How can you determine if you are eating enough while trying to lose weight? Can consuming too little food slow down metabolism and impede fat loss?

My long-term plan is to transition to a primarily plant-based diet after I reach my goal weight with weekly fasting of at least 48 hours.

In less than 30 days my pain is 90% improved and I feel amazing and I can properly take care of business when demounting the throne in the morning after my constitution I know it's not called a constitution but everybody knows what I'm talking about

I've been on carb restricted diet for 30 days as of today.

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Most days I try to restrict my total caloric intake to between 1,200 and 1600 calories I have a BMR of 2400 calories That's 800 to 1200 calorie deficit on a daily basis.

So when I reach a plateau I actually tried to increase my calories but decrease my carbs In other words I find that going strict carnivore with zero carbs for two or three days helps me get past plateaus if I eat closer to my caloric goal of 1600 calories I know that sounds counterintuitive but you've got to keep your body thinking it's being fed so it'll keep up its energy you have to stay in ketosis so that your body is fat adapted to burning fat for calories and not relying on the carbs that you eat and you can never cheat and by never cheat I mean you can never eat something that's going to kick you out of ketosis or exceed your BMR caloric need which for me is 2,400 calories.

I started out strict ketogenic, transitioned to carnivore most days during the week and my cheat days are strict ketogenic diets never exceeding the calories I need just to exist My BMR.

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However since I'm doing this with severe intention on both satisfying my emotional urges and keeping my body thinking it's being fed properly now I'll be out of ketosis because of those two meals but I will immediately go on a 72 hour fast on the following Monday Tuesday and Wednesday and I'll be back in ketosis and I won't bother with another milestone meal until I hit my next goal of 190 lb and I'll do again the same thing when I hit 170 and my goal weight of 164.

Adjust accordingly.

I want to transition to a primarily plant-based Mediterranean style diet where I eat only complex carbohydrates high fiber foods nutritious vegetables with limited sugar from natural or artificial sources In fact zero sugar from artificial sources and very limited sugar from natural sources eating things like legumes nuts seeds and although not plant-based I did say primarily not exclusively, I will eat eggs cheese and whole grains with limited intake of carbohydrates as much as possible on a plant-based diet while I will incorporate proteins from plants I will use certain animal sources and even meat but I want to eat as clean as possible but the reason I want to not bother with this is I lose weight when I reintroduce certain foods to my diet I will do so one at a time and see how my body reacts Right now I know I can eat broccoli and it doesn't cause me any issues but I found that eating high oxalate foods many of which I absolutely love actually causes an allergic reaction in my skin and it's one of the reasons I had problems with pimples and other skin blemishes in just less than 30 days after eliminating all these foods for my diet and going carnivore my complexion has completely cleared up and the inflammation of my body has all that have been eliminated I feel amazing and there were days before where I couldn't get out of bed I could hardly walk to the toilet and when I would mount the throne for my daily Constitution I couldn't even properly reach my arm behind me and take care of business because I was in so much pain I couldn't twist I've been diagnosed with arthritis in my hips my knees I have two torn rotator cuffs plantar fascitis and degenerative disc disease that's stable been a part of my life since I was in my early twenties and I'm now 58

Hi everybody! I have been looking at posts on narcs and narc abuse on here and if has really helped me out a lot. I am currently struggling with my situation and need some advice/support. I met a narc last year, everything seemed to good to be true. Love bombing, always texting calling and taking me on dates. Everything changed when someone warned me about him out in public in front of him and who he is. This caused a conflict with us and the love bombing seized. he would tell me that everything is okay and i can come and talk. He would set a time limit on me and kick me out after that. he would then text me like everything was fine and we hung out again and after that he completely ghosted me for one week. He came back and texted me a week later laughing about the ghosting and acting like nothing had happened. he continued to text me ( not like in the beginning) make plans with me, then on the day of the plans he would just ghost me. One day he would act interested the next silence. i contacted him a month later and he acted like nothing happened. He was on a vacation and sent me a picture of another woman ( someone he allegedly met on the trip) to strike a reaction but i never gave him one. After the trip he came to my place and was extremely rude, accusing me of going on dates with a bunch of men. The next day he accused me of being an alcoholic and that he wanted nothing to do with me but said well maybe we can be "friends" then ghosted me i assumed at this point it was over and i would never hear from him again. He contacted me on the holiday a month later acting like everything was great. We ended up hanging out a month or so later and when we hung out it went well, i thought things were going in the right direction. after we hung out.. silence. I would try to text him and if he replied it would be very short then he just stopped replying. He ghosted me for almost three months. I thought he was done this time and of course he popped up again like nothing happened. At this point i was getting sick of if so i questioned him as to why he dissapeared and always does this. Of course he had some sob story about a injury and family member dying of cancer. I felt pity for him and he gave me an apology.. so i took him back stupidly. things seemed to be going smooth for a couple months, of course until his family member died and his injury got better he never contacted me and was distant. Menawhile, i was there for him during the difficult time for him. He lied to me about the funeral and never wanted to chat. I was chasing him and he would always claim nothing was wrong but when i said i thought he used me when he was down he could not handle it and would always tell me he didnt care and to go away. I would get so upset i would try texting him to work it out he would barelt respond and if he did he would not be nice about it. we did hang out a couple times after that, he would ignore me after. One day i was like hey i think you are seeing someone else, and i was like well ixam seeing someone so no problem if you are he said " buy bye good luck with your new guy stop contacting me" i was devastated and tried to get into contact with him for weeks then i just gave up and accepted it was over. He ended up contacting me a month later acting like everything was fine. He wanted to go out and have drinks i told him i would. He and i both seemed to have a great time. He ends up ignoring me again. I kept texting him trying to figure out what was wrong. He kept saying everything was fine and i said ok can we hang out again? He said maybe i was like why? He just kept saying maybe … our last conversation we had… i said what is wrong ? He said nothing is wrong everything is fine. I asked him why he keeps saying maybe. He said " maybe but i dont want to see you right now" i said why? He saix " im just not feeling it, if i wanted to date i would" i said why did you contact me less then a week ago wanting to go out? He said i didnt.. even though he did. So i said should i just move on or what? He said whatever you want to do. So i said that he was really confusing me and asked him if he had anything more to say before i move on? My messages were turning green so i panicked he blocked me and reacted irrationally. I said " omg did you block me? My messages are not going through. Even texted him on my work phone asking what was up. And called him twice ( please dont judge me i know it is pathetic i never was this type of girl before him) so he replied and said " Ok I'll block you now" then immedietly blocked me. He has never blocked me before since I have met him he will just ghost. Is this ths final discard aka " grand finale? Did i just push him too far? this has upset me so much its hard to even function.

My celebration meal however will be at different milestones I've already decided that it 210 lb and I'm currently 219 lb I will eat a giant piece of gourmet chocolate cake on Saturday and I will have as much pizza and french fries as I want on Sunday.

I found I have no cravings when eating strict carnivore and I sometimes have mild cravings when eating up to 30 grams carbs on a cheat day.

My key is to stay in ketosis I have not been out of ketosis since I started the diet 30 days ago and I've lost 16 lb.

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Use your scale daily.

When I reach a plateau it's usually because I ate too little if I only eat 600 or 800 calories in a day then I feel listless and tired and I believe my metabolism is reacting by slowing down.

On those days I will not look at the scale nor will I count calories I will exceed my BMR calorie need.

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My once daily meal is usually timed between 20 and 26 hours apart from my previous meal depending on my schedule etc but nevertheless than 18 hours apart.

I already eat just one single meal per day although if I get hypoglycemic and feel shaky from having low blood sugar I do add a whey protein shake with some heavy cream added in it for a total of about 350 calories half of those coming from protein half coming from fat and that gets me over any hypoglycemic feelings I have before my normal meal.