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1700 Calorie Diet

1700 Calorie Diet

Last Updated: May 02, 2015 | By Erica Roberg Williams

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Balanced Weekly Meal Plan

Three small cups of yogurt topped with blueberries. Photo Credit A_Lein/iStock/Getty Images

A balanced diet full of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats and low-fat dairy foods are
important to make sure the body gets the proper amount of vitamins and minerals,
carbohydrates, proteins and fats to be healthy and fit. Combining a daily exercise program
with a 1700-calorie diet one could expect lose about 1 lb. per week.

Healthy Meats to Eat for Breakfast

Breakfast
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and should not be skipped. All night long your
body has gone with out food and needs the nutrients to get you through the morning.
Breakfast should be 300 to 500 calories. A great balance easy breakfast is 1 cup of plain nonfat yogurt, 137 calories, with 1 cup of blueberries, 81 calories, and 2 tbsp. of wheatgerm
sprinkled over the top, 50 calories. Your total calories for the breakfast would be 268 calories,
45 g of carbohydrates,19 g of protein and 2.1 g of fat.

Mid-Morning Snack
When you eat a low calories breakfast it is very important to eat a mid morning snack. Snack
should be between 100 to 300 calories. A good snack would be 1 slice of 100 percent whole
wheat bread (69 calories) with 1 tbsp. peanut butter (95 calories), three medium strawberries,
11 calories and 1 cup of skim milk (86 calories). Total nutrition would be 261 calories with 30 g
carbohydrates, 25 g protein and 9.9 g fat.

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Many of us are running around all morning and forget to stop to eat a healthy lunch. To make
sure you get all your vegetables in for the day have a salad for lunch. Lunch should be about
500 calories. Make a salad with 2 cups of lettuce (13 calories). Add 1 cup raw broccoli (20
calories) 1 cup raw grated carrots (47 calories), 1/4 cup tomatoes (9 calories), 3 oz. chicken

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breast with the skin removed (128 calories) and one serving of Italian dressing (135 calories). To
fulfill the after lunch sweet tooth, have a banana (109 calories). Total of 462 calories for lunch
with 50 g carbohydrates, 30 g protein and 18 g fat.

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From lunch to dinner everyone needs a little snack to keep your energy up and metabolism
running. Have a snack of 100 to 300 calories. Eat a handful of almonds (78 calories), 1 medium
apple (81 calories) and string cheese (79 calories). The total snack calories would be 239 with
25 g carbohydrates, 11 g protein and 12 g fat.

Dinner and Dessert

If you eat meat at lunch you can have a vegetarian dinner. Sit down with the family and enjoy
the time together with a plate of 1 cup of spaghetti with tomato sauce, 229 calories, with 1
cup of broccoli florets (20 calories) and a 1 slice of whole wheat bread (68 calories). This is a
low-calorie dinner of 318 calories, 58 g carbohydrates, 12 g protein and 5.1 g fat.

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Now you can enjoy a sweet dessert with the few calories you have left for the day. About 4 oz.
of chocolate pudding is 98 calories and two squares of graham crackers is 59 calories. Total
dessert calories are 158 with 34 g carbohydrates, 3 g protein and 1.7 g fat.

Carbohydrates, Protein, Fat

A 1700-calorie diet should have 10 to 30 percent of calories from fat, which is 170 to 459
calories or 18 to 51 g fat; 50 percent of calories from carbohydrates, which is 850 calories or
212 g carbohydrates; and 20 to 30 percent of calories from protein, which is 340 to 459
calories or 85 to 114 g. The National Academy of Sciences "calls for diets with 50 percent or
more of carbohydrate and 30 percent or less of fat; protein intake recommendations are the
same." Fat has 9 calories per gram; carbohydrates and protein each have 4 calories per gram.
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Kathie Kiener Javellana

Can you recommend a diet for my mother who is 100 years old? We have been limited
to a diet with 1,700 calories. We blender he food to make the swallowing easy as she
has an esophageal tumor. We want to be sure she gets all the nutrients that she will
need to stay healthy, not get dehydrated. Right now we are still in the process of the
healing of a PEG which is a tube put into the stomach for feeding. She used this for
feeding ONLY FOR 6 months out of the three years that she had it. We removed it due
to the infections that she would get in addition to the pain. Please help me plan a
healthy diet for her that we can turn into soup form. Thank you!
Like Reply 1 Jul 16, 2012 2:34am

Darlene Valiquette Bellflower, California

Kathy, when you run out of other ideas you can always fall back on ensure and
the other nutritional drinks they make. They have all of ther mutrients she
needs and taste good. You can puree almost anything, some things get a little
stringy but you can strain it. Good luck!
Like Reply Jul 16, 2012 6:34pm

Kathie Kiener Javellana

Hi Darlene.........we have that in our daily diet already and another thing called
Pro-Sure.....Char, thanks for the suggestion....we have consulted already and I
have been trying to research to make a non-boring diet for her......it is so tricky
trying figure out, did we get enough in???? BUT the good news is that she is
able to keep more and more in as the days go by. Thanks for your replies
guys.......
Like Reply Jul 22, 2012 1:23pm
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