Just inquiring if my current routine is healthy. Because it's going very well in terms of weight loss but I do want to be sure what I'm doing is healthy.

So without going too into detail, at my highest I was nearing 500 pounds. Very scary. That was multiple years ago now. I had surgery shortly after that. I had the lap band surgery. That helped me to a lose a lot of weight. At my last weigh in, I was about 320. A few months ago I weighed myself and found out I'd gained weight even though one thing I was proud of after my surgery was I'd never gained weight despite my weight loss being slow and not what I wanted.

I was complacent and I never let myself eat better or at the very least, eat LESS and so my weight loss was very slow. Last year I also hurt my back (slipped disk, still is slipped BUT all the pain went away and I talked to my doctor about exercising and was cleared) so I let that cause me to have an excuse to be lazy on top of covid and clearly I gained weight.

This year however something finally clicked for me. I began an exercise routine (I go 6 days a week, usually 4 days of cardio, walking 1.70 miles and then two days of weight lifting). Shortly after that eating also clicked for me. So, I don't eat breakfast. It's been that way for years. However that didn't stop me from still overeating, mostly at night. I finally got a routine down where I eat lunch and dinner and then have reasonable snack amounts later. So, my lunch and dinner tend to be about 7-800 calories each. If it's 700, that's 1200 calories after lunch and dinner. But after exercising and burning off calories that brings me down to about 900 right? I'm not eating anywhere near 1000 calories in snacks, so at the most I end my day maybe at 14-1500 calories.

Is this a healthy amount? I'm 6'0, 28 year old male. Eventually, when I'm at a healthy weight and want to maintain, according to research the average man should take in about 2500 calories a day to maintain weight.

Is this healthy/sustainable for me long term? Should I consider adding extra calories somewhere, possibly in my meals?

It's just I've been very excited as I've seen such a change in myself physically and this feels like the way forward for me as everything I've tried in the past would have already failed at this point for me.

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