OMADish
jasonleow • 7 Mar 2023 •
Latest stage of diet: One meal a day…ish.
I’ve been on some major diet changes for the past few years. Every year it evolves. In September 2019 I started on keto while doing 16:8 intermittent fasting, eating less than 20g of carbs, high fat and moderate protein. I lost a lot of weight. Actually lost too much and looked unhealthily thin. I did a lot of fats, non-starchy leafy vegetables, and tried lots of keto foods.
Then I prioritized more meat and protein, and ate normally. No fasting. Gained all my weight back in mass, but stayed lean (the way to tell is if your pants stayed loose). I ate almost no vegetables and went all in on meat, mainly pork and beef. It was almost 100% carnivore. No cheating still. And over time, stayed away from keto bakes as my gut didn’t like sugar alcohols. But still 3 meals a day.
Now, I’m still on on meat-heavy diet, but eating more vegetables. And sprinkling a lot more carbs in. Cheating a lot more too! But moving towards more intuitive eating, and realising that I only needed 1 heavy meal a day. I would have some butter in the morning, otherwise I would fast. Then a huge meat-heavy meal, with maybe a pastry treat after. Then at most a snack for dinner, like 2 eggs… or nothing.
So I’m on a one-meal-a-day-ish sort of diet now. Seems like the OMAD approach helps counter the carb intake. I don’t gain weight like I used too, or feel too bloated. But starting back on carbs definitely feels familiar. That strange carb craving… I never had that when I was carnivore. Easy to see how easy it is to go back to the old ways. Thankfully, the practice of intuitive eating helps counter that.
Now, I get to stay healthy, but still live a little.
Diet is like sleep. An infinite game. It’s interesting to see how it evolves over time.
I wonder what my way of eating will look like next year!
Comments
Wait, you mean by being meat-heavy causes low magnesium??
You would typically get magnesium from plant-based foods, so a heavy meat diet may lack adequate levels of magnesium. Meat and dairy tend to have a lot of phosphorus, and there is an inverse relationship in the body between magnesium and phosphorus.
Didn’t know they counteracted each other! Since keto I’ve been supplementing with magnesium daily. So far no huge issues. I was even considering dropping mag altogether after being on carnie diet cos I assumed meat would provide adequate magnesium. Looks like was a good decision to not drop.
It’s easy to go right back off the rails with carbs. I’ve been experimenting with two meals a day and time-restricted eating. I’m also pretty meat-heavy, which Vivoo told me was a potential reason my magnesium was low in the first test due to high phosphorus. I just changed my magnesium stack, so I take Magnesium Breakthrough in the morning and threonate at bedtime.