Omad Diet Review

 

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What Is Omad Diet

The OMAD diet stands for one meal a day. It’s a form of intermittent fasting where you fast for 23 hours per day and eat all your daily calories in a one hour window. It takes the Warrior diet of eating to the next level and to beast mode. You now close the four hour ‘Warrior’ window to just one hour. If you are considering the OMAD diet, it’s best to start with the Warrior diet first and see if you can build up your fasting period from 20 to 23 hours. Many diets advocate never going for more than a few hours without food, building even two to three daily snacks into the usual breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But the downside to this style of eating is that you need to divide your daily calorie allowance three or six ways. This means that you can only have very small healthy meals. With the OMAD diet, you get to eat one huge serving and no foods are off-limits. That being said it’s still not “sooo” difficult to eat more than you need in an hour if you have junk food and a 1000 calorie ice cream shake.

The Science behind the OMAD diet

The OMAD diet sounds to be perhaps one of the most unhealthy and difficult diets going. But there is science behind it. As long as you don’t just pig out on salty, sugary food and include healthy fats and proteins, then it has some benefits. There has now been plenty of research that supports intermittent fasting. From an evolutionary perspective, our ancestors didn’t always get to eat as and when they pleased relying on when they managed to gather or hunt something successfully. Research has indicated that intermittent fasting can lead to weight loss, may improve blood sugar, can reduce risk of cognitive disease, and reduce inflammation. Our bodies only store around 80 calories of glucose and 480 calories of glycogen in the liver. After that’s gone, your body will have to dig into your fat stores and you’ll begin to go into ketosis. So intermittent fasting on the OMAD diet can give you the benefits of ketosis without having to follow a high fat keto diet.

Aside from only having one hour to eat your daily calories it has been shown that intermittent fasting can boost your basal metabolic rate by up to 14%, thus aiding weight loss and maintenance. Intermittent fasting such as that indicated in the OMAD diet can lead to improvements in blood sugar levels and can, therefore, lead to a reduced risk of diabetes. Intermittent fasting also causes cell autophagy or cellular repair. It is thought this not only improves brain health and the risk of Alzheimer’s but also help protect against cancer.  In addition, intermittent fasting increases neuronal autophagy which can improve brain function and improve focus. No human studies have taken place as yet but in studies on rats showed that the fasted rats lived on average 83% longer.

 

Word On The Street About Omad Diet

There aren’t many reviews available about Omad Diet experience but the one we found talk about positive effects of the diet.

“I’ve done it pretty much for most of the past couple of years and in terms of convenience etc it worked really well for me no time wasted on breakfast for me in morning so quickly get myself ready while DDs eat theirs; ”

 

– Mumsnet

“Physically and psychologically this isn’t hard at all and once you’ve lost most of your weight it’s a great way to keep it off. I’ve lost another 7 lbs doing this. Good luck and happy to answer any questions you have ” – Mumsnet

Conclusion

As luck would have it, your faithful  ‘guinea pig’ diet reporter knows a thing or two about intermittent fasting. I’ve been using the Warrior or OMAD diet for around two years now. The takeaways I would say are that if you are using this type of eating as your usual style then it’s likely that like me, over time, you could experience NO HUNGER. Really? It’s true. I wouldn’t lie. When I eat my daily calories allowance in one or two (I’m a slow eater, who likes to savor) hours, I go to sleep as stuffed as a happy little plush toy, all warm and cozy. And when I wake up, I am still full. It feels like when you have overeaten the previous day and just don’t need any food. I happily plough through my work, in a perfectly pleasant mood, fueled with coffee. And I look forward to my dinner which consists of a large amount of protein and carbs. I  look forward to my dessert, too. However, when it turns to Spring and I look to shift those surplus pounds to be beach ready, I use the same OMAD approach to dieting. That’s when I do feel hunger. I also dream of food. I’m hungry when I wake. And because there’s no surplus of calories available to be used, energy is an issue. Even walking about can become very tiring.

The benefits for me are that I enjoy my splurge in the evening, guilt free. It allows me to eat my sugar or chocolate fix without gaining any (or much) weight. And I also don’t like to be bothered by food during the day. Anything other than the lightest snack knocks me out of work mode and takes up my time. That being said, it has taken work to build up to the Warrior and OMAD way of dieting and eating. In the past, skipping meals used to make me incredibly irritable and incapable of concentration. The diet is completely unsuitable for people who want to take on intense workouts, there just isn’t the energy on hand. It should not be considered or attempted by people who have diabetes or pregnant women. It is suitable for people that naturally don’t like to eat breakfast and only get hungry around lunchtime and can build on that. If you usually wake up hungry, don’t even attempt this diet. It will just be torture. If the diet interests you then start with the 16:8 diet with an eight hour eating window and close your window by increments. To stay healthy stick to whole wheat pasta, brown rice, pasta, potatoes, and lean meat and vegetables. You can afford to eat a cheesecake or dark chocolate dessert that’s not too loaded with sugar.Another benefit of this diet is there are no fees or subscriptions. If you want to build exercise into the plan, you may have to plan your exercise earlier in the day as you’ll run out of energy the longer you fast.  It can take years to build up to an OMAD style of eating, but you still get benefits of intermittent fasting with The Warrior diet and the 16:8 diet as well. Best of luck!