Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.
I didn’t lose any weight at the end of the week, but I’m not frustrated, just a tiny bit disappointment. It’s early shark week (that’s a period reference) and I always gain a couple pounds beforehand. That’s why I’m not super upset about not losing anything this week.
I definitely need to be better on weekends. Sunday was a free for all eating fest. I made the magic custard cake with a recipe I got from YouTube
It was pretty good and I’m embarrassed to say I ate most of it. Next week I hope to do better.
Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.
Today was so hard. I woke up with a splitting headache that lasted all day. By lunch time I felt really nauseated. I decided to break my fast early and got a snack.
I got this granola bar, but I still didn’t feel any better. Later on someone brought cookies for us (I swear I’m a magnet for cookies). They were pumpkin flavoured wafer cookies. They were super delicious too. I had one and still wasn’t feeling any better. Near the end of the afternoon I had two more.
I walked out to meet my spouse and by the time we met up I was feeling really lousy. He had some snacks in the car. Guess what they were. Cookies LOL. I had a couple bites of cookie, probably bringing my cookie total to 5, plus a granola bar.
I got this football sized black bean pattie pita for dinner. It was huge and I ate half of it with an Advil. I still had the monster headache. I must tell you about one of the weirdest sensations I’ve had involving food. I was starving and completely stuffed all at the same time. I’ve never had those two sensations happen at the same time. I ate half the sandwich and still ravenous, but also stuffed. I was so full I was close to feeling uncomfortable and my stomach still hadn’t clued in. It was weird.
It’s later on in the evening I’m feeling much better now. The Advil has kicked the headache and I’ve just finished my other half of the sandwich. It’s rare for me to get a headache. This one was a doozy. I’m not sure if it was from doing OMAD (one meal a day), or because it went from a sunny day to rain. Right now I’m drinking a cherry Bubly and feeling a million times better.
Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.
It was a Subway day today. I had wanted a pita, but my schedule worked out that I wouldn’t be near a Pita Pit, today. I am still on the takeout wagon and ended up at Subway. I love the Beyond Meatball sub, but they didn’t have it, so I opted for the veggie pattie sub. You cant tell from the photo because the gigantic veggie pattie is hiding it all, but there are actually quite a bit of vegetables on there. It was okay, but please please bring back the beyond veggie balls. I miss it!
I usually only get a 6 inch, but since I’m doing OMAD (one meal a day), I felt justified in getting a foot long sub (I admit I got cookies too). I was really hungry and thought I could plow through that sandwich, but I couldn’t. I was stuffed after half of it. I’m still going to eat the other half sometime before I go to bed tonight, which is probably not part of the OMAD rules (I don’t really know what the rules are), but I’m still going to finish it.
Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.
I bought one today. I already have one, but I have to step on it several times before it starts giving a consistent number. I snapped this one up at a Canadian Tire for $29.99. Hopefully the number on my old scale wasn’t way off and I have a wake up call tomorrow morning!
I also bought this ridiculous thing for $39.99. I’m going to need to write out my inner monologue here:
A “Oh cool it’s like a more fun push up” B “Or you could do an actual push up… for free” A “I can’t do a push up” B “Even more of a reason to keep trying. Force yourself to do it A “Yeah, I’m not doing that. This looks more fun and easier” B “….” A “This way I might actually do push ups… on this thing” B “Maybe for a week, then you can put it with all the other fitness equipment that you don’t use” A “But isn’t it better to try something new and see if it works. What if this is the thing that will set me off on a fitness lifestyle and I get ridiculously fit, all because of this pull up thingy?” B “Is that what you actually think is going to happen?” A “Pfft I’m buying it anyway” B *sigh…
So I bought it. Now I have to use it because inner voice B is right way too often.
As for OMAD… At the office again, someone sent me home with some cookies. I am a cookie magnet these days! I totally ate a ton of them too, but I waited until the car ride home, after 6:15pm to get into them. I more of the leftovers from Muya’s (still delicious the next day!), and had some iced tea. I ate so much takeout yesterday I hurt myself. I was still down a pound this morning though (according to two out of five tries on the scale).
I always drink a coffee in the morning (black) and throughout the day I drink Bubly’s. Usually 3 of them. I don’t know if that many carbonated drinks is good for you. I used to drink tea, but that stuff is so full of chemicals, I don’t think that is the greatest choice either. If I try to drink plain water, I might drink a glass, but that seems to be all I will drink.
It’s the weekend tomorrow and I’m not planning to follow OMAD on weekends, just weekdays. I’m also on vacation now and have a feeling OMAD might not be in the cards until I’m back to work. I’ll try to somewhat behave though.
Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.
Today went really well. I had my morning coffee and later on a Bubly. I didn’t feel sick, I was hungry on and off during the day, but it went away. A friend of mine brought me her extra injera (I LOVE injera!). I stopped by Muya Injera on the way home and got take out. This was my dinner and it was delicious.
Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.
Day 3 of OMAD and I didn’t make it to dinner. I felt nauseated and dizzy just before 3pm today. I think it was from having a second cup of coffee on an empty stomach. I’m really caffeine sensitive and at the most can only handle two cups a day, any more and I get jittery and my face feels weird. I think two cups on an empty stomach was too much and I’m still getting used to fasting. My lovely colleague baked alfajores, so guess what I broke my fast early with… Cookies! Just one this time, better then yesterdays hoard.
I bought these crackers for a healthier option, in case I feel sick and dizzy again. I hope I don’t need them, but this way I wont get something worse. I had a container of blueberries on the way home. When I did get home, I had a couple cashews and a pickle.
I had the exact same thing for dinner I had yesterday, barley, chickpeas, avocado, and broccoli, with sesame ginger sauce on top. This time I put a big scoop of hummus on top. Right now I’m drinking my third Bubly and thinking about grabbing another pickle.
Does a giant snack before dinner still count as OMAD?
Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.
I made it another day doing OMAD (one meal a day). During the day wasn’t too bad. I was hungry a couple times and my stomach growled, but it went away. I was starving at the end of my day, even hungrier than yesterday. I had the biggest craving for Crispie Minis, the flavoured rice cake bites. I LOVE those things. I ate two bananas on the ride home, but I was still starving. I ate a couple handfuls of cashews and a cookie when I got home (only one today and that’s probably because there was only two left – one was for my spouse. If there was more I would have ate them).
For dinner I made a big Buddha bowl. I made pearl barley in the instant pot and cooked broccoli in the air fryer. I added half an avocado and some chickpeas. I topped the bowl with a sesame ginger sauce. I had it with a glass of coconut milk (the Silk brand carton style, not the can) and took a multivitamin and a spirulina capsule. I’m going to take a calcium supplement every other day. I think I heard taking calcium could be bad for you, but I don’t remember where, or if that is even true.
I finished most of the bowl, but the dog did get some of it. Dinner tomorrow should be super fast to make since I have lots of leftover barley. I’m going to make the exact same thing.
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