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Wow. I'm really glad I posted rather than keeping it to myself and suffering the consequences. Thank you all for replying. I've realized I've been doing 5:2 wrong all along. (I'm so excited to find out that I can eat more than 1300 calories on my non-fast days.) Thank you guys truly :-)))

So I should be eating my TDEE and not worry about a deficit because the fasting days take care of the deficit? Wow that makes a lot of sense actually. I've been doing 5:2 incorrectly along with under eating :embarassed: On my fast days I try to eat predominantly veggies, especially in soups. Along with that I have…

My TDEE is 1735 so a 400 deficit isn't too bad

There have been some days where I overeat by maybe 100 - 200 calories so on I try to make it up by eating maybe around 1200 calories on the other days (I realize I'm contradicting what I posted previously as I type this lol). However 1200 compared to my usual 1300 isn't that dramatic, but could what I'm doing with the…