Source: freewomensfitness.com

Usually, it is not recommended for men to reduce their caloric intake below 1500 calories per day. Men are typically more muscular and require additional calories to perform day-to-day activities.
A 5 foot 9 inch man who is 35-years-old, moderately active and weighs 200 pounds must eat 2925 calories a day just to maintain his weight. If he weighs 180 pounds that amount drops to 2738. In the same way, if the 200 pound man is two inches taller that affects caloric needs too, and the amount goes up to 2963. With these totals, it is clear that limiting your diet to 1500 calories is a drastic step toward weight loss. In fact, a 2000 calorie diet creates an adequate calorie deficit to see substantial weight loss results.

3 servings fat
1500 Calorie Diet
6 oz. lean meat/protein
6 servings bread/starch
4 servings fruit
5 or more servings vegetables
2 servings dairy (low fat preferred)
3 servings fat
Daily Serving Logs
Print these and mark off servings as you eat throughout each day. A great tool to keep you on course.

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Points
Many diets, such as Weight Watchers and The Flat Belly Diet, advocate using your allotted amount of calories as points. For example, a food that is 200 calories would be 200 points. This would be subtracted from the total 1,500 calories. Each meal should have a portion of the points allotted. For example, you could have breakfast, lunch and dinner have 500 calories allotted to it. Five small meals could be allotted 300 calories apiece.

Timing
NHLBI doctors report that it takes at least 15 minutes for the brain to register that the body has eaten. By slowing down the pace of eating, dieters can more easily maintain a restricted diet that contains 1,500 calories without giving in to false feelings of hunger. Signals that the body is full begin to register in the brain when the pace of eating is slowed.

Many fast-food restaurants offer salads, and because a salad takes some time to eat, you won't feel deprived. The only problem is with the salad dressing, so bring your own. Many salad dressings can contain well over 100 calories per a 2-tbsp. serving. That costs too many calories on a 1,500-calorie diet. Choose a reduced-calorie dressing that contains 30 calories or less per 2-tbsp. size. This brings lunch to 350 calories.