Can I eat 500g of cottage cheese a day and is it safe?

riadaniel8515
riadaniel8515 Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition
The macros are
330 calories
57g of protein
12g of sugar
10g of fat

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  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,374 Member
    Safe in terms of what?

    Also, I would check your entry for cottage cheese - most of the ones I looked at had closer to 400 calories...
  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 3,609 Member
    I absolutely love Daisy low fat cottage cheese. I'm sure I've eaten that much several days, though not nearly every day. I make pancakes, cloud bread, and other stuff with it. I put it in scrambled eggs, pasta dishes, smoothies, etc. But my favorite is straight out of the carton. I've wondered a time or two if I'm overdoing it, missing vitamins and minerals by not having more variety in my diet, but I've never slowed down. I hope it's okay. I've been eating it for years.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,163 Member
    That's a lot of only one food. It's a fairly high quality food, but diversity in one's eating is a good thing.

    There's probably no significant inherent risk in that food itself (unless you turn out to be sensitive to something in it). It's just a lot of calories to devote to one food, if that's what you're eating on repeat.

    If you need calorie-efficient sources of protein, this thread might help you identify some others:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10247171/carbs-and-fats-are-cheap-heres-a-guide-to-getting-your-proteins-worth-fiber-also

    Could you eat like this, this set of habits . . . forever? If not, it might be good to start sampling other possibilities now. Honestly, maintaining a healthy weight isn't that different from reaching that weight: It takes persistence and attention. That puts a priority on figuring out sustainable eating and activity habits a person can stick with forever. (I'm in year 7+ of maintaining, after a year of loss and around 30 years before that of overweight/obesity . . . that's what's shaping these comments.)

    If lots of cottage cheese sounds good to you long term, there's probably not much risk in it. If you can't visualize eating this way forever, it's fine to do it temporarily IMO, but it would be good to branch out at some point into a more realistic-to-you long-term eating pattern.

    Just my opinion, though.

    Best wishes!
  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,208 Member
    If the calories fit your target then it’s fine.

    Any food you plan to eat frequently and in a generous amount you need to cross reference the calorie amounts as they can vary in the MFP database. Check on some more scientific websites and you also need to weigh it.

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