John's OMAD journey
leveejohn
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The holidays are officially out of the way, and starting OMAD on my last day off, Jan 2. It's morning, and sipping on black coffee. Not much to this post, just figuring out how to start a discussion thread.
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Howdy John!
Welcome aboard. It may or not take some time to adjust. Just keep plugging away and drink a lot of water when your fasting. Good luck!1 -
Welcome!
Hope you enjoy the process with us! 1 -
First day back at work yesterday was surprisingly bearable. Had a good day. Today I had to disappear for a while when lunches were brought in, I don't think I'm quite ready to be around that sort of thing. Fortunately my workplace has a gym and I spent 30 mins on the elliptical at a moderate pace. This afternoon was a bit tougher, but still bearable until my meal time (just finished - yay!). To be expected, or is this the first step on the path to overdoing it? I certainly hope it's just to be expected, and another part of the adjustment.1
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First day back at work yesterday was surprisingly bearable. Had a good day. Today I had to disappear for a while when lunches were brought in, I don't think I'm quite ready to be around that sort of thing. Fortunately my workplace has a gym and I spent 30 mins on the elliptical at a moderate pace. This afternoon was a bit tougher, but still bearable until my meal time (just finished - yay!). To be expected, or is this the first step on the path to overdoing it? I certainly hope it's just to be expected, and another part of the adjustment.
In my experience it's going to be hard at the beginning. Just keep in mind that this is the hardest part. I can promise you that OMAD gets easier as time goes. Once you become fat adapted, your body can seamlessly give you energy during the fast and appetite is naturally suppressed. You actually get to a stage where you don't even think about it. When your body makes this shift, you will know what I'm talking about straight away.3 -
I had a tough day today. I think it depends on what you ate the night before. I try to make sure I get adequate protein in the evening to try to control hunger the next day. I ate a little bit of coconut oil at 2:00 p.m. and at 3:30 p.m because I was really hungry. I don't have to do that many days but occasionally I will do that when I'm really hungry and it gets me through (doesn't make me more hungry).2
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Thank you both. It's actually been much easier than I thought this would have been. Anxious to see what the scale shows this weekend, and if I can make this past the 45 day mark (my previous record for these sort of things). I've been looking for something that can be a lifestyle, not a diet, and so far this looks like it might be it.3
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Thank you both. It's actually been much easier than I thought this would have been. Anxious to see what the scale shows this weekend, and if I can make this past the 45 day mark (my previous record for these sort of things). I've been looking for something that can be a lifestyle, not a diet, and so far this looks like it might be it.
When you hit maintenance, you will be able to open up your eating window more so that your just maintaining.0 -
The first week is the hardest. Really the first 2 weeks, but I think week 2 wasn't so bad. After those first 2 weeks it's not so bad and then really you don't have the hunger so much at all. I drink a lot of water, but if you do feel hungry tea and coffee help a lot. In the beginning I drank coffee in the morning and tea at lunch and that helped me not feel hungry almost all day and by the time it was almost dinner time is when I started feeling hungry. Good luck. Best and easiest diet I've ever done. I've lost 35 pounds and I love this! I've got more to go and I'm gonna do it! We can do it!3
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The first week is the hardest. Really the first 2 weeks, but I think week 2 wasn't so bad. After those first 2 weeks it's not so bad and then really you don't have the hunger so much at all. I drink a lot of water, but if you do feel hungry tea and coffee help a lot. In the beginning I drank coffee in the morning and tea at lunch and that helped me not feel hungry almost all day and by the time it was almost dinner time is when I started feeling hungry. Good luck. Best and easiest diet I've ever done. I've lost 35 pounds and I love this! I've got more to go and I'm gonna do it! We can do it!
Awesome! Actually it's pretty easy already. I just have to go do something else when they bring in food or start heating up lunches. But I was in a 3 hour meeting this afternoon with cookies in the room and it didn't bother me a bit.
I love the way all of y'all are so supportive!4 -
You are doing great and I know after a week or so you won't even be tempted by food because you will feel so good.2
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The first week is the hardest. Really the first 2 weeks, but I think week 2 wasn't so bad. After those first 2 weeks it's not so bad and then really you don't have the hunger so much at all. I drink a lot of water, but if you do feel hungry tea and coffee help a lot. In the beginning I drank coffee in the morning and tea at lunch and that helped me not feel hungry almost all day and by the time it was almost dinner time is when I started feeling hungry. Good luck. Best and easiest diet I've ever done. I've lost 35 pounds and I love this! I've got more to go and I'm gonna do it! We can do it!
Awesome! Actually it's pretty easy already. I just have to go do something else when they bring in food or start heating up lunches. But I was in a 3 hour meeting this afternoon with cookies in the room and it didn't bother me a bit.
I love the way all of y'all are so supportive!
Super! You are adjusting quickly!2 -
@leveejohn
Sometimes I'll grab a cookie from those meetings and wrap it up to have with my one meal later. Just saying. I hate missing out. This way I don't have to. Lol
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@leveejohn
Sometimes I'll grab a cookie from those meetings and wrap it up to have with my one meal later. Just saying. I hate missing out. This way I don't have to. Lol
I do that too!3 -
I've lost 8 lbs in my first week. This is amazing.5
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Great, congratulations! 1
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Nice loss!1
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Very good! I think I lost 7 in my first week. It will slow down though because a lot of the 1st weeks loss is water/food weight so don't get disappointed but you should still lose a couple lbs/week. Good luck.1
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Welcome, John and great start!1
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Amazing loss John: Isn't it great that you get to eat what you want for dinner and still have the added bonus of losing weight. Love OMAD!!2
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Great job, man!1
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memo to self: Never weigh in the day after splurge!!!! Yuckers!1
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memo to self: Never weigh in the day after splurge!!!! Yuckers!
I hear you! Wife wanted to go to smorgasboard Sat night. I also took my boy to lunch who was leaving to go back to school. Next day, up 6-lbs! It was salty so I know a lot of it was water. Today, back to only 2-lbs over but I'm still over, I'm hoping tomorrow I will be closer to normal. I drank a bunch of water today which should help (had salty stuff last night too).2 -
memo to self: Never weigh in the day after splurge!!!! Yuckers!
Ha ha ha...
I almost choked on my morning coffee, I feel your pain! But as blambo says, it can also be good to note those ups and downs, when you can see the pattern and know you're still loosing weight even though you sometimes gain a little too. But it's no fun - I know! 1 -
It has been educational to weigh in each day, I will repeat this week. Bottom line, I've lost 1.25 lbs this week, from Saturday to Saturday. That includes both last Sunday's splurge day and a party we went to last night, which sort of messed up my eating window. Still, looking forward to this next week. Some changes I'll try are:
- Trying not to quite "splurge" so much on my splurge day tomorrow. No ice cream this time!
- I've been taking my daily vinegar with a half tablespoon of local raw honey in a cranberry juice mixture. This at the start of my eating window. But between the honey and the sugar added in the cranberry juice, that's a lot of sugars. I'm going to start cutting the juice with water, and will buy a different juice without added sugar.
Still quite happy and relatively comfortable on the week days. Last Saturday I had more issues with the cravings simply because I was not at work (and not as busy). I might have to use @blambo61 's recommendation for coconut oil in herbal tea today!
Total weight loss on OMAD is 9.25 lbs since 30 Dec 16.2 -
You rock for being able to lose whilst having a splurge day and a party! Especially the fact that you've been mostly comfortable with fasting this week seems so valuable to me. We're in it for the long haul!
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It has been educational to weigh in each day, I will repeat this week. Bottom line, I've lost 1.25 lbs this week, from Saturday to Saturday. That includes both last Sunday's splurge day and a party we went to last night, which sort of messed up my eating window. Still, looking forward to this next week. Some changes I'll try are:
- Trying not to quite "splurge" so much on my splurge day tomorrow. No ice cream this time!
- I've been taking my daily vinegar with a half tablespoon of local raw honey in a cranberry juice mixture. This at the start of my eating window. But between the honey and the sugar added in the cranberry juice, that's a lot of sugars. I'm going to start cutting the juice with water, and will buy a different juice without added sugar.
Still quite happy and relatively comfortable on the week days. Last Saturday I had more issues with the cravings simply because I was not at work (and not as busy). I might have to use @blambo61 's recommendation for coconut oil in herbal tea today!
Total weight loss on OMAD is 9.25 lbs since 30 Dec 16.
Great job! I just eat the coconut oil and don't use any tea. I've just tried mixing the acv with tart cherry juice and chasing with vegetable juice. Not sure how much sugar but can't taste it all after the chase.1 -
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Third week into OMAD, and I lost 2.5 lbs this week, nearly 12 lbs loss since the beginning. Starting to settle in? Time will tell.
I weighed in every day this week just out of curiosity, and the swings were interesting. Thursday night I had the first experience of hard cravings outside of my normal meal time, not sure if that's something that will occasionally happen, or if it's due to exercising too hard.
I've been hitting the elliptical 30 minutes a day at lunchtime (very fortunate that my company has a gym), and I've upped the resistance as I'm feeling better, but after wearing a heart rate monitor (FitBit), I've discovered I was exceeding the top end of my target heart rate. Plus walking in the evenings, but that's pretty easy.
Maybe this is what Bob was talking about that excessive exercise intensity produces stress and cortisol? Not sure, but I'll make an adjustment this week to ensure I stay in my target cardio zone. Hopefully things will continue to settle out as I continue to learn how my body reacts to this.
Still enjoying this new way of eating and looking forward to good things! I am well aware that I'm not suffering the difficulties that others are having (so far!), but for those of you who are, keep at it!1 -
2.5 LBs is Awesome!!!1
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