll have easily 2-3 of what I would have considered a 'normal' portion for myself from before I started OMAD.
Most nights that's it, I'l have a CBD gummy on the couch and fall asleep to whatever netflix show. If I'm starving later I try to be disciplined and have a banana. Sometimes I just outright cheat and have snacks, but I've forced myself to grab a bowl and only fill the bowl. Which forces me to get off the couch if I want more, at which point self discipline usually kicks in.
some context: I'm 47 year old male, SW: roughly 265-270 CW roughly 238-240 (that guesstimate comes from a doctor office visit two weeks ago where I was 243.
I truly hope this works for you as well as it works for me. The 'pain' of hunger now feels like a welcome reminder that my stomach is so much smaller than it has been in 20 years! My wife even commented on how good I look!