All About OMAD or KETO: For Vegetarians

FluffyJawn · December 2018

Hey Everyone,

I’m going to try this weight loss thing once more and give it all I’ve got.

I’ve noticed that OMAD & KETO are by far the best in getting the weight off FAST, are more sustainable for long term maintenance and was considering combining them for optimal results.

However I seem to have bypassed where Vegetarians fit in as far as keeping the meals tasty and creative. Realistically, I don’t want to eat salad, fruit & eggs everyday lol.

HW: 350
CW: 330 12/05/18
GW: 250 12/05/19

Any recipes or success stories are welcome.

Thanks a bunch!

Lillymoo01 · December 2018

There is only one way to lose weight and that is to eat less than you burn. OMAD and keto are just tools that some find helpful but they are no better or worse than other tools. Many find this way of eating sustainable long-term but others experience the opposite. The only way to find out is to give it a go and if it doesn't work then keep searching for something that does.
However, if you are vegetarian going keto is not a simple thing as typically a vegetarian diet is high carb and keto is low carb. It is not by any means impossible but can be quite restrictive and the more restrictive a person finds a diet the less sustainable it is.

Runaroundafieldx2 · December 2018

If you struggle to stick with losing weight then being that restrictive seems crazy to me.

Why not just eat less of the foods you enjoy?

snowflake954 · December 2018

Your problem is going to be--getting the weight off fast. This just doesn't happen if you want to do it in a healthy way. I'd rethink this and do a long term sustainable diet. You'll have a better body at the end.

amy19355 · December 2018

FluffyJawn wrote: »

Hey Everyone,

I’m going to try this weight loss thing once more and give it all I’ve got.

I’ve noticed that OMAD & KETO are by far the best in getting the weight off FAST, are more sustainable for long term maintenance and was considering combining them for optimal results.

However I seem to have bypassed where Vegetarians fit in as far as keeping the meals tasty and creative. Realistically, I don’t want to eat salad, fruit & eggs everyday lol.

HW: 350
CW: 330 12/05/18
GW: 250 12/05/19

Any recipes or success stories are welcome.

Thanks a bunch!

I'd like to suggest that you've described a recipe for another failure.

The more you can do that is sustainable, from day one, the greater I think your chance of success will be over the long term.

Take the time to learn how to calculate your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure, aka Calories) and make a plan that figures out how many calories less you need each day in order to lose at a slow but steady rate. (1/2 - 1.5 pounds a week).

Yes, if at first you don't succeed, try and try again, BUT, unless you do something different with each try, don't expect different results.

good luck.

cmriverside · December 2018

I'm with the other posters. First, KETO and OMAD are both restrictive. Vegetarian KETO is really difficult.

One meal, vegetarian KETO sounds really really hard and sounds like a failure waiting to happen, but you won't know unless you try so good luck!

How are you planning to eat enough vegetables in one meal to hit your calories? I get full on about 500 calories vegetarian so I would be hard-pressed to make this work. I don't think you'll be eating fruit very often if you want to be in ketosis. It's a Rubiks Cube I would not be able to do.

I lost all my weight just tracking food and making small adjustments as I went along. All or nothing freaks me out and causes me to give up.

rosebarnalice · December 2018

I'm vegetarian, and if you're considering vegetarian options for even some of your meals, I'd encourage you to explore variations on things that you already like that have little meat. Think pasta marinara instead of with meatballs; beans and rice (in all their multitude of spicy variations from around the world!); Asian stir-fry veggies served with rice or noodles; or American favorites like cole slaw (easy on the mayo!) and savory baked squash and sweet potato.

kimny72 · December 2018

rosebarnalice wrote: »

I'm vegetarian, and if you're considering vegetarian options for even some of your meals, I'd encourage you to explore variations on things that you already like that have little meat. Think pasta marinara instead of with meatballs; beans and rice (in all their multitude of spicy variations from around the world!); Asian stir-fry veggies served with rice or noodles; or American favorites like cole slaw (easy on the mayo!) and savory baked squash and sweet potato.

While those all sound yummy, I can't imagine you could stick to keto macros and do that.

OP, I would strongly disagree that OMAD Keto is "more sustainable" generally than other ways of eating. I'm not saying it can't be sustainable for some, but I suspect lots of people would struggle to eat that way long enough to lose the weight, forget about maintenance.

I would also caution that dropping weight "fast" may not be the best way to go, especially if you have a history of trying and failing. Many folks who continue to cycle through trying to lose weight and then gaining it back, struggle because they try to completely change everything all at once, and devise a plan that's super hard to stick to. All you need to lose weight is a calorie deficit. How you eat will determine how easy or difficult it is to eat the right amount of calories, and how you feel while doing it.

There is a Low Carbers group linked on the right side of the Forums home page, and I believe there is a thread in there for vegetarian keto.

Whatever you decide, best of luck. Just know you don't HAVE to eat any one way, and it doesn't have to be difficult - pick a way of eating that works for you, not one that will increase your struggle :drinker:

MikePTY · December 2018

FluffyJawn wrote: »

Hey Everyone,

I’m going to try this weight loss thing once more and give it all I’ve got.

I’ve noticed that OMAD & KETO are by far the best in getting the weight off FAST, are more sustainable for long term maintenance and was considering combining them for optimal results.

However I seem to have bypassed where Vegetarians fit in as far as keeping the meals tasty and creative. Realistically, I don’t want to eat salad, fruit & eggs everyday lol.

HW: 350
CW: 330 12/05/18
GW: 250 12/05/19

Any recipes or success stories are welcome.

Thanks a bunch!

Quite the contrary. Diets like that may have some success in initially losing weight quickly, but are much harder to sustain long term because they are significantly restrictive. The diets that tend to have the most success long terms are ones where you eat the foods you want to eat, you just maintain a calorie deficit.

I don't even know how you would do Keto vegetarian. Would just you just eat nuts all day? You couldn't even really do fruit or some vegetables because they have too many carbs for Keto. It sounds like this plan is one you are going to have to starve yourself on, as well as significantly deprive yourself of nutrients.

There are a lot better, healthier, and safer ways to lose 80 pounds in a year than this.

janejellyroll · December 2018

IMO, vegetarian/vegan keto is very restrictive, so if you're looking for plans that will allow creative and varied meals, it may not be a good fit for you. The people I know who are doing this consistently are basically eating the same foods every day.

Just because a diet produces quick results for some doesn't mean it will be pleasant or sustainable for everyone.

AnnPT77 · December 2018

If OMAD/keto/vegetarian suits your personal preferences and appetite triggers very well, it will be successful.

If it doesn't, and restricts you from enjoyment, social connection, or other factors that may be important to you, that routine may not be your most effective choice.

I've been vegetarian for 44+ years, obese for most of that, and lost weight fine eating pretty much what I'd already been eating, just less of it and in different proportions. (Nutrition is important, but mine wasn't terrible.) After losing about 1/3 of my body weight in just less than a year, I'm in my 3rd year of maintaining a healthy weight.

I agree with those saying that losing weight fast can be a bad plan, risking unnecessarily much loss of muscle tissue alongside fat - and muscle tissue is quite slow/difficult to rebuild, especially for us women, yet so important for health as we age. Losing no more than 1% of body weight per week, and slower than that within 25-50 pounds of goal weight, is a sensibly conservative rule of thumb, IMO.

I encourage you to try out whatever plan seems likely to yield good results for you, and not fall for others' exhortations and orthodoxies. (Don't believe everything you hear from "fitness" blogs and instagrammers.)

In case you want to consider alternatives, this is the plan I used for weight loss:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10636388/free-customized-personal-weight-loss-eating-plan-not-spam-or-mlm

Best wishes!

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