To ask what you eat in a day if you are a size 10 or less

Size 8 here, mid 60s.

I don’t do breakfast. Ever.

If I’m going to the gym, lunch is muesli, Greek yoghurt and fruit. If not, something with small salad or coleslaw (today it was anchovies and half a tub of coleslaw). Usually around 350 calories either way).

Dinner may be one of the following:
large, leafy-grainy-seedy salad with cheese, eggs, chicken or smoked salmon
large traditional salad ditto
mushroom chilli and flatbread
home-made paneer curry and cauliflower rice
shakshuka
tuna nicoise
spaghetti aglio e olio
sausages and beans
lemon sole and broccoli
mushroom stir-fry
…all with a glass of wine
(but if I’m out in the evening and not eating out, it’s soup, a half-baguette and butter)

Then one from
raspberries
blueberries
strawberries
mini tub of ice-cream
greek yoghurt with granola & tsp jam
Small bought cake (I love Pret lemon and polenta cake)
very occasionally, baklava.

I don’t generally snack at all, but if I’ve had a particularly heavy gym session and I’m going on to something afterwards, I have an oat cookie of some sort.

Is size 10 the magic number for you OP?
What height are you?
What stage of life are you?
Do you exercise?
How is your weight distributed?
Do you have any idea of your body fat %?
Do you have any metabolic or hormonal conditions eg. thyroid problems?
What size are you currently?

10 is a meaningless number on its own.

I also do this.

I don't understand what was strange about my response.

Being the individuals that we all are, we all have individual reasons for making the choices that we do. I was curious about that posters reason for their choice, which they have chosen not to share it, which I respect. And that's fine. 😊

Is respect really so strange?

8-10. Breakfast on days I don't work lidl fake Bran flakes lol. Work days nothing (sometimes yoghurt and fruit or banana on train if can be bothered

lunch is a Chinese take away tub of pasta/chicken/veg or left over stirfry/left over spaghetti bol etc.

Tea lasagna jacket potato stir fry that sorta thing. Snacks 2 satsumas and an apple a day. In summer when my apple tree goes mad maybe 5 apples a day lol sometimes 2x plain rice cakes

A vegan diet and I've lost a lot of weight. It's cheaper as well.

Just track it on MFP.

I have an ham/cheese omelette every day after the gym and it normally keeps me going until 6pm.

Then I usually have meat and veg

I don’t drink alcohol which I think must help

It's hard to answer your question when we don't know what you're eating?

I'm underweight, and have issues with eating regularly. I have anorexia but in recovery. So I guess it's a bit different to a healthy slim person maintaining. But I'm doing really well.

I make sure to try and eat around 2000 cals a day.
But it's a bit hard so some days it's a lot less.

Usually I have two meals. One small, one large.
Things like baked chicken with peppers, new potatoes, broccoli, carrots.

Or pizza, but usually one lasts me a couple of days.

I love fish, so salmon with veg or smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels are a regular.

I also love making bean salad and lentil and beetroot salad, and served those with fish or meat and flatbread.

I love potatoes and try and eat them every day, usually with dinner.

I tend to have salad with every meal, lettuce, cucumber, spring onions. But I hate tomatoes!

I love really nice bread so try and havea bit of that each day. I found when I cut out wheat and gluten my weight got dangerously low.

I do drink a couple of cans of coke a week and have tea with milk and sugar each morning.

I snack on crisps, cashews and sometimes biscuits or chocolate. I've not got a big sweet tooth. But only a small portion.

depends... ?

i know people tend to snigger and make jokes of fat people, but you do know that skinny people also feel bad about their bodies too.

i know one skinny person who eats way more than i do, but they are still skinny yet i am constantly on a diet and over weight!

i do think there is a link to genetics.. they say 'big boned' is not real but i think it is. my grandmother was 'statuesque' my mother was 'statuesque' and i look exactly like they did and i have to work really really hard to keep my weight under control.

I was always a size 8, now more of a 10 after children…definitely not skinny though! I usually have something like peanut butter on toast for breakfast, noodles or ham roll or something for lunch and then I’ll have a large portion of home cooked dinner, usually something like spag bol, chilli or some sort of chicken and potatoes! I’m more savoury so would much prefer a large portion of dinner than having dessert.

I do have sugar in my coffees which I want to cut down on and probably drink too much wine! I do get out at weekends for long walks when I can.

I've been eating 1400 or less calories a day since Jan 2023 (after a surgical menopause), 5 foot 4 and I'm a size 8 on top and a bigger 10 on my bum/hips (I fluctuate between 37-39 inch hips and carry all my weight on my bum and thighs). I walk 35-40 miles a week up hills. Restrict sugar.

Nobody (including myself) would say I'm skinny. I'm pretty sure it's the way weight distributes on your body. If I ate what some eat here I'd be very big but I'm sure they'd look slimmer than me. It definitely makes a difference to what you put in but hormones and genetics is the biggest measure. I have the short, Irish bottom heavy barrel look to me and so does my Mum, brother and sister.

Oh and generally don't drink at home, I always pile on the weight if I'm drinking a glass or two of red at night so try not to.

I’m 5”3 and previously was a size 10 and ate whatever I wanted - but this was as a teen. I consumed about 3000 kcal a day, but I was very active. Small breakfast of a 5 weatabix, then a lunch of sushi, sandwiches, hot cross buns, small chocolate bar or two etc. then, I would eat a large portion of “comfort food” pasta, roast etc for dinner. Would scoff a lucozade and massive chocolate bar mid afternoon too. I was very toned and weighed about 75kg but had a flat stomach

now I’m in my 20s and about 54 kg. I’m a size 6-8 (although I’ve been travelling for three weeks and eating like a pig so no doubt a little heavier as the jeans are TIGHT). I have a couple of pastries for breakfast, some ramen and maybe veggie dippers or another snack for lunch, then a dinner of Italian food, a curry, etc all fresh cooked. Then a good dessert of chocolate or something. Usually eat lots of fruit and veg. I eat about 1800 calories a day usually, although right now I’m eating like I used to. I do about 7k to 20k steps a day and play badminton once or twice a week.

Not skinny but am usually a size 10. I am a very hungry person and do a fair bit of exercise but diet fairly good. Main things in my favour are probably: few incidental calories (the only things I drink are unsweetened black coffee or water- unless I'm having alcohol), am vegan so don't get tempted when biscuits /cakes are offered round as they're normally not suitable for me, eat lots of fibre (vegan). Otherwise I have a big appetite and could eat piles of chips and potatoes and pasta, I do have to watch my weight a bit because I love my food so much, particularly savoury stuff/carbs. Exercise crucial for me, particularly running and strength training.

I'm reading these thinking to myself wow if I was size 8 I wouldn't be bothered fasting or restricting myself. Literally missing the point 😁

This thread is insightful. Some of you are lucky, some truly deserve the slim bodies you have earned. Tall people really are double winners at life, they get to eat more before gaining weight and be tall all day everyday. I genuinely get jealous.

And yes the toast is sourdough 😂

5’2”, pushing 50, size 4-6.
Using yesterday as a typical example:
Breakfast: small bowl of porridge and fresh fruit
Mid morning: satsuma
Lunch: Home made veg risotto (small portion) and a few squares of dark chocolate (3 maybe?)
Mid afternoon: avocado mashed on toast
Dinner: home made veg spag bol (medium portion, but eaten v slowly)
Before bed: banana
Plus lots and lots of unsweetened, black, caffein free tea.

This is hardly any food, and definitely not 1500 cals... Have you missed something out?

There are no vegetables!

size 10 (very rarely an 8) and 5ft 9, I try to intermittent fast so don't always have breakfast. Yesterday I ate
Lunch - Ham and Cheese toastie at a cafe so probably more calories than at home
Dinner - Beef and Veggie stir fry with noodles
I ate a small packet of malteasers and a 250ml can of coke mid afternoon as I needed some sugar.
I did a spin class in the morning and a horse riding lesson in the afternoon, I generally find if I am active and intermittent fast most days I can get away with indulging a bit more

More the 10 than the 8 but been consistently same size most of my life. Would like to shift a couple of pounds but scared too much effort to do so will result in greater weight gain in future.

I've eaten a lot today

Two potato cakes for breakfast (unusual, they were reduced and quite small)
Overnight oats at 11with fruit
Swim in the north sea - makes me hungry
Beef sandwich
Just eaten two more potato cakes as more hungry than usual.

Will have spag bol for tea.

Oh and several cups of tea

Large bowl (raw) porridge oats with milk - only thing that keeps me going till lunch!

Big cheese sandwich. Crisps. 3-5 pieces of fruit

Tea could be any normal tea such as sausages, pan fried chicken, pizza etc. usually plus rice or pasta or potatoes or chips plus salad or decent veg portion. I eat a decent portion at meal times

Will eat odd bit of choc or cake but don't have a sweet tooth so often don't want it. Crisps is a big weakness for me.

Drink tea coffee water plus occasional beer or AFB

Typical days food:

Breakfast - greek yoghurt, berries, low sugar granola, or peanut butter on sourdough

Two or three coffees with oat milk

Lunch - a sandwich, or egg and avocado on toast- sometimes a meal deal. Have a bit of raw veg on the side.

Dinner - usually mostly homemade - veg curry and rice, pasta with lentil Bolognese, tacos with the trimmings, sausages with sweet potato wedges and green veggies

Snacks - something sweet eg couple of biscuits, a cake, flapjack, packet of crisps, slice of toast

Plus 1-2 pieces of fruit.

I don't drink much booze, don't do much exercise, don't have huge portions. I'm average height and a size 8-10.

You can’t judge yourself off others OP.
My 2 dd’s, both size 6-8, 1 tall, 1 short
Tall - poor appetite - L pesto pasta, D chicken in spices & rice, biscuit/chocolate.
Short - huge appetite, eats constant crap - B toast/cereal/sausage sandwich, L burger in bun/chicken nuggets & chips, D lasagne/curry/pie & mash, crisps, chocolate, biscuits, yogurt, cake

A great example of we're all different.

I would consider this a serious binge style day and didn't eat this much crap when I was 22 stone!

I'm a bit jealous. Constantly watching what I eat.

I'm a 12 but today it will be:

Late breakfast - 0% fat Greek yogurt and berries, teaspoon almond butter.

Snack - Apple and spoon peanut butter.

Early Dinner - Boiled eggs X2. Potently a slice of sour dough depending on hunger.

Snack - Home made oat, nut and seed bar.

1x tea, 2x milky coffees with sugar.

Circa 1500 cals.

What a strange response. As she said, intermittent fasting is quite popular and there is tonnes of info written about it if you are interested. She didn’t invent it, so it’s not to do with her reasoning or “being uncomfortable.” It’s just that it would derail the OP’s thread to go on about it and if you’re genuinely interested there are lots of resources out there.