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256 sats \ 8 replies \ @freetx 19 Jun \ on: Fasting? HealthAndFitness
I only eat once a day. My eating window is 5-7. I've done this for about 5 years now.
I don't think I will ever return to 2 or 3 meals a day.
In general my energy levels are much higher than before and I just feel better than I used to (less brainfog, more energy, weigh less, etc).
Beyond the health benefits, there is also the question of time. When you only eat once per day (or once every few days), you start to realize the incredible time-sink that eating is.
- Decide what to eat
- Buy food
- Prepare food
- Eat
- Clean up (goto start)
Multiple that by 3 meals instead of 1 and stretch it out over several months and you will see the incredible amount of time eating / digesting takes in your life.
Even if you are very conservative and assume eating Breakfast / Lunch is only adding 45 mins per day total, thats still 12 days of time per year....
I just started doing OMAD last week, but I can easily imagine sticking with it for a long time.
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Since I had been regularly doing 16/8 - 20/4 IFs, it was really just a decision to give it a shot and didn't end up being very difficult.
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Do you workout and if so, I'm guessing you gotta do it before eating optimally? like 1-2h before?
Sounds rough after so long with an mmemoty stomach but maybe it's a thing to get used to.
I do 16/8 and 14/6 IF about 80% of the year. Learned I had to workout during the feeding window or I'd feel weaker and lightheaded fast.
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Sorry, dinner (pm).
Its not a diet (thats something people confuse about fasting -- its "schedule eating"), so I eat whatever I want. Like today had breaded pork chops + mashed potatoes + broccoli and fresh baked chocolate chip cookies for dessert. Often times I may eat 2 servings of food....
Thats one of my favorite things about this, you only have 2 hours to eat, so load up!
The curious thing is no doubt your stomach shrinks over time....you find that although you tend to want to eat everything during your "eating window", in reality its probably not that much.
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Dinner is a big social event in my family. Hard to give that up. I think that's my biggest barrier to doing something like OMAD. But I do sometimes join dinner without eating much myself, so maybe it could work.
As for meal prep, to me that is an act of love. It is a service I do for my family. And sometimes they all jump in, take a turn, etc. But the time commit is real and I am looking forward to it tapering off when my kids go to college.
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