Anyone else doing OMAD?

[SlimJimmin]

I’ve always been an ‘all or nothing’ type of person. I’ve also always been overweight and at almost 47 with a couple of health wake-ups going on this HAS to be it this time. So I’m doing OMAD (one meal a day). Basically fasting most of the day and eating a decent and well-balanced made from scratch meal each evening. I started on 8th Jan and have lost a decent amount so far. I’m not hungry at all during the day which I find quite odd but won’t complain!

Would be good to share some meal plans etc if there are others in the same boat!

Hi!

I had one of those months where I only lost 1lb. Seriously, it’s a joke. I eat like a saint, drink loads of water.

weighing myself again on monday.

2 stone in 2 months is great work!

Oh how annoying for you! You’re so good that you just keep going though-that’s a strong character and will to do this! I’ve now had my official T2 diabetes diagnosis so am slacking my absolute arse off to lose weight, stay off meds and get my blood sugars back to normal. That’s the plan anyway…!
Keep your chin up and let us know how you do at Monday’s weigh in.

Been wanting to try OMAD for a while and your posts have given me the push so starting tomorrow. I will have my meal in an evening with the family which is usually a home cooked healthy dinner. I’m 52 and have done every diet out there with some success but then put it all back on. I’ve now got to the point of being very fed up of counting calories/working out points or syns and basically having to plan everything I eat in a day. I’m hoping OMAD will simplify it all.

I know I’ll be ok going without food all day it’s keeping up the momentum. I tend to start diets, lose a bit, start feeling better then go off the rails. I’m currently 12 st 2 lb and would love to lose a stone before holiday in 6 weeks.

Feeling positive!

@Michs72 yes, OMAD is great for taking away the food noise.

In theory, you could eat what ever you want.

I found it was a good tool for me to learn about nutrition.

I am just preparing my meal now (I usually eat my meal in the AM, but we have been out).

I am having a large steak, 3 fried eggs (fried in ghee, I only use animal fats/butter), a bag of Brussel sprouts roasted with garlic, I’ll have plain Greek yogurt after with crushed almonds on top. I’ve also had a “starter” of carrots, cucumbers, celery and home made hummus while I was waiting.

That’s pretty much what I eat on a daily basis. And still people tell me OMAD is unhealthy, even though I eat no processed food and only drink green tea and water.

My SIL is the worst. Lives off tesco meal deals, takeaways, frozen food, cereal and chocolate and tells me that 4 steaks a week will kill me.

I eat once a day but not really for weight loss and not in a healthy OMAD kind of way. I agree that it's weird how you end up not being hungry the rest of the time. If I eat another time of day it makes me feel sick now 🫠

Day one complete. Ate dinner at 6pm, homemade lamb lentil stew loaded with veggies and a cup of tea and a fruit yoghurt. Drank water all day but not sure I can keep that up missed a cup of coffee, but I suppose that’s a habit.

today was easier than I expected, just need to keep busy to stop mind thinking of food 😂.

I lost 5 stone in 2023 doing OMAD. I was gently keto too, and I never felt hungry (had plenty of fat reserves!). If it suits you, OMAD is great. I'm doing weights now and have gone to 16-8. It's OK, but doesn't feel as natural as OMAD!

Hello, I'm still around sorry just been busy.

I'm only managing to do 3 or 4 days a week omad. I struggle at weekends with kids being around, I think I need to try push through it. I tend to do 18:6 or 20:4 the other days.

I'm down 12lbs so far and I started 7 weeks ago. I've got a holiday in 11 weeks and aiming for another 16lbs!

Today was fine, was on work calls all day and tomorrow I'm out and driving which helps too. I love just not thinking about food! It's so refreshing!

Well done @Michs72 for the first day! How has today been?

Wow @Headtothestreets that's incredible! Well done. Have you kept it off?

@Headtothestreets well done that’s a fantastic achievement.

@ChipsAreLife today has gone really well I too am enjoying not always thinking of the next meal. I may have an easy day Sundays as we have lunch about 2ish so will prob have a light tea later on. I go on holiday in 6 weeks and would love to be a good 8-10 Lbs lighter. Be brill if it was a bit more. Fingers crossed

@ChipsAreLife well done by the way on your 12lb loss. That’s great in 7 weeks. It would usually take me about 5/6 months to lose that I’m hoping this gives me a jump start. I always want results yesterday 😂

I've done it this week (since Tuesday anyway). I always fasted and missed breakfast anyway. I have managed but I do feel hungry around my normal eating time of around 1pm. If I get through that, I can last until dinner time. Like others, once I eat, I am ravenous and find it hard to stop, so it's better for me not to eat at all.

I do have low sugar oat milk in my coffee during the day from about 11am.

I had noticed a real sweet tooth developing, but it's gone which is good!

Have lost a couple of pounds - know this is water loss, but still it's encouraging!

Am feeling a bit reluctant to have my mother's day lunch on Sunday and breaking the run.

Thanks @Michs72! I'm now 14lbs down and it's been 7 weeks now as counted wrong. In that time I've had meals out etc so it's working and allowing me to live a bit. How are you getting on?

I've got just under 11 weeks till holiday. Desperate to do 20lbs if I can knuckle down!

@HelenHywater I feel the same! I got into a terrible sugar habit late last year but now I just have two small cubes of dark chocolate after dinner and that's enough. Could you move your time Sunday so that is your one meal? Or maybe do 18:6 instead?

@ChipsAreLife thats a great loss I’d be chuffed if I could do that before my hols in 6 weeks. Today is the first day I’ve not felt at all hungry until dinner time.

@HelenHywater thats how I feel I’ve found it easier not eating rather than trying to follow a diet. Early days but I don’t feel quite so bloated today. I’ve just been having water but today I’ve had black coffee’s as missed my coffee. Might get some oat milk to try. Well done on a good start.

Excited for weigh day Monday it’s been hard not jumping on scale every day.

Morning all! Well done @ChipsAreLife , that’s fab! And fingers crossed for your weigh-in on Monday @Michs72 - let us know!

Just a quick check-in from me, exactly 2 months since I started OMAD on 8th Jan. I started on 8th Jan at 16 stone 2.25 and today I’m 13 stone 11.25! 2 stone 5 down in the two months. I’m absolutely over the moon and hope I see a difference in my blood sugar results next month too!

Keep going all! 💪

@SlimJimmin OMG that’s fantastic. What an achievement. How’s it been for you? Have you found it easy? Bet your clothes can tell the difference. Well done!

That's an incredible result 👏🤩
I bet you can really feel the difference in terms of energy levels and (I don't know what to call this exactly) mobility/moving around more easily (just mentioning as I found this myself).

Wow @SlimJimmin that is unreal! Well done you, thrilled for you! How are you finding it?

I'm another 4 ounces off this morning. @Michs72 well done holding off weigh in till Monday. I do it everyday 😂. I'm another 4 ounces down today.

I'm going to try my first weekend omad day tomorrow. See how I go! I won't do sunday as it's Mother's Day and the kids want to do me a brunch in bed and a roast!

Didn't mean to brag twice about the 4 ounces 😂

Finding it quite easy today. Been really busy which helps but also think my body has got used to it!

Well done everyone!

I’m still ploughing on. Still in a weightloss plateau, although the jeans that didn’t fit two weeks ago now slide on.

@ChipsAreLife haha feel free to brag , everyones losses are giving me some well needed motivation. I too am having Sunday off.

@bahhamburgers sometimes that’s what matters and not the scales.

I absolutely was guided by how clothes fitted and also my waist circumference (hence the username) rather than weighing myself when I lost weight. I found it so much more beneficial. It put me in touch with the shape of my body rather than looking at the scales for guidance, amongst other advantages. I'm not a slave to scales any more and I really look and feel what my weight is instead.

Ahhh thanks everyone! Yes I’m so so pleased. It HAS to happen this time and with another 5 and a half weeks to go until my next blood test, I’ve got a great source of motivation to keep going! I’m hoping to stay off meds so am extremely determined. A couple of you asked how I’m finding it. It’s actually really easy for me, so much easier than any other way of eating I’ve followed in the past because there is only one decision to make each day on what to eat, and I know I won’t eat until then so I genuinely don’t think about it. Even in the evening when it’s time to eat I could honestly manage without it, which is a weird feeling! My clothes are definitely so much looser (in fact a hoodie I got for my birthday end of Feb is annoyingly too big now and is sitting here with labels on and unworn). Colleagues are commenting now which is lovely, and my students are being lovely and tactful and saying things like, ‘Miss you look really nice-have you done something different with your hair?’ 🤩 Bless them. So yes, it’s going fantastically and I’m really enjoying the weight coming off.

Now, off for afternoon tea with my mum tomorrow so I’ll be ‘off plan’ but will be straight back to it on Sunday! 🙈

Well, after a month of no losses, I woke up this morning 2lb lighter. I will never understand how my body works.

I get disheartened sometimes, but I looked back at my weight loss tracker today. May 31st last year I was 234lb. I am now 176lb (12 stone 8 lb).

58lb in 10 months is bloody massive, I can’t forget that.

(At the beginning of 2019, I weighed 23 stone, but I didn’t start keeping a log of my weight until last summer).

That’s fantastic results bahhambergers!

Ive just restarted IF this week. Currently doing TMAD, which is basically a starter / snack about 2pm and a main meal at 5-6 ish.

Im following a lot of the recipes in Eat Like a Bear which are based on what she calls the Ridiculously Big Salad. Essentially a massive bowl of low carb vegetables, a small to moderate about of protein and a high fat dressing. She does it OMAD but you can adapt for TMAD.

Lost 5lb this week which I know will be a lot of water weight, but it reminds me that this way of eating really agrees with me and it is so much less faff than counting calories throughout the day.