Sorry - this turned out quite long (and probably a bit needy)
I am in my "happy time of year", i.e. salad season.
I love salads, and had one for lunch and one for dinner yesterday. I never eat breakfast, other than occasionally a banana or some porridge, but not before 11am.
I am on a weight loss mission, with a lot to lose, and have set myself a daily calorie limit of 1,500.
In each salad yesterday, I had salad leaves, baby spinach, tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, red onion, celery and some coleslaw. With lunch I had some chicken, and with dinner I had half a can of tuna in spring water. I don't usually have dressings on salads.
I also had a strawberry Solero in the evening, but all in, my calorie intake was 674. I had 9.9 servings of the 5 a day, so eating healthily.
I would happily have the same sort of food intake all the time, but I keep seeing articles (well, headlines, as I don't tend to read them) about the dangers of low calorie eating.
I feel I'm getting plenty of vitamins etc from the salads, and protein from the chicken/eggs/tuna/feta etc that I add to the salad. Is there a reason I should take in more calories?