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

Well reading some of these meals I’m glad I’m not a size 10. I’m sorry but 2 boiled eggs for dinner? And a slice of bread if you’re really hungry? And the poster who goes without food some days and only has 800 kcals a day? Crazy.

I'm size 10, 5' 10", athletic build. I drink lots of water, don't really eat lots of junk, but I don't watch what I eat. I'm quite active, I have a small holding maintain, on top of my job, and all that entails... I don't go to the gym or anything, but am fit and strong from all the sheep wrestling and chasing and hay hoiking!

Rude.

I’m about a size 10, sometimes an 8 in tops.
Yesterday I ate:
Breakfast - two weetabix with a banana and almond milk.
Snack - a strawberry jam donut.
Lunch - toast with peanut butter
Tea - (eaten on my break at work, so admittedly not the best!) one of those shelf stable tuna salad tubs and a latte sachet.
Supper - granola bar (stoats raspberry).
I think I grabbed a couple of squares of chocolate at some point as well..

Skinny is not a nice term to use. And size 10 isn’t skinny in anyone’s books.

Isn't it interesting how we're all still different? I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong, looking at your calorie intake?

I'm 8st4(ish), 5ft2 and really need/want to lose 4-7 pounds to get to my happy weight. I seem to gain weight if I eat over 1200 calories and am struggling to lose these few pounds!

I’m a size 10, 5’7

So far I’ve ate:

a slice of toast for breakfast.
three egg omelette with ham, veg and cheese.

I think we’re either going to have fish & chips or bangers and mash for dinner.

I can quite happy skip meals. I have a toddler so kept very busy!

I don't eat breakfast or lunch but my intermittent fasting is dirty because I have tea with full fat milk.

My dinner is probably twice the amount of protein that would be considered normal and fat higher than normal (ie 2 salmon fillets plus sole fillet cooked in butter) but loads of veggies and no carbs. Works for me. Previously PCOS and pre diabetic. I never feel hungry. Expensive though. It's about health rather than weight. And taste. I really enjoy the luxury of the food I eat.

When I was size 8-10 I pretty much cut out cheese and bread & was disciplined.

Now size 12 and consume far too much bread and cheese!

Other than that drinking water and only occasional alcohol and fizzy drinks helps.

Size 10, 5'7" tall, 58kg. Today's menu ...

Overnight oats with blueberries for breakfast
Sandwich with granary bread and either chicken, ham, tuna or similar for lunch
Homemade spag bol for dinner
Fruit for snacks
3-4 cups of tea or coffee, 500ml bottle of water
Weekend evenings, I glass of red or rose wine.

Try to stay under 2,000 cals per day,

Sometimes overnight oats replaced with muesli, occasional yoghurt for snacks etc.

Very active - dogs/horses/garden/house, walk up 5 miles or more daily, don't do the gym!

I used to be a small 10. I used to eat a big lunch box of veg with hot sauce and half a bag of tilda rice for my lunch. Then dinner was a veggie option either home made curry, stir fried noodles, veggie option with loads of veg and salad. Then at the weekend I'd get takeaway and drink loads of wine. Not particularly healthy but it worked 😂

I am another one who fasts between 8pm and 11am/midday. I do it because it works to keep my weight down (5' 4" and 8st 12lb). I think it was a campaign by Kellogs many decades ago that said breakfast was the most important meal of the day, to make people buy their cereal!

All bran, flaxseed, honey and yoghurt
Oat bran pancake with chicken breast and salad
Stir fry pork and vegetables, glass of red wine.
Three cups of tea and three biscuits.
I try to avoid carbs - unless eating out/invited. Can't give up that glass of wine though.

When I was skinnier size 8/10 I didn't really eat takeaways or snack much. I ate normal meals but smaller portions, lots of fruit and veg and not much sweet food. Eggs for breakfast, salds for lunch with tuna/sardines etc.,

I'm a size 10.
5ft 7"
Approx 68-69kg

I eat a lot. Loads more than my DP who works in a physically demanding, manual job 😂

Yesterday was:

1 flat white (on the way to work)
2 pieces of white toast with butter (breakfast) with a cup of tea
3 rice cakes with cottage cheese (mid-morning)
2 hard boiled eggs (late morning)
Jacket potato with tuna mayo and salad (lunch)
Crisps (mid afternoon)

Steak pie, chips and mushy peas (dinner)

I drink about 2-3 litres of water per day.

I've always been pretty active, tend to be on the go a lot, walking the dogs, exercising a couple of times a week (nothing strenuous). Maybe that helps? Or maybe one day the weight will just pile on??? God knows. I do love my food though so would rather exercise than diet!

The one thing I would say is I don't really like / eat sweet stuff. I rarely eat chocolate, never eat sweets, dessert or ice cream....

It's a pain when your favoured exercises are off the cards! Carbs aren't the baddie in moderation (I could live off potatoes), but maybe in this case just do some swaps a few times a week? Carrot mash, cauliflower rice, courgette noodles. You could even do half and half.

Protein definitely helps keep the hunger at bay, too. Maybe an extra egg rather than two slices of toast, etc. (I know you didn't mention toast, just an example). Grill some tomatoes (I know they're not protein, but they can be filling!) to go on the side rather than the full serving of spuds, so on and so forth.

I'm 66 and have always been between a size 8 and 10. I eat anything I fancy but I often get bored with my meal and very rarely finish it completely. It's as though my body just says "enough" and I stop eating. I was discussing this with my sister recently and she is exactly the same.

Eggs for breakfast.
Greek yogurt or quark and fruit as a snack.
Soup for lunch.
Babybel as a snack
Teriyaki tofu and veg for dinner.
Protein pudding and something sweet later on.
Black coffee and water throughout the day.

I aim to get 120g of protein a day.

I’m more or less a 10 - but I’m also on a quite strict eating plan due to having acid reflux. My weight stays stable, whereas before I always struggled even though I thought I ate healthily.
This is an example - today
breskfast: homemade smoothie w banana, spinach, 1/3 of an Asian pear, date, ginger, plant milk. Homemade wholemeal bread slice w almond butter.
snack:pumpkin seeds
linch - 2 eggs scrambled w smoked salmon, cucumber and wholemeal bread slice, watermelon, 2 homemade oat biscuits, chicory ‘coffee’.
snack: pistachios
dinner - will be leftover homemade mushroom & bean burger from last night. Maybe w some potatoes, avocado cheese and salad.
I’m in my 50s for context.

5ft 7 and size 10 (used to be a 6 pre-pregnancy).

Today is pretty normal and I've eaten/will eat-

Three homemade waffles with jam, apple sauce and yoghurt (the waffles are smaller than commercial ones)

Handful of dark chocolate buttons

Five crackers with ham and cheese, carrot, half a banana, handful of grapes and blueberries, homemade flapjack (small piece), clementine

Cup of popcorn with butter

Homemade moussaka, salad, mashed potato

Two jelly sweets

Glass of orange juice. Otherwise only water (I don't like most other drinks).

I try and homemake as much as possible for health and taste reasons.

Before peri it was easy to stay thin for me and I exercised a lot. Harder now. Hence going from a 6 to a 10.

Anything in very small portions.
No alcohol, very few sweets (don't have a sweet tooth).
Anxiety and physical work helps, too.
😐

Why the derogatory term?
Would you post 'what do you eat in a day if you are fat?
We've had a thread on 'skinny-shaming' already

This is based on so many things other than size.

I was clinically anorexic at 97lb with a BMI of 15 when young due to medications I was on that destroyed my appetite but could maybe squeeze into a 10 back then (really a small 12 at a push) because I'm pear shaped have wide hips and broad shoulders (my waist however was a small 6).

I'm now healthy weight at 10st and size 14 in jeans and 10 round waist. I have never been called fat, I used to always get called 'skinny' (all the time) and now if weight comes up people say I'm normal/slim.

My best friend was average weight/BMI but is the opposit apple/lolly shaped with huge boobs and all her body weight in her belly. She is super tall and has long skinny legs, small bum and slim arms. She was bullied for being 'fat' at a size 12-14 (round the waist) because her belly looks big on her slim legs but she easily fit in skinny size 8 jeans that I had no chance of ever getting in.

I eat 1 evening meal per day (like burrito or pizza or pasta etc...) and sometime a lunchtime snack (like a sandwich or pot noodle or bag of crisps etc...), personally never seen the point in breakfast.

food timetables are very unnatural, fasting has benefits and eating for the sake of it when not hungry (outside of medical issues) is never good for you.

Shape or not though (unless very active/athletic or very high metabolism like some teens with growth spurts) I honestly don't know how some people eat 3-4 full meals per day plus snacks (or even afford too eat that much). Many I speak to think thats average/normal and 'healthy' amount (breakfast, dinner, tea, supper etc...) and tell others they are 'starving themselves' or fasting is 'unhealthy' (lots of throwing around of the phrase 'starvation mode' which is just bollocks). However they also tend to be the ones to complain about their weight the most, almost like a correlation exists.

OP you may never be a size 10, not everyone can be but being bigger than a 10 doesn't = fat. You can be 'skinny' but still be over a size 10 and unhealthy, you could also eat loads and big/heavy and be very fit & healthy (look at many pro weight lifters or athletes).

All depends on your height and build, high protein and unprocessed whole foods where possible. Average days are egg on sour dough toast & salmon/0% Greek yoghurt and fruit with oats. Chicken breast sweet potato & veg/tuna jacket potato and salad or soup and sandwich. Meat and veg of some variety. Large portions to fill up and avoid empty calories. Around 1800 cals a day is maintenance at 10 and a half stone (lost 2 St baby weight this year and size 10). Don't starve or you'll end up binging. Still eat the foods you enjoy (healthy fry up and roast/curry on the weekend), buying a pair of digital kitchen scales and using MFP really helps as well as making healthy swaps. As someone else has said work out your maintenance calories online using a calculator then reduce cals by 20% if you want to lose weight xx