That is going to be a brutal 3-5 months. Worth it in the end though.
Also, c'mon, a range of 825-853 calories? Nobody is counting calories that accurately and it would have been better to say "roughly 850 kCal per day".
> ... total diet replacement (825–853 kcal/day formula diet for 3–5 months), stepped food reintroduction (2–8 weeks) ...
That sounds to me like participants were given a professionally prepared formula to consume instead of food, so the calorie counts might be that accurate.
Total Cals - 836
Breakfast: 2 eggs - 156 calories
Lunch:
2 cups of spinach - 14 calories
1 cup of bell peppers - 39 calories
200 grams chicken breast - 226 calories
Snack:
1 banana - 105 calories
Dinner:
200 grams chicken breast - 226 calories
1 cup of broccoli - 31 calories
1 cup of bell peppers - 39 calories
Here's my fasting plan: 1 Meal/day 100 cals - 1 lb of Spinach 60 cals of tuna (1/2 a small can) 1/2 lb of cauliflower
That total comes out to about 200 cals and meets aboout 100% of 1/2 of all the micronutrients and roughly 50 to 100% of all the other micronutrients. The Tuna (Selenium,b3,b12,b6) nicely complements the Spinach (high in A,C,E,K,Iron, Magnesium). And you get a relatively high amount of protein and fiber (normalized for cals)
Also, you can use something like Crono-meter to measure all your nutrients.
And btw, just because someone is eating 2000+ cals doesn't mean they're getting all their nutrients. Most of the foods people eat are so devoid of any nutrition, they minus well not even count.
1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/04/castaway-jose-...
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Too many carbs are too many carbs.
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That range might represent the precision of data they have for the formula mixture (if e.g. macronutrient data is only given to the nearest gram or half-gram and you consider the possible rounding error in both directions).