It may be that your body is adjusting to the 1,200 calories amount. Are you weighing and measuring your food? Are you drinking enough water? Are you also doing the exercises that Dr. Now recommends? And are you getting really good sleep?
I used to think the same things about the clients, that maybe they had an issue where they couldn't burn calories that well. Then Dr. Now would put them in the hospital on a restricted 1,200 calorie diet and they would lose weight.
Keep in mind that at 600+ lbs you need a higher total daily expenditure (TDE) of calories to maintain that level of body weight. So going from a much higher amount of calories to maintain weight to 1,200 calories would result in a significant amount of weight loss very fast.
MY TDE is around 2,000-2,400 calories per different calculators. I am hoping that by dropping down to 1,200 of 1,500 calories I can lose a significant mount of weight each month.
Don't give up. Keep with the 1,200 - 1,500 calories (in case 1,200 is too low and causes your body some stress), drink lots of water, take a good multivitamin. Do some exercises morning and night. Get good sleep to regenerate and recharge.
Losing 9lbs in a month is a healthy weight loss. You should aim for healthy long-term weight loss rather than losing too much at once and then gaining it back. Of course, I know I am being a hypocrite as I want to lose like 20lbs before earl December 2022.
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