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Sounds like about 900kcals less a day than before.
I suppose the question is, does the food that you're eating now put you at a 'maintenance' diet where your weight stays roughly where it is, rather than increasing week by week, or is it definitely a calorie deficit?Simply speaking, if my daily maintenance calories was 2200kcals, and I was gaining 2kg a month, I would have to have been eating 3850kcals surplus a week. (avg of 550kcals surplus a day) for a total of 2750kcals per day
If I was eating 2200kcals for the next month, then I wouldn't expect to lose anything at all.And to lose 2kg a month, I'd need to eat 3850 kcals a week less, and 550kcals less than maintenance. And 1650kcals per day.
Which is a 1100kcal daily intake swing from when I was gaining weight. 1100 kcals is an impressively large amount of food to eat/not eat.
Just making sure that people are aware that cutting 500 kcals a day from their previous diet isn't guaranteed to make them lose weight. If you were eating 1000kcals extra a day, you'll just be gaining weight less quickly.
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4 slices of bread instead of 8 with lunch and 1 pc of fruit on my coffee breaks instead of 2pc+cake. And fewer beers on the weekend.