Just started OMAD for autophagy but not weight loss!

So, I really don’t know all that much about health and nutrition and such, but I started OMAD five days back and it has been going well. For some reason I found the third day to be a challenge, however, it seems to be getting easier each day.

I’ve done a few 30 hour, 48 hour, and 60 hour dry fasts in the past, so this wasn’t totally brand new to me, however, I figured OMAD can enable me to fast for much longer overall (such as a few months).

The reason I am doing it is for health reasons. The autophagy affects. That’s what I am hoping for.

I haven’t put much thought into what I eat as such. I just grab a bunch of stuff from my fridge, and then eat it within an hour time window (actually it ends up being more like 2 hours).

However, I am a bit chubby and so I do have some weight to lose, and I just started thinking, if I am going to do OMAD for several weeks/months, I might as well take advantage of the potential weight loss that it could bring.

Do you think I am likely to lose weight anyway, just by the fact that I am not eating the same quantity of food I would commonly be eating in a given day.

Or should I really put more thought into the actual OMAD meal itself. I do have a sugar weakness, and I was thinking, at least having something sugary in my OMAD allows me to stick to omad. You know? It carries me through to the next day and the next day. If you see what I mean. To cut it out completely, makes the whole thing much harder.

Or maybe I am doing it wrong? I don’t know.

In general, I hate the idea of specifically counting calories.

Autophagy is the main goal, but losing some weight along the way would be a great bonus and might motivate me to keep going. But then again, cutting out sugar completely might make me ultimately fail and then just go back to not fasting.

I don’t know.

What do you guys think?