Anyone doing OMAD or 23:1

[Gertie75]

I'm on day 3 and so far so good, it'd be nice to hear if anyone else is doing it too, whether early days or long term

Oh maybe thats it then, perhaps my carbs were too high. I'm veggie, keto is impossible, but I am avoiding all bread, pasta and rice. I'm having potatoes as a rare treat.

I'll pay more attention to macros.

I've been trying to lose weight since new year, and I'm now 22lbs down. I have worked my way up to OMAD, and I have been here for almost 2 weeks. I weigh myself once every 2 weeks, so I will see how I do. I feel like I can carry on with OMAD, as I still have a lot of weight to lose.

I've found fasting better for me to be able to stick to than any other diet I've ever tried. I'm no good at counting calories, or denying myself anything, and I have a tendancy to binge. So this works out perfectly for me.

I try to eat a proper meal in my 1 hour eating window, but then eat a pudding and a couple of snacks too.

Hi blubberball, its good to have some company. The only sweet things i've dared eat so far are options hot chocolates and sweet potatoes!

I am hopefull of the freedom to eat whatever I want, but i'm still finding it harder than I did initially - perhaps because totm is coming.

This is wonderful for me. The weight and inches have been coming off like never before.
I fell in to it naturally during lockdown. I got fed up of having 2 healthy calorie counted meals a day and wanted to enjoy cooking things that I really wanted. I've also started baking more as when not on OMAD I would just end up eating bake/ flan throughout the day but now it lasts the week as I'll only have a chance for one portion.
It is so much easier for me to eat within one window (usually 2-2.5h) than to have a constant battle of wills in my mind about how much and what to eat.
I don't tend to feel too hungry but when I do I remind myself that it is my body learning to switch to get it's energy from fat and imagining that process makes it a positive feeling for me.

Hi Pineappleunder, I really want this to work out for all the reasons you mention. I'm still really stuglling. I think its a combination of:

TOTM coming.
Not eating enough.
Too short a window.

I'm eating my dinner, and having all my drinks in a short space of time. I feel full, but i've probably not had more than 900 calories most days. I'm going to eat more from today, and then see where I am at the end of the month.

Just in case I put anyone off, the last two days have been so much better. I ate a bit more, and increased my window for 2 hours, and i'm actually feeling great again.

I'm still going with this. Anyone else?
I struggle to do it every day but probably manage 5/7 days a d do 16:8 on the other two.
I seem to go through cycles of losing inches then losing pounds. Although of course with hormones it all goes a bit crazy around my period.

I'm still going. It is much easier now. The only change is that for the 4 days before TOTM, I increase my calories to maintenance level. So much better.

Will admit that weightloss is slower on this, which makes no sense to me as the calories are the same. I am in the healthy weight band though, and a couple of years older than my last diet attempt.

Shopping, cooking, cleaning up, washing up, meal prep - all so much more simple. The hunger after eating an unsatifactory meal is much harder to ignore than the hunger I experience on this.

I binged yesterday. It's been brewing mentally for weeks.

Yet somehow, it wasn't that bad. I ate a mere 550 calories more than normal (which is only 250 over maintenance). A normal binge for me would be thousands of excess calories. I started eating at 11am. My normal window is 7pm-8pm, and usually when I start eating I simply cant stop.

I'm utterly amazed, this is an absolute first. Every other diet I've tried, if the urge to binge takes hold, and I give in to it, then it's a proper binge, which lasts at least a few days, and then its so hard to get back on the wagon. Today i'm not tormented with a compulsion to eat.

Anyone else found this?

Any pps still doing this? If so I'd be interested to hear how it's going.

I really need to lose at least a stone, preferably 2. I'm an all-or-nothing person so restricted eating works well for me but I need to see results quickly so think maybe 20:4 or OMAD might suit me..... if I can find the willpower.

Anybody fancy starting on Monday?

I'm still going. I love it and plan to continue forever.

I've lost 2 stone 5lbs. Weight loss has slowed since i've been in the healthy weight band, but I expect it would have anyway.

So far it hasnt been socially tested too much, but I imagine it will be fine.

@11stoneTess I’m looking into starting this and very inspired by your posts/results. I wanted to ask you how it is going with regards to the bingeing? I have suffered from binge-eating my entire adult life and all my diet attempts have invariably resulted in a return to bingeing. I did Keto/IF last year and felt really good but fell back into bingeing and haven’t been able to get out for almost a year. I now am in a more positive place and feel motivated to change again. Eating small portions etc doesn’t really work for me (as I guess is typical for a binger), so I think this WOL might be the right one. Are you doing Keto/LC as well?

I've been doing this for a few weeks now. My main motivation is oerimenopausal stubborn weight I have tried every way to loose. And I mean every way!

I love this as I too am an all or nothing person. But when I am focused I so incredibly healthy so that two hours I give myself, I can focus on healthy food intake, then the rest I don't have to think about food at all!really hoping to control my hormone and insulin levels.

I'm seeing the scale moving slowly but at least it's moving because nothing else had any impact and I have been strict keto : paleo : whole 30 etc for long periods of time with nada.

@Katastrofe Have also binged my whole life. I guess it works for me because each day has a controlled binge at the end of it.

It hasn't been easy, there was an adjustment period, and I used all my willpower to avoid my trigger foods for the first 6 weeks. Now i'm tentatively trying my trigger foods (very occasionally) when a craving just wont go. So far so good.

To be honest, I havent enjoyed my trigger foods nearly as much as I expected - though I have still finished whatever it was!

I also have to be honest and say that reduced human interaction means i'm less triggered to binge.

I'm not doing keto - i'm veggie, its too restrictive. I have reduced my carbs to 75g a day - which I think is classed as moderate. But I have nuts and yoghurt every day which makes it higher fat.

I think its definately worth trying, but slowly phase into it, skip breakfast for a few weeks, then push lunch back, and then omad. Happy to answer any questions.

Hi. It's worth people taking their measurements and not just looking at the scales.

Sometimes with fasting you can lose many inches but it doesn't show so much on the scales so worth bearing in mind.

Autophagy is an amazing thing!

I've been doing OMAD for the last 4 weeks as part of the FAST800. I just find it easier to eat 1 bigger meal rather than 3 smaller ones and I want the benefits of a longer fast.

It feels very comfortable and I've lost 16 lbs so far.

I'm doing OMAD. I fast either 21:3 or 22:2. I pretty much always break my fast with a bowl of homemade lentil soup. It takes the edge of any hunger and makes it easier for me to prepare a healthy main meal. Plus I love it with lots of cumin, ginger and chilli in it. I've been doing it for a few days now. I'm trying to keep low carb but not beating myself up about it either. I've given up alcohol, crisp (my weakness), biscuits and cake, so some potato or bread sometimes is fine with me.

@HealingCalmingSoothing
I'm the same as you, all or nothing - so find fasting easy. I've also got stubborn perimenopausal weight around my middle made worse as I have Hashimotos.

I've been keto for a few years now and obviously IF comes with the territory. It just happens!

I think it's really important to only do OMAD when it feels good and right. I often do OMAD, today is one of those days and I have noticed over the years it is very related to my cycle. Days 1-14 of my cycle it is just easy, nothing to think about and makes me feel amazing, but days 21-28 of my cycle it is much harder and I often only do 16/18 hour fasts on those days.

hi! I've been OMADing for just over two weeks now, and while I found it really hard on some days, others have been fine. Not sure why. Every so often I have a bit of a stampy tantrum about not being able to have a milky coffee (I'm not going to have one at 8pm!) and I still dislike the black coffee I drink instead (but mostly I drink tea the way I've always had it, nothing in). I break my fast by cramming cheese into my face while cooking a beautiful meal, so perhaps haven't entirely embraced the spirit of the thing.

Other than that, it's ok. I've lost 5 lb in 2 weeks and about half an inch off all round, so it's slow but is staying off. There has been a little bit of to-ing and fro-ing with weights this fortnight but the trend is downward! I was on 5:2 for years, on and off, but it stopped working for me as I got older or adapted to it. Now in late 40's, perimenopausal and was despairing of any eating plan that would shift weight and keep it off.

It's not for the faint-hearted though, is it? I have very ingrained coffee shop habits and a black one just doesn't do it for me. Covid sort of helps in that I'm not really comfortable sitting in cafes now (so takeaway instead) but I do miss that. I love cooking and food and couldn't cope with any daily calorie counting (at least 5:2 was just for 2 days a week), and because I taste and nibble while I cook, I'm aiming for 21:3 rather than the hardcore 23:1 - that's ok, right? (sometimes it's more like 20:4...)

Sometimes I have lunch instead of supper, and I've not found the next day (when I wait longer to eat!) that bad.

Started this yesterday doing 23:1 and keto. How's everyone getting on?