Starting OMAD? Introduce Yourself Here!
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amyereed99 wrote: »Hello all,
My Current Weight is 215 lbs
My Height is 5'5"
I turn 39 next month and I have been overweight most of my life starting at the age of 9. I have Yo-Yoed down 60+lbs at least twice as an adult. Name the diet and I have done it. They all work. I have no problems with programs. My problem is sticking to routine and keeping motivated to continue without letting stress affect me. I was diagnosed with ADD a few years ago and believe it affects me greatly. I have dabbled a little with IF at the beginning of this year for a few weeks, but not on MFP and with no other support. Since then, I have lost a little weight but rather slowly as I feel quite distracted by a major life decision to purge all of my life's possessions, sell my house, and move overseas. So with OMAD I want to try making more time for myself and all the things I need to accomplish over the next few months without being controlled by food and food thoughts. I look forward to seeing where I can go with OMAD and learning along the way.
My goal weight range is 140lbs -155lbs
My OMAD will fall between 5pm-9pm
My OMAD start day is today 4/17/17
Add me as an OMAD friend, please. You will find that I am vegan, but I accept your decision not to be.
We have the nearly the same stats and your words echo mine when it comes to trying different programs, the stress the sticking to it... I feel the exact same way. I've lost 40 pounds here and there quite a few times over the years only to regain. I'm already feeling like this is something I could do lifelong. I think one of the biggest reasons why is because it allows you to be flexible when it comes to eating outside the home, you can go out to eat or for dinner and not have to say, "I can't have this or that, I'm on a diet". There will be surprises along the way, but for the most part OMAD makes life a bit easier and less stressful.
You've got this! :-)
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Name: Katavell
My current weight is 172 lbs.
Height 5'2"
I never had much of a problem with my weight until I got pregnant with my first child at 40, current age is 43. I can't blame it on baby weight, since the baby is a toddler. Type II Diabetes and Heart Disease runs in my family. I want to make sure that I am healthy for myself and my family.
Last year I did the 5:2 intermittent diet and had moderate succes, then I hit a plateau and I gave up. I never seemed to eat less on my days off of the intermittent fasting.
My goal range is 125 -135 lbs.
OMAD times 6p - 10p, that way I can enjoy sitting down for dinner with my family.
Start date 4/13/17
Welcome! Best to you on your journey :-)
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Hi all!
Very happy to have stumbled upon Joe's story when reading up on intermittent fasting. My story is similar to so many others. I've been overweight most of my life but have lost 50-100 lbs several times now. I love food. I love the socialization aspects of it. I love the taste of it. Healthy food, unhealthy food, I like it all.
I started OMAD on March 19 (so I have a whole 3 and a half days in! Ha)
Age: 38
Height: 5'7"
Starting weight: 236.1
Goal range: 135 - 150
So far so good. I've found that a glass of water or a cup of hot tea or simply keeping busy helps to keep the hunger away for a little while. It's definitely not been as difficult as I would have imagined. When I eat breakfast, I've always noticed I'm hungrier throughout the day, so this does in some ways, make sense.
Thanks to everyone for sharing your experiences thus far.0 -
Hi all!
Very happy to have stumbled upon Joe's story when reading up on intermittent fasting. My story is similar to so many others. I've been overweight most of my life but have lost 50-100 lbs several times now. I love food. I love the socialization aspects of it. I love the taste of it. Healthy food, unhealthy food, I like it all.
I started OMAD on March 19 (so I have a whole 3 and a half days in! Ha)
Age: 38
Height: 5'7"
Starting weight: 236.1
Goal range: 135 - 150
So far so good. I've found that a glass of water or a cup of hot tea or simply keeping busy helps to keep the hunger away for a little while. It's definitely not been as difficult as I would have imagined. When I eat breakfast, I've always noticed I'm hungrier throughout the day, so this does in some ways, make sense.
Thanks to everyone for sharing your experiences thus far.
Welcome! I stumbled across Joe via IF as well, what a coinky-doink. :-)
Did you mean you started April 19? lol
This group is very supportive and encouraging, you truly couldn't have found a better place. I'm still fairly an OMAD noobie, just started last week.
Best to you on your journey!
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wsandy8512 wrote: »
Did you mean you started April 19? lol
Ha! Yesss. I tell ya, tax time gets the best of me lol. Started April 19th. Thanks!
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@yiscaht lolol, you're welcome
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Hi all! Just started OMAD yesterday,
April 22 2017
First day was hard but pushed through now on day 2.
This is the heaviest I have ever been and lm tired of other diets not helping.
Looking forward to learning more about OMAD and any advice will be appreciated!
Age 47
Height 5'5
Current Weight 253
Goal weight 155-170
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Age: 69
Height 5'4"
Highest weight: 360 lbs.
Current weight: 270 lbs.
First goal: Break below 200 lbs.
Long term goal: 130 lbs.
This evening ends my fourth day on OMAD. I feel stuffed to the gills still, after finishing my meal 90 minutes ago. I refer to myself as a professional dieter. There are some I never tried, but not many. If I thought I could do it, it had worked for others, and did not look terribly unhealthy, I went for it. That's how I got to 360. You know the drill: lose a bunch, gain back all of it plus 10 lbs.
Six years ago, I tried the 100% vegan raw food diet and lost 100 lbs, and kept it off by eliminating corn and wheat from my life permanently. I have tried to do all raw again many times since, but capsized a day or two in. I lost down to 208 a year ago on 100% juice. Then from last fall to today, I gain it back plus 10. So, I was getting pretty desperate since it looked to me like if I didn't do something drastic, I was headed for 370. Then I watched a video by Joe about OMAD. I thought - maybe I can do this if I can look forward every single day to a really great, large meal - instead of the constant feeling of deprivation of multiple small meals. I really liked the idea of intermittent fasting as a way to change the way my body processes fat, but I just couldn't remember that 6-8 hour window presented by Dr. Mercola. I figured if I knew I would be eating only once, I might be able to remember that.
So, here I am, four days in, and doing fine.0 -
Hi
Ken
180lbs
5'8
I just started the OMAD yesterday! I was doing the 18/6 method but the weight loss has come to a halt. I figured I would give this a try. I to suffer from a low thyroid problem. I was almost 200lbs then I came across intermittent fasting. I hope by trying this method will work better for me.0 -
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I'm going to give this a shot. I'm at my wits' end. Been on MFP for 4 years trying to lose 30 lbs and instead gained 20 lbs despite a very healthy food intake. My junk food binges are practically nonexistent, but that hasn't mattered. Even eating 90/10 Paleo and organic I still gain.
Female
53 yrs old
5'9.5"
Current wt: 202.8
Goal wt: 140-155
I want my wedding rings to fit again. I want to just put on clothes without checking to see what's bulging out the sides and back.
This way of eating makes sense to me, which will help me adhere. I began a week ago. I'm afraid to get on the scale. It tends to ruin my day.0 -
Welcome, all.
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I don't see a way to start a new thread, so I guess I'll say this here. It's the trouble with leftovers. When I start to cook, I'm so hungry I think I could eat a horse, so I make too much. With only 1 very precious meal a day, I don't want to waste it eating leftovers. So, I gave last night's leftovers to the dogs, but felt bad about wasting food (they didn't think so!) that tonight, I ate it all. And have a really painful stomach as a consequence. I am going to HAVE to start making less than I think I want!0
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I don't see a way to start a new thread, so I guess I'll say this here. It's the trouble with leftovers. When I start to cook, I'm so hungry I think I could eat a horse, so I make too much. With only 1 very precious meal a day, I don't want to waste it eating leftovers. So, I gave last night's leftovers to the dogs, but felt bad about wasting food (they didn't think so!) that tonight, I ate it all. And have a really painful stomach as a consequence. I am going to HAVE to start making less than I think I want!
Click the OMAD REVOLUTION link at the top and click "Create" to your right and you can create your topic.0 -
I don't see a way to start a new thread, so I guess I'll say this here. It's the trouble with leftovers. When I start to cook, I'm so hungry I think I could eat a horse, so I make too much. With only 1 very precious meal a day, I don't want to waste it eating leftovers. So, I gave last night's leftovers to the dogs, but felt bad about wasting food (they didn't think so!) that tonight, I ate it all. And have a really painful stomach as a consequence. I am going to HAVE to start making less than I think I want!
Split it into smaller portions (e.g. 25% of a normal meal), freeze it and then mix it up with other leftover portions or as a side to your main meal
if you have 4 different dinners split into 4 parts each, you could end up having an awesome meal of 1/4 lasagna, 1/4 chilli con carne, 1/4 of pasta alfreddo and 1/4 of bbq chicken - for four times ... which you can eat any time in the next 4 months
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New to OMAD!
Hello everyone my name is Thad. I go by Thad81 on the MFP site. So I am new to this group and thought I would write my introduction.
I have a long history with various ways of eating and dieting. I have had great success in the past with the calorie restriction as primary way of eating, but it has wreaked havoc with my metabolism seemingly and it has gotten way harder to keep the weight off, let alone lose weight these last couple of years. As a result I have returned at times to more destructive ways of eating and have put on about 70 pounds give or take. Mind you I am no where near my all time high of 377 (confirmed weight). I also have no intention of getting back there. I want to live till I die, and I need to get the weight off. I don’t particularly care how I look. I just want to do all the things physically that I want to do. And as we all know being heavier makes everything harder. Arguablysamson opened the door to this way of eating for me as a truly viable way, and with further research I am a total convert and a newly christened prokopton of this way of eating.
So I am on day 10 OMAD and feel great! I am choosing to keep my eyes off the scale for now as this has and can become an obsession for me. I feel better, I feel freer and I know I am losing weight, as all my fat is wigglier than usual haha.
OMAD eliminates decision fatigue for me when it comes to eating right, wrong or any other way. I eat one plate of food and thats it. During these last ten days I have worked and have had days at home, and have experienced no energy problems, or feelings of overwhelming hunger. I feel no less and sometimes more energized than when eating “normally”. I look forward to when I eat, and have zero guilt connected to the meals I do have. Guilt and food go hand and hand for me and I am glad to be doing something that eliminates that for me.
Even though I am overweight, I am a fairly fit guy and have worked out fairly consistently for years, so I have chosen to keep that up. I will not increase the intensity of my exercise, but do not feel a need to, like I did when eating “normally”. I feel fine working out and being on the OMAD diet. I feel maybe for people that are largely sedentary this may not be so easy to do. Eating OMAD and exercising. But so far for me I have had no difficulty. If I start to then I will cool out on my exercise and maintain the OMAD. Until then I will do both. I feel in my heart that this will work, as it has already started to. And either way I feel better not having my bowels stuffed full of food all the time. I have a strong hunch that this should be the “normal” way of eating.
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Hi, Thad. Welcome!0
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Welcome everyone 0
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Age: 37
Starting weight: 236
Current weight: 218
Height: 5'7"
I've been low-carbing for a long, long time, and have had some success with it. But I was never strict about calories, and because I've always had a big appetite, I just overate on low-carb food. I got down to 203 around November, but then ran into some snags around the turn of the year. I was put on propranolol, which made me so exhausted that I quit exercising and got sloppy about my eating habits. And then my job became extremely stressful for a while. Things at work are finally on track again, and my doctor weaned me off the propanolol a couple of weeks ago. I'm ready to get the scales moving in the right direction again.
I didn't even know OMAD was a thing until last night. I decided to check if there was a diet for one meal a day because I've found that my appetite gets huge at dinnertime, and I always overeat. Why can't I just save all my calories for dinner? Then I can't overeat for the day (not unless I try really hard.)
I'm starting OMAD in the morning, since I've read all the rules and tips now. I'm going to have my morning coffee as usual, and not have anything else until dinnertime. I'm not sure how I will handle Saturdays, since that's the day I tend to be around food the most, but I'll make a plan for that as I go. For now, every other day will be OMAD.1 -
Have introduced myself on the community forum, as I didn't realise I had to do it here... baby brain haha! I'm Kelli and I'm 37 and about 154lbs. The rest of my introduction is on the community one. If anyone could give me some support I'd really be greatful. Thanks and hope you're all well ☺0
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Hi all, I'm Kelli.
Long story short, used to weigh between 112-126lbs, even after having my fourth child. I'm 5 feet 4 inches tall and 37 yrs old. Since i started working at Tescos and having lots of quick easy food available for breaks (no longer work there thankfully lol) and having my last 2 children I ballooned to 182lbs. Developed gestational diabetes and had placenta preavia in my last pregnancy, as a result had a c-section 3 weeks early, my son was the smallest child I've ever had (5lbs 9, the rest were all well over 9lbers!) And ended up in special care for 4 days as he stopped breathing, then had blood sugar problems. This was a huge shock and wake up call for me.. as it's the first unhealthy pregnancy I've had. Started 'slim and save' and lost 35 lbs, but then temptation got the better of me and I caved. Been back and forth since then and have only regained 7lbs thankfully. I came across omad whilst looking at diets and realised that this is exactly how I used to eat.. It's such a no brainer and I don't understand how I went so wrong and started eating so differently! Wish me luck please! I start tomorrow. ☺
Just pasted it from the normal community forum.. I'm still trying to figure this community stuff out so please bear with me!!0 -
Welcome newbies and good luck 0
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Welcome, I look forward to seeing your individual threads. Good luck!!0
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Hi Im Suzie- Im 5'5 and so close to goal its not funny. I have only 5 pounds to lose until I hit goal. Omad will make this happen. Ive been on it for about a week and today I noticed a few hours before my meal time my energy level dropped significantly. Could this be a blood sugar issue? Im not diabetic and very healthy. But not eating for 24 hours could have an effect on it I think.
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Hi,
No, you are just still adapting. Takes a month to iron out the kinks.
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i thought so- I was not about to give up. Thank you my friend!!0
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Hi All,
My name is Malik. I'm fairly new to OMAD. I didn't know anything about OMAD and discovered it online when looking for ways to lose weight and get back in shape. I started almost 3 weeks ago. At the time I started I was 301 lbs. Today I'm down to 286 lbs. I'm 6 ft. tall and my target goal weight is to get down to 175 lbs. I've struggled with managing my weight now for about 10 years. I use to be very athletic and engaged in body building over the years. The last 10 years or so I allowed my weight to continuously increase even while I continued my routine of lifting weights. I've tried various approaches to getting back in shape but honestly nothing seemed to work or make as much sense to me as OMAD. After reading up on OMAD and watching a ton of videos, I told my wife that this is a program I can do and stick with. I have the discipline to eat once a day and with this program I can still eat the variety of foods I love as long as I keep myself in a caloric deficit I should continue to make progress. Well, I'm already seeing good results! Count me in. OMAD for life!1 -
Welcome Thad, Kelli, Suzie, Malik! This is a great place to be.1
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My name is Blaine. I am a firefighter from South Louisiana. When my journey began I was pushing the scale close to 300. I am now at 245 up from 225. I was starting to see some of my progress from traditional diet and exercise go away. That's when I ran into the OMAD revolution on YouTube. I was sceptical at first but after finding talks by Dr. Fung I decided this is the plan I need. I am also trying to build muscle/strength to better preform my job as an emergency responder. I have also found several professional bodybuilders use similar programs. So this is why I am here today.2
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Welcome to everyone, you will love it here 0
