One Day at a Time, One Meal a Day (ODAT-OMAD)
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Maybe eat once in awhile with them on special occasions but not a daily basis type of thing. That is what I'm trying to do.1
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Went OMAD again yesterday,a public holiday. I went back to an old favourite - roast pork which I know always resets my body back to where it sits best. I ate at 2.30 pm. That seems to be when I eat if I am not working. I have been reading and watching programs about the human biome and as a result have decided to eat food with more fibre. So more broccoli and other fibrous vegetables are back in fashion again. Lean people have a different gut biome to overweight and obese people apparently. Native people who stick to their traditional diet can eat up to ten times the amount of fibre that developed western cultures do and as a result they can avoid many of the metabolic or lifestyle diseases of civilisation.0
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Great information.0
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Went OMAD again yesterday,a public holiday. I went back to an old favourite - roast pork which I know always resets my body back to where it sits best. I ate at 2.30 pm. That seems to be when I eat if I am not working. I have been reading and watching programs about the human biome and as a result have decided to eat food with more fibre. So more broccoli and other fibrous vegetables are back in fashion again. Lean people have a different gut biome to overweight and obese people apparently. Native people who stick to their traditional diet can eat up to ten times the amount of fibre that developed western cultures do and as a result they can avoid many of the metabolic or lifestyle diseases of civilisation.
Wow....roast pork---YUMMY! Thank you so much for this post, it's inspirational and you're doing GREAT!
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I am going to eat on plan today and for the first four days of this week. I am feeling a bit yucky after eating off plan last week. I have been regaining a few kilos over the past week or so...It is always the same after I accept lunch from people who don't know my eating protocol. One of the ladies at work is a diabetic and she cooks her diabetes-inducing food for me. When will I learn to say no?0
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You are a very nice man and don't want to disappoint someone who is giving you a gift of food. When will you learn to say no....well, when you're ready.0
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I am going to eat on plan today and for the first four days of this week. I am feeling a bit yucky after eating off plan last week. I have been regaining a few kilos over the past week or so...It is always the same after I accept lunch from people who don't know my eating protocol. One of the ladies at work is a diabetic and she cooks her diabetes-inducing food for me. When will I learn to say no?
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Thanks for the encouragement! I finally got to say no to the free lunch today. I just sat there while the others around the table tucked in to white bread rolls with sweet and or savoury fillings for morning tea then a full rice meal for lunch.
Today I found out that one of my students has diabetes. Yesterday I found out that two others in my class have diabetes. Metabolic disease is rife in the refugee community. I think that the prevalence of this disease has given me the courage to say no to food that is offered to me. I have "come out" as a faster and they will just have to deal with that. I feel so much better when I eat OMAD with a single main meal in the late afternoon.
I just had an orange for lunch today and yesterday a couple of boiled eggs for lunch + a single evening meal. It may seem a bit weird to avoid this social eating on a daily basis but it is not worth compromising my health just to (supposedly) make others feel a little bit more comfortable.0 -
There you go.....you are standing up for yourself !!! Wonderful progress.
Because of your stance on food it could help someone else look at their diet and change the way they eat. You could be the inspiration that starts a movement at your workplace because of your tenacity. 0 -
This evening at a meeting, I pushed back chocolate cake and a tray of sweets proffered by kind, well-meaning but ultimately unhelpful friends. It is a case of establishing and then adhering to personal rules of conduct.1
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Thanks for the encouragement! it is much appreciated. 0
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It's one day at a time. I'm sure they will understand eventually. Keep up the wonderful job.0
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Hey OMADers, hope you are having a good day. I have had a good week at work and have declined all offers of "free lunch" and off plan snacks. I ate OMAD for 4 days in a row this week. I feasted like a king at night and still managed to lose nearly 2 kilos or about 4 lbs. OK so they were 4 lbs of excess weight I put on last week but still, it confirmed my belief: this way of eating really works.
I have had high energy and elevated moods all week. Next week will be a test because we are having our regular open buffet at work. In the past this buffet style lunch of has been a pitfall for me because once I start I find it hard to stop, however, given the choice of a work lunch buffet or my own "eat like a king" dinner I will take my own food at dinner any day of the week.
This week I have been looking at hoarding and have been throwing stuff out and organising stuff to either store away in better order or to simply give away. I have found myself having more energy when I give things away. I do a have a tendency to hoard due to the accumulation of losses and deprivations throughout my life so it is something that I have to watch (along with open lunch buffets). Something to do with having to spend my entire schooling years (13 yrs) at boarding schools and orphanages where I suffered from food deprivation. This experience, I believe, turned me into an opportunist feeder.
But now by following an OMAD plan and literally "eating like a king" every single day I believe that I am overcoming this life story of deprivation even as a lose weight. For example, for the past two days I have been eating half a family pack of chocolate profiteroles for dessert with added cream etc plus more chocolate, but by limiting my eating to one meal a day my body is still able to eat within my daily or weekly plan and to maintain a healthy and steady weight. I am now back at my ideal weight again.1 -
Hey OMADers, hope you are having a good day. I have had a good week at work and have declined all offers of "free lunch" and off plan snacks. I ate OMAD for 4 days in a row this week. I feasted like a king at night and still managed to lose nearly 2 kilos or about 4 lbs. OK so they were 4 lbs of excess weight I put on last week but still, it confirmed my belief: this way of eating really works.
I have had high energy and elevated moods all week. Next week will be a test because we are having our regular open buffet at work. In the past this buffet style lunch of has been a pitfall for me because once I start I find it hard to stop, however, given the choice of a work lunch buffet or my own "eat like a king" dinner I will take my own food at dinner any day of the week.
This week I have been looking at hoarding and have been throwing stuff out and organising stuff to either store away in better order or to simply give away. I have found myself having more energy when I give things away. I do a have a tendency to hoard due to the accumulation of losses and deprivations throughout my life so it is something that I have to watch (along with open lunch buffets). Something to do with having spend my entire schooling years (13 yrs) at boarding schools and orphanages. It has made me into a kind of opportunist feeder. By literally eating like a king every single day I believe that I am overcoming this life story of deprivation even as a lose weight. There is a paradox here because for the past two days I have been eating half a family pack of chocolate profiteroles for dessert with added cream etc, but by limiting my eating to one meal a day my body is still able to handle this much food and maintain a healthy and steady weight loss. I am now back at my ideal weight again.
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You are doing sooooo WELL! The greater majority of this battle is a mental one and our pasts, hording and other real issues play a huge part in the hows/whys we do things. That you are becoming "conscience" of these things are nothing less than break-thrus. I'm so sorry about your younger life filled with woes, and ya know what...I know I have many battle scars of issues too. One of them for me was FEAR...before OMAD, I used to be filled with all kinds of fears, now that I acknowledge them and purposely go against them, it seems the battle gets easier and easier. It's still a battle, but now that I see how fear has robbed me of the most excellent and wonderful things, it's easier to reject the fear and take on the issue(s). OMAD is truly helping us in more ways than we think, daily.
Also...I don't know what happened to my replies/pics I posted for you on the thread above this one...here they are again, just because:
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You have come a long way. A 4 pound loss is GREAT!! Wow! Don't you love eating like a king when you get home and you get to lose weight too. Things happened to me in my past when I was homeless with two young children. I didn't eat for days because I wanted my children to eat. I think all of us have something that has made us who we are today.
The best thing about the struggles we endure are the strengths we get from them. Just look how far you've come. A job, a home, food to eat like a king every evening, and friends on this site to encourage you. You are doing great.
Congrats on the weight loss!!1 -
Hi!
Checking in on you to say ***HI*** and to see how you are doing and feeling these day! I hope/trust all is well.
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Ongoing issues with food at work have been a challenge for the past week or two. However I am persevering and intend to implement my IF plan regardless. This is what they served up for me last week.
After this lunch we had another additional cream cake for afternoon tea!0 -
I just have to say it - refugees have issues around food. Their long periods of near starvation can lead to over-consumption during periods of plenty. Also carbs and sugary foods are cheap! So food becomes a means of compensation and a way to preserve identity in a land of overconsumption.0
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Christmas at Aldi.
I love the traditional German foods that Aldi have at this time of year. Marzipan bread, marzipan pastries, well pretty much anything with marzipan and chances are I will like it. Also their chocolate treats are so tempting. With so much temptation around all the more reason to limit consumption to a narrow eating window of a couple of hours per day or even better go 1 meal a day! You can still enjoy your favourite treats if you limit yourself in this way.0 -
You could change your meal time to incorporate the foods they fix eating only one desert if you change your meal time to that time. Also, you have to know that you cannot eat again at night when you go home and will have to wait till the next day to eat again. You wouldn't get to fix your favorite meal at night like you've been doing.
I know it must be tempting with all those sweets. Its almost like sitting a bottle of liquor in front of an alcoholic. I'm so sorry you have to go through this. I hope you find a solution.
Are the people who eat this food all overweight? Are they consuming large amounts of food and sugar?
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Hi Linda, thanks for dropping in. Re: your question "Are the people who eat this food all overweight? Are they consuming large amounts of food and sugar?"
I would say yes, most of them are overweight and furthermore a large proportion (certainly the majority of my students) have type 2 diabetes. In one week they told me: Monday - two students have diabetes; Tuesday - 1 student has diabetes; Thursday - another student in a different class has diabetes. So it's a regular (almost daily) thing. I find it very sad because so much of this is avoidable through regulating our diet. IF is the best way to repair insulin sensitivity and reverse many of the symptoms of type 2 diabetes.0 -
What if the school taught them about sugar diabetes and how they are destroying their bodies by eating all the sugar. Maybe ask them to bring fruits and vegetable and not bring sugar into the school so they can begin getting better. Would the school incorporate that into their studies.
I feel so sad for them and hope someone can teach them the right way to eat. ♥1 -
Checking in: Good Morning to everyone on the OMAD journey. It is not always an easy way to travel but it certainly has its rewards. I have been struggling a bit lately with motivation and as a result have been getting into some not-so-good habits. My weight is creeping upwards. On the plus side I know from experience how to get myself out of this slump. OMAD works for me every time.
I recently bought myself a blood glucose meter and this is proving to be a blessing, albeit one that comes with some difficult-to-accept truths. Firstly, I am on the borderline of prediabetes based on my blood sugar levels.
That is the bad news - the good news is that I can do something about this. If I fast long enough my blood sugar comes down to a perfectly good level. If I snack throughout the day it stays high. Well, that is not exactly news but it is good to have the "scientific" evidence to confirm what I already suspected.
So now I have another reason not to eat during the day - to keep my blood sugar within the healthy fasted range. I am also becoming more and more sensitive to what I eat and how it makes me feel. If I eat junk I feel junk, while if I eat healthy I feel healthy. This is all part of the journey. It becomes less and less desirable for me to eat bad quality food. Put another way, more and more, I am rewarded for eating healthy food intermittently; ideally, once a day.
So I have the knowledge and the understanding of how OMAD works it is up to me to modify my behaviour to comply with the eating guidelines in order to reap the rewards.
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I'm happy to see your post and so happy you purchased a glucose meter and found out your blood level. It's very courageous of you and great to know it's not too late to change those results. Sometimes it takes a shock to get us to see things clearly.
It sounds like you are back on OMAD and since you know what to do to get healthy it should be easy to get to a healthy place.
Explaining about blood sugar to your students who want you to eat the sugary foods may help them see that they could do something positive about their health as well.
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ive sort of skimmed over your thread.....and Im confused....why did one person bring you food everyday? (I dont understand why they did that) And why are there such large buffets for parties all the time?? I find it kind of crazy!! lol Not trying to be mean or anything...I just dont understand............lol0
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Checking in: Good Morning to everyone on the OMAD journey. It is not always an easy way to travel but it certainly has its rewards. I have been struggling a bit lately with motivation and as a result have been getting into some not-so-good habits. My weight is creeping upwards. On the plus side I know from experience how to get myself out of this slump. OMAD works for me every time.
I recently bought myself a blood glucose meter and this is proving to be a blessing, albeit one that comes with some difficult-to-accept truths. Firstly, I am on the borderline of prediabetes based on my blood sugar levels.
That is the bad news - the good news is that I can do something about this. If I fast long enough my blood sugar comes down to a perfectly good level. If I snack throughout the day it stays high. Well, that is not exactly news but it is good to have the "scientific" evidence to confirm what I already suspected.
So now I have another reason not to eat during the day - to keep my blood sugar within the healthy fasted range. I am also becoming more and more sensitive to what I eat and how it makes me feel. If I eat junk I feel junk, while if I eat healthy I feel healthy. This is all part of the journey. It becomes less and less desirable for me to eat bad quality food. Put another way, more and more, I am rewarded for eating healthy food intermittently; ideally, once a day.
So I have the knowledge and the understanding of how OMAD works it is up to me to modify my behaviour to comply with the eating guidelines in order to reap the rewards.
What level are your blood-sugars reaching about two hours after a meal?0 -
What is your fasted in the morning blood sugar levels? I think is the most important. It should be up right after eating. Have mandatory watching of Joes videos as part of class!:)1
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OK, so I got food "ambushed" again at work again yesterday. The usual scenario - someone's birthday or someone leaving or some other reason. The feast food is prepared, brought in and laid out on a table for everyone to share. It is delicious and spectacular. I am invited - or just TOLD to participate and once again I comply, at first dutifully, then enthusiastically until I have over-indulged. We do this at morning tea then again for lunch. Others bring in food for me to take home. I give some away and throw the rest in the bin after the students have gone home.
Then I go home and decide to eat my own food all over again because I like my own food and don't feel right without it. So I put on just over 1 kg in a day and feel "blaaagh" the next day. It will take me a few days to get back to feeling "normal" again. Meanwhile I am feeling out of sorts.
I am going to put a stop to this. I am not going to eat this food that looks delicious and appears healthy but it is a trojan horse for all kinds of other unhealthy foods and unnecessary indulgences. I had three large cooked meals yesterday and still had a little snack before I went to bed.
No more!
Joe talks about being able to have a splurge day every 10 days. Maybe you can let that be your free day and move onward to the OMAD?
Also since your students like to gift you with food, you could divide out any dinner type meals ( ex. Meat and rice or starch) and portion them into zip lock freezer bags. Then you have a nice already cooked base for a weekend dinner, for example. Just add your veggies or whatever to round it out. I love it when a friend occasionally cooks for me.1 -
There are two aspects to the work lunch it seems, one is the temptation that it is and the other is are we being rude. I've found that if I can get over the temptation, that if I say I'm good and skip it, they are all ok since they know what I'm doing. Could be different in different places. For me the temptation is the hardest part.
The temptation lessens over time. Have you watched Joe's time line video so you know what to expect? At a certain point in the journey you will be able to socialize around food without the draw to eat.0
