barbheart wrote: »

For 2 weeks I am at same weight. Have lost minor volume... I dont understand because I am following through and yet not seeing major results. for the amount of weight I have I should be dropping pounds like mad. I eat a third of what I ate prior to Omad and before I was eating biscuits, pasta, chocolate bread throughout the day... Now I hardly eat any of those if any...

I know the theory keep going and thats it but its still discouraging when you are already doing an effort.

If I go back to caloric mathematics maybe I am moving too little and thus spending too little calories and my body is just adapting to that...
In which case I either have to move more or eat less..or fast longer

Going to remove cheese and chocolate plus carbs such as bread pasta biscuits for a while see what happens and stick to proteins and vegetables with medium fat

I hope with every fiber of my being that your plan to get the weight coming off helps. I can't imagine not dropping week after week, I'd be frustrated too. If you find yourself still in the same boat, please consider the following... I don't know why or how, but I've consistently lost weight and that includes my purposeful raising of calories. I'm not calorie counting anymore, but on the occasions I've caved and counted (after I've eaten, not before) to prove to concerned people that I'm not starving myself thin, many of my meals were near or over the 1650-1800 range. I don't think that would've continued dropping if I was too low on calories. If you look at my diary, you'll see I kept upping and upping my calories and still lost. Granted, I do work out though, and I have since starting IF back in March and pretty consistently at around 30 minutes 5-7 days a week, so not like I'm spending an ungodly amount of hours doing it. BUT, I was eating back my exercise calories starting in June. I just do HIIT with The Body Coach (Joe, such a cutie pie with an adorable accent) on YouTube, and interval walk/sprinting, or intervals on indoor bike.

I know my way is contrary to what we're told in that IF doesn't put us into "starvation mode" (I don't like the phrase, it's really a slowing of metabolism as people who are starving in the real sense of not having food available will be skin and bones, and they are not holding onto fat or gaining weight), so it's okay if we only eat 1000 calories in a day because our bodies will eat the fat and use our fat surplus as energy, but I don't know. To me, that's just not enough if it's on a daily basis. I don't know if there are enough IF studies to prove what that does over the long term. I do know what I see quite often in the IF community and mostly from women--no losses, new health issues, etc., and I can't help but think it's due to not eating enough. Our stomachs have shrunk significantly, and it's not hard to feel satisfied on so little in short amount of time. Is it safe to eat so little just because we feel satisfied? I err on the side of, "No, it isn't", and that's why I've expanded my window. If I find myself hungry before my window closes, about 5 hours, I will eat.

For all intents and purposes, and the salad making up most of my meal, I just added calories from yesterday... 1599. I had 2 servings of Kombacha Coconut Lime and 2 squares of Ghiradelli dark chocolate about an hour before I closed my window which are included in the count.

Barb, don't be discouraged. I was on Dr. Berg's site and he was giving a testimony of a lady he was working with who had a lot of weight to lose and the first month she didn't lose much weight but the second month she lost 23 pounds and kept losing after that. His reasoning was that the body was doing repair/healing first and then it could drop the weight.

Your body may be doing some internal things and once done, the weight will come off. His philosophy is get healthy to lose weight not lose weight to get healthy. Your body may be in the process of getting healthy so that it can shed the pounds.

Stay the course, and I am sure you will see big results.

Stay positive Barb. You have lost weight although maybe not as much recently I recall that you said you had lost some inches. So there are positive things going on.
What has always worked for me is to listen to my body, to go by feel, and to not be afraid of pushing the boundaries and making changes. Every time I changed things up it sparked a bit of a surge.
Changes could be in meal timing, content, quantity or exercise.

Barb, I frequently... And I mean frequently... go a week or two without losing anything and then it comes off all at once. Last time it was 3 weeks and I only lost half a pound(not even it was 0.4) but in the fourth week I lost 6 lb all at once... It's the nature of the Beast to fluctuate a little bit just don't get discouraged and stay the course it works for a reason