I am curious how to try and do it successfully. My concern is I won’t be able to physically consume 1,000 calories or more in such a small eating window.
How did you start and manage through it?
Thanks!
Worked my way up to it, I started with 16:8 then 18:6 then 20:4 then OMAD. OMAD can be a longer meal with a few courses, doesn’t have to be eaten in 10 minutes.
Black coffee ☕️ yum. 2 cups of regular and 3-4 cups of decaf each day.
I quit OMAD…i tried it 3 times.
Essentially i had to tailor fasting to my own satisfaction, this has taken months.
Atm, i fast 18 hours, eat 6.
Typical day is wake up at 7, eat first small meal at 12(300 calories or so usually of the highest protein you can fit), then 5-6 hours later, eat my “Omad” Meal.
I find it extremely hard to keep omad consistent, unless i really don’t feel like eating.
The biggest negative for me in OMAD is that you keep waiting for that meal all day, this variation i do makes it so much more bearable.
Essentially you get the benefits of OMAD(1 big meal later in the day, fasting benefits) but you don’t starve 90% of your day.
I wouldn’t worry about consuming the calories. At least for me I just ate enough dinner to be satisfied. Whatever that took is what I ate. If I was hungry after the meal I cooked I’d add something like cheese or nuts so I wasn’t leaving the meal hungry. I guess it was maybe 25-50% more than typical for me pre fasting.
And many days doing OMAD as goal I was really hungry for some reason before my window. So I ate something. A couple of eggs or a snack of cheese or nuts or part of leftover dinner. I know most of the time it wasn’t really hunger. When busy I’d do OMAD without difficulty so it was boredom or habit mostly. But my goal wasn’t OMAD but to live sustainably and lose weight and being hungry and longing for food isn’t that.