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Going OMAD, watching macros, and having trouble with calories

Dumb/annoying problem, I know, but I’m trying to hang with an OMAD/23ish/1 schedule, complying really well, but not losing weight.

Help? Basically, how do folks have the room?!? I can eat about 2/3rds of a healthy 1,200 calories before I’m just stuffed, but could plow through THOUSANDS of junk food calories.

Also, I honestly can’t believe I have such a dumb problem. Y’all, I have a healthy appetite.

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Answer

Eating too little calories can slow down your metabolism, but it’s not as much of a factor as most people believe. Are you counting calories? If you were actually eating 800 calories a day like you claim you’d be losing weight.

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You probably actually have to increase your eating window for a bit to increase your calorie intake for your body to get out of the starvation mode (it’s most likely slowed down your metabolism by how much your calories reduced). Once that is fixes, you could try going back to OMAD or continue eating more but losing weight at a slower rate, only without your body thinking you’re starving.

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