Dr Mindy here and in this video we are going to talk about is it healthy to do one meal a day
every day day after day we call this omad and a lot of fasters do it so let's talk about it
is that healthy and if you are new to my channel I just want to say welcome
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okay OMADER I get these people a lot some of you may be an o matter an o matter is one
meal a day and one meal a day means you pretty much are gonna fast all day and then usually
o matters go about 22 to 24 hours literally this whole youtube channel was built off of oh matters
and let me tell you a little story behind that so with one meal a day when people first come to
doing one meal a day over and over and over again you no doubt will get a great result
but if you stay doing one meal a day over and over and over again no doubt you will get stuck and so
when I first started bringing fasting to youtube let me know in the comments if you've been
on a subscriber follower for a while many of you were proponents had just finished reading
Jason Fung's obesity code and you got so excited about that you just started eating one meal a
day and then after months your weight loss results stopped and so many of you found my channel where
I was teaching fasting variation so and I'm gonna explain the different variations that
I typically recommend so i am very familiar with this one meal a day mentality in the beginning
it works long term it doesn't and let me explain why first let's talk about why you would want to
do omad or one meal a day the first is because it's ridiculously good for weight loss let's
just be honest and if you've lost weight doing one meal a day put it in the comments so everybody can
know it also is that like the first step into fasting so when you first start to go from six meals a day
and you train yourself to one meal a day you're gonna notice like oh my gosh this is all magic
it also is great for helping you unstick your weight so if you've been doing intermittent
fasting 13 hours and you really need that extra push going to one meal a day can unstick you I
highly recommend it it's also great for chronic conditions and it's really good for men men
typically can rock one meal a day because it brings a man's testosterone levels up to
close to two thousand percent so these are the conditions we would use one meal a day for
here's the problem is that it can get to a point where one meal a day is harmful
and how you would know it was harmful is that you stop getting fasting results
and a large part of that is you have to remember fasting induces something called a hormetic stress
and a hormetic stress is where you do something new with your diet or the timing of your food it's
a little uncomfortable and in that discomfort what happens is your body adapts and becomes stronger
so once you start making it easy for the body the body doesn't have to you don't force it
into adaptation so the result is not as big so if you're not getting results you're going to want to
listen to the variation plan that i have for you here okay the other area that i see one meal a day
where it's harmful is when your hair starts falling out so this means you're losing minerals
in some cases you may be disrupting your thyroid because there's no variation to your fasts so if
that's you, you do one meal a day perhaps you're stuck with your results or you're starting to get
hair loss it's time to vary it and then the other group of people that should never do
one meal a day over and over and over again are women because we need to take into consideration
our three sex hormones estrogen, progesterone and testosterone regardless of where you are
in your life we need to take that into consideration and we need more variation
okay having said all of that let's talk about my favorite variations
so there are what the first variations that a lot of you have heard me say is called a 5-1-1
5-1-1 is where five days a week you pick your favorite fast and it can't be omad because I'm
going to show you what one fast is so maybe it's 17 hours maybe it's 19 hours but it's somewhere
between 17 and 20 if you're an experienced faster somewhere between 13 and 15 if you're new to this
so five days a week you're going to pick your favorite fast and try to stick to that length
one day a week you're going to elongate your fast you're going to go maybe you go to this
one meal a day maybe you decide to go 36 hours and do a fat burner fast or maybe you decide to
do a 48 hour fast but you want to push that fast to an uncomfortable place so you force your body
to adapt and then one day a week you don't fast what you're doing in this is you're mimicking what
our cave ancestors did which is go for a period without food and then they would get food and they
would feast and then they'd go through a period where they'd have to famine and they would go
into this fasted state this is how the human body was designed so 5-1-1 is really mimicking that
the 4-2-1 is where we're taking four days of your favorite length fast two days where we elongate it
so this is for a little more weight loss is what I recommend for uh people to do is a 4-2-1 if they
want a little deeper weight loss experience and then the one day again you're not fasting
now the 3-3-1 is a little different three three one is three days of your favorite fast
three days where you go at least one meal a day so it's you know if you've been like a one meal
a day forever kind of person this may be where you go from one meal a day to this so three days of
around 15 to 17 hours of fasting three days where you elongate your fast and then one day listen up
because it'll be a little different if you want a greater healing response you're going to go
all the way through that day with no food so one day without food that is to me the 331 is
made specifically to accelerate healing this is the variation I put some of my chronically ill
patients on when we're really trying to amplify a healing effect so these are your variations that
work better than doing this over and over and over again so when we say is it healthy to do one meal
a day every day for a short period of time it'll work for a long period of time no and here are
all the nuances you need to know so if you were a one meal a day or and you've switched to one of
these variations and you're getting great success tell your story in the comments this is how we all
learn and as always from the bottom of my heart I hope that helps okay it's fast training week
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