I am not really starting the omad diet, though I am new here and figured this was the best place to post. I just wanted to tell my story for inspiration and maybe it will help others lose weight too. The last couple of years I had tried a few things to lose some weight. Nothing worked. Not that I was that much overweight, I was up to 173 and 5'7." So I was about 15 pounds overweight. Although recently I found I am 5'8" so I wasn't even 15. Anyway, I accidentally found the omad diet just by trying something new, I hadn't even researched it before. Once it started working I looked online to see if other people were doing it and found this site. In about 6 weeks I managed to lose 20 pounds. For me the key was not eating anything in the morning. For example after the diet started working I decided it might be a good idea to eat something in the morning after I was on the tread mill. It was low calorie vegetables sort of stir fried in a pan without grease/oil. I would burn at least as many calories as I ate so I figured it would be no big deal. The problem is for whatever reason eating breakfast would trigger hunger all throughout the day. I just had to eat something. By not eating anything I would only be slightly hungry at times. Easy to deal with. Doesn't really make sense but that is how it went.
Another reason this diet worked for me is how rapidly you lose weight. About 1 pound every 3 days for me. I imagine I was not eating about 700-1000 calories I would have otherwise been eating and burning about 300-500 on the treadmill 5 days a week. To see 1 pound every week wouldn't have been that motivational. Oh, another thing is I was still able to eat whatever great stuff my girlfriend cooks in the evening. (She cooks because she doesn't want to eat my cooking lol)
In addition to just getting to a proper bmi my blood pressure has dropped from medication range of up to 150 over 90 something to on average about 125 over 80. I had tried over $100 of supplements to try to lower it not realizing that losing weight would help much. I was only about 10 pounds over weight in reality so that seemed kinda strange to me. I also just learned today losing those 20 pounds I no longer snore. Before that my girlfriend said I snored often and sometimes loudly.
So to wrap it up if people are reading this I'd recommend they at least try the diet unless of course medically they shouldn't.
Another reason this diet worked for me is how rapidly you lose weight. About 1 pound every 3 days for me. I imagine I was not eating about 700-1000 calories I would have otherwise been eating and burning about 300-500 on the treadmill 5 days a week. To see 1 pound every week wouldn't have been that motivational. Oh, another thing is I was still able to eat whatever great stuff my girlfriend cooks in the evening. (She cooks because she doesn't want to eat my cooking lol)
In addition to just getting to a proper bmi my blood pressure has dropped from medication range of up to 150 over 90 something to on average about 125 over 80. I had tried over $100 of supplements to try to lower it not realizing that losing weight would help much. I was only about 10 pounds over weight in reality so that seemed kinda strange to me. I also just learned today losing those 20 pounds I no longer snore. Before that my girlfriend said I snored often and sometimes loudly.
So to wrap it up if people are reading this I'd recommend they at least try the diet unless of course medically they shouldn't.
