Is this too much to eat in a day?

If her BMI is 18, she is also underweight. She also says her BMI has been as low as 16 in the past which is classed as "seriously underweight" and malnourished.

This is someone with an eating disorder, and to be fair, a lot of other things going on in her life. She needs a lot more than advice to eat greek yoghurt and granola, ffs.

I had to think hard about my diet recently because, for one reason and another I just physically can't eat much. Slightly different problem to you I know. I used AI, told it what I had eaten and what I was capable of eating and asked it where I was lacking, nutritionally. After some to and fro it came up with a really good plan for me.

In case anyone is thinking it, I'm definitely not a competitive undereater, I've just been ill.

I appreciate your being light hearted but please don’t describe yourself as disgusting

im guessing the chocolate is a much needed pick me up from what sounds like a a dam hard day/ night / evening

don’t be so hard on yourself , but do make steps too prioritise your health and wellbeing as you need to be functioning at your optimum

Some suggestions:

Houmous with corn cakes (much tastier than rice cakes!) and sliced carrot/cucumber/pepper.

Avocado and poached/scrambled eggs on toast.

Avocado and cream cheese on toast.

Apple slices spread with peanut butter.

I mean it’s lots of little bits and bobs and not a lot of protein. You’d probably feel better if you ate more and had it as 3 square meals a day with protein in each.

Also I promise a couple of bits of UPF won’t kill you. You’re not disgusting but you do sound a little eating disordered.

Poor you. Sounds like you're stress eating/not eating. When you have more energy in the morning (a new day and all that) could you make something up for dinner to stock in the fridge? Even a soup and pitta or something do you go to bed nourished.

Not really helpful, the op is struggling. It would be more helpful to her to guide her in the right direction instead of calling what she ate "junk".

If you remove the all the garage chocolate and biscuit and cupcake, you have a healthy diet. Is this an everyday pattern or a one off?

Greek yoghurt, add some berries, grate some chocolate over it or crush up a meringue
rice cakes with cottage cheese and honey
piece of toast with cottage cheese, pesto, sun dried tomatoes
piece of cheese and an apple

A cupcake, a chocolate bar, 3/4 of a share size bag of chocolate and a biscuit is a lot of junk in one day.

No much quantity but a lot on the sugary side, that may be why you are felling sick

I`ve been eating all day had a lot more than you op.
Ive had 3 doughnuts already noddle pork pies apple pie pringles and the rest im just a bin today.
My coffee in take is worse about 5 -7 cups a day plus coke 3 -4 cans a day.

It's not a lot, but it's not healthy if that's how you eat regularly. But I think you know that. One off won't hurt. You're not disgusting.

I feed the kids super healthily and then binge sweets In my car.

So you know how when you're on an aeroplane and they're doing the safety demonstration, they say to put on your own oxygen mask before helping others with theirs, since you're no good to them if you're unconscious? This is the equivalent.

Obviously you are an important person in your own right and deserve nutritious food just by virtue of being a human being, but people with your mentality (I don't mean that in a rude way, by the way!) will often only take care of themselves if they see it as a step towards taking care of their children. I find that is especially true of mums with SEN children.

Fairly clear that you have a very disordered relationship with food and eating if you are underweight (if you need to gain a few pounds) and are bingeing on chocolate. You don't need randomers on MN - where a lettuce leaf sustains a family for a fortnight - to comment on your eating patterns to validate your disordered habits, you need to address those issues by yourself and understand what's going on.

This is really disordered thinking and behaviour. Please seek help.

Also oatcakes and cottage cheese are a good high fibre/protein snack. I add an apple on top.

Things like fruit, fresh or dried (though dried is higher in sugar so eat less!), veg sticks with hummus, nuts and seeds, bran flakes, porridge. That sort of thing. And eat them alongside your meals, not instead of! Do you find any particular food makes you feel sick, or is it more likely to be stress or anxiety?

I often snack on Greek yogurt and home made granola and berries. So you get some protein from the yogurt and fibre from the granola.

@SENSummer do you get any support for you with your DS? I mean an outlet, somewhere to vent? We have a thread in SN:Chat - why don't you join us?

Your diet is not sustaining you. Even if you added in some Greek Yoghurt and some fruit, you'd feel better.

Barely any protein there. All surgary carbs so yes it's too much. Start preparing better food and you won't need to eat as often.

Do you work Op? Exercise? Happy generally?

You need more actual nutritious food and protein. A small bowl of porridge might not be filling you up hence the chocolate snacking. Ditto the salmon fishcakes. You should also try and eat an eve meal - so ditch the snacks at 4 and just eat properly at 5/6. You need more protein definitely and that would fill you up.

You are clearly not overweight so it’s not the chocolate and snacks that are the issue is the lack of protein/good carbs/fibre etc. If you have 3 decent meals and are still hungry then by all means snack. Just don’t replace a meal with chocolate.