Hi @Katiekate and @bailey22 , at the stage that you’re both at you’ve had some great results. I don’t know what your starting weights were but usually there’s a whoosh of water weight the first couple of weeks and that’s your fat cells releasing their glycogen and water that were stored in them since you’re both limiting carbohydrates. After that fats start to break down and it’s a slower process, 1-2 lbs a week is normal after the water loss. You didn’t get fat in a few weeks so it’s unreasonable to expect it to melt off like butter on a warm plate.
On the fasting, I think it’s great that you both got into IF so fast, took me a bit longer for sure. I still was having snacks at your stage so that’s awesome too. I would suggest that OMAD isn’t for everyone. If you do two smaller meals in a 4-6 hour eating window it might suit you better, especially this early in the game and it’s still the 1st inning IMHO. I hope you’re both thinking of KETO not as a quick weight loss diet that you can easily drop when you get where you want to be weight wise. It’s lifestyle changes that make a difference and so you’re on a long winding road with ups and downs. This is a normal thing. You don’t want to loose weight too quickly, it will leave you with baggy skin.
I cannot do OMAD comfortably either because my stomach is small. TMAD is more efficient for me I discovered and my weight loss is going great, 205 to 162 in 9 months of just living right. KETO should be comfortable and relatively effortless.
Focus on how your clothes are fitting, wearing stuff from the back of your closet that you have been pushing aside is a great victory regardless of what a scale tells you. Remember it’s not necessarily weight you want to loose, it’s fat. You want normalized body proportions whatever that is for you. You’re skeletons and muscle mass can change with the proper foods you’re eating as fat shrinks and breaks down so weight loss won’t be linear because there’s body recomposition going on. I hope this puts your minds at ease, trust the process, keep eating well and you’ll reap the healing benefits of keto including reduced body inflammation and metabolic derangement and a healthy body composition because those should be the real goals. It’s much more complex than “loosing weight”. I wish you both great success and health for your KETO efforts.