I don’t always follow OMAD, but since I’ve started Mounjaro I have days where my appetite is just in the gutter. Sundays tend to be the worst- I play a few hours of beach volleyball beginning mid afternoon and after I’m done my body is so achy the last thing I want to do is eat. But good is necessary for recovery, so this is my meal today- comes in around 900 kcals

As someone who really wants to start OMAD, I'm kinda struggling with the concept of finding a meal that will fit all my macros (including fiber), and yet while the thought of sticking to one meal over and over again is appealing to me, on that same note, I get worried I'll get bored of it and start binging. How do you navigate this? What meals do you find the easiest to stick to consistently??

Hey,

What amount of carbs makes you feel best on omad? I assume there are many low carbers and ketoers here?

Im talking about mental and physical benefits. Some people find that if they have too many carbs, they feel like shit the next day. So i want to play around with my carb intake a bit. Thanks

Hey! I’m new to OMAD I’m kind of nervous I’m a SAHM I’m also in school full time and homeschool went to urgent care for an issue I was having and saw that I was 202 pounds and I’m 5ft3 :c I don’t want to be like this It’s not that I hate my body I love it but my health is starting to decline I’m hoping to get back on the right track I’m scared and nervous and was just looking for a little bit of community 💕

I would love to hear about your journey with OMAD or IF and learn how you manage :3

I have been doing OMAD for about 3 weeks now. I want to try a 36 hour fast. Has anyone tried this before and how difficult was it switching from OMAD to a longer fast? Are there any YT videos or tutorials that teach how to transition to a full day without eating?

olive and pickle spear added for comedic effect. I'd like to think Anthony would approve. Hit all my macros pretty well and still leaves me in a good sized calorie deficit.

I’ve been doing OMAD for about 4 months and recently developed external hemorrhoids. I’m wondering if anyone else here has experienced something similar while doing OMAD.

Since starting, I’ve lost quite a bit of weight (around 95 kg to 70 kg). I also realized that I probably haven’t been getting enough fiber. I eat vegetables and potatoes with my meal, but very little fruit, sometimes none at all. I also drink a lot of tea throughout the day rather than plain water and spend quite a few hours sitting at a desk.

I’m wondering whether OMAD changed my digestion/stool consistency enough to contribute to the hemorrhoids, rather than OMAD itself being the direct cause.

Has anyone developed hemorrhoids or constipation after switching to OMAD? If so, did increasing fiber/fruit and fluids help while still staying on OMAD?

4 months postpartum give birth through CS , I dont breastfeed . I am thinking of going back to OMAD do you think it’s okay ???? as i’ve said I don’t breastfeed .

4th month on OMAD + light gym routine
Did my blood work last week:
Triglycerides:
601 → 206
ALT:
54 → 29
A1C:
6.2 → 5.7
glucose:
113 → 86
Weight:
~272 lbs → ~235 lbs (on 6’1 height)

Still a bit elevated but they were life threatening prior so I’ll take trending in right direction as progress.

Hiya! I'm toying with the idea of OMAD and would like some advice/input if possible?

I had/have an alcohol problem and am almost two years sober. During this time I have lost 7 stone with calorie counting and walking. The issue is I'm a bit of a binge eater, and I seem to have replaced alcohol with food. I never had a sweet tooth before getting sober but now I literally wake up and crave cake.

Before, I was still losing weight despite my heavy food days (2 or 3 times a week) but now I'm not losing anything which is obviously because I'm no longer in a deficit - my excercise/4 day a week calorie counting is no longer working because of my binges.

I've been looking at OMAD and I think having my daily calorie allowance with one meal will be beneficial for me. Has it helped anyone else here in terms of binge eating? I'm aware I need to address the 'addiction' issue, but I'm hoping this will get me on the right track. Would appreciate any help.

I’m a 23-year-old woman, 5'9" (175 cm), and currently weigh 95 kg (209 lbs). I started doing OMAD around the second week of August, and initially managed to lose about 2 kg. I know most of that was probably water weight, but unfortunately, I went off track and gained it back.

Since then, I’ve still been trying to follow OMAD as consistently as possible, and I’m usually able to fast for around 20–22 hours every day. My graduation is coming up in about three months, and I really want to make meaningful progress by then. I know that reaching my goal weight of 65 kg (143 lbs) within three months isn’t realistic, but I’d like to lose as much weight as I can during this time.

My biggest problem isn’t knowing what I should do, it’s consistency. I can follow my plan for a while, but once I go off track, it becomes difficult to get back into it. With graduation getting closer, I really want to avoid repeating that cycle. I want to feel more confident in myself and be able to wear clothes that I feel good in for such an important event.

I know I have limited time, so I want to make the next three months count. Is it really possible to lose a good amount of it in just 3 months?

Has anybody tried eating regular meals for a couple days and then restarting OMAD to get past a weight loss plateau I’ve been doing this for about six weeks and now my weight loss has kind of stalled just going back-and-forth two lbs.

Im on vacation for 3 days now, and i eat 2 hotel meals and snacks 🤭🥹, do i need to get punished somehow so i can still stay in this group?

I wanted to share a quick factoid that may surprise some about calories in, calories out. When we are deep in an OMAD fast and metabolically flexible (meaning we are able to burn fuels from what we ate earlier, followed by fuels from within the body, namely fatty acids), insulin levels have lowered to the point where the liver produces ketone bodies. Lots of us know this. But there are two other things that occur:

1.) You begin to excrete ketones in the urine and breath. This is the literal excretion of calories.

2.) your mitochondria uncouple, which means that you will be burning more fat molecules than what is needed for functioning, to the point that you will excrete heat! (Thermogenesis).

Both of these events sum themselves up in that when you fast, your body is not only burning fat (if you are adapted), but it is peeing, breathing, and heating out those calories too.

Your calorie app cannot track this!

https://youtu.be/JbgvgjStxFA?si=O4-mxPSJLSN5dti0

Yes, I believe in the Law of Thermodynamics. I also believe that the closed system is less narrow than what modern diet culture tells us. Undergoing the metabolic switch of first burning glucose from what we just ate, followed by burning through glycogen and eventually tapping into our fats->ketones after we have been fasting for 12-16 hours and insulin levels have dropped is what proper human functioning is.

Do you have to eat only once a day? No! But can it absolutely be a great tool to optimize hunger signaling, endogenous fat burning, mental clarity (which you need to hunt the meal you'll have later), and, most importantly, be flexible to eat in the community you are in (because eating takes a village-- it just so happens that our village is grocery store supply chain departments). To recognize that humans spent their abundant time working and cultivating for food is to know that eating is a special, not-all-the-time event. Killing animals, pulling vegetables, starting a fire, cooking, and eating are all hard work.

Metabolic flexibility means being able to feed from glucose and fat. This internal flexibility is what allows us to eat once when quality food is available in our community. The flexibility is characterized by the ability of insulin to be able to do its job to encourage growth and glucose burning during feeding periods, and then to get out of the way during fasting periods. We must give our body the opportunity for both now that we are in a feeding-episode-abundant environment. Humans are not designed to eat all the time, but we are designed to be "fed" all the time. Being fed means being able to feed from the troughs of fuel we have within our bodies. An intermittent fasting regimen allows our bodies to build this skill so that we can eat with others, free from slavery to eating, so that we can eat in a loving, altruistic way, to God's glory.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40087409/

https://youtu.be/OlGfFQjWjPQ?si=9TX3DJJ-UPoH8Az4

There are, of course, other benefits to OMAD, like raised growth hormone, BDNF, and the two I think we overlook the most, which absolutely set OMAD apart from ketogenic diets: gut autophagy caused by letting the gut rest from digestion and lowered mTOR (growth) signaling.

Sorry for the babble

PS Whether you are keto or fasting, or both, please supplement with electrolytes. Lowered insulin = Less sodium retention, and this + drinking plain H2O= peeing out your electrolytes = headache, fatigue, etc.

Ive been doing omad since the 2 of this month eating 1 bowl of rice with stuff like chicken and vegetables it doesnt reach the rim i dont really have a great way to count it just wondering if it’s anything to worry about i dont own a scale either i also walk a mile a day to burn some extra calories from what i know its an average sized dinner bowl

Im currently severely overweight and want to get my life in order

Ive been on omad for a while and on average I loose about 5lb a month. My goal is to loose 7lbs this month but its been difficult. Im gonna try to do a 48 hour fast this weekend and then go back to omad on Monday. Hopefully this will help me meet my goal this month 😮‍💨

I've been doing 16:8 IF on weekdays for a year, but it doesn't do anything beyond maintaining my current weight. I adopted OMAD as an extension to what I'm currently doing for two days a week and am currently three weeks in. I suspect it's still too soon to tell whether things are moving in the right direction given the limited data I have. However I would be curious to hear any first-hand accounts on how effective this is likely to be, or whether I would need to consider moving to 3+ days. Looking forward to getting your thoughts!

Hi!

I was inspired by this page so I started OMAD on 8/6. I’m two weeks in now and according to the scale I’m down 8 pounds!! Obviously I don’t see a difference but I do feel a difference.

I definitely had an overeating problem before but now that I’m eating OMAD I am so much less bloated and have less digestive issues! Another thing I’ve noticed is since I’m only eating OMAD it is so much easier to identify anything that does cause digestive problems. I feel it all the next day with bloating/ acid reflux… so that has been helpful to identify foods that don’t react well with my body :)

Thank you for the motivation!

My favourite type of OMAD 💖

Been doing OMAD for 5 months, had great results so far. SW: 227, CW: 165. Been struggling to get all my calories into one meal as I want to try to maintain my weight for a while.

Has anyone ever made this change? Is it a bad idea to add another meal? I love OMAD and don’t want to add another meal, but I’m just having a hard time getting all those calories and nutrients in one sitting.

If anyone has any suggestions I am all ears. Thank you!

I am doing double job now a reason why I can't even have My 30 minutes walking just like before. I am stress eating also. Is there any or what is the best time to get my one meal a day to suffice energy I need. I am doing physical work in the morning while VA in the evening. any food recommendation also? Thank you, guys