Please someone help me with my new diet

[hopefuldave]

Hello All

hope someone can help me.im 50 yrs old,male,95 kilo,height 1,76,and have started a diet.my daily intake of food is mornings,a bowl of fish soup with rice,or chicken with veggie,afternoon,pork or fish,late afternoon 1 large Guava.
I run 7 kilometre 5 days a week in the morning time.
I know nothing about dieting,but from what ive read,i need 3500 calories a day to keep my weight,and 1800 a day to lose weight quickly.
The food i eat a day is about 900 calories,and i burn 700 by running.so mydaily calorie is 200.I know this sounds crazy and most likely incorrect,could someone please tell me how it really works.id very much like to get down to 85 kilos.i was 104 in november,and now 95,since i stopped drinking beer.

 

[Trusylver]

how are you tracking your calories ?

 

[MiddleAgeSHRED]

Yes, how are you tracking how much you're getting? But irrespective, if what you've listed is all you get then that seems to be very little. Are you following a diet plan or is this your own plan and what's the logic of it? Personally, and I may get some disagreement here, I do not think calorie tracking is a good way of losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight. The amount of calories people need (and burn) per day are very rough guides and should be treated as a rough guideline. Your body responds to nutrition not 'x' amount of calories. You can get a good amount of healthy fats, protein and carbs each day and still come in at under 1500 calories and feel energised and great and lose fat. However I don't know the details of your diet and what the rest of your days look like so I don't know whether it looks like you're getting lots of good nutrition or not. One other thing I would say is that people often severely reduce their intake (too far) but you need to be packing lots of good nutrition into your body for it to be working (and burning fat) efficiently. I appreciate there's very little specifics here but perhaps if you give us a bit more info we'll be able to chip in a bit more. Cheers and good luck.

 

[Trusylver]

Personally, and I may get some disagreement here, I do not think calorie tracking is a good way of losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight.

I agree calorie tracking is not always the best option but it is the one most easily understood by many just starting out on learning about their own nutrition.