OMAD and 15 Km a day

(Hui Xiong) #1

Hi forum. Thank you for your loving support so far.

I am thinking of mixing OMAD with Dr. Peterson’s walking/and or/running 15 Km a day. This is becoming more moderate from a prior goal of 6 days fasting and eating one day. And the aim is to be more productive and spend less time sleeping.

I think the best time to do it is after morning prayers at around 11:00 am and then go for a walk shortly thereafter. Is there any specific nutrients I should be looking to supplement? Should I be looking to up calories to a certain point? Isn’t easier to not eat altogether because OMAD can so easily become TMAD or Three MAD?

(Laurie) #2

I guess one meal a day could become two or three if you’re not careful. It’s easier to be careful if you keep it simple though.

I consider myself a food addict, and I like the discipline of two meals a day within a set time frame. One meal would be even simpler, but I haven’t tried it.

(David Cooke) #3

You truly NEED good quality sleep. It isn’t a waste of time.
It seems to me that OMAD is something to do occasionally (I do it once a month). Generally I am in intermittent fasting mode, 18/6. I’m pretty fit but I wouldn’t aim at 15K a day, and I especially wouldn’t think that 15K a day would do much to help me lose weight if that’s is your intention.

#4

You just eat your food in one sitting, you donm’t need supplement anything if you manage to get everything from your food. It has little to do with OMAD. If someone get eat a big enough OMAD meal, they probably shouldn’t do OMAD. We need our nutrients, some of us can’t even function with a big calorie deficit…

I had OMAD times but it’s not for me, my meals get smaller if I eat less often and they are too small on OMAD (unless I eat very much carbs, OMAD is super easy then - for me - , for a while at least, I have reasons not to eat like that and I can’t do it for long). I absolutely can’t do longer fasts so OMAD is easier than that. Many of us like our days somewhat similar and I get hungry regularly so EF isn’t among my options most of the time. I did it a few times in my life but I ate significantly more carbs then.

Sleep is important but of course our need for sleep may change if we change our lifestyle, probably only to a little extent, though.

(Bob M) #5

I’ve always found OMAD to be tough. In particular, if I exercise in the morning (6-7am), I’m lucky to last until say 10am until I am hungry. But then I’m trying to make it all the way until I go to bed (say, 10pm/20:00) without eating.

On the days I don’t exercise, I can usually last until I eat dinner, but I often eat dinner just before 8pm. Then, I’m going to bed just after that.

That’s tough too, especially if you’re trying to eat all of your calories just before going to bed.

I think if you can figure out a good time to eat relative to when you exercise and when you go to bed, OMAD should be possible.

#6

how much do you sleep now? IS IT that excessive?

most of us truly know as adults how much sleep we require and do best on but age/work stress/our eating and more will come into play of course as we might wanna change something but if you are a 4-5 hr sleeper and do great, doubt you will do super great on 2-3 and if you are I need 6-7 or more type, then doubt you will do good on 5.

I think WHILE YOU ARE AWAKE be productive and let your sleep just happen…but that is me LOL

just don’t sleep as much and set alarms and get up and see how you do on 2-3 hrs less I guess?

(Allie) #7

Sleep is an essential part of life.
Trying to deprive yourself is not good.

#8

So your goal is to intentionally spend less time doing the thing your body needs the most to recover and rebuild, age you slower etc… That makes less than zero sense. You said before you wanted to put on some muscle mass, now you’re ensuring you lose what you have. I think you really need to assess what you’re real goals are.

(David Cooke) #9

From what I understand, it is essential that exercise such as running be followed as soon as possible by a protein rich meal. (The “other guys” say protein + carbs).
Instead of fitting running around my Ketoesque aims, I fit Keto around my running.

(Edith) #10

I would do my exercise first and then eat. You want to get your body replenishing it’s glycogen stores, especially if you want to exercise every day.

I exercise almost every day and my workouts would suffer if I only ate once a day.

(Hui Xiong) #11

Thank you everyone. So helpful! So far the 15 KM a day has been helpful in keeping me productive even as I take in more food. I have been experimenting with more carbs but, as expected, I feel like the carbs is leeching the nutrients that I took in from elsewhere. I think it definitely is not a preferred fuel, and for long walks/runs, it doesn’t even improve my speed by much. At least, not so far. I do find that eating helps me when waking up, sometimes, so that I don’t fall back to sleep due to lack of energy. But you have helped me to appreciate that the ketogenic approach is not black and white and it really is a call to be more mindful around our intake of the three major food groups.