1600 for maintainance, meeting all nutrition requirements?

miraille_wagner
miraille_wagner Posts: 6
in Goal: Maintaining Weight
Hi all :) I just wanted to ask you...theoretically ( I am not in maintainance yet),.. would it be bad if someone eats extremely good, meeting all micro and most of the macro requirements, but eating just a little bit under maintainance, lets say 100-150 calories less.
This is what I aim to do, because I enjoy having a calorie limit for life (1700), on my goal weight I should maintain on 1800. I eat paleo and my eating plan is very nutritious : I have all omega 3s, I take cod liver oil, my lunch salad has 10-12 vegetables, I eat at least 2 fruits a day, walnuts, flaxseed, organic lean meat, eggs, some bacon, fish. I drink concentrated cranberry juice, green tea and espresso.

A typical day is:

1) banana and 2 other fruits on my choice, 2 tbsp. flaxseed

2) big salad: tomatoes (500 g), cucumber, cabbage, ruccola, red pepper, green pepper, 2 carrots, stick celery, 1/2 avocado, 150 g chicken breast, 1 handful of walnuts, 2 brazil nuts (for the selenium)

3) green tea

4) 500 g cooked spinach, 1 kg cooked broccoli, 150 g salmon or eggs with bacon or some other fatty meat

this is all 1600-1700 calories

I have all the calcium I need through the greens at dinner, really all. Just a few calories are mising. But I read that such a restriction may be positive in anti aging and actually healthy.

what do you think?
please if you want to attack me, JUST DONT. Be nice!!!!!!!!!! So mean people on this site....

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  • miraille_wagner
    miraille_wagner Posts: 6
    P.S> I meant 1700 for maintainance in the first sentence.
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    if you're eating under maintenance by 100-150 per day... every day, then you're not really eating at maintenance... unless I'm missing something?
  • elliej
    elliej Posts: 466 Member
    No meanness from here just a couple of things to consider

    a) it's unlikely unless you do a lot of sitting down and no working out that that's your maintenance, maintenance is different for everyone, trial and error is the best way to get there.

    b) is this sustainable for life for you, to continue losing weight? Because that's what a deficit does, even a little one
  • indianarunner76
    indianarunner76 Posts: 108 Member
    Everyone is different. If you find that once you hit maintenance and that works for you by all means stick with it. I love pasta, reese puffs cereal and banana splits. I hit my goal quite a while ago and I enjoy these things and maintaining great.
  • nxd10
    nxd10 Posts: 4,570 Member
    I have been under my goals every week except two for the last two years.

    Logging isn't perfect. I probably underestimate more than I overestimate. Being a little under allows me to not log the ketchup on my burger and be sloppy about my lettuce, tea, and coffee. I log everything, but I don't log everything perfectly. Since my weight is maintaining and I'm not hungry, I assume that's good enough.

    See how it goes. If you keep losing weight, you'll need to eat more.

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