Specialist said I need to eat 2600 calories/day. Can anyone help?

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Wow. Okay. I went to a sports medicine specialist at my gym and he did a body composition analysis. He took my measurements, tested some things and found that I would need to eat 2600 calories per day for my body to be in peak form. 
I'm very active - I run (just ran a marathon), I lift, I practice yoga - basically, I'm in the gym 6 days/ week. 
I know that I don't come close to eating that many calories. Any suggestions? 
Here's what a typical day's worth of meals looks like:
Before the gym: Tall glass of water and 1 banana. 
Breakfast: Medium-sized bowl of (old fashioned) oatmeal with raisins, walnuts, rice milk, and brown sugar. Small glass of orange juice. 
Lunch: Huge tossed salad with romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, mushrooms, broccoli, pine nuts, green or red peppers, marinated artichoke hearts and homemade dressing (of EVOO and vinegar). 
Supper: Veggie stir-fry over brown rice or quinoa. Or a sweet potato with steamed veggies. Or some whole wheat pasta.....
I do have snacks during the day - one around 10:00 a.m. and one around 3:30 p.m. I'll have a piece of fruit, baby carrots and hummus, chips and salsa, or a handful of nuts. Nothing too excessive. 
I'm thinking I top out at 1700 and on any given day, I feel like I'm super stuffed. I could not imagine eating another 900 calories. 
Any suggestions or tips you can give is greatly appreciated. I'm a vegan, so I do not eat meat, seafood, dairy, or honey. Thanks much!

Seagull · Accepted Answer

In my opinion, you should go from vegan to vegetarian if you want to continue your activity levels. You are not going to be able to get adequate nutrition through a vegan diet and not go broke or be miserable having to eat all the time.

You can drink extra hemp protein shakes, but at least where I live they are very expensive. Long term use of soy (very highly processed nasty stuff) can screw up your thyroid in the long run.

scutt · Answer

once you consume healthful, your physique will alter itself. it assist you to appreciate while you're actually not getting sufficient food or food by capacity of making you hungry. The 2600 energy discern is in basic terms a typical fee. Counting energy is a discomfort. I did it two times - 2 days. the two cases i replaced into getting approximately 2500 energy. Now it particularly is prevalent for what the calculator says I would desire to be getting. yet all human beings is distinctive. I consume as healthful as i will and that i don't count quantity energy. what's the element? in case you generally did what human beings assist you to recognize to do, you would be a slave to the government, the advertisers, and every physique else. you recognize what works for you. And once you do not, you analyze it.

andrew · Answer

Uh okay Ricky Hatton? A professional boxer? Who trains like-- 3 hours a day and runs 5 miles, 5 days per week? He eats 2600 calories! If you don't believe me Google it you can find his nutrition and workout regimen online.

I'm pretty sure you don't train 3 hours a day so I would really get a second opinion. I mean 2600 calories!? 

I am a guy who works out regularly and my maintenance calorie level is 2400 so I would really, really think about what this dude is telling you!

Fichn1984 · Answer

Vegetable is not only a medical term, it is a cooking term. So the qualifications as a vegetable are not very coherent, which is why we have cases like the tomato: people argue both ways.

? · Answer

My spouse and i favor vegetables but like fruits that we use in salad such as tomatoes and avocados.

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Specialist said I need to eat 2600 calories/day. Can anyone help?

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