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I have no idea why you couldn't. If it has lactose in it still you can make yogurt with it. You literally have to pasteurize the milk yourself before fermentation.... You bring it up to almost boiling point, like 180F or something, cool it down to 100F, then whisk in some yogurt starter like Fage to add the bacteria.

Use Fage Greek yogurt as a starter. Also, if you want a creamier yogurt use 2% or whole milk. I use skim milk for my protein focussed yogurt but I use whole milk and make that for making salad dressings and substitutes for mayonnaise and sour cream. It'll have nearly as much protein but also have a much better, creamier texture for those items. Just also a bit heavier in calories too.

I make my own plain Greek yogurt with skim milk. Let it ferment for 26 hours then strain in the fridge for at least another day. A cup of plain Greek yogurt is like 24 grams of protein.

A gallon of milk is less than $5. Makes a half gallon of whey and a half gallon of yogurt. I'm sure the whey from the yogurt has its own protein value too.

I use the whey to mix with protein powder as it's relatively flavorless itself and makes a little thicker of a shake. The yogurt I either eat straight up or, what I really like to do is 1 cup yogurt, 1 cup whey, 2 scoops banana protein powder. Blend up and it makes a legit, very tasty banana milkshake like drink. I'll split it and drink half one day and half another day because otherwise it's like 75g of protein in one drink and you don't want to take all that to the face in one sitting. The yogurt probiotic are also super good for you and make it so the shakes last longer in the fridge so you can prep them a few days in advance.

On top of my other comment once you get into it heavily you realize how much you were just eating out of habit. Like when I do my 5-7 day fasts the hard part isn't feeling bad or hunger. I don't feel bad and the hunger goes away after a while. The hard part is the habit of eating when I do certain things or at that specific time of day. I literally only ended my (almost) 7 day fast was because I was just bored of not eating. I wanted to taste something other than water. lol

1. If you have snacks then you aren't doing OMAD. lol. The entire purpose is to fast for essentially 23 hours ever day. One meal a day mean you eat once a day. I usually do a mix of OMAD and a 20:4 fast. So one day I might eat the OMAD and another day I have a 4 hour eating window, usually between 2-6pm.

2. I would stay away from meals with high amounts of process carbs and sugars. Pasta being one of them. You don't HAVE to but they will spike your insulin like crazy and crash you hard and make hunger way worse. Those sorts of foods digest fast and leave you feeling hungry and unsatiated. Fats and proteins are more filling, digest more slowly, and will leaving you feeling fuller, longer. I primarily focus on protein. Your body wants to eat for protein first. Proteins from whole foods are best. Make sure you get in enough protein.
   Side note, also stay away from processed seed oils. Basically any "vegetable oil" that's not olive, coconut, palms, or avocado. Most all other vegetable oils come from highly processed seeds (soy, canola, corn, cottonseed, etc) that involves lots of repeated heating and mixing with chemical solvents to purify them. By the time they make it to the bottles they are already rancid. These oils are essentially poison and they are also in fucking everything.

3. So first off, fasting for longer than 24 hours is fine. Just make sure you are taking in proper electrolytes. Being on keto makes it easy. There were a few times I got off work and was too tired and just went home and went to bed. Woke up and didn't eat till dinner the next day. Easy 48 hour fast. My longest was 162 hours (almost 7 days) of just water and electrolytes. People on the fasting subreddit sometimes got for 14 days or more. If you don't have any health conditions and have your electrolytes taken care of you should be ok. Just have to re-feed properly coming out of it if you do more than like 3 days. It actually does not feel bad at all either. After the 2nd or 3rd day you basically just stop feeling hungry. As long as you get the electrolytes you won't feel bad either. In fact, I LOVE how I feel when I'm fasting properly. It's a mental clarity I can't really describe. The body feels light and mobile and fairly motivated to do shit. Kind of hard to describe.

As far as going to events and eating multiple times a day or whatever... I mean, you can just eat like normal some days. I do OMAD and the 20:4 fast during the week. On the weekends I usually still won't have breakfast but will snack and do whatever for the rest of the day after noon or so. It won't like, ruin you. Once your body gets used to doing fasting it's not like one or two days of not fasting will set you back to square one. Your body will just get to a point where it is like "I can eat now or I can just wait, whatever." Eating more often and stuff only really can be dangerous if you do multi day fasting of longer than 3 day then come back and eat a ton. That can really fuck you up. If you ever do do an extended fasts like that though just make sure you've done your research.

The key thing to take away from getting into OMAD for me was "I will eat when I want to eat and not let my hunger control me. I know that I don't have to eat ever 4 hours. I will be fine and my body is not going to starve." For me it's empowering. I see so many people freaking out about having to have breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks. Like their whole day is consumed with... Consumption. I would go to work and all I would hear is people crying about their next meal and I realized how much people just obsessed over it. It made me realize how much more time I had for myself and the things I wanted to do. The thing with fasting is it's not about what you HAVE to do, it's about what you DON'T have to do. I DON'T have to cook so many meals. I DON'T have to eat if I don't want to. I DON'T have to worry if I miss a meal. Your body is not some fragile little thing that's going to break down the second you go without a meal.

Another thing it helps me with is, ironic enough, I have self control issues. I cannot portion control. I never could. I struggled with weight all my life. When I eat I want to eat till I'm full. So fasting helped me control that. I am either a ravenous beast, or I "monk out" and just don't eat at all and that's just how I have to live. It's easier that anything else I have tried.

Hahaha I just linked that video too! So glad others are watching it.

This is terrible reasoning and even worse understanding of human evolution. Humans evolved to not only be able to live without food for extended periods of time but to utilize fasted time to clean out metabolic junk. People have fasted for all sorts of reasons for longer than the "3 meals a day" diets existed. Imagine thinking humans would have evolved with such a massive defect that if they got without 3 square meals a day they just lay down and die.

Studies have shown that the body increases metabolism when in a fasted state. It's the bodies way of supplying you with energy so you can be motivated to go hunt and find food. It also increases focus and mental clarity. Similarly aiding in ones ability to locate food sources. The only reason people feel bad when going a few hours past their mealtime nowadays is due primarily to their bodies not knowing how to deal with it and be sure so much of people's diet has high amounts of processed carbs and sugars which causes massive fluctuations in blood glucose and insulin levels.

Additionally it is amazing diabetes prevention. Causing your insulin levels to drop to baseline between meals and increasing insulin sensitivity. I was pre-diabetic before I started OMAD many years ago. Within 3 months my levels were back to perfectly normal even when not practicing OMAD. My Doctor took me off meds and I haven't needed them since.

Here is a good video about some of the data behind therapeutic intermittent fasting.
https://youtu.be/7nJgHBbEgsE?si=wh8gN_YPkWA_4VdF

I have done OMAD off and on for almost a decade and have also done several multi day fasts. If you have any specific questions I can maybe help.

Some things I find makes it way easier.

1. A low carb or ketogenic diet makes hunger occur way less often and easier to ignore. Most days, once I have been on the diet for a bit,I just do not feel hunger at all. Even when it's time to eat.
   You don't have to do this. I am just saying that when I do OMAD with keto it's easier to get into the swing of things than without. If you do multi day fasting though you will want to become fat adapted which is basically staying in ketosis for 2 weeks. You also don't HAVE to do that but it is much safer and makes transitioning to a fasted state much easier.

2. Electrolytes matter way more.
   If you also do keto then they mater even more than that.
   Regardless of your diet path you should look into sodium and potassium supplements during your fasting time. Doesn't have to be a lot but I use iodized table salt and potassium citrate. Don't be scared of salt, just make sure you are getting in the right amounts of potassium. There is a subreddit guide for fasting. It has recommended amounts but those are also for extended fasts. You might not need them doing OMAD but if you start to notice a trend of being low energy that isn't caused by sleep issues or other things then you might try some electrolytes around then and see if it helps.

These are the two bigger things I can think of but I have done this so long it's all sort of just habit now.

Adding a source video about Intermittent fastings effects on metabolism and other such issues including tackling myths about "you will loose muscle mass" etc. spoilers, you won't.
https://youtu.be/7nJgHBbEgsE?si=wh8gN_YPkWA_4VdF

Its like an hour of stuff. As it stands I get up just in time to roll myself into my office and clock it. lol.

I have this issue where I will get super antsy by the end of my shift and just HAVE to hop off my PC, I work from home, and literally the SECOND I walk away and am free.... I just crash and I'm laying on the floor in my office and loose all motivation. Like it's mentally exhausting and when I'm free my mind just wants to not think or do anything. Some days I just zone out and stair at the ceiling for a while. Or turn on a TV show I have seen a half dozen times just to have something mind jumping to act as background. My body will have energy, but my mind loses all drive to focus on anything. I think stress is a big factor but I have just been stuck in this rut. I recently started physical therapy for my back and hip that's been messed up for months now. I spend 2 hours a night there 2-3 nights a week and on off night I always plan to do some of the stretches at home but then I just... Don't.

I am surprised the first response I got was not an attack. The pro pit propaganda runs hard and encouraged pretty rabbid harassment. I don't blame people that don't know for defending pits. It's the ones that argue in bad faith and ignore obvious data that are the problem. There's a reason why pits, and only pits, need to be defended so aggressively. All it takes is just googling reports of actual dog attacks to see almost all of the reports involved a pit or pit mix. Hell all you have to do is Google pictures of pitbulls vs porcupines and then compare those to literally any other dog breed vs porcupines. Normal dogs take a hit and get deterred out of their natural survival and pain avoidance instincts. Pits just maul them harder till they all but kill themselves. That's what happens when you breed some poor animal to fight to the death against other animals. It's tragic what we have bred into these dogs and even more tragic that instead of taking responsibility for it and at least attempting to breed it out and/or restrict breeding, we double down and make more and more lies about them that get innocent people maimed and killed. Then when people try to point all this out they get harassed to no end.

Before my back started hurting me (lower back, old disk injuries resurfacing) I was doing 4 sets of 10 at 165lbs. Now, idk.