IF and Caloric Intake

[MearaM]

Hey Keto Peeps! Recently, the forum hive mind chastised me for eating too little (<1100 calories per day) as the reason for my lack of success. Message received and boosting to 1600 did seem to push me off the plateau, but it raises a new question…
When eating a 16/8 or 20/4 plan (limiting food to certain time spans every day), how does that impact calorie intake? Should I be jamming 1600 calories in during a 4 hour span or only a fraction of that? And if I eat 800 calories in that 4 hour span, doesn’t that just put me back into starvation mode? Thanks in advance for clearing up my confusion. Hope the answers help other folks too.
-Meara

[avocadosrule]

This may be applicable to some extent:

Cue the flaming arrows and boiling oil I have a question about calories

So, I have this question that I have seen answered in various ways and wondering if there is a scientific answer… I fast often… several days a week, sometimes 2 weeks, just depends how I feel. I fast for health and weight loss. On my eating days I tend to either eat one large meal or two meals in a 4 hour eating window. So keeping in mind Dr. Fung’s advice to fast when you fast and feast on your eating days, I try to keep my calories close to my tdee or at the very least not lower than 1500. …

[KetoToronto]

Yup, this whole same conversation happened this morning! Richard gave a great explanation in that thread.

[MearaM]

Can you point me at the conversation you are referencing?

[KetoToronto]

See the link that @avocadosrule posted in his/her comment above