Higher Human / OMAD
What is OMAD?
OMAD stands for one meal a day. It is an intermittent fasting schedule with roughly a one-hour eating window and twenty-three hours of fasting: often called 23:1.
OMAD as intermittent fasting
Intermittent fasting is any pattern that cycles between eating and not eating. Common windows include 16:8 and 18:6. OMAD sits at the sharp end of that spectrum: one sitting, then the long watch until the next camp. People choose it for simplicity, fewer decisions around food, or a clear daily pact. Higher Human does not invent medical claims. It gives you a native timer and a mountain for the streak you keep.
What a day on OMAD usually looks like
Most climbers pick a meal window that fits their life, often in the evening, then fast until that window returns. Water, black coffee, and plain tea are common on the watch. The hard part is not starting the clock. It is staying oriented through hunger, social meals, and the hours where a candy-colored streak app goes quiet.
Higher Human keeps the stage on the ring so you know whether you are still early, deep in the fast, or approaching camp. That orientation is the product job: not another pep talk.
Why a dedicated OMAD app
A generic fasting tracker counts hours. An OMAD app should understand stages, the single meal window, and the days you keep the pact. Higher Human is built as an expedition: timer, ascent map, weight trail with real camp markers, Faithfulness Score, Tribe, and offline-first storage on iPhone.
If you are comparing tools, see how the route differs from typical timers on our fasting timers comparison, or read how fasting stages show up on the ring.
OMAD is not a personality test
You do not need a sixty-question quiz to know whether one meal a day fits. You need a clear watch, honest progress toward a goal weight, and people on the same climb. Higher Human is for climbers who want that map on a native iPhone, without turning the home screen into an ad feed.
Join the expedition
The App Store gate is not open yet. The expedition is forming. When it opens, Higher Human will be the intermittent fasting timer built around OMAD as a climb. Join the expedition to be notified, or see the surfaces inside the app.