What do normal sized people eat?

A handful of nuts this morning (Pecans, Almonds, Walnuts & Brazils) then, just realised.. A massive Mumsnet salad for me' Tea 🥗😂
Added king size prawns, eggs & Mozarella.

This evening watching Netflix, a large box of strawberries, 2 clementines and a glass of ice cold filtered milk 🥛😋

I have a bmi of 23, wear a size 10 so pretty average sized I’d say.
weekdays I eat breakfast usually toast with either jam or marmalade or a croissant with jam.
lunches are varied from omelettes, salads sandwiches or jackets
standard family dinners, chicken fish pasta curries stir fries bbq etc
I have a sugar in my coffee and milk.
I drink water, and occasionally a fizzy drink,
I am active but I don’t go to the gym or do any sort of organised exercise.
I would say it has to be genetic as a work colleague eats similar to me and is very overweight

Eggs or high protein homemade soup for brunch around 12-2
At least 4 big mugs of tea before with semi
Dinner usually chicken or fish with green veg or rice
Usually have pre dinner nibbles .... homemade dio or hummus with veg to dip
Red wine
Maybe cheese and port if a weekend

Which is why there is SO much more to our size, weight, and what our bodies need.
You have to look at height, build, exercise and general daily movement, sleep, hormones, weight history, underlying medical conditions.

Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - nothing
Snacks - nothing
Dinner - 100g of sweet potato fries, 4 onion rings, one brioche roll with some M&S spicy pineapple chutney and two mini chicken fillets in it, with about 10 slices of cucumber and a tomato. Then because I’ve been good, I have a M&S chocolate tiffin or a pineapple tart for dessert.

This is like my diet & I'm 3 st overweight.

It's so frustrating.

I have a BMI of 25 so I’m fairly average. I do have a difficult relationship with food and I can binge and overeat easily if I don’t rein myself in.
on a typical day I’d eat

breakfast - overnight oats (made with plain oats, Greek yoghurt, raspberries and a splash of honey

lunch - chicken, ham or tuna salad with some fruit or soup and fruit. Occasionally I have a roll but try to limit how much bread I eat

dinner varied but try and eat fairly healthy

try not to snack on crisps, chocolate and biscuits as this is my downfall

weekends I usually relax my eating

I track my food on MyFitnessPal as it helps me see when I’m not eating enough or too much

You said "Very little of everything they want." so I thought you were talking about how everyone who is a healthy weight eats.

You have now explained you were talking about yourself.

Eh?
This is what I have to do, to remain "normal" size at 45, while managing an underactive thyroid.
Obviously everyone is different.
Oh, and no booze after 40. 😁

I actually enjoy all vegetables so I eat at least 5 a day every day.

I don't eat any fruit or any sweet food really bar the occasional dessert but even then it's rare and minimal. I have been known to split a slice of care with my other half as I won't finish a full one. I don't really like sweet things. I don't put sugar in tea of coffee either or drink any sweet or fruit flavoured drinks. I drink black coffee and herbal tea mostly so I don't tend to drink my calories.

I skip breakfast every day because I'm not hungry when I wake up and if I eat in the morning I feel hungry and kind of rotten all day.

I sometimes just have vegetables in miso broth for dinner, a few nights a week. Maybe with a couple of eggs. I like soups and other light foods.

On other days I'll eat whatever I want eg vegan burger and chips or pizza. I don't have to worry about portion size really as I measure my calories over a week not a day so I've pretty much always got some spare. I find fibre keeps me full for longer than protein so I tend to eat a high fibre diet.

I exercise a lot. Do yoga a lot (advanced yoga). I walk everywhere I don't drive to the shop, I walk because I like it even if the weather is rough. No excuses. I walk my dog. I run sometimes.

YABU

I’m so glad I’m not some of the people on here 😂

I haven’t eaten dinner for the last year. It has been the best I can’t believe the energy I have even with a toddler. I have a good appetite for breakfast and lunch and load up then.

Hasn't this thread shown you that this is far from the truth?

No breakfast ever

salad with chicken falafel or tuna for lunch

proper dinner eg spag bol, chili, risotto

snacks - raw veg or a couple of rich tea fingers / a less than 100 cal snack

crisps on a Friday and Saturday evening

size 10 and age 50

BMI 20-21
No breakfast
Seandwich or soup for lunch
Normal dinner (burger, chicken with salad, pizza, pasta, meat and side etc.)
I drink beer quite a lot tho but no juices etc.
I am tall so always look slimmer than I am.

Very little of everything they want.
Very little.
Physical exercise.

Not very much as far as I can tell. I've lost 70lb in the last year. To keep it off I don't eat an awful lot, and slim friends have since confided in me that to stay slim they have to be obsessed with what they eat.

The small steak plan went out the window and I had:
Soup
Macaroni cheese
Muffin

Because someone offered to make me dinner 😎

I ate it but it was too early so I might have the steak later but probably no sides

Same, it's expensive. We would normally get an Indian takeaway and I would have a madras or similar with half a rice, half a naan, and an onion bhaji.

I think it's how much you eat, not what you eat

How can that possibly be true though? 500g of steamed vegetables has a vastly different calorie content to 500g of chips, but they are both the same amount of food!

50kg 7st12 5’6”
I start the day with a coffee with milk, often with one sugar.

I either then skip breakfast until lunch or have a bowl of cheerios or similar with skimmed milk or a milkshake with a scope of protein again made with skimmed milk.

Lunch will either be the cereal I didn’t eat at breakfast or be snack of fruit with a brioche or something similar. Maybe a bagel with butter or a croissant or two if I’m hungry.

Dinner is whatever I want, ie curry, fajitas, pizza etc Followed by a big dessert!

I take a lot of vitamins to make up for shortcomings in my diet.

Depends how much you exercise.

I walk several times a day, run 3 times a week, lift weights twice a week. I live a vegetarian lifestyle and am a size 10 but I do have large portions. I somehow appear to burn it off I think I will have to cut those portions down as I get older and everything slows down.

Everyone requires a different amount of energy to maintain weight. The bigger you are the more you need.
I'm underweight and to gain weight at a pound or something a week I need to eat about 2000 cals per day. To maintain it's about 1500.

I tend to eat 2 meals a day, usually one big and one medium. With about 500 on snacks.

Today I had 1 piece of brown toast with pb,
2 teas with milk and 2 sugars
2 glasses white wine
1 galaxy ripple bar

Gonna have leftover Thai spicy chicken and spinach curry, and nasi goreng for dinner with lettuce, spring onions and cucumber.

I'd say portion wise I usually would only be able to eat half a restaurant portion for example.

I didn't have one today but often will have a can of full sugar cherry coke. 😄

Breakfast: 2 weetabix with semi skimmed milk
Lunch: ham or cheese on wholemeal roll, packet of crisps, tangerine
Tea: various meals example tonight gammon with pineapple, peas, grilled tomato a fried egg and a small portion of oven chips.
Drink tea during the day and have a diet coke with my tea.
I don't put on weight and my bmi is low twenties.