Intermittent Fasting/OMAD- plateaued and can't seem to break through to the finish line.

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You may get better responses in the health/fitness board. We love carbs and butter.

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I have been stuck at 185 for almost a month and I can't seem to crack it. Should I start working out again and just hope I can still maintain the diet end of it? I was a runner and would eat like a pig as a result. I would run 25 miles a week and still stayed between 205 and 215 for 10 years. I was just outrunning my crappy diet.

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The way I see it, you have 2 options that might help you break through.

Keep OMAD and throw in some 36-72 hour fasts. Will work eventually, just might take some time, but will be easy once it's routine. [Further reduces calorie intake]

Or, start running again and keep up OMAD. I'd bet that this option will get you down to your goal pretty quickly. You just need to overcome the post run/workout hunger. Drinking a ton of water helps with that. [Increase calories burned]

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. I want to see if the shock on my body jumpstarts it again.

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Not how it works

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coming from you that means it's exactly how it works

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You can't "shock your system" into weight loss. If you could link some studies that show when equating for protein and calories that eating one meal a day increases bmr or weight loss I'll happily read them.

Or you could just continue to spew factually inaccurate information and stick your head up your arse and make juvenile retorts in order to not learn something.

At the end of the day, it's your choice.

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This what helped me break through the plateau. If you can jump start your week by eating your last meal Sunday afternoon/night and then fasting for 48 hours if possible it will really help.

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Please provide the evidence of what this "jump starts."

You were eating probably thousands of less calories a week by skipping a couple of meals. That's why you lost more weight.

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Lift weights
Eat whole foods
Repeat

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You can gain weight easily doing this.

I honestly don't understand this fasting craze. Sounds miserable.

Just burn more calories than you consume. Find a diet you can stick with for an extended period of time. The weight will come off. Include weight training to incorporate lean muscle into this and you'll get lean and have muscle definition which makes you look leaner than the scale anyways.

I'm not trying to sound like a know it all, I'm just trying to give you some confidence that it's not about being miserable and hitting some arbitrary number on a scale. It's a commitment to a lifestyle that will keep you happy and fulfilled for the long term.

If you can't find a balance that will allow you to do it and be happy, you'll just fall off and get frustrated. That's dieting in a nutshell. Diets are temporary. Lifestyles are permanent.

Good luck either way

Stop focusing on the number on the scale when you should be focusing on the results in the mirror.

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Fad.

The CrossFit of “diets”

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It's how humans existed until like 200 years ago since their creation

And crossfit has been around for like 2 decades so I wouldnt call that a fad either