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HELP! Question about low calorie and fasting...

Hey! So I have. Some questions about low calorie/fasting So I just finished a 36 hour fast, I broke it with an avacado and sardines. In the days after I have been eating OMAD( Keto) , or two small meals within a fasting window. My question is.. dr Fung says doing low calorie, and exercising slows metabolism. I am trying to loose 40 pounds. But, on your re feed days.. or days your not fasting, and your doing Keto, and still intermittent .. isn’t that low calorie?? If you doing OMAD.. let’s say that meal is 800-900 calories.. that’s still low calorie. So by exercising everyday ( HIIT, and weight lifting) fasting 36 hours a week and eating between 1-2 meals a day Keto... Is that going to slow my metabolism? Just trying to figure what he recommends exactly. I know I could fast for 30 days and loose 30 pounds, but I tried lifting during and it was a challenge. I’m working up to a more prolonged fast. How do you keep the benefits of weight loss after, if low calorie slows your metabolism down? I’d love any insight to this..♥️♥️

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I am no expert, but I’ve lost a lot of weight and solved major health issues. I eat for like 90 minutes straight on OMAD days. Maybe it can’t be called OMAD, but that’s what I call it. I eat like 2500 calories, and I’m a small person. I do this all the time.

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I don’t know if I should post it here - but I just started doing LowCarbHighFat coupled with intermittent fasting at 16:8. I’ve never done a “diet” before and I feel like this is truly messing with my body right now. I decided to go all in instead of ease in just because I felt like if I didn’t go all in, I wasn’t going to go in at all.

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Anyway, is it normal to experience things like:

- bloating/cramping in stomach

- several trips to the bathroom to urinate and/or defecate

- physical lethargy

- mental clarity, but body feels tired and slowwww af

- some headaches and some nausea

- feeling anxious

- feel like my blood is constricted…(?)

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I know that if I suffer, I’m going to reap the benefits. You know, no pain no gain, right? But I also want this to be long-term consistent and stable. I don’t want to cop out because it’s “omg so hardddddd…. I’m such a wimp….”

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Any help/advice/thoughts is much appreciated. Thanks.