Apologies for the cross-post but I've just realised this might be a better place for this..
I don't really need to lose a lot of weight but having suffered with an ED in my teens and 20's I have a bit of a complicated relationship with food now. I am recovered from the ED but still find food a source of stress and have a love/hate relationship with it. I have a habit of snacking mindlessly in the evening to the point where I feel full and uncomfortable and regret it (though I'm still usually within my recommended calorie intake for the day). I think it's because I spent so many years restricting my diet and starving myself that now I subconsciously make a decision to just say "f*ck it" and refuse to say no to myself and deny myself food if I want it!
The OMAD diet sounds like a very simple way to eat - to just allow myself one full meal a day of whatever foods I feel like eating and then once that window has passed that's you done for the day. I regularly miss breakfast and eat a late lunch anyway so to condense my food intake down into one full meal at around 5-6pm could potentially work well and an added bonus is that if friends or family invite you out for dinner or brunch you don't have to make excuses or dissect everything on the menu - you just count that as your meal that day. Ideally I'd try to make it a well rounded meal - protein, carbs, veg and fruit.
I'd love to know if anyone has tried it and whether it's a) sustainable b) convenient c) effective for losing weight and exactly what they ate on an average day and what success they had. As I say I don't really have much to lose but would like to feel a little less wobbly and just make food play a less important role in my life, one that I only have to think about once a day.
TIA