How Andrea Moore transformed her ultra-endurance performance and recovery through fat adaptation, Vespa fueling, and intuitive eating.
Key Highlights from the Conversation:
From Breakdown to Breakthrough:Andrea reflects on her painful 2023 Cocodona finish, where she couldn't walk post-race, and contrasts it with how she now recovers, rebounds and adapts, crediting the use of VESPA with the OFM approach to fat-adaption.
- The VESPA Edge:VESPA has become a non-negotiable part of Andrea’s fueling strategy. She recalls in one critical section of the Arizona Monster 300 where she didn’t have VESPA—and noted the drop in clarity, mood, and physical resilience and just how immediate and dramatic this was.
- Nutrition that Fuels, Not Fights:Andrea embraces the OFM approach to eating: Whole / Real Foods diet with an emphasis on fat rich proteins like beef, eggs, cheese and various berries as a carbohydrate source. What’s most important is the lack of ‘Dietary Dogma’. OFM’s guidance for eating is not a keto diet. It is a way of Life that includes carbohydrates when needed or desired. When you return to your native metabolism and physiology you can listen to your body without rigid rules or guilt and live life seamlessly like Andrea.
- Mindfulness over Perfection:Nachos? Pizza? Circus Animal Cookies? Yes, they still show up—but consciously, rarely, and without derailment. Building metabolic capacity gives you the tolerance to have all kinds of foods on occasion or when needed (like in a 300 mile ultra). OFM provides a sustainable relationship with food rooted in performance, not restriction.
- Real Food. Real Talk. Real Results:Her fueling during brutal climbs includes VESPA, ketones, baby food, protein shakes, and juice—an intuitive combo focused on real energy rather than engineered formulas.
- Community Wisdom:Andrea credits the OFM community—Mike McKnight, Jeff Browning, Peter Mortimer along with Peter Defty—as crucial in helping her understand what, when, and how to fuel for optimal performance, sustained energy and adaptive recovery.
🔁 Conclusion
Andrea Moore's story is one of transformation—where fatigue and inflammation gave way to resilience, recovery and adaptation. By embracing the OFM protocols, including the use of VESPA and being more intuitive than didactic, Andrea’s now running stronger, recovering faster, and enjoying food in a way that not only supports but optimizes. This reminds us that mindful, performance-driven nutrition is as much about how you feel as it is about what you eat.
