Barbara´s OMAD Journal
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mistymeadows2005 wrote: »
I agree with this!!! You're down 10 pounds in a month which averages out to 2.5 pounds a week, which is FABULOUS! I know we like seeing the numbers, but I promise you, you're doing good things! I also kind of agree you might want to increase your calories a little bit...on my normal eating days, MOST of the time I'm well up to 1800-2200 (sometimes WAY more) and I'm averaging a loss of 2.6 a week...now I do 1-3 full fasting days a week so maybe it doesn't have to be THAT high, but try bumping it up a little for a few weeks and see what happens!
If not, just stay the course and trust the process...I know that's easier said then done, but if you do, you WILL see results!
Yeah but you are fasting 3 days a week and you are much younger than me... and probably much more active than me. When I do not do my miles I could be walking barely 2000 steps a day...
But again enough complaining on my side, just keep going! thanks folks! a rant here and there is always a good rant lol but I am done with this rant!
I'm fasting 2 days most week, though one and 2 mini fasts this week. Age has almost nothing to do with it, IMO. Maybe a TINY bit in the metabolism area, but that's debatable depending on your research. I assure you I am as INACTIVE as can be. I work a desk job, and I NEVER go out of my way to do anything more than normal daily stuff. I bet I don't even hit 2000 a day to be honest with you.
I hope your rant helped you Sometimes you just have to GET IT OUT! Even eating 1600 a day straight OMAD with LITERALLY no activity, I still lose...but honestly your results are great! 10 pounds a month is MONEY 1 -
Barbara, rants are always welcome! We certainly can't go to people we know who have no clue about fasting, so this is the place to do it. 1
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I'm not convinced that age has anything to do with it either... I do exercise but only walking and now 3 times a week for 20 mins on the bike. I'm just eating whatever I feel like and still losing and we are the exact same age!
There is a lot of talk about insulin resistance and healing your body before it will release the weight on the OMAD FB pages. Not sure how much truth there is to that stuff, mind you, but it's definitely worth considering. On one of the IF podcasts they actually talk about how it's common for people to lose nothing in the first 3 weeks or so...
And yeah, 10 lbs in a month is awesome!!
And rant away - I love ranting - I am awesome at it!!!1 -
Btw, keep n mind that if you lost 10 lbs every month you would weigh 120 lbs less in a year... Not too bad really!!!1
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I can lose 3-lbs at will going low carb and can gain it back in a day eating carbs. Also there are TOM issues for women. You cannot tell what is going on day to day or week to week due to water fluctuations due mostly the two things I just mentioned above. You have to look at longer trends (a month or so). When you look at your trends, your'e doing great so ignore a water fluctuation cause that is all it is!2
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brittdee88 wrote: »Such BEAUTIFUL views! I am SO jealous!!!
I am struggling with eating enough calories most days, and I think it might result in a weight gain or slow loss. I just don't like to stuff myself too much, I'm still battling a little with food guilt, and vegan food tends to take up a lot of volume for very little calories. But I have seen my mother under-eat my entire life. For the past few years, she's only been eating a plain salad once a day and she will go on 4-mile walks in the morning. She firmly believes that the less she eats the better. And then she doesn't understand why she binges after a few days or weeks. And to top it off: her weight hasn't budged and she still wears the same clothes she's been wearing since she adopted the once daily salad habit. I keep telling her she needs to eat more to fuel her body and her exercise, but she won't listen to me. I have tried to talk to her about her disordered eating, but she won't hear it.
All that to say, you are probably not eating enough, especially with your walking. I don't calorie count, either, but maybe doing it for a few days to get an idea of what x amount of calories looks like will be good just so you know for the future. I will definitely be doing that myself and/or working on food guilt. I don't want to end up like my mother.
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Yes folks thank you so much for your help support your views and ideas!
Its just a matter of DOING IT ...keep going...and specially not comparing...
I just freaked out because I saw the slowing down of the trend and it made me think I was hitting stagnation well too early on my path...that´s all but again that´s just a fear in the mind projecting future problems..and its a con... see how a thought can ruin a good day if you let it ?...
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@barbheart, yes, our thoughts can sometimes not only ruin a good day, but a good week, month, or year! lol We just have to shove Negative Nancy out the door super hard sometimes to get ourselves straight again. What better way to do so than vent about her manipulative and negative ways and get support to shove her out of the brain with all the support. :-)1
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I am not fancying much to eat today, not that I am forcing myself to eat less but that´s how things feel internally today... Besides my big need to do a long MENTAL FAST OF CRAP THOUGHTS HAHAH... (thanks Sandy let´s send Negative Nancy to the Bahamas for a long holiday LOL)
So I am repeating bits and bobs from yesterday meal..but its wholesome and all organic.
Did my 2 miles this morning. I stopped taking naps so I sleep better at night.
Might do a third mile this afternoon. Body is getting stronger by the days with these miles...and they are not so strenous on me so I plan to keep them in my daily routine but not over obssessing either on that side LOL!
I realize how much of our food stuff is obsessive compulsive and I am finding that the obsessive compulsiveness within me is coming out showing its nice face to me...maybe all this is part of the healing process, once you see this Obsessiveness for what it is, just pure thought, pure nothingness it looses its hold on us and we free ourselves. I see this journey as deeply spiritual in the sense of de programming myself from false cons, false illusions such as the need to eat so and so times a day etc. A journey into liberation and truth. Yeah!
To concquer the phatoms of hunger and overindulgence is worth this "battle".
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This is so interesting. The whole calorie intake question and internal battle. I wish I had some definite personal proof as to what works for me. I guess if we keep going we will figure it out!1
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Is your mother thin? Does she have much energy/strength?
Not at all. She is also a lifelong yo-yoer. She is at least 40 pounds overweight, if not more. Last time we talked, she mentioned that she weighed more than one of the football players we know, who is 185. She is 4'11".
I think she has a good amount of energy given how little she eats, but she has a very unhealthy body image and relationship with food. She has been on a diet for as long as I can remember, and that's at least 24 years because she put me on one with her when I was 5. And she has mentioned lots of crash diets she did as a teen as well.
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gomissfitnes wrote: »This is so interesting. The whole calorie intake question and internal battle. I wish I had some definite personal proof as to what works for me. I guess if we keep going we will figure it out!
yes @gomissfitnes we need to find what works for each one of us. The beautify of our individuality! tks God we are not machines or clones of one another!0 -
@brittdee88 I know its and off topic here... but in my case no one in my family was ever overweight uh?...plus super sporty people...I do feel underneath all this weight there is a sporty body as it gets super muscular real quick... so many families with overweight generate overweight people out of habbit or unconscious agreements such as "being the same as my mom, dad, uncles etc..." or else famines in the genealogical tree...
I always remember the Hotentote tribe in Southafrica or else Namibia can´t remember who gather their food (women) on their buttoms when food was available so they developped enormous "seasonal" buttoms that will feed them and their babies thru re-gurgitation when the time of no food arrived. That is an amazing concept. I wonder how many women have kept this going unconsciously...the storage of fat under an unconscious instinctual drive to survive.0 -
That's interesting, and I echo some of that as well.
My body also gets muscular very quickly and seems to maintain muscle memory for a very long time. But all of the muscle seems to be on my dad's side, where everyone is short, large-framed, and stocky. They generally carry some extra weight, but it doesn't take much effort to get leaner-looking regardless of weight change. I definitely take after his side mostly. Once I start working out, my body composition changes drastically in a relatively short amount of time. I look visibly different after only a week or two of exercise even though my weight doesn't change or increases sometimes (which is why I have been avoiding exercise since starting this journey - psychologically, I am not yet ready to see the increases even though I know it doesn't really mean anything for me. I know I'm being ridiculous, and I made a promise to start up again in August/September). On my mom's side, however, everyone is short and small-framed, and almost all of them are also overweight. They are not overweight but still "solid-looking" like my dad's side, and the ones who are not overweight are very frail-looking.
I was raised in an upper-middle class immediate family, but my parents were not. So there may be some truth to the unconscious food/fat storage, but I honestly do not know. I always got the vibe that she mostly tried to avoid food, labeled it "good" and "bad," and then would binge as a result of avoiding it for too long.1 -
@brittdee88 unconscious family loyalties are important and sometimes we are not ready to breake those unconscious agreements to "stick" by the family rules and the body shape can be seen as a rule for a family. You could do some sort of meditation or setting a strong intention to break free from any unconscious agreement you might be holding in regads to your body image. This is all in the subconscious, you could consciously think this is silly but your subconscious could be holding the overweight pattern or the poor pattern if you were lacking abundance not to rock the family boat...1
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For instance when I started OMADING I started finding family patterns in my self healing sessions. I found patterns of my maternal grand mother in relation to doing physical exercise. Her story was one of being an athlete or sport woman in the 20´s, tennis player but she had to stop her passion in order to become a mother (my dad, her first born son) and then she had to stop in order to raise a family. This pattern of a separation from sports was inside of me preventing me somehow to openly get into some sort of fitness work. I know it sounds crazy but in my work I do find these types of unconscious patterns that prevent people from being successfull at something because an ancestor had an issue around it, a biological conflict that is passed down through the transgenerational family tree. I know I am way out of topic here.1
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I don't think that's silly at all! I am a firm believer of webs/fields of energy and the power I hold within me to change that which surrounds me because of the connectedness that exists between all things. I always feel much more powerful when I am practicing yoga and meditation regularly because I feel much more attuned with that energy within me and my ability to harness it for my benefit. I plan to start my practice again (after many years without!) in September. I will definitely consider affirmations for my body and health -- I had focused mainly on my anger and mental illnesses when I first began my practice, and I have seen significant growth in both of those since focusing my energy there. Thank you for the reminder!1
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Brilliant @brittdee88 I am sure your return to meditation will prove to be immensely rewarding for your new goals!!! yeahh!!!0
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Absolutely! Thank you, Barb 1
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Super interesting discussion guys!2
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Just prepared my meal decided to cut carbs today or minimize them...so this looks a bit like Paleo or keto although some stuff I imagine is not purely keto or paleo so what? lol
I did pick a keto recipe which is avocado wrapped in bacon... I haven´t tasted it yet...
the rest is a fully organic/bio salad with chicken (boiled), carot, lettuce, onion, chia seeds, oregano, acv, olive oil, pepper and white beans.
if i am hungry i will take a warm cacao with xylitol and maybe coconut oil if I feel the need although I am not hungry...
This drink is awesome cacao plant is a sacred plant that nourishes you inside out. Edgar Cayce the sleeping prophet said if you have the "consciousness of the Christie bush" you will benefit from castor oil... well I found that this is the case with Cacao, if you open up shamanically to the powers of plants then they unfold their gift for you... it is sacred, life is sacred, doors open when one knocks!
2 miles today... been low profile these days only 2 miles, might venture a third one this afternoon. I am not feeling the body loose weight but that´s ok maybe lessons in patience for me...
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That warm cacao sounds amazing! That is probably the only thing I miss now that I live in a more tropical climate. Hot chocolate was always such a nice thing to have when it was cold. I have seen people make iced hot chocolate, which I may try at some point in the future.0
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You had me at avocado wrapped in bacon. oh man.0
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You had me at avocado wrapped in bacon. oh man.
LOL what you mean? You like it Jim?
this meal was an attempt to free myself from carb addictions and boy I am sooo stuffed its unbelievable! I did make the cacao drink I am sipping it right now nut sure I will finish it...
tastes too sweet with xylitol (a month ago no xylitol was enough to make this sweet!)
The bacon wrapp is super filling... maybe too much this meal was totally filling...
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I love anything wrapped in bacon, and I love avocado but had never heard of bacon wrapped avocado though.You had me at avocado wrapped in bacon. oh man.
LOL what you mean? You like it Jim?
this meal was an attempt to free myself from carb addictions and boy I am sooo stuffed its unbelievable! I did make the cacao drink I am sipping it right now nut sure I will finish it...
tastes too sweet with xylitol (a month ago no xylitol was enough to make this sweet!)
The bacon wrapp is super filling... maybe too much this meal was totally filling...
My comment was based on the famous line from the movie Jerry Maguire "You had me at hello"
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oops not aware of that sentence from that film sorry! if you love bacon give it a try, its super easy just get a nice mature avocado and chop it then wrap bits of it on the bacon and put the wraps on a plate in the oven, heat it up until the bacon gets crunchy that´s it!
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thanks, I'm going to try that one real soon.oops not aware of that sentence from that film sorry! if you love bacon give it a try, its super easy just get a nice mature avocado and chop it then wrap bits of it on the bacon and put the wraps on a plate in the oven, heat it up until the bacon gets crunchy that´s it!
Apparently its a big keto dish
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I have to share in 2 days my waist has shrunk 3cm which is 1.1 inches...uh? unbelievable I dont even feel the change inside me... but I really measured to prove me wrong but nope... 3cm less in the waist in 2 days!
Plus I am measuring just after lunch with belly full...3
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