Size 8s - what do you eat in a day?

[user7637296]

Lost close to 1.5st and now a size eight. Feeling fantastic! I can wear whatever I want, and quite frankly after birthing 2 children, I feel damn proud of myself and feel sexy again.

Anyway, now for maintenance...

If you're a size 8, what do you eat in a day to maintain your size?

Well yesterday I had:

• fish burger


• 5 1/2 sausages and a packet of veg


• protein shake

2 x coffee with oatmilk (one at 6am, one at 9am), never hungry in mornings and do a very physical job, eating just distracts me so I don’t bother till lunch

lunchtime: granola (homemade) with berries and
yoghurt or eggs with sourdough toast / avocado / kale (or similar: frittata, bruschetta etc).

dinner: anything vegetarian. dal and rice, some kind of pasta, veggie burgers, paneer curries, chickpea tagine, chilli and wedges, toad in the hole, etc

Probably just a lot less than bigger folk. My appetite drops off really quickly when I eat.

Breakfast was muesli and tea

Lunch was toast butter honey and a banana

Teatime snack was a small slice of Victoria sponge cake

Dinner was salmon, rice and broccoli

Hot chocolate before bed

Well done on the weight loss.

I eat anything I want.

Typically toast for breakfast, sandwich or wrap for lunch with a vegetarian filling, a piece of fruit, maybe a biscuits with tea or chocolate with coffee. Dinner can be pasta and sauce, homemade soup with cheese flute, pizza, lasagne, something with potato and two veg, anything that we can conjure up from our veg box.

I do 16/8 most days of the week, I’m quite comfortable doing that as it has become my normal eating pattern now. I don’t eat between 8pm and midday. A normal day looks like;
midday - bowl of muesli/ porridge with added seeds/ berries. 1 banana. Possibly some salad too.

3pm - yogurt and piece of fruit.

6:30pm Dinner - home cooked meal, often veggie or fish. Lots of veg! A big portion of whatever it is. Followed by a fruit based dessert and probably Greek yogurt.

Not a lot!
fruit and yoghurt for breakfast.
prawns or salmon with tom’s/cucumber/salad type lunch.
jacket potato or pasta (small) + protein for dinner

I usually skip breakfast. Then have poached eggs on toast for lunch and anything for tea really- lasagne, bolognaise, roast dinner but not a huge portion because I get full. I eat too much crap along side that like chocolate and really need to eat more veg

Ooh another competitive under-eating/thinness thread, just what Mumsnet needs.

Yesterday I had:
overnight oats type thing with raspberries
noodle peanut salad (River Cottage Veg) with a fried egg
rice bowl for tea (rice, tofu, veg and miso dressing) and a glass of wine
plus a custard cream and a few crisps

today will be:
2x crumpets and jam
fried egg muffin
home made pizza and wine
but I will be going for a run this morning.

@Skinnermarink hardly been a under-eating pile on

Just wait.

Breakfast - Bagel Thin and scrambled egg whites

Snack - fruit

Lunch - homemade soup and crackers with some turkey or chicken salad and fruit

Snack - protein yogurt and Babybel

Dinner - chicken sausages and veg or stirfry

Snack - low fat crisps, small chocolate bar

If I’m to stay that size:
no breakfast (or a protein shake)
no lunch
few grapes/apple
small evening meal/ e.g crudités and dips from the fridge, or an egg, or a pack of noodles
the occasional “full meal” maybe once or twice a week

Just so you know, these kind of questions are quite triggering for people with eating disorders.

For what? No one is starving themselves here as far as I can see.
It's just a list of foods from a normal diet.

Rather than listening to someone else's food intake which may not be right for you due to how many calories THEY burn a day.

1. BASIC METABOLIC RATE - factors like age, height etc can impact this
2. DAILY EXERCISE EXPENDITURE - they can be more or less active then you.

Why not just Google calorie calculator and input your details to get a maintenance calorie goal ? Then track your calories for a month , and after that you probably don't need to strictly calorie count as you'll have an idea of how much food / what food you can eat on a daily basis.

Oh yes. These threads are always totally innocuous.

@xsquared literally

I have porridge for breakfast with frozen fruit and chopped nuts. Then I have a couple of eggs on toast and an apple for lunch, and for dinner meat, carb and two veg ie chicken thigh, wholemeal rice and broccoli and cauliflower. I have a sugar problem though and a taste for Cadburys Layers of joy but I'm trying to replace it with Montezuma all black choc mint/orange/peanut butter. I can't eat enormous portions of anything but am a bit of a grazer so if there's stuff around to much on then i will much on it.

Porridge for breakfast
Mezze platter and baked cheese cake for lunch with a glass of wine- had friends over.
Dinner was left over mezze, plus small portion of cheesecake
Had friends over in the evening too, so had a glass of prosecco, handful of nuts, a couple of biscuits for snacks...
I have done lots of exercise during the week and will also go for a run today.

*munch

But what one person eats isn't relevant.

Just eat healthily & sensibly in line with what suits you.

(And 'birthing babies' 🤮)

Yup.

🙄

My BMR is 1361cal daily

@user7637296 great, now you just need to work out how active you are daily including your general life activities like Job etc and how much intentional exercise you do. Then add these calorie amounts to your BMR & you have your daily maintenance calories.

If you're unsure it's best to under estimate how active you are, and if you are losing weight still then you need to add more calories until you're maintaining