Hi Rachel! My OMAD is around the same time at 6:15pm. You are going to do awesome today!!

Welcome aboard @rachel98178 !!! You'll love it here.

Welcome

Happy you are here Danae!

KetoKaHee wrote: »

KaHee
Weight: 125lbs
Height: 5'1.5"
Goal weight: 115lbs
Time of OMAD: 6:15pm
OMAD start date: March 6th, 2017

Hi Everyone! I started doing the Ketogenic diet about 2 months, however, I started to gain weight. I have a background as a Personal Trainer and love all things health and fitness. I have a lot of food sensitivities and therefore I can't eat things like bread, pasta, sugar, etc. I spent years constantly being hungry eating 6 small meals. I was never satisfied. At 35 years old I was tired of doing the same thing without any results. I was eager to find a way to balance my hormones, control my hunger and not overstress my body with crazy workouts. I didn't want to stop doing Keto since the high fat has helped with my mood but I desperately wanted to see some results. I'm on my 4th day of OMAD and I love it so far! I always feared being hungry and it caused lots of anxiety and binge eating. So far I feel lighter in my clothes and surprisingly I know longer fear hunger. I like looking forward to my Keto dinner every night. I know there has been some research stating that Intermittent Fasting isn't good for women. I hope I am one of the lucky ones and have great success on this eating style. I wish everyone great success!!

You're so pretty. Welcome to the group!

tookawaii2live2sugoi2die wrote: »

Hi everyone
My name is Danae. .
I weight 180.
Goal: 160 (for now).
OMAD will be between 10-11 pm (I get out of work at 9pm).
I'm starting today

Hello! Love your name! Welcome to the group. How are you finding OMAD so far?

Also I eat around 7pm everyday

Name: Jim
Current weight 253 lbs
High weight 362 lbs in August 2016
goal weight 180-195 lbs
Started OMAD Oct 29, 2016

I'm 58 and 6'1" and last August I weighed over 360 lbs. I knew I was facing an early death if I didn't make some big changes. Not having had success at losing weight for many years I knew I had to think out side the box. For roughly 5 weeks I simply reduced my food portions as much as possible as well as severely reducing sugar and carbs. Then I got the idea that I had to incorporate fasting. I first attempted to fast for a single day. That went well so I decided to tack on another day, and another, and another. I ended up fasting for 2 weeks (water and some coffee only). During those 2 weeks I was reading everything I could on fasting and how to incorporate it into my everyday life.
I read a book called The Obesity Code and it really opened my eyes. It was at that time that I first heard of the idea of eating once a day. I didn't know if I could do it but I thought it made a lot of sense for my lifestyle. So after my 2 week fast I went right into once a day eating and I've been doing it for almost six months now. I really didn't know if this was the right thing to do, or if others were doing it, but it felt right and was working really well for me so I've never looked back or wavered.
I was just browsing today and came across this OMAD forum and man, wow! I can't believe it.
What I've been doing (and will continue doing) really is a thing.
Let me just state that since my fast and OMAD eating it has changed me, I'm not the same person.
My mind is very sharp and lucid.
I don't have an indigestion issues or heartburn anymore.
I sleep well.
I have more energy and feel great.
I lose an average of 2.5 lbs per week (range is 1-5)
I have less stress and increased confidence.
Life is simpler only having to shop for one meal a day.
I enjoy cooking for the first time in my life.
I look forward to my 1.5 hour eating window each evening.
I am NOT hungry during the day. Sometimes I'll have a craving but it quickly passes.
I do not feel like I'm on a diet, actually at this point there is nothing compelling me to change.
So bottom line right now I'm losing a lot of weight and to be honest it's not even difficult.

Every single person who stops and asks about what I'm doing, as soon as I say that I eat only once a day only they immediately blurt out "See I could never do that", to which I answer "I would have said the same thing 7 months ago".

I've lost around 110 pounds now and still have a ways to go but feeling so great and seeing the weight tick off so consistently I have fewer and fewer doubts that I will make my goal.
My plan is to do a four day "quarterly maintenance fast" every three months because I think there are benefits to an occasional longer period fast in addition to the daily 23 hours.
For the first 6 months I did zero exercise as I wanted to be certain that exercise was not the sole reason for losing weight, plus I was so heavy it really was not advisable. I've recently added some vigorous walks to my routine and some very light weight work. I will slightly increase the amount of activity as the weight drops off but I am not going to go overboard with it. Diet and eating frequency are my main areas of focus.

I will definitely be checking in here for ideas and support.

Howdy all! Start a thread if you haven't already.

Welcome Rella!! I'm a shorty too at 5'1"!! You'll love this community. I struggled with sweets too and was a full on sugar addict. I don't eat any sweets now as a preference because it is a slippery slope for me but I hope to one day be able to enjoy sweets without going cray cray!

Howdy all! Start a thread and keep us posted!

Danielle, I found fasting help fix a lot of things with me or at least made them better besides losing weight. Helped a lot with blood pressure, blood sugar, energy levels, allergies, sleep (no snoring now). I think previously my snoring and high blood pressure were giving me headaches and I wasn't getting sleep. Now I'm over that, I feel much better. Good luck.

Rella, Sweets are evil! They give me gout!

Welcome aboard @dlobato1989 and @Thick2Lean !!!