Advice for someone obese

OP, as a former Class III obese person myself (I topped out at around 350), I do have a few thoughts.

1. It's great that you feel "satisfied" at your current calorie levels but there's this: it looks like you intend to be in this for the long haul (also great!). So consider how satisfied you will feel 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 2 years from now. The thing is, while part of your head game is going to get easier if you do it right, the physical part of the game only gets harder. Over time, it gradually gets harder to keep seeing results. I'd advise you to set a calorie goal now that gives you plenty of room to cut more later.

• Caveat: you don't mention how you're currently measuring portions. If you're not measuring very consistently, and/or if you are eyeballing portions, just bear in mind that saying you're eating specific number of calories can ultimately be misleading and arbitrary, and so if you think you're eating 1800 calories it could easily be 25%-50% more than that. (Studies have shown this: even nutritionists and dieticians tend to underestimate calories by this much if they don't measure). It was definitely my experience. *kitten*, I've been tracking and logging my food for almost 3 years and when I don't measure my portions (I prefer to weigh), I STILL underestimate. Obviously, you're seeing results and I'm not here to tell you you're doing it wrong at all. Just saying that picking a specific calorie target is ultimately a pretty arbitrary number if you're not measuring portions, so less to worry about "not eating enough."

2. I've definitely been there with the uncertainty of knowing how fast to lose is "right" when you're morbidly obese. You see a lot of stuff bandied about regarding 2 lbs per week being an upper limit with only /sometimes/ experts adding the caveat "unless you're very obese" and even then they don't elaborate. Just based on my own experience, at the over 300 levels I think 3 lbs per week is a very good upper limit, with 1-2 lbs per week being perfectly acceptable. The truth is that it's chemically very difficult for your body to mobilize fat tissue, so when you're losing poundage very fast, there's a strong chance that the surplus tissue you're metabolizing is muscle (and sometimes bone!) instead. Very fast weight loss, even for the very obese, is often a very low % fat loss and a high % of other stuff.

3. Regarding the model menu you posted, what I'm not seeing is much dietary fat: a little with almonds and the chia seeds maybe. Again, personal experience here: even if you're not craving it, make an effort to get more calories from fat. I effed up my gallbladder with very low fat dieting back in the 90s and it was not fun. And the thing is, the symptoms of that only come up over a long period of time. A lot of people here will also tell you that getting sufficient fat in your diet will also help you stave off hunger and food cravings, though you say that's not a problem at present. If you're not allergic, adding some nuts into your diet is a great way to get more fat. Avocado. If you can tolerate dairy, moderate to full-fat dairy is fine in moderation. Fatty fish. Chicken and turkey are fine, but it's not going to kill you to have lean beef and pork once in a while. And of course, you can always pour olive oil all over everything lol. My personal savior when I was losing was a pretty much nightly snack of a piece of whole wheat toast with a thin smear of peanut butter on it. If I had room in my calorie budget, some chocolate. Whatever floats your boat, just understand that your body really does need some dietary fat; cutting it very low can have negative health consequences.