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

Being 'skinny' is partly genetic and partly related to age. I didn't eat any better when I was an 8 to 10 than now at around a 12. Skinny also doesn't mean healthy.

It sounds to me like it's just the lack of exercise! I broke my ankle a few years ago, so my usual exercise regime had to change. I didn't really gain any weight and stayed the same dress size, but my body "felt" bigger and less tight. As soon as I started exercising again, it all just went back to normal.

I wouldn't worry about it! Your diet sounds really healthy, so I'd just listen to your physio because birth injuries are definitely nothing to mess around with. Maybe some stretching of the legs and arms whilst sitting, if that's something she might give a green light on. Ask if there's anything that won't pressure your injuries if you feel you want movement. Walking, maybe. Obviously all completely dependent on what's happened.

But I don't think you need to worry at all, from the sounds of it!

I'm a size 10 now (was a few kilos lighter before LC stopped me going for longish walks). I have plain yoghurt with maple syrup for breakfast with milled flaxseed). No mid morning snack - just coffee. Lunch is 2 rice crackers, olives, tomatoes and a little ham or cheese plus 2 easy peelers and some cashew nuts. Cashew nuts as a snack mid afternoon. Fish, veggies and maybe a few small potatoes for dinner. A glass of wine with it. Mint tea from lunch time onwards. Sometimes I have some chocolate but am trying to cut down on my sweet tooth. Fall off the wagon big time if I see Quality Street on offer in Tesco!

Today:
Breakfast: 2 eggs + one slice of sourdough bread + avocado or tomatoes, black coffee with 1 spoon of sugar
Lunch: tagliatelle with tomato sauce & prawns
Post work out: Grenade Protein bar
Supper: salad with feta cheese, 1 slice of bread

+~2 portions of fruits
I drink wine (usually half a bottle) on weekends and maybe 1-2 bottles of beer.
If I am hungry I just add a slice of bread with ham, cheese & some vegetables.

Breakfast: A spoon of Greek yog with oat bran, ground flax, a few walnut halves and frozen blueberries. Coffee

Lunch: One or two modest slices of wholemeal toast (not massive hunks of loaf...) with some protein (e.g an egg, about 30gof cheese, baked beans, tuna , tinned sardines or mackerel, hummus) or mashed avocado, and some salad or other veg.

Afternoon- some grazing. Might be crisps or cheese and crackers or a couple of biscuits. I often eat a grapefruit in the afternoon, too. I am conscious to keep a handle on this afternoon snack. Snacking is a big trap for me!

Dinner: Normal sort of dinner with some sort of relationship to 'healthy' .At least two veg , protein (pulses or beans / fish/ eggs / occasional red meat) . Carbs: potato , rice or pasta - I keep a handle on portion size and try not to double-carb (e.g I wouldn't have garlic bread with lasagne or naan plus rice). If I have pizza I have half a standard sized pizza with salad.

If I am hungry before bed I have a small bowl of cereal (a basic sort - 1 Weetabix or Quaker OatCrisp )with semi skimmed milk,

4 or 5 nights: 1 can of beer (not the tall ones) or 1 glass of wine or 1 vodka and tonic. If i don't have alcohol I have 1 or2 squares of dark choc.

This is standard maintenance for me. Sometimes I eat a lot more. I am quite active. Do at least 10k steps a day, 3 other exercise sessions a week - (e.g swim, gym, body pump) I do quite a bit of hill walking.

I am post-menopausal. I ate A LOT when I was in my 20s.

Before peri, I was a size 8-10 and could eat anything. Now I’m peri and I… can’t. And I’m not size 10 any more

Breakfast - 40g oats, 150ml milk, some flaxseeds and pumpkin seeds on top. This is the only thing I weigh out as I'm a terrible judge of the milk/oat ratio.

Lunch - cheese sandwich, omelette, soup, something like that. Generally with crisps and some fruit.

Dinner - various, obviously. Carbonara last night, fish cakes with salad the night before, a slow cooker tarragon chicken thing with potatoes and broccoli tonight. Always cooked from scratch due to a few allergies in the house. Sometimes a biscuit or some cake in the evening, maybe popcorn. I realise this isn't much use to you without portion sizes, but I don't know them.

I gave up alcohol and never liked tea or coffee so unless I go out for a meal the only thing I drink is water.

I used to snack between meals but I had Invisalign and you can't eat with the things in your mouth so that broke that habit.
I'm a size 4/6.

Breakfast is either 2 slices of toast (always with real butter) and jam, or a 2 egg omelette. Sometimes a bowl of porridge in the winter time instead if I'm cold. I'm trying to stay away from cereal as I don't think it fills me up enough.

Lunch at the moment is a homemade soup, apple, banana, and a packet of crisps. I might have a baguette from Pret occasionally if I'm very disorganised but I can't usually afford it!

Dinner - I try to keep it to homemade stuff (paneer curry, vegetable pasta) but I am guilty of using super noodles as a base sometimes, just adding vegetables and some chicken or a fried egg on top.

I have a pretty bad sweet tooth and it takes a lot of willpower for me to not snack! My job is more sedentary now than in previous years and I've noticed how much that's affected my body, so I try to walk an hour a day and get some proper exercise once or twice a week.

I only really drink water or tea, nothing fizzy. Alcohol once or twice a month but I can't drink much really, 2-3 drinks at the most.

Breakfast porridge with berries

Lunch. homemade veg and lentil soup with wholemeal toast

Dinner grilled chicken with rice and veg

I usually have a couple of pieces most days and Greek yogurt with nuts and a bit of honey if I’m peckish. Cakes and puddings are for those Sundays when I have the DC and DGC round for lunch.

I don't really get the question, because age plays a part in it. When I was a size 10 I would eat, and drink what ever I wanted. But late 30/40 I started diets etc.

Breakfast is coffee and 2 wheatabix with whole milk and dried fruit every day.

Lunch I eat by 12 latest and is pretty much always a cheese or tuna sandwich, crisps and a piece of fruit.

Dinner is early too...around 5pm. Normal meal would be something like homemade pizza, macaroni cheese, spaghetti bolognese or chilli and rice. Big portion of carbs and small portion of the meat if I have it. Bit of extra veg. Mostly drink water.

I go to bed early and watch TV about 8pm. Sometimes I take up a chocolate bar or pastry with me.

I'm tall and a size 8. It's genetics for me. I don't follow any sort of diet.

As above I would say my portions of carbs are bigger than average but other elements average or smaller. I wouldn't say I don't eat enough but I saw something the other day on fbook from people suggesting 10 fish fingers is a 'normal' portion, so who knows!

It’s meaningless because I’m thin not healthy. I felt much better when I was exercising regularly and was a good stone heavier. Right now the word id use is ‘withered’ (I weigh about 7.5 stone).

today:
black coffee
halloumi and mushrooms on toast.
dinner will be shepherds pie and half a Bakewell tart for dessert.

Size 8/10

breakfast: poached egg on toast and large coffee

lunch: snacking on crisps, biscuits and fruit. Today I had 3 packs of walkers cheese and onion, 2 Kit Kats and 2 pears. Plus cups of tea.

dinner: large portion of whatever we’re feeling the kids. Lasagne would be typical.

glass of wine in the evening

I need to get on top of eating healthily so I’m absolutely not giving this as a good example but there you have it! When younger I was quite fat because I ate takeaways and drank a lot of beer. Lost most of it on a health kick with diet and exercise in my early thirties. Stopped exercising and put on loads of weight in pregnancy (twice) but then lost it all breastfeeding and it’s just stayed off.

5’4 and I’m very active

I'm a size 8-10 and I eat overnight oats in the morning (filled with various seeds, nuts and either blueberries or other fruit such as peaches).

Lunch is usually a leftover dinner.

Dinner is either salad, soup, chilli, pasta sometimes, wraps

Snack in the morning is usually a banana

You must be really tall because how can you consume 2500 calories and be size 6

I'm not skinny, just slim, size 10, and do some form of exercise every day.
I tend to eat
Fruit & greek yogurt for breakfast
Sometimes piece of toast & butter or cereal bar
Sandwich with something like ham, cheese, salad, mayo etc for lunch
Piece of fruit
Piece of cake or chocolate bar for a snack
Dinner is steak, homemade chips, salad & mayo or pizza, garlic bread & salad etc
More fruit after if I'm hungry
I also have 4 cups of tea & usually a latte & 1 glass of wine
I always have something sweet in the afternoons but also eat lots of fruit & veg

are you one of the ones that specify wether you’ve had lurpak and not just ordinary spread

Different every day but i ONLY eat whole foods. Well, on 13 days of every 14.

That means nothing processed, not even pasta or bread really.

Just pure ingredients.

I’m a 10. Breakfast is 2 slices of toast and marmalade followed by homemade granola and kefir. Lunch is a subway wrap or leftovers or salad with can of tuna. Followed by banana, orange and berries with Greek yoghurt. Packet of mints. When I get home, I have a piece of bread with peanut butter. Dinner is fish, chips, salad or chicken with squash and other vegetables, veg chili, cottage pie etc. Then a chocolate eclair for pudding, crumble, or chocolate. I like sweet things but generally have them at mealtimes. I don’t really snack between meals, maybe the odd biscuit or hot cross bun if I feel like it. I’d rather have decent meals-and also at home, we cook the vast majority of our food.

Yes, and also age.

Was I talking to you? And the question was about food, not your exercise routine.

Whatever I want. Also cycle 100-150 miles per week and lift weights 3 times a week.

It's not really that simple, people have different metabolisms, different exercise levels, different health issues etc.
I lived on chocolate bars when I was at my skinniest (6/8), but I was very stressed with work, didn't have time for proper food/lunches and spent a lot of the day on my feet. So skinny but absolutely not healthy at all anyway.
I also look at one of my friends who eats in a similar way to me now, but is far more active yet is 2 sizes larger - its just really not simple to compare yourself to what others eat and assume you will have exactly the same weight journey.
I'm a 10/12 now, with a toddler, no where near as active as I'd like to be. I started eating big portions when hungry while breast feeding and am struggling to bring my appetite back down, I eat relatively healthily but no longer breast feeding means the calories are sticking in a way they didn't before (size 10 before pregnancy and until my daughter was about 18 months old).
I think I am lucky genetically/health wise, rather than having a really healthy diet & active lifestyle.
For completeness:

• 1 cup of coffee with oat milk
• Green/herbal tea x 2
• Coconut water
• sourdough sandwich with figs and cream cheese
• a bell pepper
• handful of brazil nuts
• satsuma
• a biscuit
• dinner will be lamb with vegetables (think there's broccoli in the fridge)
• Only drink wine/alcohol on the weekend if with friends/family so maybe 2-3 times a month

Though thinking about it, I have almost naturally done 16/8 fasting for years because I don't tend to feel hungry in the morning; so I tend to eat lunch around midday and dinner around 6pm. I did eat earlier in the day when first breast feeding but have since gone back to lunch/dinner only. I suppose since having a baby and introducing coffee into my life, I've probably broken my fast with coffee most days though, so perhaps that's irrelevant now.