I Tried Eating ONE MEAL A DAY for a WEEK | Review of the OMAD diet and REALISTIC Weight Loss Results

so basically what i'm saying is calm your tits cassandra i'm doing things my way like sinatra hey everybody it's bee and if you know you know but if you don't know i'm on a journey to lose 100 pounds and i didn't make a proper intro for this video because i randomly decided to do omad for a week and i kind of just like got into it rather than explain anything at all so typical so now present me is trying to make up for the negligence of past me first and foremost i'm not a dietitian i'm not a doctor i'm not a fitness guru i'm just a regular person trying something that i've been curious about for quite a while now and sharing my experience so omad or one meal a day is the most extreme form of intermittent fasting i've had a little bit of experience intermittent fasting before with an eight hour window but when you're doing omad you just eat your daily caloric needs in a one hour window and fast for the remaining 23 hours in the day now this might seem a little extreme but there's been a lot of studies recently on fasting and the benefits of fasting when it comes to like blood sugar and stuff like that but advocates for omad say that it helps increase focus and productivity you know because you're kind of like getting rid of the midday digestive slump this type of eating is also supposed to aid in weight loss because it's really hard to be in a caloric surplus when you're only eating for one hour in the day also the article that i was reading said that a lot of people like the dietary freedom of not having to plan out like three to six meals per day depending on like what your prior diet looked like now the thing that was appealing to me was the idea of a smorgasbord you know what i really like about intermittent fasting and when i was on the eight hour eating window was having larger less frequent meals i definitely prefer that to having smaller more frequent meals because i like the idea of that pit in my stomach where anxiety and existential dread live to just be like you know smothered for a while for a couple of hours while i digest hence my problems with binge eating but anyway let's get into the video see how i did and i'll get into the tea later due to poor planning it just so happens that i haven't eaten yet today and it's already 5 p.m i had to go into work this morning and i thought i was going to get up early and pack myself a wee lunch obviously that didn't happen and i have too much social anxiety to eat at the cafeteria at work so here we are starving but as i was driving home my long commute of one hour i thought to myself this is a perfect opportunity to try out omad and i've been wanting to try it for quite a while now but i just haven't because i procrastinate and that's what i do however since we kind of slipped into it naturally i think it would be an awesome idea to try eating one meal a day for a week and see how i like it see if i notice any benefits balance the pros and the cons of the situation i think for my first meal i'm gonna order some chipotle because oh my god i love chipotle conveniently i weighed in this morning because i got my new scale and i've been like weighing in like every five seconds because it's awesome and it makes like a little chart for me and i love graphs and it just makes all of the graphs it makes graphs muscle mass body fat bmi of course like actual like weight body water body water percentage what is it it's just water percentage water weight that's what it's called body water i'm gonna stop talking right now and order some chipotle and i'll show you what i got when i get it here is my lovely ginormous chipotle burrito bowl i get barbacoa white rice black beans sour cream cheese double pico de gallo medium salsa fajita veggies and romaine lettuce with a side of chips and two plums i was really trying to jack up the calories to meet my set amount i didn't want to under eat however it was a lot of food and i couldn't finish one of the plums and i felt really pretty sick afterwards oh how are we serving greasy and frizzy at the same time get you a girl that can do both ignore this i recently tried out a new heat protectant spray it's not the bee's knees it's just not anyway we are sitting in the walmart parking lot because i decided today for my one meal a day i want lasagna and i'm typically not a pasta queen and i've said that on a vlog before but i'm gonna tell you one thing vlogging will make you a hypocrite every single time are you ready to make some [ __ ] lasagna same um these are the ingredients they're not really aesthetically laid out because i don't have time for that the bananas aren't part of it they're just kind of chilling there ignore the bananas are you ready you little betty crockers [Music] i thought that i would be hungrier doing this one meal a day thing but honestly i haven't really had substantial hunger pangs but to be honest my hunger cues are a little bit effed up to begin with like when i woke up this morning i was hungry and i was like oh it's gonna be a long day but it just like subsided it comes in waves so it's not so bad so far maybe we're just gonna turn off the camera for now so you're not watching me chop for five hours sounds like a good plan [Music] seeing how i just sliced my entire pinky open i thought i would take this opportunity to check my blood sugar 74. so that's fasting i don't know what that means i normally can't check my blood sugar because it freaks me out using a little needle thing but when accidents happen you might as well take advantage of the opportunities now i have to clean myself up and bandage it and then we'll get back to making lasagna [Music] me [Music] i'm really excited about this meal i'm also having plain lacroix it's just sparkling water i don't like the kind that tastes like things because they taste like poison the lasagna is pretty calorically dense i'm having two servings of that my cucumber and tomato salad sorry i'm like salivating and then for dessert i'm going to have like this whole container of nusa lemon yogurt for yourself to calculate everything but it should be close to my calories did you get cut yep no i don't think so i definitely don't feel as full and terrible like i did after chipotle yesterday so that's encouraging but you know what we're gonna do we're gonna check our blood sugar again by squeezing this cup because i can't do the poker because i am a panzer no one look if blood bothers you now we're at 1 15 after eating i found these carb balance tortillas that only have five grams of net carbs so i thought that i would try them out on some smothered bean burritos and they're actually pretty good they didn't have that weird whole wheat taste at all green chili's probably the absolute best thing about where i live this recipe is a bit too long of a process to be contained in this video but if you want me to share i totally will just let me know and i'll make a video about it spicy flavorful deliciousness and definitely a staple okay for day four we are having huevos rancheros that's basically just eggs topped with green chili and then i have a bunch of other toppings like cheese sour cream avocado tomato onion on top super delicious a huge salad with all the fixings and then a bowl of oatmeal with fruit yesterday i was not really feeling that great like emotionally i wasn't feeling very good i noticed something interesting though my hunger level is directly related to my emotions and also it's tethered to certain routines that i had for example all yesterday i was like hungry and i couldn't wait for my one meal a day and i was just like oh this sucks but it was just because i was feeling pretty down it wasn't really a feeling restricted thing i noticed like when i restrict i was hungry but it wasn't the same desperation as it is when i feel emotionally not well does that make sense but today when i'm feeling better and i'm not as sad i had no problem i didn't really have any feelings of hunger also i noticed that my hunger keys were kind of tied to routines as well because i passed a starbucks and i was like oh i want a coffee and a breakfast sandwich and before that i wasn't really hungry but it's like seeing the starbucks and if you guys remember i mentioned like one of my old routines was every morning before work i would get a coffee or green tea latte with a breakfast sandwich sometimes multiple breakfast sandwiches sometimes the amount of breakfast sandwiches that you get when there should be multiple people in the car so then that leads you to believe like maybe i should order a second drink and sometimes you do order that second drink because you don't want the barista to know your shame i'm realizing that i don't really know when i'm hungry and when it's like true hunger because i can't really tell some people really don't like that i do these challenges for some reason it offends them and they think it's not that sustainable which maybe i agree with as far as i don't know that i'll be eating one meal a day forever who knows i could have really liked it and honestly you have to look at things anything you do with some kind of analytical mind see the value in what you're doing things like this that i typically probably wouldn't do are proving to be beneficial just like helping me realize things like it may be a fad in the sense that like i'm not gonna do it forever but as far as me learning things from it it's very beneficial so basically what i'm saying is calm your tits cassandra i'm doing things my way like sinatra but anyways solid day four i have been staring at a computer all day and my irises feel like they're melting down my face can someone please tell me why i have a job where i stare at a computer for eight hours a day and then i picked a hobby that required me to stare at a computer as well can someone please tell me what is wrong with me also i dress like a sea snake today so the likelihood that i'm gonna get eaten by sharks is unlikely so at least we have one thing going for us i bought stuff to make my honey garlic chicken that i always make however that doesn't sound very good to me right now i'm in the mood where like nothing really sounds good and let me tell you one thing about eating one meal a day it makes your meals make or break at least it does for me because it doesn't just suffice to just throw something together i want a gourmet experience if i'm just eating one meal a day you know what i mean and that's been my whole mindset for the past week that's why i've been cooking for hours on end today in order to make my dreams a reality i guess we decided that we're just gonna make the chickens and by we i mean only me i don't know why i keep saying we like i'm multiple people okay we're gonna roll up our sea snake arms and get to work well that's stuck in my head now for forever i just dropped that exactly on my toe a potato i was seeing that in my video did you hear me i don't know maybe i did because i want to write that down [Music] day six and i am having sirloin steak with a loaded baked potato and a mountain of peas of course you gotta have a one sauce for the steak for dipping also i have been loving maple brown sugar oatmeal with bananas and plums on top because it slaps so good hello and welcome to day seven of one meal a day we are on our final day we have graduated to chef stavis because we have an apron now domestic as [ __ ] we have cooked more in the past week than we have ever cooked in our life and today we are going to be taking on some za and by za i mean pizza oh my god he don't exchange my other today we're going to be taking a spin on classic pizza crust by displacing some of the flour with something that i bought off of amazon and this is some protein powder that is made for baking so it's tasteless like it doesn't have any sugar it doesn't have a flavor you're just supposed to mix it into stuff if this works it's going to be kind of an easier way to like swap out some carbs for some protein expiration date april 2022 we are in business [ __ ] [Applause] oops some plushmans she is frothy and alive now that we know that our yeast is alive and kicking we will make the dough is the worst feeling in the world how come when i watch people doing like dough stuff it never looks like this yay it's looking like some dough it's looking like we're making some pizza dough doubled in size now we're making some dough and we know what we're doing cause we're professional chefs [Music] you can't even really taste the protein powder i put so just a disclaimer to everybody i'm probably going to be using that baking protein for in everything for a while it's result day thank you little baby jesus it is over i'll explain in a minute but right now let's just jump into the weight loss results because that's probably the most exciting part of these kinds of videos am i right or am i wrong i weighed in at the beginning of this week at 220.5 pounds so we've pretty much just been maintaining for quite a while now so i was very pleasantly surprised when i stepped on the scale this morning and the number said 270 pounds which means we lost 2.9 pounds in the span of a week and that's pretty impressive considering that my activity levels haven't been quite as high as normal there's a lot of smoke in the area where i live from wildfires so it's not ideal for going on walks that's been my main preference for exercise lately so i've only went on about three long walks this week as opposed to going five to six times but yeah so i'm definitely cool with the 2.9 however you know i typically like to only lose about two pounds a week but like it's whatever considering that i've kind of been stalling in my weight loss journey i will take the 2.9 so let's get into the t on omad for me personally and me myself i'm not talking about anybody else so don't come for me if you love omad with all your life but it's kind of unsustainable for me one of the selling points for omad was that you know you weren't supposed to be as food focused but i found myself super food focused like way more than normal because look if you only have one shot one opportunity palm sweaty knees weak arms are heavy vomit on a sweater already mom's spaghetti you're not gonna choose my spaghetti well i personally wanted to make these perfectly crafted meals you only got the one hour a day and then you gotta wait a whole another 23 until you eat again and normally when i'm on my eating multiple times of day-ish i don't care that much i go for whatever is most convenient usually so yeah that's definitely a me problem i'm sure most people who do omad aren't like that but like also as you noticed it was really difficult for me to hit my calorie goal and my calories were already set up in a deficit because you know trying to lose weight and such i feel like if i was trying to maintain my weight it would be next to impossible for me to consume the amount of calories that i need you know it would be a very different story if i was like going to mcdonald's and eating that for one meal a day because it's super easy to hit your daily caloric threshold when you eat like a big mac fries and a coke but you know i'm focused on eating balanced meals and more nutrition focused so it kind of was difficult which brings me to my next point which is binge eating i have not been shy about my struggle with binge eating in the past and today you know i've been pretty transparent about that with you guys when it comes to omad i'm a little bit unsure how to feel about it because on one hand i'm not eating past my daily allotted calories so i'm not you know overeating however on the other hand i'm eating a large amount of food at one time so i'm pushing myself past the point of feeling satiated and going to that overly full mode i only really felt like sick one of the days i mean that was my first day the chipotle day that would be the feeling that i got when i was binge eating like that sick like where it felt like your stomach was gonna burst but i didn't feel that the rest of the six days so yeah like i feel a little bit conflicted on if it is the healthy way to go about something when you are a person who deals with like binge eating like me like it felt like hmm i don't know this is really like on the fence for me on whether this is healthy behavior for someone who like abuses food so all in all i'm obviously not gonna continue omad it just isn't for me but i am really happy that i tried it out because like you know that curiosity that i had about it is gone now and you know i did learn some things about myself and like my hunger cues or lack thereof but anyways guys that's my thoughts on omad thank you so much for watching if you want to support the struggle go ahead and subscribe hit that notification bell because like i don't have an upload schedule i'm just kind of all over the place right now and i'll see you on the next one [Music] you

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Length: 19min 44sec (1184 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 24 2020