At 168 hours per week, at 2000 calorie daily limit, with your eating window all you have to eat is 1 mini snickers per hour and eat enough not to lose weight. More information is needed.
What are you doing for your feeding window?
We need to know your weight to help you out. You mentioned that you are fasting 100ish hours a week and doing OMAD. Those two things don’t line up, unless your meal lasts 9 hours. Also, you still need to be conscious of what you eat. For example, you can’t eat an entire cake and then fast for the rest of the day and expect to lose weight.
If you’re in the normal weight range for your height, it’s entirely possible that a single fast food meal is enough to completely blow your deficit.
As a fellow 5’2 137 lb person, I think you need to start incorporating movement into your day. Fasting makes me so tired that I start to walk and even fidget less. A lot less. According to what I’ve heard this can DRASTICALLY lower the calories we burn daily
You gotta fast longer, or eat less when you are consuming.
There’s a 168 hours in a week. If I were to do OMAD and only eat in a 1 hour window per day. That means I’m fasting for 161 hours then.
But if I’m eating 2.5k calories during my 1 hour window and my TDEE is 2.5k. Then I’m not gonna lose anything. If I eat more than 2.5k calories during my hour window then I’m just gonna gain weight even tho I’m fasting for 161 hours a week.
So just worrying about an overall amount of time fasting in a week, in my opinion, is not the best approach.
I would try to fast for longer periods of times, like 3-5 days. Eat one meal, then fast for 3-5 days then repeat.
Also just read that you eat fast food sometimes on your omad. Yeah that would do it, there could easily be 2k-5k calories in a fast food meal including the drink. T
Trust me. I would know, I tried to do alternate day fasting and only eat one meal on my day of eating. I actually gained weight because of the amount of calories I consumed in that one “meal”
I don’t know, but I’ve been having the same issue. I’ve had fasts as long as 88 hours but can’t seem to lose like I did. I just hit menopause last December (2021), so I’ve started adding cardio and weight lifting (just dumbbells for now) because I figured menopause was destroying my metabolism and muscle mass.
You didnt list your stats or anything so its hard to tell what is going wrong. But if you are not losing weight anymore the year after started, you are eating too much. It is the same story with a lot of people wanting to lose weight, but refuse to count calories properly. By counting calories meaning putting every food on a scale and track it in an app like myfitnesspal
Are you tracking every meal? Weight loss is simple: calories in < calories out. A 500 calorie excess or deficit = approx. 1lb depending on your BMR and TDEE. The hard to pinpoint metric is calories out. If you know your calories in and can track how it impacts your weight, then you can ascertain your TDEE and find the right deficit. Also, going without food can screw up your metabolism so that might skew things.
Fasting 100 hours a week is about 60%. I do 18:6 and it works for me. That’s 75%, so maybe try increasing your fasting hours. Or, as other have said, make some dietary changes like decreasing carbs, weighing your food to eat less. I’d cut out all alcohol and and junk food if I were serious about losing weight, if I can manage that.
you are not telling people what you eat/drink
Yeah OMAD can seem like very few calories, especially to others - but it all depends on what you are eating.
Hell, on average a typical fast food/food out to eat can be 1,000-1500 or more.
As the saying goes, you can’t out run a bad diet. Or in this case, fast haha.