Hi I’m 29, 6 feet tall male, 255 pounds and I’ve been doing intermittent fasting about five years now. I was about 300 pounds when I started everything. I started with only skipping breakfast part of the reason is that I have chronic stomach pain and skipping breakfast helped the pain but also I desperately wanted to lose weight and all throughout my life I’ve had difficulty losing weight despite what I feel has been healthy eating habits and exercise. After a year of skipping breakfast eating around 12 pm, I lost 5-10 pounds. And then I decided I’m going to try a pure water fast for 2 weeks. I lost maybe 20 pounds but most was water weight, I gained back around 10 within a week and I went back to 2 meals a day, eventually I plateaued and then started gaining some weight. After I skipped lunch seeing that the scale wasn’t moving and moved to OMAD. I was finally seeing movement on the scale, I put down my weight on my notes. After a year on OMAD I lost around 40 pounds, and I hit 250 and my second year I could not cross the plateau. I did everything I could find would help a plateau. I did a couple 24/48 fasts. I increased my calories. I started eating 3 times a day. But nothing, after a full year I gained 10 pounds and I was so mad that a full year went by and I had no progress. This year I started keto with Omad and I lost the initial water weight but since no change at all. It’s only been a month but I expected something. I’ve been doing more cardio and weights too and nothing. Just very disappointed. Only thing I can think is that my sleep apnea is stalling me but I didn’t think it would be this bad. I’ve tracked my calories and last year I’d be around 1200-1300 per day, this year (I may need to eat more) but I’ve been around 800 calories per day. It’s an avocado + piece of meat + vegetables daily. I’m taking a multivitamin. Lots of water. I can’t go lower in calories and going up I just gain more weight. Any help would be greatly appreciated
If what you are saying is 100% accurate, see a doctor. That’s definitely a medical issue.
If you’re only eating 800 calories a day at 255 pounds then there’s absolutely no reason to not be losing weight unless you’re having 1 or 2 cheat days every week.
I’ve been big on and off my whole life, so I’ve fluctuated anywhere between 340 and 180 pounds at 6’2”, so I’ve been in that range a lot. If I just eat 1,200-1,500 calories a day I still continue to lose weight.
Assuming your keto isn’t so relaxed it’s not effective, it sounds like you might have a thyroid issue. I’d talk to a doctor, specifically an endocrinologist. Also, many thyroid tests don’t check the full range of thyroid issues. That is to say, false negatives are common. So you’ll want to watch out about that.
Have you been tracking measurements and taking photos?
Sounds like you’re eating right, you’re also working out and doing cardio, muscle weighs more than fat, plus sometimes in my experience with fasting I’ll swap from losing weight then I’ll not lose any weight but I’m shrinking (autogaphy doing it’s thing) (maybe 2 weeks weight loss, 2 weeks shrinking)
Measurements help keep me sane, along with only weighing maybe once or twice a month, no matter how enticing
Plus water weight can be a thing based on last meal, when you weigh, etc.
Going for similar times, fasted, no water, earlier in the morning or whatever your routine is just be consistent as you could weigh 5lbs more in the afternoon just from water or what not