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Originally posted by P226RN:
Good stuff. I have done keto for about a year. I am attempting a little fasting and I am curious about going to the one meal a day WOE. I am just not sure I could eat that much in one meal. I am afraid I would undercut my calories and go into starvation mode. How do you guys that do one meal a day get er done?

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Let’s talk OMAD (a.k.a. One Meal a Day).

A day does not go by at IDM where we’re not asked about OMAD. It’s a very popular subject and for many people who work 9-5 M-F, it meshes nicely into their lifestyles as they can eat their one meal with their families after work.

But many are also shocked to learn it is not a form of fasting as we define it. It’s actually a form of eating; eating one meal a day.

The problem with OMAD is in its repetition. Eating one meal a day is a pattern easily recognized by the body and by doing the same behavior every day, the body does what it does naturally; it adapts. And it’s this adaptation that causes the rub; the body simply slows its Base Metabolic Rate (BMR).

At first when you start OMAD, the BMR stays very high. But after a while BMR inevitably slows down because it does take the body some time to adapt, but it does. First with energy levels, then with other metabolic operations and at some point, as we see quite consistently, BMR just slows down, and the inevitable plateau follows.

If you are trying to lose weight, this is not a good situation. In fact, what we need is just the opposite; a way to speed up BMR. SO how can we do this? There are a few ways…

Alternate Day Fasting, mixing up fasting patterns during the week, and finally longer fasts. OMAD, coupled with a day or two of skipping meals altogether will do it too.

Confounding this argument, there are some instances where OMAD will work. First, there is the person who only has 20-30 pounds to lose. In this case, OMAD works well. Next, there is the class of people who have NO history of yo-yo dieting. The third group are those who are at goal weight, and OMAD is just a good way to do weight maintenance.

Fast on, my friends! Don’t get caught in the OMAD trap! Mix it up; try alternate day fasts; don’t be afraid to join a group fast.

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Originally posted by Abn556:
Atkins was trying to tell everybody for decades to cutout the carbs, sugars, processed foods and crap from their diets. My blood sugar had gotten out of control and within 3 weeks of doing hard core low carb - 2 meals a day - it was back in the normal range.

When I was a kid back in the 70s no kids were fat. There was only the odd kid out of a school of 2000 that was chunky. Now days fat kids are everywhere. The governments diet pyramid and the low fat/non-fat craze in the 80s and 90s took out all the fat, but it replaced it with sugar.

Simple rule of thumb - If it comes in a box - don’t eat it.

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Originally posted by P226RN:
Good stuff. I have done keto for about a year. I am attempting a little fasting and I am curious about going to the one meal a day WOE. I am just not sure I could eat that much in one meal. I am afraid I would undercut my calories and go into starvation mode. How do you guys that do one meal a day get er done?

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Originally posted by smithnsig:
The problem with Atkins was that with a lot of people, the protein component was not controlled.

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Lack of Saturated Fat Consumption: At least two studies, one from Duke University, and one from Cambridge University have shown that reducing carbohydrate consumption and increasing saturated fat intake helps the liver shed excess fat in as little as three days.

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Originally posted by mark123:
The wife and I started keto 5 weeks ago. Thanks for posting this as it confirms a lot of what we're figuring out. It's been a revelation.

I posted recently about how she'd get hangry with late meals and it doesn't happen any more. I'm going to try to introduce her to fasting next.