Am I living in a bubble about to burst?

You might have to keep a smaller deficit in the future.

As for now, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Without knowing what your actual calorie intake is, I don't have too much to say. This is a learning curve for all of us...but I think you should at least be eating breakfast. Mandatory IMO.

IMO if what you are doing is working, stick with it. Starvation mode is not real, and the idea that one arbitrary calorie intake is the minimum for a 4'8" sedentary person and also a 6'3" highly active person doesn't even pass the common sense test. People here just confuse wate retention and optimistic caloric intake and expenditure estimates for "starvation mode." The topic is a bit more complex than that, but the primary concern with low cal diets is adequate nutritional intake, and sparing muscle mass. Eating 1200 cals of McDonald's per day is a great way to destroy your health. Eating 1200 calories of calorically sparse whole foods is what most of the island of Okinawa do, and they are the healthiest and longest lived group of people on earth. Just saying.

Love this!

If its working for now, go for it but if you hit a plateau I'd increase your calories.

So, the problem with very low calorie diets is getting out of them (and diminishing returns) you will keep losing for a while and may even get to your goal, but then you will want to eat at maintenance and will put on weight because your bmr will be lower than expected. You may be able to slowly raise calories and gain less or none at all, most studies I've seen are too short for me to really know how the story ends. On the diminishing returns side: you lost 5 lb in 3 weeks, that corresponds to a deficit of 833/ day. I have no clue what your tdee is (you can find it at fat2fitradio.com) but I'll pick 2500 as my guess. So it sounds like you aren't even eating 1000 calories. If I subtract that from your guessed tdee, that is a real deficit of 1500. Your body tries to make itself more efficient because it's not getting enough energy. You can pm me if you want me to do the math with your real numbers, but I would be willing to bet that is kinda the story, you aren't losing as much as you should starving yourself because your boy gets more efficient. If you are eating 1000 cals and your tdee is 2000 or less, then you can ignore this. It would be a bigger deficit than you should do, but to each his/her own.

Also, you aren't getting enough protein, so you will lose muscle, so if you want the "toned" look of very little fat over your muscles, this strategy will prob lose too much muscle for that and give you something closer to what is lovingly referred to in these forums as skinny fat

This is TOTALLY a guess based on my own experience over the years (almost 59 of them! YIKES!) and the millions of things i read for years and didn't put into practice till this past year, BUT-- i think it sounds like you've listened to your body and it has told you what it needs and wants, and that it has managed to educate you in the foods that would negatively impact your weight and your body. i mean, you FEEL good, and that's a good way to know if you are getting enough of the right nutrients etc. If you have energy, well, go for it!

Things may change after a point. i notice someone else said they hit a plateau at 40 pounds, which is exactly what has happened to me. Also just my own thought, but i feel like my body has hit minor plateaus at certain weights as i've lost, but this is my longest one, so i know i need to change something. But if that happens to you, well, i guess you will change something.

i do agree that you should have SOMEthing for breakfast, especially as our metabolisms do slow down as we age, and having breakfast helps keep your blood sugar happy and your metabolism happy too. :-)

you're losing weight because you're burning more calories that you're taking in..... u cant eat like that for the rest of your life and when u stop u will gain weight back fast

Also I don't seem to be hungry, I mean don't get me wrong I am ready to destroy my dinner when I get home from work but I'm not holding out in pain from noon till 6pm. I start getting hungry about 30 mins before I get to the table.

If.. or should I say when I hit my plateau I'm hoping you guys will help me brain storm some ideas for kickstarting the loss again.

Thanks again.

I spent months eating 400-700 net calories every day. I wasn't hungry. Was that healthy? No. It just meant that my body had adjusted to such a low amount of calories. If I were you, I would increase your calories to a healthy amount. Based on what you said you're eating, it can't be enough.

a large part of the problem with having a large deficit consistently is that it isn't a sustainable lifestyle. You are working towards a goal now, but can you keep eating like this forever? Or will you even be able to do this long enough to get to your goal? I've done the 900 calories a day thing and would binge like crazy and eventually just gave in to my eating and ended up gaining 40 pounds.