OMAD — Why You Should Not Start This Type of Nutritional Protocol And What Should You Do Instead
- Apr 15, 2021
- 5 min read
Written by: Trevor Folgering, Executive Contributor
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Recently I was on a phone call with a man over 40, and he mentioned that his friend said he should be doing OMAD to lose weight.
Now I know what you're thinking. What the heck is OMAD?
OMAD stands for One Meal A Day.
It is just another weight-loss craze with individuals thinking that there is a shortcut to losing weight.
More on this later, but now back to the phone conversation.
This individual, who I was speaking with on the phone, was super excited about the thought of only having to eat once a day to lose weight.
He was so excited that he began almost salivating at this particular idea. (Excuse the pun.) After speaking with him about the proper ways to lose weight, I decided to write about why you should not start with this type of nutritional protocol and what you should do instead.
The Energy System Conundrum
One of the main reasons you should not start with an OMAD nutritional protocol is that you will experience side effects like hunger, cravings, dips in energy, mood swings, and an inability to concentrate throughout the day.
The reason for this is because your body has two distinct energy systems it uses to fuel cells:
The Glycolytic Metabolic Pathway
The Ketogenesis Metabolic Pathway
For 99.9% of your life, you have been living in the Glycolytic Metabolic Pathway, which is the pathway that uses Carbohydrates as fuel. (Otherwise known as glucose which is the simplest form of energy that can be used within the human body.)
Your body loves to gobble up glucose. It’s a very easy energy source for the body to use to fuel cells.
If you can imagine hundreds of thousands of Pac-mans in your bloodstream running around and eating up glucose pellets and then spitting them into the body's cells, this is exactly how the body utilizes glucose.
Now the problem when you suddenly shift to OMAD, your body is used to getting all of this glucose throughout the day, and then suddenly nothing!
What do you think is going to happen?
Your body is going to get super responsive and start sending you signals to start eating and fast!
This is because you suddenly slammed the brakes on the Glycolytic Metabolic Pathway and tried to force your body to switch to the fat-burning Metabolic Pathway.
And this is a recipe for disaster because forcing your body to do something never works out in your favor.
Your body will send you out signals to increase your appetite, which can lead to cravings, overeating, and binging.
The other downfall is that the OMAD method is counterproductive to stabilizing and regulating your hunger hormones, which greatly impact when and how much you eat in one sitting.
Hunger Hormones Rule Your Body
In the end, your willpower is finite. No matter how much willpower you have, you will never be able to outdo your hunger hormones.
Two hormones regulate hunger:
Ghrelin
Leptin
Ghrelin is your “hunger hormone” and signals the brain to look for food. Leptin is a hormone that helps to regulate energy balance by inhibiting hunger.
I bet you see where this is going, right?
So, if you decide to suddenly switch to OMAD, then what happens?
Your Ghrelin levels dramatically increase, giving you the sense that your hungry all the time and need to look for food!
In essence, your body will increase Ghrelin, and this hormone will travel to the brain.
The brain will then know there is a fuel shortage and send you signals to start to eat.
On the flipside, Leptin levels will dramatically be reduced.
The lower levels can trigger huge increases in appetite and food cravings. This, in turn, can make weight loss more difficult.
So, do you see that eating one meal a day can be super detrimental to your overall weight loss goals?
Now, there is an easier and safer way to actually lose weight!
Instead of eating one meal a day, you need to work with your body’s unique biology instead of against it.
By giving the body the right combinations of meals at the right timing throughout the day, you will turn your body into a lean, mean fat-burning machine!
Let’s look at what to do instead that will yield you amazing weight loss results!
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We call this Biohacking, and we do this without eating one meal a day.
In fact, you will start out doing the exact opposite.
You will be eating 4 meals a day, spaced 4 hours apart.
By consuming the right combinations of foods every 4 hours, you will do two things:
Reduce your hunger hormone and regulate your appetite, so you never feel hungry or get cravings.
Gently get the body to switch metabolic pathways into Ketogenesis.
This is one of the most effective methods that will help you lose body fat without going on a diet or eating one meal a day!
The meals need to be very personalized for your body, so before you begin eating 4 meals a day, it is best to reach out to our Biohacking coaches to create meal plans designed for your unique biology.
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Trevor Folgering, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine Trevor Folgering is a leader in the weight loss and nutrition industry. For over 22 years, Trevor has relentlessly pursued the truth regarding losing body fat correctly. By uncovering the truth about how our bodies utilize body fat, Trevor created very specific nutritional protocols that allowed him to tap into his own body fat stores and lose 40 lbs. of body fat in a very short period of time. He achieved this without going on a low caloric diet or restricting the foods that he ate. He now helps men and women achieve the body and health that they truly deserve through the science of Biohacking. He is CEO of Biohacked, global online health and body transformation company. His mission: To shift the weight loss industry's paradigm and re-educate the world on the proper methodologies of losing excess body fat correctly.
