u/lex52_

I work at a busy restaurant, where I’m constantly running around lifting heavy trays and getting at least 12k steps though usually much more.

By the time I get home at night, I become a monster most nights. Tonight I ate an acai bowl I made, a piece of pizza, potato chips, AND a cookiewich. I feel like a vacuum cleaner. I want to just shut my brain off, eat, and decompress.

I often have the urge to go have a drink and a sandwich at my husband’s place of work at like 10pm, but I usually reign it in. I did tonight, but then look what I did lol

Is anyone else just an absolute gremlin eater when they get home?

I tried OMAD for a bit and it was definitely making the scale go down, but I went on a trip and ate 3+ times a day again and now I’m finding myself overeating/reaching for less healthy options again.

OMAD feels a bit restrictive for me at this point, so I am thinking of transitioning to two meals per day, with the first meal consisting of eggs, fruit, roasted veggies, and a piece of sourdough. My second meal will be a little more lenient, but nothing crazy, usually home cooked. I know calories are all that technically matter, but I’m trying really hard to find a steady way that I can find balance and stick to it.

I have faith this compromise could work long term. Wish me luck!

I’m only a week into OMAD, and I’m finding that the idea of eating junk food is turning me off. I’ve ALWAYS loved a good burger and fries, hot dog, whatever, but now I’m not feel drawn to it for the first time ever. Is it related to OMAD?

I’ve never fasted in my life and was a chronic over-eater.

I’m 28 and need to lose about 30 pounds. I’ve tried calorie counting while eating three meals, I’ve tried cutting carbs, etc etc, but I can never get myself to stick to it. I want to eat all sorts of foods (“healthy” and “unhealthy,”) and I don’t want to have to calculate how to break that up into several meals. It’s just too much for my brain, and I end up overeating.

Also, I do like to eat a lot when I eat. Not like 2000 calories a lot, but like 1300 calories a lot, and this feels like the way I can make that happen without worrying I’ll keep gaining weight.

After years of trying everything else, I strongly feel this is the only real chance I have at actually sustaining an eating pattern that will help me lose (and maintain) the weight.

I’m on day one right now, and I’m definitely nervous about the first week or so, but I’m doing it.

My plan is to eat at 3pm every day (I work 4:45 to like 9-11pm), and I could see it being most difficult to not eat again after my shift (which is bad for me anyway), especially since I’m so active during the shift.

Wish me luck! The posts in this sub are really motivating to me!

I need to lose around 30 pounds, and more importantly I want to live longer and help combat my health anxiety. I’ve been eating poorly lately (and overeating), and I’m sick of myself. My health anxiety is coming back again, and historically it does so when I’m not treating my body right, so I need to make a change.

I feel like a chicken finger and fries adult when by asking this, but I want to know how to make heathy eating more enjoyable for myself.

I grew up eating a lot of organic food and whole foods AND a lot of junk, and that’s pretty much remained the case to this day. Like I’ll eat eggs and fruit and veggies and beans and salad but then I’ll also eat like a brownie and ice cream and potato chips. You get the gist.

I know that still occasionally eating the less healthy foods is important, but I can’t be doing this daily and reach my goals. Relying on my discipline (which is much stronger when it comes to everything except for freaking food) has yet to work, so I am hoping there’s a reframe or tricks to get myself to eat almost all whole/healthy foods.