Multiple shakes per day with single whole food meal?

I find that progress improves fat loss wise when consuming multiple small meals shakes with a single higher calorie whole food “meal” per day. I think this may be primarily due to adherence through simplicity, ease of tracking, flexibility, better focus/energy in the morning etc. etc. I just find it generally easier to hit my calorie+protein targets and keep my average bodyweight moving down for whatever reason.

Usually my days go something like this:
Wake
1- whey in water (sometimes with a banana, oatmeal, carb source but not always. I train with focus on powerlifting and don’t seem to notice a performance or strength difference either way)
TRAIN
2 - whey in water (again, usually a carb source but not always)
3 - calorically larger whole food meal. Usually something like steak/chicken, rice, veggies. etc. I find this larger meal allows room for a little less accuracy if eating out etc. with family etc.

I don’t religiously follower this or think it’s anything magic and will deviate with eggs, tuna, etc. at times but during a busy work week I find I am able to just go through the motions a bit better.

I’m sure you could argue this is not optimal for a variety of reasons but my question is there anything DETRIMENTAL about doing this?

Pretty low in fruit, vegetables, and whole grains in addition to not being sustainable long term. I think shakes are fine for the record, but I’d rather see people find more sustainable ways to deal with their food environment that just turn to shakes ONLY.

Thanks Jordan and Fair enough. As mentioned I find that during a hectic work week it helps to just remove the paralysis by analysis aspect of food planning.

If I were to rephrase and say what are your thoughts on much lower calorie high protein meals throughout the day leaving caloric room for a big dinner is that an issue? Assuming we have some grains multiple servings of fruits veggies in that meal etc

I’m almost doing intermittent fasting but consuming protein throughout the day instead of fasting.

I don’t really have a problem with that provided adherence is high, though I think there may be something to consuming the majority of energy earlier in the day for individuals with excess adiposity or metabolic disease.