Hi everyone! I am new to this site (although I have visited it here and there for information you all are always very helpful and honest). I'll give you a little backstory, I am 23 years old and I work a sit down office job. Back in 2014 I went on a weight loss drug called Qsymia and with the help of that and eating relatively low carb I lost nearly 35 lbs (going from 213 to 180). Well I fell off the wagon when I went back to school and ever since starting this new job and having a relatively sedentary lifestyle I am very sad to say I am back up to 210 lbs. Gaining 30 lbs over the course of a year is devastating to me when I worked so hard to lose it.
My job has a personal trainer who comes by Monday through Thursday to have group fitness classes with us (I have started attending those more regularly lately) and he also does personalized meal plans based on BMR. Based on his recommendations, if I wanted to lose approximately 2 lbs per week I would need to eat about 1200 calories per day.
I am not objective to this, I am just looking to make it as easy as possible. I was thinking about replacing my breakfast and lunch during the week (or possibly the weekend as well) with convenience meals such as Lean Cuisine or Healthy Choice and then having a more "hearty" dinner in the evenings. I was thinking by doing this I could keep my food intake to about 500-600 calories during the day and then eating the remaining calories at dinnertime when I cook a home cooked meal for my husband and I.
I wanted to get your thoughts on this matter, I know it's kind of extreme but to be honest I'm kind of desperate and I really need to learn portion control because obviously I didn't learn anything the first time.
I also know there's a diet out there called The Simple Diet, and I've considered following something close to that plan as well but with having a good dinner to keep myself satisfied and not feel like I'm eating processed food all day every day.
Let me know your thoughts and thank you in advance