How did you start?

I'm somewhat experienced with IF. I just happened to gain a lot of weight since I bounced out of my IF lifestyle. Now I wish to lose all that weight (roughly 40 pounds). I thought of starting with 20:4 since it's more flexible but I want quicker results so I'm more eager for OMAD if it would yield better results than 20:4 in the same time period assuming that calories would be kept the same. Please share your experiences as to how different would the results be in both cases? And is squeezing your eating window to one hour really worth the results? P.S. I am equally open to doing both but I want to do that which would yield the maximum results in the least time.

Hey, so I’ve been doing the Omad diet since late august so about 2 months now and have lost 14kg (30 pounds for you Americans.) I know for sure I have lost weight as I had to cut more holes in my belt and my work shirt is more baggy now, but when I look at myself I don’t see it at all and when I turn sideways and look in the mirror my belly don’t seem much smaller to me but work colleagues have been telling me there is a difference but I really can’t see it so I’m wondering is this some kind of self hate or doubt kind of thing or is this normal?

I've recently been on a health kick with massively reducing Omega 6 from my diet. Sadly that means no more McDonalds, KFC or any other sweet, sweet burgers, as even the bread is loaded with seed oils. But what I discovered from doing this, with a lot of research thrown in, was strange and very interesting.

Long story short. Omega 6 fatty acids, eaten over and above the bodies needs, causes a dangerous increase in intracellular calcium, among other things. This increase in calcium comes at the expense of the bodies electrolyte balance. Following along with this chain reaction, when the calcium in the bodies water gets too low (because of the excess Omega 6) then brain function is affected, which means doing your job at work properly becomes very difficult, (in a kind of similar way to how being drunk makes doing your job properly very difficult). This all combines to make intermittent fasting very unpleasant on a high Omega 6 diet.

The catch with all this is that you body wont start trying rid itself of the excess Omega 6 until your last meal has been completely digested and all the available energy from that meal has been burned up, which only happens when you enter your fasting state. In other words, you wont feel bad (from the excess Omega 6) until you feel hungry, and you can only stop your massive drop in calcium levels by eating as soon as your last meal is used up (and never feeling hungry). This means if you have a high Omega 6 diet, it's very difficult to lose weight and excel at your job at the same time. (Where as if you have a healthy Omega 6 balance in your diet it's very easy to lose weight and perform at a high level.)

The question I have is how many grams of Omega 6 a day is the correct amount? I'm reading some saying 5-10% of daily calories should come from Omega 6 fat???? About 20 grams a day max. The problem I have with this is that Omega 6 fats aren't an energy source for the body. We burn Glycogen (glucose) and Triglycerides (saturated fat) for energy. Here's some pictures so you can get what I mean.

Here's Glycogen, which is loads of Glucose molecules joined together.

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Here's a Triglyceride molecule (more commonly known as saturated fat.

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And lastly, here's the two essential Omega fatty acids.

You'll notice they all contain the same three elements. Oxygen, Hydrogen and Carbon. When they are burned in our cells the Carbon and Oxygen combines to create energy in the cell, and oxygen also combines with the left over Hydrogen, which makes H20 and C02 as byproducts of the energy creation process.................... etc,,,,

Triglycerides are the bodies preferred source of fuel, as they are the most dense form of carbon, containing much more carbon than glycogen for the amount of space in the body they occupy. This is why our bodies store large amounts of saturated fat, but only keep enough glycogen for daily needs. All excess glycogen is converted into triglyceride form for overnight storage (which is why excess sugar contributes to weight gain).

Omega 6 fats (bent chain fats) aren't burned by the body, because there's no receptor in the cell for them to plug into (because they are bent). They have to be converted into straight chain saturated fat before they become a burnable source of calories. As the natural world doesn't produce Omega 6 in any form humans could possible over consume, over the last 100 million years our bodies didn't evolve with any comfortable way to convert massive amounts of omega 6 into usable fuel. Instead our bodies store the excess around our organs, as deadly Visceral Fat. It does this to stop the excess inflammation from excess omega 6 in the blood giving us even more deadly cancer, among other things.

Then, when you start fasting your body has a worst first approach to burning stored energy. Damaged proteins will be replaced, converted and burned as fuel. But before any of that happens the toxic buildup of Omega 6 has to be reduced. I don't understand this process entirely but it does deplete calcium levels, making work difficult, which in turn makes fasting difficult, which then gives you diabetes. Phew, that's a mindful!

I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable can fill in some of the blanks for me.

Side note: Here's the alcohol molecule in your glass of wine.

https://preview.redd.it/ebf4rh8qu1xd1.png?width=348&format=png&auto=webp&s=856028c94aa235b58c1b9d6f3a7158728672a22c

It's all the same three elements. This formation just happens to get you drunk, and will kill you stone dead immediately when taken in excess. So drink less and be merry more.

i am female 5’0 153lbs. i want to lose around 40lbs. i’ve been doing omad for a little over a week now. im doing omad for health and religious reasons. i’ve watched a lot of videos on it where they always say you have to eat your day’s worth of calories in that one meal or else your metabolism will suffer. i hate counting calories because i feel like it’s annoying and i rather be able to enjoy my food without having to track down everything down to the gram. if i were to guess my calories everyday for the past week they probably don’t reach over 900-1000. i try to focus on having more fruits and vegetables(im vegetarian). i have some carbs too like potatoes and rice. i also try to make sure i have a balance of protein, fats and carbs. but my stomach capacity is really small. i don’t drink during my meal and i can only stomach a small amount until im full, and i stay full until the next day. i already have noticed on omad how much better i feel not constantly eating all day. i believe that eating 3 times a day is a new age idea and belief.

my ending question is, how do other people who do omad expect people like me to shove down 1500-1600 calories in one sitting. Also, do you think it is necessary to count calories or do you recommend just to focus on nutrition and healthy eating?

I’m on my second day and I only drink water all day then have a reasonbly big dinner I’m not overweight but I have some chub I want to lose 10kg and get down to 75kg (I’m 5,8) so I can get the skinny look if I stick to this does this really work I smoke cigarettes like 3-4 a day and have been told I can still smoke them whilst doing this pls let me know your thoughts

Wanted to see if anyone has had success doing this? I am 7 weeks postpartum and miss the way I felt while doing OMAD. If I still hit my calories daily, by eating the one time.. will it effect my milk supply?

Im currently 95kg 177cm 18YO. I plan to eat once a day at 6pm 0 carbs just protein veggies and fruits. Is it possible to lose 20kg in 40days. I have lost 0.5kg a day for a week before when I was an athlete exercising quite alot and was 78kg in march. Now I plan for 45mins in the gym everyday. Also I have done 3 day water fast before and I might do it nearing the end. I know it might not be safe for such intense weight loss in a short period of time, but i just want to know is it possible? Im willing to do whatever it takes to lose the weight given my limitations and I know I wont falter for just these 40days by suddenly binging or anything so can it be done?Also Im not aiming to lose 20kg of fat just 20kg of weight and just till the end of this 40days not planning to keep it up after that.

I been trying really hard it’s been 3 weeks. Since I first started OMAD I pair it with Intermittent fasting and only eat in the evenings, I drink coffee and water throughout the day.

I look the same!

Thinking of cutting back few carbs and going full chicken and broccoli and a protein shake for a full omad meal.

The protein shake will be on those days I go to the gym. What do you guys think?

Hello Reddit, tomorrow I will be starting my one meal a day challenge to see how much weight I can lose. Not only that, but it would be good to be little again. I used to be skinny for half of my life, but that changed in 7th grade. Fast forward to now, I'm a sophomore, and I'm pretty big. I weigh 230 pounds, and I hope to weigh 170 by my birthday, March 4th. As I said, I weigh 230, so every seven days, I'll weigh in and report back to this post with an update.

In the comments, could you guys give me your input? Like, how long do you guys think it'll take? I won’t be exercising much. The only "exercise" I will be doing is playing competitive basketball very intensely Monday through Friday. I do it every day, and I get so tired to the point where I can't talk, or else I feel like I'm going to pass out. I also sweat buckets doing this, so I think it should be good enough.

My schedule will be to eat at 11:00 AM, play extreme basketball from 1:21 until 2:00 PM, go home, and play games for the rest of the day. I'll be back in seven days, which is next Monday, for a weighin

1 cup Good Culture cottage cheese Whole avocado 2oz kimchi 5 eggs One whole zucchini and whole bunch of rainbow chard sautéed in 2 tbs butter

Id like to add 4-500 more nutrient dense calories

Hey everyone so I've been OMAD for a while now and although I don't follow the lifestyle to a T like I did when I first started I'm looking into following a more OMAD strict diet. Anyways I'm a big breakfast person, that's usually when I open my window from like 8am-12pm. However recently I've started a new job in home health and I don't feel super comfortable eating at the house because everyone has rules in their home (understandable) but I feel like I can't really enjoy my meals at someone else's home, PLUS since it's Healthcare I'd rather stay as clean as possible in case of emergency. So I was thinking about instead of me eating in the morning and noon. Maybe I can start eating dinner and home instead? I'm not super hyped about it i feel like saving my meal until the end of the day might mess with my sleep and could affect my weight. But what are your suggestions? Like I said the latest I've ever closed my eating window has been 6pm pre omad and I guess I could still get home and close my window at 6pm but my body would have some adjusting to do. Any tips or advice? Please be nice

I eat one meal a day with 3 times milk coffee with stevia. So is it good ?

Hi there, I am a 35 year old woman who has struggled with my weight my entire life. I am about 260 lbs currently and 5’7 and have lost about 30 from my highest in the last year. I have Endometriosis, and PCOS. Despite being obese I have maintained a active lifestyle including spin classes, hot yoga, walking and weight lifting multiple times a week. I also would say I have always had a relatively healthy diet, however clearly I struggled with food and making positive choices as well as struggling with binge eating a lot in my teens and 20’s (not an issue anymore). I was prescribed ozempic and lost about 20 lbs on it. I wasn’t on it for long because I hated it and felt terrible. I don’t seem to struggle with fasting, I do a 36 hour fast Sunday-Tuesday and then OMAD dinner on Wednesday and then another 36 hour fast until Friday, and then OMAD dinner on the weekend, but I may treat myself to a coffee one of those weekend mornings. I haven’t weighed myself lately, but I feel like have lost weight. I feel smaller, less bloated, can feel more bones.

I was doing keto, and I don’t eat any processed foods really, but I do sometimes want to eat carbs. Wondering if I will prevent my insulin resistance from improving?

If you read that all, THANK YOU

I’ve been doing omad currently 5 days a week and reverting back to three meals a day on weekends can I still lose weight doing this currently my second week in doing this and notice slight changes the help would be much appreciated thanks guys ❤️

Hello! I've been doing intermittent fasting and have gotten down to 20:4 but starting 2 days ago I wanted to start OMAD instead. I just have a few questions:

Can I take energy amino acides in my fasted state? They're 5 calories and help get me going for workouts.

How long until you saw results with OMAD? I feel like intermitten fasting is great but I feel slightly bloated sometimes for some reason.

Had someone tell me that Im only in shape because I have good genetics. What people don't see is the many struggles I went through to work on myself consistently . They ignore the many hours I spent in the gym, the amount of time I spent doing research on the kinds of food I should be eating in order to maximize fat loss and muscle gain

I decided a long time ago that I was not going to make excuses because I understand that life is not fair. I had two choices I can either look myself in the mirror as someone that is overweight that needs to get fit and cry that my circumstance in life is preventing me from getting in shape, but then where does this get me?

For me if I sit and complain about how difficult my life is I am not getting any better, Im not getting healthier, and i'm not doing anything to progress my life in any meaningful way.

The other option is that I can control all of the variables that i possibly can and take deliberate action to change.

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So I’m going on here because I have no other options, I have had hypersalivation for the last three months and its driven me crazy. Here’s some context, I am a 20-year-old male who exercises almost daily, I don’t drink soda or much processed food. I’m generally a pretty healthy, happy, and chill guy, but this hypersalivation has truly ruined my life completely. It has caused severe stress and anxiety, and it just downright makes me dread waking up in the morning. So it all started when I woke up one day and went to take grandma to the airport and I felt like I couldn’t really talk and my mouth felt weird (I just attributed it to having had woken up early) so I threw in some gum and went about my day, then later that night as I’m chilling on the coach watching a movie I realized my mouth was just filling up incredibly rapidly and I was just confused and then I realized I was hypersalivating for no apparent reason and its been that way since then not stop 24/7 365. I just want to find the cause of my hypersalivation so I can fix it and go about my life again.

My symptoms feel like my mouth just fill right up with water (spit but very serous spit) and If I swallow it’ll just fill right back up again, and when I spit it out it’ll just be very watery spit but I can basically keep spitting into infinity because the production never stops

I have been to 3 ENT doctors who all said everything looked good and I’m in the process of getting a CT scan done on my salivary glands.

I have been to 2 GI doctors who said everything looked good and I got an endoscopy done and all good

I have been to 3 General Doctors who said everything was all good and got blood and urine tests done which also came back perfect

My ideas of Potential causes of hypersalivation are:

-Prior to getting this hypersalivation I water fasted for three full days in which I was chewing gum all day. Somewhere throughout that whole process maybe my parasympathetic system, which controls salivary production got jacked up by something I did and it hasn’t been able to return to its normal state

-The same day the hypersalivation started I also got a tattoo in the upper middle chest that extends to the traps, maybe it caused some nerve damage or affected my nervous system, but I am fairly certain that the hypersalivation started when I woke up and the tattoo was around 2pm

-I do have a very minor overbite and some crowding in my front bottom teeth but overall pretty good teeth and oral hygiene, I did have a dental procedure done about three weeks before the hypersalivation started where apparently I just had a dent in one of my molar and they just did a simple filling on it, but I had no issues the three weeks prior

-I sleep on my stomach/side, not sure if that means anything

-I developed scalloped tongue from the hypersalivation because I have a tendency to move the tongue in a place where it shouldn’t go to try to minimize the rapid accumulation or saliva, also not sure if that means anything either

With all this being said I have no idea what’s wrong with me and the doctors don’t know what’s wrong with me. No, it’s not all in my head. If you saw the shear amounts of saliva, I’m spitting out you’d be surprised. And no, it’s not an anxiety symptom, as yes, this has caused me a great deal of anxiety, but there’s a good chance I went my whole entire life without feeling anxiety before this started, as I’m just not really a anxious guy whatsoever. I would love to know your thoughts and opinions on this, and I’d do literally anything to fix this so please help me out guys.

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220 right now 5 11 male 19. I am limited physically by Medical Conditions but want to lose weight for health as well as mentality as I struggle with PTSD and Depression. I have just started OMAD intermittent fasting Mon-Thur with Friday being my cheat day to eat out with the Wife or friends but then fasting until Monday Lunchtime.

This is my second week and I went from 218 to 221! I was shocked, disappointed and generally concerned that I somehow gained weight from eating very little. I'm concerned that fasting has slowed my metabolism but I'm not fasting enough to actually lose weight.

I drink 1 cup black coffee in the morning Sun-Thur. Water throughout the day and maybe 1 Green or Black tea with some pink Himalayan salt sprinkled in if I'm feeling hunger pangs or weak.

When I break my weekend fast I drink 1-2 cups of unsweetened Kefir milk to ease my digestion back before eating a real meal later that day.

Friday Dinners with my wife is usually PHO, Steak, Chicken Wings, Chipotle,Spaghetti,homemade Chicken Rice Soup or Korean BBQ + Hot Pot.

Meals when eaten Mon-Thur are generally either Chipotle, Chicken/turkey breast sandwich with Tomatoes, cauliflower starch small pizza with pepperoni and cheese or scrambled eggs with bacon and either toast or hashbrowns.

What should I do? What am I doing wrong? I'm limited in mobility so I exercise by walking and maybe some light weights.

Anybody close to me have any inspiring stories to help motivate me?

Much love to the Community!

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