If you’re weight lifting 5 days a week this cortisol response can be counter productive it seems? Have any of you had any success with OMAD and weightlifting? For example, how do you get enough protein and calories with OMAD?
I’m assuming this is pertaining to weight loss with the concern of cortisol? My two cents, this is just too pithy to worry about. Our bodies are not these on/off biologically switches. Yes, working out can result in stress/cortisol which inhibits weight loss in a few ways. But this is a very narrow view of everything going on. No one is going to stop losing weight if their nutrition and exercise routines are good and consistent. For instance, the entire sport and culture of body building wouldn’t be able to exist if cortisol was somehow able to completely stop weight loss.
There’s ultimately so many factors that go into our health and weight loss.
Personally, I’ve seen a lot of success with IF and strength training. It’s a bit slow going muscle growth wise being in a deficit, but I like this kind of working out thus it was easy to make it a habit and routine. And it does feel like having that extra muscle and resting metabolism from it has meant I didn’t need to change how much I was eating that much over time as weight was coming off.
Though yes, I found OMAD a challenge just from a digestive stand point. Though with the right mix of nutrient dense foods I’m sure it works for some folks. My solution was to use OMAD+ or 16:8 to incorporate a second small meal/snack just to have a big dose of protein a few hours separate from my main meal of the day.