I'm new here and to OMAD

Hi everyone, I'm hoping to find some answers here. I've been doing a strict Keto diet since Jan 2nd, 2019. I slowly pushed my lunch back until I reached OMAD by the end of January. Before that I was eating very well, almost all of my food intake was non-processed, but I wasn't counting macros. Christmas was very bad, I threw caution to the wind and ate way too much candy. The scale jumped up about 7lbs in a week after my last chocolate. I've been doing OMAD for a month now, and I'm hoping someone can help tweak my daily intake. 7:00 am I have a coffee with mct oil and heavy cream, 12:00- repeat on the coffee/mct/cream. My one meal is around 6-7 pm; an example of my one meal is 3-4 cups of spinach-1/2 a cucumber-1/2 of a pepper-a sprinkle of cheese-5-6 oz of meat-another coffee/mct/cream-handful of almonds. I'm not really budging on the scale and although I'm seeing great benefits in my body- more energy, better sleeps, less inflammation, the fat is very, very slowly coming off. Any advise on tweaking this food plan is greatly appreciated.
 
Some days I do mostly keto, and just eat protein foods, and other days, I have a large salad with red beans and frozen peas in it for protein. It seems like my body asks for different foods on different days.
I know you can have salads on keto, and I usually still have a salad on those days, but more like a tuna fish salad or chef salad;whereas on the plant-based days, I just have more veggies in the salad.
Even though I ecercise most days, my metabolism is still really slow. I think it is partly due to my age, and partly due to my heart meds, which slow my heart rate down a lot.
But when I cut my food intake down far enough to lose weight faster, then I am not feeling any energy to move around and do my exercise, so it is kind of a balancing act for me.
 
Hello from North Queensland, Australia!
I am on day 32 today and I have really been enjoying the simplicity of OMAD. I used to cook for a living so I have been having big cook-ups of healthy meals with plenty of good fats etc and filling our freezer with good sized portions. My wife and two children still at home enjoy the ease of choosing a meal and heating it and quite often all 4 of us will be eating different meals, variety is important.

I have used intermittent fasting in the past but with no real long term protocols. I have fasted for 6 days, more often 3-4 though but i would eventually have a binge and quickly see the weight return.

July last year I had a motorbike accident and fractured my spine, the months of convalescing while laying in a recliner chair watching Netflix and soothing my pain and boredom with food saw my weight peak at 149.8 kg (320 pounds) and I just felt terrible. I returned to work at this weight and being on my feet all day instructing high school students in wood and metalwork felt like it was going to kill me.
I was finding movement so difficult and I could see how this could be a tipping point and I'd end up not being able to work, compounding the issues of lethargy and ending up a 500 pound behemoth.

I had never actually heard about OMAD, I just started a fast and told my wife that I only intended to eat dinner. It was after my 1st week that I searched "eating one meal a day" and came across the acronym and realised it was something of a weight loss phenomenon.

Anyway, 32 days in and 14 kg (31 pounds) down and not a cheat meal eaten or any food outside of my strict 6-7pm window.

Best wishes to everyone else who has found this very workable weight loss/management plan.

By the way, I take some prescription medicines during the day which state they must be taken with food. They make me quite nauseous on an empty stomach. I take two teaspoons of a granulated fibre called Normafibe with a glass of water. This fibre contains no calories but does swell with water and has an added effect of an appetite suppressant, not the reason I use it but a bonus nonetheless!
 

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Hello from North Queensland, Australia!
I am on day 32 today and I have really been enjoying the simplicity of OMAD. I used to cook for a living so I have been having big cook-ups of healthy meals with plenty of good fats etc and filling our freezer with good sized portions. My wife and two children still at home enjoy the ease of choosing a meal and heating it and quite often all 4 of us will be eating different meals, variety is important.

I have used intermittent fasting in the past but with no real long term protocols. I have fasted for 6 days, more often 3-4 though but i would eventually have a binge and quickly see the weight return.

July last year I had a motorbike accident and fractured my spine, the months of convalescing while laying in a recliner chair watching Netflix and soothing my pain and boredom with food saw my weight peak at 149.8 kg (320 pounds) and I just felt terrible. I returned to work at this weight and being on my feet all day instructing high school students in wood and metalwork felt like it was going to kill me.
I was finding movement so difficult and I could see how this could be a tipping point and I'd end up not being able to work, compounding the issues of lethargy and ending up a 500 pound behemoth.

I had never actually heard about OMAD, I just started a fast and told my wife that I only intended to eat dinner. It was after my 1st week that I searched "eating one meal a day" and came across the acronym and realised it was something of a weight loss phenomenon.

Anyway, 32 days in and 14 kg (31 pounds) down and not a cheat meal eaten or any food outside of my strict 6-7pm window.

Best wishes to everyone else who has found this very workable weight loss/management plan.

By the way, I take some prescription medicines during the day which state they must be taken with food. They make me quite nauseous on an empty stomach. I take two teaspoons of a granulated fibre called Normafibe with a glass of water. This fibre contains no calories but does swell with water and has an added effect of an appetite suppressant, not the reason I use it but a bonus nonetheless!

Hi @Alexius! I am very happy that you have found us here on the forums. We are very happy to have you here. Welcome! I'm sorry to hear about your motorbike accident and happy to hear that you are ok. I think you will find the Omad Diet to be just what you are looking for in terms of your goals. Be sure to checkout the many articles I have written in this guide. I think you will find many of them helpful. https://omaddiet.com/omad-diet-guide/. Please be sure to keep us updated!
 
Welcome to the OMAD forum, @Alexius , and what an interesting story you have to share. Definitely being in an accident would make it easy for a person to gain weight and also hard to lose it again.
I have had a bad heart for about the last 20 years, and the heart failure and a-fib also made for an inactive lifestyle for many years.
I did kind of the same thing as you, and started eating an early dinner and fasting for a longer period of time overnight, and then starting looking it up and discovered intermittent fasting as well as OMAD.
Since I am also in my 70’s, I am just not able to exercise as much as I used to be able to, and my metabolism is slower; but even though weight loss is slow for me, I am feeling a lot better, and am able to exercise a lot more than I could do before I started the fasting regime.
 
Hi Happyflowerlady, thanks for the reply.
I will have to start swimming before the warm weather is gone. We have a pool at home but I did not use it over Summer as I was uncomfortable with even my wife seeing me without a shirt on and a clinging wet shirt is not fooling anyone.
I have a number of interests that I have missed because of my weight. I'd like to start riding my motorbike again but feel very cumbersome on it when too heavy. We have kayaks to use on the river just out of town and apart from the crocodiles, it's my weight that is keeping me from going for a paddle. I know my teenage son would love me to be more active with him.
I am fortunate to have not had heart problems, it certainly sounds like you've had more than your share! I do need to look after myself better for this reason too as my late father was not much older than I am now when he had his 1st heart attack.
I'm into week six now and the weight loss has slowed a little but is still going in the right direction, down 14.9kg (33 pounds) and my flight to our Easter holiday in Melbourne in 14 days has been a great incentive to stick to the plan. My last flight was in a wheelchair after my accident but even before that I found the seats quite uncomfortable. I plan to just maintain my weight for the week that we are away and then get back to OMAD on our return.
 
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