Slightedge, just stick with it and keep observing and measuring everything closely as you can. You may be eating too much or you maybe eating a lot of salty foods which cause water retention or it may be hormonal or you may have done a lot of exercise and muscles retaining water for healing them. If none of the latter, then you most likely are just over eating on non-fast days.
To show you, here’s what i do:
Fast days around eat about 500 calories
My TDEE is currently 1492.
I’ve been eating at 1450 on non-fast days and trying to stick as close as possible to that with a few accidental excursions over.
Anyway I’ve shown much weight reduction after the first few weeks so i’ve reduced my non fasting day calories further to 1400 as of yesterday.
Now according to the theory, you’d think i could lose weight just by eat at 1492 on non-fast days since the 500 fast days give me an overall deficit. But since i’m not, its probably that 1492 is not an accurate reflection of my total energy expenditure. Hence the need to reduce my non fast day calories.
Even though i’m doing the 16:8 fast on non-fast days, i’m still not totally convinced that there isn’t some temporary metabolic slow down after a few hours, despite what people say. So this could be another explanation for losing less than expected but i’ve no idea about that so i’m just leaving that aside. And i like the fasting window because my appetite seems in better control.
So just keep at it, keep a close watch on what you are doing and keep tweaking. Avoid getting disheartened because for good weightloss, you need to maintain an optimistic mindset. A depressed mindset makes you carb hungry. So it pays to take a patient view of things when things are not going so well.
1:53 am
11 Sep 14