I think I’ve touched on this in the past. My wife and I eat well but not in enormous quantity. Here’s what we ate for dinner last weekend, for example. The following are per person.
Friday
3 oz. salmon teriyaki
4 oz. string beans gomae
1/2 cup short grain brown rice
Saturday
3 oz. lean filet mignon
1/2 baked potato
1 Tbsp. sour cream
5 oz. frozen Brussels sprouts braised in
1 tsp. butter
Sunday
Chicken soup made with
2 oz. boneless skinless chicken breast
3 cups low sodium chicken stock
1/2 potato
1/2 carrot
1 stalk celery
1/2 plum tomato
1 Tbsp. whole wheat orzo
thyme
black pepper
I make just about everything from scratch.
I eat the same thing for breakfast every morning:
1/2 cup Egg Beaters
1 link chicken breakfast sausage (no sugar)
1/2 cup steelcut oatmeal
6 berries (strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries)
2 Tbsp. unsweetened almond milk
I average 1,500 calories per day. Since I walk more than 10,000 steps a day plus climbing stairs at least a half dozen times a day in theory my calories expended should be substantially greater than my calories consumed but that’s a maintenance diet for me. Go figure.
Sure you’ve heard it before, but,
Do people who adhere to a strict diet actually live longer, or does it just seem like it?😎
Probably both. On the plus side I’m still able to wear the clothes I wore in grad school more than 60 years ago.
The way I look at it is that I’m doing what I can. Everything else is a matter of fate, fortune, or genetics.
Good for you.Keep at it . “doing what I can” is very important and increases your good fortune immensely. The Drs say that given my age and co morbidity, I survived Covid only due to my fitness. This does link to your post about calories from a few weeks ago. I exercise at your level and probably consume twice as many calories a day as you do for an approximate result. Lucky me.
I eat…a lot more than that. Kudos to you for your good habits.
It’s frustrating to me that I can’t eat more than that without gaining weight. It’s very restrictive.