John's OMAD journey
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Congrats. I think it was Joe that showed us about the cortisol. I do know it is harder to do high intensity when fasted cause the glycogen is down and high intensity requires glucose (metabolizing glucose is anaerobic which is the state your in when doing high intensity).1
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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.
I mix the acv with a couple ounces of regular apple juice and a shot of tart apple juice all together and barely taste the acv.
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I'm happy you are adjusting so nicely to OMAD, John. I wonder if you had been making changes positively somehow previously and so did not have such a big change coming in?0
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pauleta1000 wrote: »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.
It seems like it took me forever to finally get to this point. I think I was almost there but shifting from low carb to high carb during the holidays was a mistake for me. I am just recently getting to the "comfortable" stage of not really thinking about it. I'm not getting carb cravings or hunger at this point. In December I was on the line thinking and almost planning on throwing in the towel.
But I'm glad I stuck in here. I don't have any alternatives and nothing else worked. Somehow there was a thread of faith that this would kick in eventually. And it did.
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Way to go, John. Just truck right along. The losses will be there!1
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Wonderful...keep up the great job!!1
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I mix the acv with a couple ounces of regular apple juice and a shot of tart apple juice all together and barely taste the acv.
I have been cutting no-sugar added grape juice with water, about half and half, adding a tsp of local unfiltered raw honey and 2 tbs of ACV. I usually warm it to get the honey to dissolve. I am completely craving this stuff!!!! It tastes wonderful, and it's the first thing I want when I get home in the evening, before my meal.3 -
Completed my 4th week of OMAD. Lost 5 lbs this week, for a total of 17 lbs weight loss. Shared this plan with a coworker, who is the same age (and about the same starting weight) as I am. Still loving this way of living, of all the ways I've tried in the past to lose weight, this is simplest, easiest, and most effective. My major struggle is believing this is real!
I've started strictly monitoring my heart rate during daily exercise on the elliptical, not allowing bpm to go above my target cardio zone (140 bpm for my age), so I've reduced intensity just a bit. The occasional evening hunger pangs that I was experiencing last week have not returned.3 -
That's great, I lost 3 and OMAD is the best way for me to lose weight because I have a problem with potion sizes and by sticking to the one plate and one meal rule it's working 4
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@brendagaudette I agree! Much simpler than portion control all the live-long day, less stressful, and as someone else pointed out, you know that you will be full at least once today.3
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Nice job, that is great! How many cals are you eating a day?0
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Nice job, that is great! How many cals are you eating a day?
I am happy to report that I have no clue! In the past I have had some success with strict portion control, weighing food to the gram and looking up calories, macronutrients, etc. It always ended up by driving me crazy. I've never lasted more than 45 days on such a program.
I have been searching for a while for a way of eating / exercising / living that was NOT a program. In other words, I've been searching for a lifestyle change that I could adopt and stay on forever. I'm starting to think I've found one.
OMAD is so simple! And I'm quite lazy when it comes to personal planning and organization. OMAD takes less planning and organization than trying to have 3 meals a day. I don't have to worry about having a healthy breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Just a dinner where I know I will feel full.
All that being said, the only thing I'm really trying to avoid is refined sugar, although a little creeps in with flavored yogurt and stuff like that. A typical evening meal starts with 2 tbs ACV and 1 tsp honey in diluted grape juice (LOTS of sugar there! Just not unrefined cane sugar. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it), and typically has a large green salad with either olive oil or dressing, with a small avocado if available, and a reasonably full plate of food. Not heaping, but not spare either. The food is generally fresh food prepared at home, nothing packaged, but still pretty much a traditional "four food groups" meal. Not paleo, low carb, or anything like that. I feel quite full when I'm done, but I don't feel stuffed.
After that I'm usually done, although I may have a dessert of yogurt and grapes or skim milk and an apple an hour or two after dinner. Then I'm done, nothing but coffee, tea, and water until the next evening. I may have one diet soda a day, but lately I haven't been having that.
Sundays are my splurge day when I have "three squares".
No measuring. For me, that's important, if I'm going to live this way.1 -
I don't count calories either, too much work!!!1
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I've tried several ways to drink ACV but haven't been able to do it yet. I'll try this and see how I do. I'll find something that I can tolerate eventually.
Congratulations on the 5 pound loss. You're doing great!! When I started OMAD I did count calories but now I enjoy the freedom of not counting. I splurge every two weeks with lunch, dinner, and a dessert.1 -
@SavedByGrace26356 I have come to crave that ACV/honey/grape juice/water mixture. It's the first thing I want when I break my daily fast.2
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I've been making salad dressing out of acv, olive oil and lots of Italian spices. It tastes like a vinaigrette over Spring greens, grape tomatoes, red onion slivers, English cuke, mozzarella balls, black olives, celery and carrots.
The holiday weight is starting to come off for me. I've cut back on white flour as it makes me bloat up and gain water weight for a few days after consuming a meal with a large proportion.
I seem to be able to have a little sugar as long as it is in combination with protein and fiber. This makes it lower glycemic, and I don't get hungry afterward like I do with a carb dish by itself.2 -
Is it Concord grape juice, John?0
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Is it Concord grape juice, John?
You made me go look Yes it is. Nothing particular about this juice, except that I really like the combination of flavors.
One other thing I should note is that I started actually measuring out tablespoons of ACV, in my case using leftover medicine cups. A tablespoon was actually much more than me just filling a big spoon from the silverware drawer. Also, I could never pour from the ACV bottle without it trickling down and getting everywhere, until I started using a medicine cup.
welchs.com/products/100-juices/grape-100-juices/100-grape-juice0 -
I watched a video that said that dark purple veggies and fruits have a compound that helps one to lose weight. They said really dark purple plums and purple carrots are good also. I would imagine that Concord grapes must have it also.
ETA article~
http://m.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/news/what-colours-our-plate-optimises-our-wellbeing/2171175/1 -
I am happy to report that I have no clue! In the past I have had some success with strict portion control, weighing food to the gram and looking up calories, macronutrients, etc. It always ended up by driving me crazy. I've never lasted more than 45 days on such a program.
I have been searching for a while for a way of eating / exercising / living that was NOT a program. In other words, I've been searching for a lifestyle change that I could adopt and stay on forever. I'm starting to think I've found one.
I'm with you on that, no counting here either, haven't done it once on OMAD. For me, that really signals that it's a lifestyle and not a temporary diet.
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Nice job, that is great! How many cals are you eating a day?
I am happy to report that I have no clue! In the past I have had some success with strict portion control, weighing food to the gram and looking up calories, macronutrients, etc. It always ended up by driving me crazy. I've never lasted more than 45 days on such a program.
I have been searching for a while for a way of eating / exercising / living that was NOT a program. In other words, I've been searching for a lifestyle change that I could adopt and stay on forever. I'm starting to think I've found one.
OMAD is so simple! And I'm quite lazy when it comes to personal planning and organization. OMAD takes less planning and organization than trying to have 3 meals a day. I don't have to worry about having a healthy breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Just a dinner where I know I will feel full.
All that being said, the only thing I'm really trying to avoid is refined sugar, although a little creeps in with flavored yogurt and stuff like that. A typical evening meal starts with 2 tbs ACV and 1 tsp honey in diluted grape juice (LOTS of sugar there! Just not unrefined cane sugar. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it), and typically has a large green salad with either olive oil or dressing, with a small avocado if available, and a reasonably full plate of food. Not heaping, but not spare either. The food is generally fresh food prepared at home, nothing packaged, but still pretty much a traditional "four food groups" meal. Not paleo, low carb, or anything like that. I feel quite full when I'm done, but I don't feel stuffed.
After that I'm usually done, although I may have a dessert of yogurt and grapes or skim milk and an apple an hour or two after dinner. Then I'm done, nothing but coffee, tea, and water until the next evening. I may have one diet soda a day, but lately I haven't been having that.
Sundays are my splurge day when I have "three squares".
No measuring. For me, that's important, if I'm going to live this way.
I hear ya. When I started I logged but gave it up after awhile and have only done a little sense. I never had a set calorie goal and would eat anywhere from a low of 1400 to a high of 3000 in an evening usually about 2000. I did that just to learn what food has in it. This diet was the first time I've ever logged anything. I gave up logging though cause I don't like taking the time to do it so I totally understand that! This way of eating can be truly liberating. Keep up the good work.2 -
SavedByGrace26356 wrote: »I've tried several ways to drink ACV but haven't been able to do it yet. I'll try this and see how I do. I'll find something that I can tolerate eventually.
Congratulations on the 5 pound loss. You're doing great!! When I started OMAD I did count calories but now I enjoy the freedom of not counting. I splurge every two weeks with lunch, dinner, and a dessert.
Easiest for me is mix with tart cherry and chase with vegetable juice. Hardly any after taste at all.1 -
Completed 5 weeks of OMAD. Down 1.5 lbs this week, 18.25 lbs total loss. Still loving this.
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That is some serious progress!1
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Losing 18 pounds in 5 weeks is amazing!2
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I keep thinking this can't be real! Probably like many of you, I've tried so many different things over the past 30 years (well, not many of you for the 30 years part, but you know . . . ). Nothing has worked this well. Waiting for that plateau . . . . . . I know it's coming.Losing 18 pounds in 5 weeks is amazing!0 -
Stellar progress! OMAD is the best.1
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Thanks @vinyladdict, just read your plans for the superbowl, sounds like a wonderful splurge day!0
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@SavedByGrace26356 I have come to crave that ACV/honey/grape juice/water mixture. It's the first thing I want when I break my daily fast.
Thank you for sharing this! It really is good.1
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