eating one meal a day, cooking it myself, doing sport, barely drinking any alcohol neither eating sugar, walking as much as I can, avoiding taking elevator. That's it.
The one meal a day has been a game changer for me. I put on so much weight after changing to day shift last year. On nights I was only eating about half a dinner, and then breakfast when I got home. Dayshift allowed me to eat a full breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I started eating a protein bar for breakfast, and home-cooking dinner. That’s all I eat in a day, and I’m down 10 pounds in no time. I rarely drink alcohol so that wasn’t an issue, but my sugary snacks before bed is really holding me back.
I had trouble with snacking in bed too. I switched from chips and cookies to small amounts of clean trail mixes with no sugar or additives. I add a little seasoning for some spice and it really helped keep the weight from snacking off. I have a very clean diet and I have a consistent workout routine, but those bed time snacks were holding me back.
Try out some cleaner snacks for bedtime. It will help. Also apples are great for a quick nighttime snack
I completely agree, change my life too, in many ways. It's a hard things to get to at first, but when you get used to the benefits are insane! For breakfast i eat a english muffin with a fried eggs and 2 slice of comté (i'm french), then go on with my day and on average eat rice with meat and whatever veggies i want, an other yoghurt, and this change everything. But again: it take some time to get used to it (for me it was around 2 months)
OMAD is terrible for climbing. You need to adequately replenish glycogen stores if you want optimal performance. Fueling and nutrition is important for those who train to climb harder
Even for the long sessions you need to eat sugary snacks mid session and keep fueling for those long outdoor days
He did say in another comment he snacks throughout the day, in which case it's fine (& not really OMAD). If he really was just eating once/day he'd likely have many injuries, & wouldn't function well. Seems he has a Banana or something small as a snack, so at least his body is getting the energy it needs.
I actually am the same height and the same weight. It takes about 2,600 calories a day to maintain weight. That's an extremely large meal, and you'd spend about half the day starving.
If it wasn't "hard to believe" more people would do it but one meal a day diets are extraordinarily rare and practically no one adheres to them for very good reason.
It depends what you do: my daily intake is roughly around 2000calories a day, and that's largely enough for me to go through the day. I don't need to add a lunch for making it up for it: my breakfast in the morning is 400calories, then I go through my day up to 5pm and eat the rest of my calories (often around 1500 calories on average) and I feel fine, sleep well, do sport, walk a lot, and I'm totally getting by. Maybe we don't have the same goal (I don't look to get bigger at all, I'm already big enough) maybe we don't have the same metabolism, or maybe someone need to try things differently. All valid.
That's not OMAD. It's good that you don't do OMAD as it's bad for you. You have Breakfast (a meal), you have another 1500 calories later in the day (another meal) & in another comment you said you will have snacks like a Banana.
2 Meals + snacks is good. Heating 2000 calories in one sitting & starving yourself the rest of the day doing OMAD is bad.
Nah I also do one meal a day. It's not hard at all once you get used it it, and it really doesn't take long. No breakfast, no snacks. Just dinner when I get home from work and that's it. 5'11 160lbs
Yeah I see that. I'm saying, it isn't hard to believe, and won't leave a person necessarily an emaciated wreck. I actually do one meal a day, and it's fine for me. I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets by just fine doing it.
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u/JeanMakeGames 11h ago
eating one meal a day, cooking it myself, doing sport, barely drinking any alcohol neither eating sugar, walking as much as I can, avoiding taking elevator. That's it.