Hello there!
Me and my partner started kept 9/11/17. I’ve done it before (on and off since 2012).
F28, 5’9", SW 250 CW 180
F29, 5’4" SW 230 CW 175
We’ve been chugging along nicely as the numbers show, but about 6-8 weeks ago we hit a stop point. We’ve been fluctuating by 5 pounds up, 5 pounds down ever since, despite KCKO and making several adjustments. My partner has continued to occasionally lose inches, but recently she’s put a couple back on as well (which I’m pretty sure is bloating but take that for what it is). I’ve lost a spare inch somewhere along the way but mostly stayed put.
After learning a bit more about calories and BMR, I was looking back over the last 8 months, and I wonder if we’ve accidentally lowered our BMR. We’ve been eating around 1400-1600 calories despite being relatively active individuals, and I am wondering if we’ve simply lowered our BMR unintentionally. Some days we’ll get up to 2000-2200, but the vast majority of the last 8 months has been 1400-1600, sometimes lower. We usually eat one meal a day, sometimes between 9pm and 11pm (the only time we are both home), the timing of which is another thing we have considered changing. We’ve discussed moving out OMAD to breakfast. We haven’t actively tried to lower calories, but 1400-1600 is what we ended up feeling comfortable eating in one meal.
We don’t do keto treats and our carb counts are definitely not the issue here. I enjoy Diet Coke, Mio in my water, and a drop or two of Sucralose in my coffee, but other than that we don’t really have artificial sweeteners in our life. Once every couple months we’ve enjoyed some sushi or another higher carb meal, but it’s never lasted more than a day, and the stall hasn’t coincided with any of those days. We do consume a decent amount of cheese, but we always have. Not sure if that matters.
Our current thought is to officially embark on a fasting adventure extending past our typical 20 hours, and FEAST to raise BMR in between. What are your thoughts? Have we missed something? Does this sound like a decent strategy? What about moving our OMAD to breakfast instead of late at night?
Feel free to ask for clarification if something here doesn’t make sense. But I’d love some people’s feedback. We’ve just been kicking the can back and forth with each other and we need somebody else to “weigh in”, if you will forgive the bad pun.
