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Breakfast: porridge with milk and honey (roughly 250 cals)
Lunch: soup with slice of wholemeal bread (roughly 300 cals unless you’re eating lard soup)
Morning and afternoon snack: veg or fruit (100 cals tops)
Leaves about 950 cals for dinner: more than enough to give you plenty of room to have a nice satisfying dinner or to have something light and a beer or pudding.Long run I will probably add a sandwich to lunch when I’m looking to maintain weight rather than lose it. I was having a sarnie for lunch every day but found soup allows for a lot more variety.
Have managed the above for approx 6 months without feeling majorly dissatisfied (with days where I just fuck it off and eat a load of BBQ and drink shit loads of beer, obviously) so feel like it’s probably sustainable.
Eejit-
I would personally up the protein content quite a bit, especially if you’re on 1500/1600 calories and you’re being active.
Looks like only 25g of protein outside of dinner.
It’s a contested view, but I would have much more % of protein in a low calorie diet to reduce the muscle loss that may/will occur as you lose weight.
Referring to bodybuilder weight cuts, which aims to lose excess fat while preserving as much muscle as possible. (Using cyclic ketogenic diets, low carb diets etc).
Acliff
For those of you doing calorie counting (which is oh so very fun...), do you want to share meal plans / recipes? That's the bit that I find most challenging / draining.
Ideally, I would like to keep my diet pretty much the same as I would want long term, to make maintenance easier. Albeit with less of the high calorie density foods that have that magic moreish combo of fats, and sugary carbs (and salt) - see above, vis. brioche.
The 500 calorie meal thing seems like it could work for me (for the time being at least)