I (33m) started trying to loose weight about 2 months ago after really keeping myself isolated and depressed for a long time. I joined my local slimming world to get real world support with loosing weight and the group there are wonderful people who have really helped me. Over 2 months I've lost about 14kg in weight going from 122kg to 108kg.
Ive been making small changes week by week to my diet to help me stay motivated and not doing it all at once. I thought my food planning was going very well but I started using a calorie app to help me track and realised that I'm maybe eating between 1200 to 1400 calories a day, which after searching online, says that's very dangerous to my health long term.
To give an example of an average day: My breakfast has changed from a bowl of cereal (probably about 2 portions worth) to a ham omellet. For lunch I used to have something like ham and cheese toasties or other sandwich and have changed to eating fruit throughout the day like apples, bananas and grapes. For snacks instead of chocolates, biscuits and toast ive changed to corncakes and crispbread. For dinner it's stayed similar of one pot meals like bolognese, stroganoff, casserole etc. With pasta, rice or potatoes, and carrot and brocoli sides. But I've made changes like double/sour creams to fat free yogurt for sauces. And desert from ice cream to almond milk and small biscuit.
I thought I had made lots of healthy changes but realised my calorie intake had dropped dramatically from 2500 to just half of that.
As I started loosing weight my motivation to exercise came back, I no longer walk like an elderly man the day after doing weights training, running hurts my knees and back far less than at the start, and I no long need to stop for a breath after each lap in the pool and can swim consistently.
My main worry is that all these positives aspects im seeing in the short term with current food plan may not be best long term. Am I doing this super wrong and basically just loosing weight by starving myself (don't feel hungry throughout the day fyi). Is my current amount of calories okay as a deficit while I'm focusing on weight loss?
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