For years I thought losing weight required a lot of management.
Calories. Portions. Meal timing. Snacks. All the usual stuff.
Eventually I discovered something considerably simpler.
I stopped eating all day.
That changed a lot for me.
I generally eat one main meal a day now, sometimes with something small later. I’m not religious about it. I don’t keep an OMAD membership card in my wallet. 😄
It’s simply how I’ve learned I prefer to eat.
And it helped me stop thinking about food all day long.
That’s probably the part I appreciate most.
When I was much heavier, food seemed to be everywhere. Breakfast. Snack. Lunch. Snack. Dinner. Something while watching television.
We’d been taught that eating frequently was somehow necessary.
I eventually started questioning that.
If I’m not hungry, why am I eating?
That sounds ridiculously obvious now.
Eating less often also gives your body longer stretches without incoming food. Insulin falls between meals, and your body has an opportunity to draw more heavily o…
