vazquezmom7 wrote: »

I'm doing the one meal a day eating but only Sunday thru Thursday. On Friday and Saturday I keep under calories. This has worked for me because I don't feel deprived. I also don't eat set time. It depends on what's going on that day. I've been losing about 2 lbs weekly. And I run 3x a week. I'm a mother of 7 and am very busy and this fits in my schedule. Good luck to all. :-)

W-E-L-C-O-M-E !!

Occasional splurges do actually help in weight loss. I am not one bit kidding. That is such good news you got to recharge your batteries. Now, you are right back and ready for more losses! :-)

I have been there, ma'am. Not so far with OMAD, but when I was just doing the calorie counting. Don't get me wrong; I have not been the pinnacle of steadfastness here either, but it has been waaay better.

As for encouragement:

1. You did not gain
2. You did not gain
3. You now know that this way actually does work if you focus
4. I had to stop saying tomorrow. I have literally exited a drive through line and have also put a meal in the garbage. TODAY, NOW, not tomorrow is the only way I can stay focused
5. I really think you can do it if you start today. Already eat? Be done for the rest of the day.

How often do you go on special trips and such? At one point, I had to just accept that things I used to use as an excuse to overeat had to stop. I was probably much worse:

• Payday Lunch
• Monday Donuts
• Saturday Breakfast
• Friday Family Dinner
• Date Night
• Sunday Family Lunch

After a few weeks of looking at that pattern, I knew why I hadn't lost any weight. I wasn't doing anything to lose it. It was at this point I realized that I had to quit pushing my success off until tomorow/Monday/next week, and just own the fact that what I was doing NOW was the only thing I could change with certainty. TOMORROW, I might have any number of excuses that are even more logical than today's. TODAY, I can own what I eat.

I don't know about your exercise either, but those are the hardest calories for me to give up. I mostly blame my too-hard exercise efforts over the last couple weeks for my stagnation. Hard exercise is difficult to maintain in conjunction with a hard caloric deficit.

Anyway, you can do this. You really can. TODAY.

shaytuck wrote: »

"Special" trips would be for birthdays (July, August and October) and we try to go on one big trip a year which will be January 2016. We live in the middle of nowhere though so we try to get out of here for a day or two at least once a month but it's been a lot more since it's summer. I'm not trying to make excuses. I know I'm messing up I just don't know how to get back because I'm soooo unmotivated. I did eat lunch today so I'm going to go ahead and skip dinner tonight. You're right, I need to just do it now.

Believe me, I fully empathize. (especially with "the middle of nowhere") You can do it! Again, FOR ME, the pattern of "overeating today because I failed yesterday in hopes of doing better tomorrow" worked out about as well as it looks written down.

At some point you make a choice, motivated or not. I am pretty motivated today after doing some exercise last night that reminded me of how far I have yet to go. If the scale is down on Friday, I will be less motivated because I see that as "I'm doing all right, THIS little snack won't hurt". Maybe I can make the right choice, maybe not. But that's tomorrow; today I have coworker-provided donuts, a brother wanting to do dinner while he is in town, a lunch appointment, and the usual snacks laying about the office. Not that I have it harder than anyone else, I merely mention it to reinforce the idea of focusing NOW.

You've got this if you want to get it!

southam5 wrote: »

Just beginning this journey starting last night. I have read EVERYTHING on these feeds. I have adjusted my reminders on MFP to remind me to log in my foods daily for my OMAD meal.. Reading the struggles and victories is inspiring. Thanks to everyone that writes the truth about weight loss. We do have an obesity epidemic and until we can do this together. I have all but given up on eating carbs and am fearful about bringing them back into my diet but honestly tired of not eating what skinny people can eat. Yikes! I feel like this way of eating is like learning their secret in a way~

It really is as easy as it sounds. And no more caring about this food vs that food...etc. Taking back control is the ultimate victory. It will be challenging, but you don't ever have to struggle with weight again. As you adjust to the new way of eating, you will become more and more confident of what I'm saying here.

2fab2bdrab wrote: »

I started omad last thursday. Its going well. I just got tired of prepping and counting calories multiple times a day. I love that my life isnt centered around food. I havent had the chance to weigh myself bc I dont own a scale and cant weigh unless I go to my moms but I feel like I've lost. Im hoping. I have issues with eating carbs too but I'm slowly but surely trying to adjust my way of thinking when it comes to my food now. I know low carb works for me...but again the constant counting n obsessing about food and eating 6 times a day and prepping and this and that and ugh!! Im praying this works...bc I really like it and for the most part can see myself eating this way for the rest of my life.

Hi,

No question it will work. You simply must determine how workable the OMAD lifestyle goes with your overall lifestyle.