I’ve been through the struggles of dieting, and made it through alive. I’ve been living the maintenance life for a little bit now and let me tell you, it’s worth the long and difficult journey folks. I’m a distance runner. Everyday I run for >1 hour and every calculator/watch I’ve come across says I burn roughly 800 calories when I do these runs, so for the day I can eat 2800 (low estimate since my TDEE is actually 2080 at sedentary) calories.
Breakfast is usually kind of big, though sometimes it ends up smaller if I get filled up fast enough. I’d say it’s usually 600-1000 calories.
Lunch is always small though. I don’t know why, I just can’t bring myself to eat more than 300-400 calories at lunch. I’ll leave lunch a little hungry, but for some reason I can’t mentally make myself eat anymore than that. Usually just a sandwich, big old salad, and some tuna.
Then I’ll go on my run. Which is why i like the fact I never eat too much for lunch because it ensures my stomach is never messed up for the run.
After the run I go straight into dinner. And by then I’ve only eaten anywhere from 1,000-1,300 calories out of 2,800 for the day, meaning I usually have about 1,500 calories to eat for dinner every night. Which is beautiful to someone like me. Sadly my cafeteria doesn’t allow you to get seconds, so I can only get ~500 calories of actually decent/nutritious food, then I have to become creative at the salad bar or cereal. I don’t like the fact that I need to rely on cereal for carbs, because it’s got a ton of sugar. But at the same time cereal is amazing, and I have the calories for it. So tonight I ate a great dinner, and had 2 bowls of cereal and a PBJ. I never eat PBJ’s anymore because of how calorie dense PB is.
I just had to share this with everyone in case you were wondering if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Dieting is grueling, and it is definitely a whole lifestyle change. But when you’re done and you can finally go back to eating at a maintenance level, life gets so much better I promise you.
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