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My brother-in-law does OMAD. He has discovered another advantage to it. He had to go to another city for a week for work. They put him up at a nice AirBnB, and... they gave him a $60 food per diem. $60 if you're doing 3 meals? Nice little treat, I guess. $60 if you're doing 1 meal? He eats like a king every night.

Now, in this case, it may not be helping him lose weight haha!

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The beautiful thing about OMAD (I’ve used it to lose weight quite effectively several times) is that it’s rather difficult to go over your TDEE in one meal no matter what you eat. In fact, when you are trying to maintain a weight instead of lose, you often have to make a concerted effort to make even the minimum amount of calories to maintain.

It’s possible to lose weight eating nothing but an entire frozen pizza every day this way. Not that I would recommend doing that, it’s definitely not healthy. But possible.

Well maybe I'll give it a shot for a while. I've been skipping breakfast (mostly out of routine necessity), but I find I end up just eating a second supper late at night. I'm effectively shifting breakfast to lunch time.

Did you find any substantial cost savings?

Nothing dramatic - you eat less of course but if you’re the kind of person that cooks bigger meals and then eats the leftovers you either need to adjust how much you cook or plan to throw more away. It also lets you plan your one meal better so you often end up choosing something healthier since you’re putting more thought into the meal.

Everyone has different times they prefer to eat but I found for myself eating between 2-4 pm was the ideal time for me to avoid getting hungry in the evening and still be able to work well in the morning.

It takes about 3-5 days to adjust your body hunger chemicals so you end up having to fight through a bit of hunger the first few days but after that it goes away.

One downside is the inconvenience that it sometimes puts on interactions with others who might like to enjoy meals with you at times that don’t sync with your schedule. It would probably not work as a lifestyle for a salesman who did business meals, for instance.

You'd be surprised, I do a massive feed every night, but it does reduce over time. I find the tastes and aromas are more hightened after a fast, and everything tastes that much better. But the results would probably be so much more impressive if I didn't have the occassional beer/wine :|

Interesting. I took one year break from alcohol, just to make sure I am a master of my habits. Now I am back, drink red wine. So far keeping the weight. I noticed the food tastes better after fast, but so does wine.

"I do a massive feed every night"

What a great statement, haha! I'm going to start talking about all meals like this. Next I'll be asking friends if they want to "go do a feed" with me.

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