Six Weeks to OMG Diet

I agree with Gail. I’ve only done this for three weeks but have lost weight and love the idea of eating what you want but only for your 8 hour window.

Like Gail and unlike most of the commenters, I have actually been on the OMG plan for five months, so far, covering every holiday on the year-end calendar. Because OMG is a set of principles versus a straight-jacket, I have found it easy to adapt to eating out and a hectic schedule. Applying the OMG principles very much in moderation, I have lost 12 lbs over those five months. Gail is obviously a better role model, however I am actually quite happy with the progress. I plan to continue with OMG for another 15 lbs.

Some might judge my own rate of loss as slow, however consider that it took me two YEARS on a Mediterranean-inspired eating plan to lose a first 14 lbs. Like I said, I’m no fanatic dieter. In fact, I consider OMG’s pace to be exciting. My collarbones have reappeared after a fifteen year absence. My liver metabolism numbers have finally fallen out of the red zone and my cholesterol numbers are within striking range of not giving my doctor a heart attack. Coming from a family afflicted by genetically high “bad” cholesterol, I have watched statins destroy my mother’s memory and peace of mind. I am determined not to take meds for something that I can control with diet and a little bit of moving around.

For those who are still reading: OMG is not a classic “diet” — the author doesn’t list foods to eat or *not* eat and includes no recipes on purpose. You don’t track calories or other numbers (unless you want to lose it super fast).

Rather, OMG resembles the Mediterranean way of eating that was familiar to me but with some special kickers. So, when I have a choice (not at Mom’s), I try to fill half my plate with whole protein such as fish, fowl, meat or egg white omelet and half with colorful veggies of any kind. I strive for moderation in all else such as sauces, fruit (fructose), sweets, oils, fats, and nutritionless carbs (pick your favorite; mine is potato chips).

Yes, I eat potato chips. But now I buy the smallest snack bag and count them as a whole day’s treat. As the book suggests, I don’t obsess about dietary fat consumed in this way and yet my health continues to improve. (And I’m NEVER dizzy and nauseous like when I tried the carb-restrictive Atkins diet — my lesson from that fiasco was that if a diet makes me sick, weak or requires laxatives, it’s NOT a sustainable lifestyle.)

One facet of OMG that HAS turned me into a fanatic because of how much better I feel: I now do my best to avoid appetite-deceiving fructose and sugar substitutes like Splenda and aspartame. It’s hard to do because sucraloses, stevia or aspartame are in almost EVERYTHING prepared by a manufacturer, often for no apparent reason (Splenda in salad dressing? Why??). Of course, that just makes it easier for me to eat mostly foods that walked, swam, or grew. If I eat sweet fruit, I eat it at the end of a meal as a treat. This is working surprisingly well; it’s amazing how sweet fruit tastes when you eat less of it less often.

As for the suggested morning routine, until you’ve tried it, don’t knock it. Thirty seconds of cold rinse at the end of my shower and drinking a mug of black tea instead of breakfast (couldn’t stand the coffee) have given me additional time and energy in the morning. My husband calls my daily session of gasping under a cold spray “lazy shower aerobics”. The happy result has been an appetite that doesn’t plague me like it used to –and yes, collarbones. I think that my diaphragm is stronger too Plus there’s that happier liver. What’s to knock?

In fact, I call OMG my “liver-friendly” diet when friends ask about how I’m losing weight (I have had to buy smaller jeans, so they notice). BTW, I will never be skinnier than any of my running/biking/yoga-ing friends but I don’t care. I’ll be skinnier than the younger me and that’s a worthwhile accomplishment. Especially for a food-loving, sweating-adverse woman dealing with genes handed out by an otherwise wonderful family. OMG’s author may come across as a goofball (I suspect deliberately) and his plan may have a few goofball ideas, but I’ll take his best ideas every day over the best daily meds.

And congratulations, Gail! Do you blow up the balloons too??

Hi Jane,

As I have said I am researching natural health, and this book is dangerous, and gives some terrible advice.

Caffeine found in coffee acts as a DEPRESSANT on the human brain, plants create caffeine to kill insects and poison the soil so other plants cant grow.

Our diet should be pro symbiotic, and if you want good source of anti oxidants have a few pieces of 85% coco content chocolate, it also slows down fat storage.

I agree with you 100 % and the fact that he says skip breakfast is ridiculous . I have done that and gone to the gym and what a mistake that was I got so sickkk in the middle of the workout I had to quit my workout early so if that happens how is it effective to not eat breakfast …I hope noone was dumb enough to waste their money on his program.

Atkins diet works fantastic as long as you keep measuring carbs. All the other diets are similar. With Atkins i manage to loose 45 kg and i was feeling fine. Just you have to maintain the write level of food. Protein vs carbs.

Hit the nail on the head here. A diet is something that will end eventually, it should be a lifestyle change!

exactly.