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

I’m a size small10 @ 5ft 6

128 lbs - 57killos
today I’ve eaten a Greg’s bacon baguette and a packet of crisp

and 2 x bottle of Diet Coke

yesterday I had a subway salad for lunch and a sandwich around 8pm and some nuts

usual amount of Diet Coke

I have big portions and eat seconds and thirds of meals I love (fish pie/spag bol, etc.), but I (normally) don’t eat or drink any stuff full of refined sugar, so no fizzy drinks or chocolate or cake or croissants, etc.

For something sweet I would have a yoghurt with berries (and a bit of honey, I call honey natural sugar!)

I love to eat and I can’t bear calorie counting, this is the way I’ve been able to stay at a weight which feels comfortable for me (8/10).

I can't lose weight without exercising.
Have you got a fit bit or similar? My calorie burn is pretty low on even 10,000 steps. It's an eye opener to see what sort of activity increases the calorie burn.
To eat with a small calorie deficit would probably mean I'm not eating enough.
A pound in weight is supposed to be around 3600 calories. It's much easier to eat that much more over a month than it is to eat that much less.

I eat about 2100 calories a day on average. 5 foot 7 and size 8-10.
I have to eat this much as I do an extreme sport and run ultra marathons

@FaiIureToLunch your food sounds nice. But ah, you reminded me about alcohol. I do drink a couple glasses of wine a day most days or a couple beers if I'm out. Not majorly healthy! 🙄

Meant to say I also chop a Tupperware tub full of veg (peppers, carrots, celery, radishes, Cucumber) every day and eat it about 5/6pm. Helps me delay dinner a bit till about 8pm and then don’t need a snack before bed (or before dinner)

Yesterday I ate
Pret pain au Raisin
Pret hot chocolate
Pret hummus and falafel salad
2 x small cupcakes from Tesco
Red Thai curry ready meal from Tesco
5ish chucks of dark Bournville chocolate

Most days I don't eat ready meals though.

Today so far I've only had a decaf mocha and an egg/cress sandwich. A handful of starburst and a virgin mojito. Will find out what's for dinner when I get home.

I'm petite size 8.

I’m a size 10 (I was an 8 for years but so much healthier now, both in terms of my relationship with food, increased exercise etc)

The things that help me are:

• An 80/20 attitude. 80% of my food is very healthy and I keep a close eye on portion control for these meals. About 20% of the time I have treats, enjoy a large portion (I am by instinct a big eater). So if I end up eating a cake when I meet a friend for coffee or have a massive pizza and beers on a Friday night then I don’t beat myself up but just readjust my choices elsewhere in the week
• I have a theory that you need to choose where you drink your calories. I enjoy alcohol and drink it regularly (within reason!).As such I am really strict about not drinking calories in any other format - so no lattes, juices, milkshakes, sugary soft drinks. I drink tea and coffee with a dash of skimmed milk, herbal tea, sparkling water and Diet Coke.

My 80%

Breakfast: Three hard boiled eggs OR 0% Greek yogurt with chia seeds and nuts. Fruit.

Lunch: Huel hot and Savoury. 0% Greek yogurt and fruit

Dinner: Balanced meal like Curry and Rice, Fajitas, chicken traybake etc. Try to portion control carbs and avoid too many white processed ones. Will have a sugar free jelly or a mini twister after.

Then 20% of the time -treats (Spag Bol with loads of pasta, crumble and custard, crisps etc)

Exercise three times a week (weights and some cardio) and walk a lot

So far.
Tea. One of those berry shot things.
Coffee.
Mocha thing from a vending machine (care home).
Bag of plain crisps (unusual - bought a multipack from Tesco after failing to find any sort of sandwich I fancied).
More tea and water I suppose.
Yoghurt with granola (one of those Nomad ones).
Ciabatta roll with butter.

I might have a fish finger sandwich after a lake swim later (no tartar sauce as I don't like it).
I WILL have a large orange and 1/3 of a cantaloupe melon around 10.30 - 11pm with a decaf coffee as this is something I do every day.

My eating is a bit chaotic.
I do usually have dinner with DS2, but it's quite a small portion as I've either had some sort of lunch quite late, or I've just done or about to do exercise.

I do one meal a day 5 days a week, but allow myself to cheat at weekends and have brunch. Once I get to my target weight, or back into my size 8 jeans, then I might add in another day, but switch to doing a 24 hour fast every few weeks.

I’m size 8/10. 5’4. Weigh 58kg and aged 40.

I think the age is important as up until only about 5yrs ago I could eat whatever I wanted, whenever!

I deffo can’t do that now! So I intermittently fast.

Typical day:
Salad at 12:30 with eggs and cheese.
Dinner at 17:30ish Prawn salad with Noodles.

I’m trying to drop to 56kg atm.

I eat whatever I want. My figure is in the genes in the family. I take after my mother. I eat a good range of foods that are both good and bad for you. Bad food like donuts crisps cakes, you name it and I eat it.
I'm normally a size 10 but can often fit into size 6-8 clothes as well depending on material and fit.
Never needed to diet or watch what I'm eating in my life, straight after babies were born I was more or less back to my original weight, it just fell off me and I didn't have to try.
I weigh 58kg and 5'6.
Some say I'm lucky, but I wish I was curvier.
So it's not just food intake, genes and metabolism play a part as well. I must have a fast metabolism.

Nobody is asking you to eat like that. If you are happy with yourself, why would you care, or need to pass comment on their food choices.

I should add I almost always have some form of UPF treat every day. Usually a chocolate bar!

Today I've eaten loads- unwell with two under two and starving

Coffee
Porridge
Two slices of bread
Cream of tomato soup
Quiche Lorraine
2 slices toast
Spag bol for dinner
Probably a large glass of wine this evening

On a usual day
No breakfast just coffee
Sandwich and crisps for lunch
Anything for dinner, 90% made from scratch

I've always been a size 10 since a teenager but I can tell you my body is absolutely not the same even if I weight more or less the same!

I'm a generous size 8 or small size 10 but I'm 5'7 and I think if you're tall you can get away with eating a bit more. Anyway today I had two slices of peanut butter and banana on toast for breakfast, generous on the peanut butter, snack of dark chocolate and raisins, anchovies and tomatoes on toast for lunch (yes I eat too much toast), a few sweets (just as we have a box right now), two cappuccinos, steak and sweet potato oven chips and veg for dinner, a few raspberries. I would guess I probably eat 2000 calories a day or a little over.

Porridge made with soya milk ( 4 tablespoons of oats to make it) with some fruit ( banana or apple and/ raisins or prunes) and pumpkin seeds or Brazil nuts.

Might have a mid morn snack, such as a biscuit or oatcake or two with tahini and a bit of chic.

lunch is my main meal, rice or pasta with a veg and bean dish.

Evening meal is cereal with fruit and seeds or scrambled eggs and toast with grapes or something. Maybe a pud such as some ice cream or eclairs

I eat three big meals, recipes off line, nothing expertly healthy like some comments you get. Just ones with good mix of protein veg and carb.

I do have magnums and crisps etc too.

Examples of meals - daal with chappatis, roast dinners, thai curry, italian dishes, curry, quasedillas, goulash, jackets with beans and salads.

I eat all vegan, lots of protein from tofu, lentils and pulses, mushrooms, nuts

Probs not as helpful. Everything is mostly homemade. When we eat frozen food when shattered, I find I am still hungry even though the plate was fuller, as though my body neeeeeeeds more. Don't eat late at night unless its down to no choice (been out or had so many errands), always have breakfast first thing in the morning to get my body going. Drink water. Eat in a routine.

Cooking from recipes gives me trust in the portion sizes. I do however eat the same size portion as my other half who is 6 ft 1.

Everyones bodies are different and metabolism, way of life which contributes to what we eat.

I eat when I'm hungry or soon after and not because it's a set time to eat. The exception being if my workplace dictates a certain time then I'll eat what I feel like from what is available.

Probably 50% healthy/ 50% just for the calories so sometimes what's quick and often involving eggs or cheese or tuna and sometimes involving all 3.

5ft 5 58Kg size 8-10.
Breakfast - fruit ( usually satsuma and banna) black coffee
Lunch- left overs or salad (couscous/ rice or similar) soup in the winter more fruit
Snack- some sort of nut bar/ small amount of chocolate/ small slice of cake
Dinner- nearly always HM, stir fry, chilli, spag bol decent portion but no seconds.
We have soup for dinner once a week in the winter.

I'm 5'9 and a size 8/10. I eat 2-3 meals a day but mostly vegan. I do think that makes it easier not to over indulge. I don't drink alcohol either. Plus I burn roughly 500 calories a day exercising. And being tall means I get a lot more calories to burn than someone who is 5'. I'm never hungry though. And do graze if I'm at home during the day (nuts and rice cakes usually)

There is an element of personal metabolism and also what your body is used to.

I’m a size 6, less than 50kgs (8 st?) for 5’4. In terms of calories I think I must have the same as you or more but my diet is a bit odd. I eat whatever I want, which is:

• No breakfast. I am not hungry in the morning, since childhood, so not a weight loss technique but you say I’m doing intermittent fasting.
• Light lunch: homemade sandwich, ready meal, ready made salad, frozen dim sums, sushi, pastry etc
• Late dinner (8-9pm) but large quantities and lots of calories. 3 large servings of lasagna for ex, or a whole XL pizza. The meal is not always unhealthy but always a very big portion, and always followed by biscuits, candy, crisps etc. I could easily eat a full size bag of crisps + a bar of chocolate or a pack of cookies, after the meal that is.

I rarely drink and never exercise. So either the intermittent fasting is the key or my body is just used to getting the same amount of calories at the same time every day and just lives on that. I eat what I fancy so never obsess about ‘forbidden food’ so as I result I don’t have the cravings I experienced when I tried diets.

When I’m on holiday I will follow a more traditional diet, with large breakfast, and average lunch/dinner + drink wine, but no snacking. I always gain weight on holiday! My point being: your body is maintaining its weight probably because it found a balance. If you don’t need to loose weight for health purposes you can decide if you want to eat less or stay the same weight, but personally I wouldn’t want to eat less than what you listed.

Everyone has different metabolisms so it's a bit pointless people listing what they eat. I eat a lot of ' junk' but I run three times a week. Some people need to be strict with what they eat to stay a size 10. Most people would love to be a size 10 after having kids and not having to exercise you are very lucky. Try not to fixate about it we all have diff body shapes especially after having kids. My child has an ED it gives a totally different perspective on eating and calorie counting (don't do it!) You will be feeling more confident once you can excersize again x

I would say portion sizes for me are a bit above average, I'm just one of those lucky people.

I'm 46, 5foot 4, 54kg, size 8.

Aim to eat healthy 80 percent of the time, have one takeaway a week. But sometimes life gets in the way! Have had a bag of mini cheddars today, on a bad day I could eat 4 bags in a row!

During the week when I'm on it and focussed:-
B- Greek yogurt full fat, nuts and seeds, honey, chopped fruit
Snacks - fruit or nuts
L - salad with cous cous, beans, lots of spinach and kale, and lots of other chopped veg.
T - varied depending on time but this week it's been chicken sausages with roast veg, home made tuna pasta bake and a homemade chicken curry and brown rice so far. Rest of the weeks teas will be eggs and tinned tomatoes on toast and on Friday jacket potato with cheese and beans.

I don't need to exercise to stay my usual weight but I do to be toned. I do 2 hours brisk walking or cycling on a weekend, 4 x 30 min hits and 4 x 50mins yoga most weeks.

I have suffered with mild acne all my adult life, a healthy diet has a hit of an impact on that. I definitely also feel a bit better when eating healthily. More level without peaks and troughs, more focus and drive.

Have 2 daughters and a husband who almost died twice last year. Both these things have made me really think about my health a lot and so I put a lot of effort in.