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Are there any downsides or changes that occur with long term OMAD?

Below you can read my other recent post with some useful details related to this question and specifics about me, but..

i like my OMAD routine and dont plan on changing it anytime soon.. that being said, could I possibly be doing any damage or making any type of change to my body such as, slowing my metabolism down, in a sense, ruining it because I am a skinny person with a very fast metabolism, and for some reason I can eat and eat and eat and eat and remain pretty thin, but Ive always been active as well, but I would not want my body to adapt to or change processes in my body when I do OMAD in a way that maybe that someday I would eventually lose my fast metabolism or some other changes. What’s are the disadvantages here. if any? Thanks!

Recent post:

In Thomas Delauer’s new video, he says that fasting is a stressor and you can sort of build a tolerance to it, so you feel refreshed and the fast maybe more useful/ Beneficial When you take a break from it, so he only fasts, I believe 3 days a week at the moment..

That actually makes a lot of sense, but how does that really affect yhings like autophagy?

What do you prefer and what works for you?

Im skinny af, fast metabolism/always been active. I have found for me, 1 meal a day, atm, as long as I get enough of my nutrients and macros, that it is far superior to any other fasting window because it seems as if there is some sort of biological clock that is not done resetting after you eat when all of those spikes, hormones, processes, routines, expectations, emotions, have started.

I think treating fasting as a stressor has it benefits and place, and if you want to maximize those benefits, otherwise, I think I’m okay with one meal a day. Resilience/ life/depression/anxiety, feels better/more manageable since I’ve been doing omad.

My everyday diet consists of.. raw- pecans, walnuts, pistachios, dry roasted- hazelnuts, pistachios. Broccoli, spinach, red onions(red onions with salt pepper and lots of extravirginoliveoil yum, especially when my meat is smithfield all natural frozen sausage, its convenient, and seems much healthier than brown n serve), orange and yellow peppers, and I will rotate out the variety of cheese and meat, and sometimes ill add canned carrots because they work really well for me.

Then some days, i will change out the meat, broccoli, red onions, and extra virgin olive oil for.. butter, garlic, and veg/egg omlet, cheese. And sometimes. When I change out the meat for snapper, I will add in asparagus and celery(celery soooo good with the snapper dish), and change out the red onions for roasted garlic because, when I change out for the snapper that is my 1 day, besides the omelet, that I cook my food.

Sometimes i like bone broth as well. And sometimes some fruit like kiwi/blueberries. Im im also looking to add in variety sometimes with a good tomato sauce and other veggies!

I also make sure to get plenty of water nearly a gallon a day. And make sure to have a Heavy variable heart rate and breathing. For 7 minutes a day. Twice a day.

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Answer

On the fasting method podcast, the hosts routinely talk about how the body can adapt to a 23:1 OMAD. Their suggestion is to a 30/16 OMAD. That way you eat one meal a day but without the risk of adaptation.

This blog post explains the pattern: https://blog.thefastingmethod.com/omad-should-you-eat-one-meal-a-day/

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Can anyone explain what the omad body adaptation does? Idk, but I doubt it has anything to do with presevation mode/ slowing the metabolism, because as long as u get all your nutrients/macros/vitamins/minerals, should be ok, no?

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