Hi, I'm one week in OMAD and the first week has been a great! One enormously interesting thing I've experienced is the major reduction of hunger pangs. I feel empty during the day, but not particularly hungry. Certainly not ravenous. This especially applies after the third day or so.

Previously hunger pangs ruled my day. Even if I might have been "full" from a meal by any measure, they came anyway. When I say "frantic", that's what it felt like. Sometimes I would have been frantic to eat something. Anything.

I've had some limited success in the past with calorie restriction on multiple meals a day, but the feeling of ravenousness was always right around the corner, threatening to take hold of me to empty a can of peanuts. Or something.

A side effect of this was that I had a fear of hunger pangs. I was actually afraid of feeling hungry. I would feel fear, for example, when packing my lunch for work that if I didn't do it right, at some point in the day I would feel hungry. I was actually somewhat fearful on my first day at work on OMAD, and I would 'hide' from food (finding excuses to be elsewhere when people were eating).

I don't use the term fear lightly. That's exactly what it was. Skipping meals never occurred to me (because you need 3 squares, right?), but even if it had, I'm not sure that I would have had the courage to attempt it without Joe's youtube channel and this group. This gave me the confidence that yes, people actually do this. No, it's not unhealthy.

Thank you all very much for giving my courage.

I love not only the initial weight loss, but the simplicity of OMAD, and the freedom from fear and anxiety about what to eat all day long and how to get it. This is so simple!

But I am curious, what are other people's experiences with hunger pangs? Do they go away for good, or occasionally return?