Losing weight on too high a caloric deficit is always a BIG mistake. By doing that you have made losing what remains much harder and you potential to gain fat much larger.

Once you've done that long enough your body slows down. The metabolism adjusts to compensate. To put it simply, people call it "famine mode" or like you said "starvation mode". But what you have to realize, again to put it very simply, is that your body doesn't just snap back as soon as you up the calories. And if you up the calories too quickly all you have is extra calorie being introduced at that SAME reduced state of energy expenditure. See, you body still thinks there is a threat so any extra calories, boom, stored as fat. Again, it's all an oversimplistic explanation but I think you get the point.

So if you expected the fat to melt off becasue people told you to up the calories, sorry, it won't work that way.

Hell, I don't know if this is true but I've read it suggested you should actually have a period of time of slight caloric surplus, during which time you may gain a little weight but then you can reduce the colories APPROPRIATELY intstead of how you started your fat loss. I don't know if that's a good idea but until your body's metabolism is "reset" you may stay at a stall in terms of the fat.

This whole thing of "eating clean" has gotten a little bit funky. You body know's energy intake and energy requirements. It's not going to ignore 1000's of years of evolution becasue you "eat clean". Much more to it than that.

I actually do think that you would have been better off to slowly increase your calories, say 10% every few days until you actually reach maintenance, stay on that for at least a week, and then try to approach a deficit again with a more reasonable rate of decrease. And also examing your activity with an eye to more fat burning...

In future I'd advise you to always plan with the long term AND short term in mind. Just because something has a desirable effect in the SHORT term...it may be the WORST thing to do in the LONG term.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.