A few OMAD questions

[Grumpy77]

A few questions for OMAD members/advocates... (these may be novice questions because I'm only just now begining to look at the OMAD idea)

What do you do about supplements that you have to take 3 times a day with food? Though those supplements you have to take 3 times are very few these days, most are once a day.

But that poses another problem for OMAD because you would normally want to spread out your supplements intake throughout the day rather taking all of them in one go at your meal time... So how do you manage your supplements intake considering all of this?

There's the well known fact that breakfast is the most important meal of the day,.. does this mean the morning is the right time to pile in all the food?

Large meals normally increase the severity of my constipation, what do I do about that?

And if the answer to the previous question is,.. your only meal of the day should not be a large one.. then how do I handle the incessant, annoying and uncomfortable noises my stomach makes when it is empty or near empty?

Many thanks

[chartist]

I don't think breakfast is the most important meal of the day, at least not for everyone.

The supplements I have to take with food, I take with my meal. The other supplements I take that don't require food I spread through the day. Fortunately the supplements that I take that require multiple daily dosing, don't require they be taken with food.

My one meal a day can be large or medium, but not small. Once on OMAD for a time the body seems to adjust and the grumblings go away as your body adjusts to using fat storage.

I can not consume enough food comfortably in an hour and sometimes take two or three hours for consumption, but that still gives me a 21 or 22 hour fast per day and I can live with this method and it is still good for me. If I lose too much weight I alternate to 2MAD until I get back to my optimal weight range and then alternate back to OMAD.

One of the first things I noticed with OMAD besides weight loss is how much food I had been eating out of habit as opposed to eating because I was actually hungry.

Art

[Grumpy77 in reply to chartist]

Thank you so much

What about managing nutrients distribution. Multiple meals per day enable you to consume a wide variety of nutrients at the 3 main periods of the day, from food that won't normally go together in one meal. So how do you manage to take in all the daily essentials in one meal?

[chartist in reply to Grumpy77]

That's why I give myself up to 2 or 3 hours to do all of my eating.

Art

[amykp]

Yeah--the notion that breakfast is the 'most important meal of the day' is not a well known fact--it was a 1944 advertising slogan for Grape Nuts Cereal. It's been repeated over and over, but like so much 'common knowledge', there is no particular evidence for it.

Your body kinda adapts to whatever you do, I think.

[Grumpy77 in reply to amykp]

When I read 'I think' at the end of your post, I decided to do a mini research on this question of the importance of breakfast

The result is... though the importance of breakfast is not a doubt, the jury is still out on whether it is the most important,

But this is not an exhaustive research, so there may be definitive studies either way somewhere

[Esperanto in reply to amykp]

The first meal after a period of “fasting” is the most important. So for almost all people this is breakfast. The way which you fill your empty stomach in terms of order and content is the basis of how the rest of the day goes. (Jessie Inchaupe “The glucose revolution”). At OMAD it is even more essential because you can no longer make a correction later in the day. That requires an enormous knowledge of nutrition and the necessary nutrients. Even a dietician would still have a nice job about this.

“Your body kinda adapts to whatever you do, I think” attitude, can therefore cause great damage in the longer term, especially at OMAD.

[amykp in reply to Esperanto]

No, I'm not commenting on WHAT you eat, just WHEN.

[JohnPepper]

Hi Grumpy77

The best way to reverse your PD is to start walking, as fast as you can, every second day, for no longer than one hour.

I have had PD for more years than I care to remember. I show no signs of PD and have not done so for many years. As long as I walk as fast as I can, every second day, My Pd symptoms no longer occur.

Try it, it works!