This does not touch directly on the subject of OMAD or Keto. One can easily be OMAD or Keto without trying to reduce calories. Indeed many are on OMAD and/or Keto precisely so as to avoid restricting calories. However, some of us have elected to also restrict calories while being OMAD and/or Keto, such as myself. I've been both OMAD and KETO for a few months now and have also for the most part kept my meals at a thousand calories or less. Keto kept the hunger to a minimum and OMAD made it really easy.
However I have noticed something interesting. In hindsight I suppose it might have been obvious, though it is apparently not obvious to most. I lost twelve pounds in the first week on Keto from loss of water retention. Within the first month, I had dropped that to twenty pounds. Here's the crux... Since then I have not lost any weight! What has happened is that my body's base metabolism has slowed down to to new level of caloric intake.
This is precisely the same phenomena that causes people on traditional diets to promptly gain back any weight they lost from dieting, the moment they go off the diet. That is fine as long as you stay on the diet, but the reality is that for most people, a diet is a hardship that cannot be endured indefinitely.
I do expect myself to stay OMAD forever, it is far too convenient a lifestyle. I intend to stay fully Keto at least until I have lost all excess weight. (I am not on Keto with the primary intention of losing weight but rather to correct several health problems.) At some point I will want to deviate slightly from full ketogenic to see if I can maintain the same health simply with low carb. Keto for me is less than twenty grams of carbs a day. Low carb would be keeping somewhere under one hundred grams of carbs. (One hundred would be on the high end.) The main idea is to stay under one's natural glucose tolerance.
For now however what I am planning on doing is to go back to eating around 1600 calories a day. This is roughly the maintenance level of calories I used to eat. This will at least in theory reset by metabolism to its normal level and should not cause any serious weight gain. I will of course say both OMAD and Keto. After a couple of weeks when my metabolism has reset, I intend to start weekly total water fasts of two to three days, each and every week.
Studies indicate rather clearly that people eating a non-caloric restrictive diet who also do significant fasting do not appear to reduce their base metabolism as a result. They actually wind up losing substantially more weight than a similar group that ate the same total calories over time but did not fast. Moreover the caloric restrictive group promptly regained the weight they lost when they went off the diet. The fasting group however did not.
Related info:
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/keto/carbohydrates
https://www.motleyhealth.com/diet-and-nutrition/peter-attias-mission-to-rid-the-world-of-obesity
However I have noticed something interesting. In hindsight I suppose it might have been obvious, though it is apparently not obvious to most. I lost twelve pounds in the first week on Keto from loss of water retention. Within the first month, I had dropped that to twenty pounds. Here's the crux... Since then I have not lost any weight! What has happened is that my body's base metabolism has slowed down to to new level of caloric intake.
This is precisely the same phenomena that causes people on traditional diets to promptly gain back any weight they lost from dieting, the moment they go off the diet. That is fine as long as you stay on the diet, but the reality is that for most people, a diet is a hardship that cannot be endured indefinitely.
I do expect myself to stay OMAD forever, it is far too convenient a lifestyle. I intend to stay fully Keto at least until I have lost all excess weight. (I am not on Keto with the primary intention of losing weight but rather to correct several health problems.) At some point I will want to deviate slightly from full ketogenic to see if I can maintain the same health simply with low carb. Keto for me is less than twenty grams of carbs a day. Low carb would be keeping somewhere under one hundred grams of carbs. (One hundred would be on the high end.) The main idea is to stay under one's natural glucose tolerance.
For now however what I am planning on doing is to go back to eating around 1600 calories a day. This is roughly the maintenance level of calories I used to eat. This will at least in theory reset by metabolism to its normal level and should not cause any serious weight gain. I will of course say both OMAD and Keto. After a couple of weeks when my metabolism has reset, I intend to start weekly total water fasts of two to three days, each and every week.
Studies indicate rather clearly that people eating a non-caloric restrictive diet who also do significant fasting do not appear to reduce their base metabolism as a result. They actually wind up losing substantially more weight than a similar group that ate the same total calories over time but did not fast. Moreover the caloric restrictive group promptly regained the weight they lost when they went off the diet. The fasting group however did not.
Related info:
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/keto/carbohydrates
https://www.motleyhealth.com/diet-and-nutrition/peter-attias-mission-to-rid-the-world-of-obesity