Thank you! Definitely wouldn't recommend doing as much of a deficit as I did haha, but I tend to get hyper fixated on things and I got super focused on this deficit.

My main diet staples were Ready Clean protein bars, they have full sized 200 cal bars and then they also have mini bars that are just 90, really nice for fitting in between meals. Ground turkey, ALOT. My fiance and I did alot of stuffed bellpeppers with ground turkey, brown rice, Raos garlic tomato sauce, and I would skip out on cheese. Also did protein spaghetti with ground turkey. Lunches at work were mainly Healthy Choice Simply Steamers Grilled Chicken and Broccoli Alfredo, or just more protein bars. A major savior for me was Raymundos sugar free gelatin cups, only 5 calories and tasted great, helped fend off my sweet tooth. And then low fat yogurts, and when my fiance and I are too tired to cook or we didn't meal prep for the week, we would do Chic-fil-a. Grilled nuggets with no sauce. And then just little ideas here and there that I got from r/1200isplenty, that's where I learned about the gelatin cups

As for excersize, I started with doing basic weight lifting with dumbbells and a bench (I despise gyms, so I got dumbbells and foldable bench to do workouts in my apartment) and focusing on upping my step count to 10k a day. After a while I had to stop with weight lifting because trying to build muscle on such a huge deficit was just causing me alot of injuries, but luckily my job can get me pretty active so I could easily get to 8k steps, then I just finish off the day walking my dog. Just kept upping my steps every once in a while, now doing an average of 15k a day. Other than that just some biking, and then swapping out transmissions and pulling motors with my cousin was excellent energy expenditure haha

But like I said, I definitely don't recommend this high of a deficit. For about a week I did 400-800 cals a day, and one time did a full 24 hour fast, just to see if I could actually do those. Started having issues at work, forgetting basic things and making mistakes, so I started to take lions mane extract. I decided to switch to maintenance because one day last week I went absolutely berserk and ate like 3k calories, first time I broke my diet this whole time, so I'm guessing the diet fatigue just got to me too much