Hey everybody! It's so good to find a forum like this where we can partake in each other's journey! I'd love to know your comments on my short experience with OMAD.
So after finding out about OMAD and how much sense it made (especially because I meditate daily and meditation on an empty stomach is the best!) I wanted to start right away. So the first day I decided I'd do 4/20, which meant I'd be having my normal lunch at 1 PM + a good sized early dinner at 5:30 PM. No biggie.
As a matter of fact, I found it so easy that I decided to just jump ahead and do OMAD the following day (yesterday). Things got a little more challenging but I still managed to do it and at 4:30 when I ate I stuffed my guts with healthy foods. It didn't feel that good afterwards but I reasoned that as I'd get better at this OMAD thing I wouldn't feel so desperate to eat so much in my only chance of the day. Then at night I was nearly dreaming of a good omelet for breakfast (which surprised me as I've never been the kind of person to idealize food and was never overweight).
Well, today maybe because I stayed home most of the day (and thus just a couple of steps from the kitchen) or maybe because it's the third day, things got really difficult. I pushed myself through being hungry the entire day and ate quite a lot (of the good stuff, but a lot nonetheless) when 4:30 came.
Now I have this feeling that things shouldn't be like this. It can't be healthy to stuff myself with food once a day just for fear of the hunger to come.
Is it the case that I should start with a larger eating window and slowly progress to OMAD? Or is it always like this and I just have keep on keeping on and my hunger will diminish?
I appreciate any thoughts about it.
PS: I even feel kind of sad now, after eating, as if I allowed a strong stress to go on for too long
So after finding out about OMAD and how much sense it made (especially because I meditate daily and meditation on an empty stomach is the best!) I wanted to start right away. So the first day I decided I'd do 4/20, which meant I'd be having my normal lunch at 1 PM + a good sized early dinner at 5:30 PM. No biggie.
As a matter of fact, I found it so easy that I decided to just jump ahead and do OMAD the following day (yesterday). Things got a little more challenging but I still managed to do it and at 4:30 when I ate I stuffed my guts with healthy foods. It didn't feel that good afterwards but I reasoned that as I'd get better at this OMAD thing I wouldn't feel so desperate to eat so much in my only chance of the day. Then at night I was nearly dreaming of a good omelet for breakfast (which surprised me as I've never been the kind of person to idealize food and was never overweight).
Well, today maybe because I stayed home most of the day (and thus just a couple of steps from the kitchen) or maybe because it's the third day, things got really difficult. I pushed myself through being hungry the entire day and ate quite a lot (of the good stuff, but a lot nonetheless) when 4:30 came.
Now I have this feeling that things shouldn't be like this. It can't be healthy to stuff myself with food once a day just for fear of the hunger to come.
Is it the case that I should start with a larger eating window and slowly progress to OMAD? Or is it always like this and I just have keep on keeping on and my hunger will diminish?
I appreciate any thoughts about it.
PS: I even feel kind of sad now, after eating, as if I allowed a strong stress to go on for too long