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

I only eat between 5/6pm and midnight.

I'll have a dinner like lentil and chickpea stew or eggs,avocado and veggie sausages or a frozen pizza when I'm home from work.

A couple hours later I'll have some beans on toast or a toastie. Then I have some yogurt and fruit/peanut butter.

Then a cup of tea and some biscuits or chocolate before bed.

I'm very short and small. I only need 1400ish calories a day

I think I must just be lucky and maybe my metabolism will catch up with me one day!

Breakfast: fruit and fibre cereal, juice
Mid morning snack: cereal bar or apple
Lunch: cheese on toast or egg on toast or soup on toast with a big tomato or apple yoghurt
Evening snack: crisps or chocolate usually
Dinner: spagbol, or chilli, or fish pie, or chicken casserole etc

Drinks: far too many cups of tea, water, squash. Rarely drink alcohol.

My point is, there will be size 10 people starving themselves and people who eat like crazy. Yes, people can eat like crazy and be slim, I know that by experience (unfortunatly, I have lost that super power). That you eat the same as a size 10 does not mean you will get the same results as we are all different, you need to find yourself

Size 8 and 5’4. Honestly, I think a lot of it for me is genetic.

Breakfast: chai latte and buttery bagel or peanut butter on toast.

Lunch: soup and bread, fried 2 egg sandwich, or mozzarella and tomato panini.

Dinner: whatever the meal prep kit gives us. Often pasta.

Snacks: I’m not the biggest snacker unless pregnant, but I’m a sucker for a bag of crisps!

Totally depends.
Today I’ve had Greek yoghurt with berries, then white bread sandwiches and I’m now eating fish fingers, chips etc. as lots of meetings and just eating what the kids are having for dinner.
But yesterday I had the same breakfast, bean curry, then jacket potato for dinner.
I eat chocolate/ cake everyday.
I also exercise twice a week and have fairly small portions.
I just know how much I can eat and stay the same size. I’ve been a size 8 / 10 my whole life. 45 yrs old now

I’m a size 10, 165cm, 5 months postpartum with my 3rd, breastfeeding and have bad PCOS.
Today is a typical day for me and I’ve had:
7am - 2 coffees with oat milk
12pm - 4 mini sausage rolls
2pm - 1 coffee with oat milk
7.30pm - I will have homemade chili con carne with rice

I find it very hard to lose weight and a few things I think that help:

• I don’t drink alcohol at all and haven’t for the last 4 years
• I exercise 6 times a week (3 strength training at the gym, 3 runs) - I love this and it gives me headspace I really need
• I really try not to snack at all (which is hard when I spend all day making snacks for my kids 😂)
• I only eat chocolate 2 or 3 times a week and manage what i eat. This is really hard for me because I have a huge sweet tooth

I used to be a size 8-10, years ago I used to eat A LOT.
I eat much less these days and I am a size 12, so it is not just what you eat. It is metabolism, hormones...I've never been into exercising, so no changes in that

2 slices of granary toast with butter
Massive ham roll
2 chocolate biscuits
Bag of mini cheddar
Pie and mash for tea

I also went for a 5 mile run and do some kind of exercise every day, not to stay slim but because I enjoy it. I expect that is what keeps the weight off tbh.

I’m a size 8 and 5ft 8 and I usually have 0% Greek yoghurt, berries and a small sprinkling of low sugar muesli (off set by a decent amount of honey though!) for breakfast or protein shake and a choc chip brioche roll if I’m in a rush, lunch usually soup, a 3 egg omelette or a smaller portion of leftovers from the night before. Dinners really vary but usually fish/meat with a carb and loads of veg/salad. I don’t really snack but do love wine/cocktails over the weekend and will eat out at least once a week. My PT basically told me I should eat 1800-2300 cals a day but make sure I get enough protein in (1g for each lb of body weight) but I’m probably not hitting that at the moment.

I suspect a lot of it comes down to how you feel about it - do you feel you eat loads ( perhaps because of how you were brought up , not necessarily genetics )

I've been a size 10 most of my life and eat 3 good size meals plus lots of snacks - mixture of healthy and unhealthy. Some days I have an almost insatiable appetite. I think I must have a naturally high metabolism. I also shit a lot. Now I am a bit older I have become a size 12 as my hormones have changed.

My advice: try to eat a healthy diet because that is good for your body but honestly don't get obsessed by it. Your weight is written in your genes to some extent.

Me too I do 20 hour fast, obviously if am hungry I will eat but am not, have a 4 hour window to eat, drink ' bulletproof coffee, '
Size 8/10 have been for 10 years now, 62 years old, did a 40 hour fast last week, feel great, took me many years to find what worked for me but god the years of diet's, gym memberships, low self-esteem,

Hopefully op will get great advice on here

I also do zero exercise but I have a fast paced job with presentations/stress etc and I actually read that lots of brain activity also burns calories (so maybe that's a thing)

I'm a size 8.

I don't eat breakfast but have a cup of tea with milk.

Eat lunch - anything I fancy. Today was fried chicken and chips. Other times a sandwich or soup. If I have a big meal like today I sometimes don't finish it

Afternoon snack - cake or shortbread or similar, with my cup of tea

Dinner - anything really. Last night was chicken and rice curry

Evening snack - X3 packets of crisps and some popcorn, plus a slice of bread as was hungry

I don't think I eat well. When I tracked my calories though it usually ends up around 1700 cals and I'm not hungry on that

I think honestly a lot of it comes down to metabolism/genetics. I’m size 8 by sheer luck, I just come from a slim family. I don’t eat loads but don’t really watch my diet, and don’t do much exercise, though I have an active job. Today’s food:
2 pains au chocolat and apple juice
half a quiche, banana, 3 plums, packet of crisps
dinner will be pasta with mushrooms, spinach, sundried tomatoes and garlic butter
a few chocolate biscuits later, probably.

I'm a size 10 (5 " 7) and eat loads, probably too much. I am pregnant though.

Today I had...
Breakfast:
Toast (homemade bread) with peanut butter and marmite.
Bowl of full fat Greek yoghurt with berries, muesli and honey.

Snack: Cereal bar

Lunch: Tortellini with leftover ratatoille and cheese
Homemade jam tart

Snack: A mini battenberg slice

Dinner: Not decided yet.

I usually have substantial a snack before bed too!

Comes with being a teeny tiny, its from all that malnourishment

Coffee for breakfast- with overnight oats a couple of times a week. Walk the dog fasted. Lunch- avocado on toast or salad. Dinner is veg and halloumi/salmon - few squares of choc. I don’t drink alcohol and walk everywhere

I am an 8-10 and 5ft 4 inches. Today so far I have had:

A cereal bar and some strawberries.

2 crumpets and a bowl of soup plus a yogurt.

For tea I will likely have veggie fajitas with the cheese and dips.

I drink squash (weak), no tea or coffee really. I have recently lost 2 stone after second pregnancy. I was eating a very low carb diet then but have gone back to normal eating and no real weight gain since April. I walk 3/4 times a week with my neighbour. Around 3/4k and have 2 kids under 5 so constantly busy. Not back in work yet. Will probably be different then as less exercise x

What a depressing thread. But at least it has proved what I always thought....I don't overeat AT ALL but have always been over weight! Make it make sense!

I can’t eat more than 1300 ish calories a day or I gain, as I’m short and weigh 9st ish. It’s pretty miserable

I also intermittent fast, although sometimes I will have half a boiled egg in the morning. I make a few devilled eggs to grab and go throughout the week.
Morning: Coffee with oat milk, no sugar (usually two)
Lunch: usually leftovers from the dinner before, but a half portion.
Dinner: almost always homecooked with lots of veg, a protein source, and low carb when possible. This week's menu has been spinach and kale 'pesto' pasta with chicken, steak and ale pie, red thai curry with king prawns, and peanut butter noodle soup with veg and shredded chicken. I'm fortunate I enjoy cooking and have the time to prep things on Monday to cook quickly after work on office days.
On weekends I'm much more lax with my intake so I'll have a high protein brunch and then skip lunch so I have beer or wine with dinner
I've tried to cut down snacking as I found I could eat 1000 empty calories just with snacks if I let myself. I try to make things like devilled eggs, cake with fruit/veg and greek yogurt, or chocolate peanut butter bites to grab if I want a snack. Also dark chocolate. It helps that I don't have much of a sweet tooth.
I'm a size 8 and 5'4 but carry some stubborn fat around my tummy, I weigh more than I look. Since I've focusing on my protein intake I have been less hungry, more energy, and dropped a half inch from my waist. My TDEE is really low so I usually eat about 1400 calories on a weekday.

It will mainly be how much people eat as much as what they eat. I have always been a small size 10 and never given what I eat much thought. I generally don't have breakfast until I have been up a few hours though. Lunch will not be huge and often salad. Tea at about 9 p.m. and certainly the biggest meal of the day.
Also eat chocolate and crisps though. No idea how much calories.

Vegetarian here but Generally…

breakfast - scrambled egg with rocket or wilted spinach(microwaved to wilt), topped with tomato and a little feta or mozzarella

lunch - either left overs from the night before or home prepped cous cous grains with a bunch of veg (depends on what I have but often roasted squash/beetroot then a load of salad type things such as cucumber, peppers, tomatoes etc) with some cubed cheddar or feta, sometimes a few seeds and salad leaves

winter it is more likely to be home made soup for lunch - veg soup that has been slightly mashed with a potato masher but not pulverised so it’s fully liquid. I find the chunkier the soup the more filling it is

dinner - so many different things but maybe veggie spag Bol, maybe jacket potato, maybe home made curry, stew, etc whatever it is, the majority of the plate is filled with salad/high vitamin veg. So yes, a potato is a vegetable but I would have a smaller amount of that than the higher vitamin veg.

snacks - usually one around 10:00/11:00 as I have breakfast very early and will be one of something like apple, banana, 1X ginger biscuit. Just something small to see me through to lunch.

after dinner I often have 2 squares of dark chocolate.

i think the main theme with what I eat (other than it being vegetarian) is that the majority of what is on my plate is fruit/veg/salad and I make sure I eat big portions at mealtimes so I don’t feel the need to snack on junk food.

Surely it also depends on height?