To ask what you eat?

[Sunshinegirls]

For those of you that maintain a healthy weight, what does a typical day/week of eating look like for you?

Also - I never miss meals - cook mostly everything from scratch. I have a desk job but walk a fair bit and do weights at gym 3 times a week and do hot yoga once a week.

7.30am - cup of tea

8.30am - fairly small bowl of cereal with mix of dorset cereals muesli, special K and almonds with some milled linseed/chia (Helen's Kitchen from Waitrose) and maybe fresh coconut if I'm lucky.

10am - black coffee, a few almonds or cashews and some dark chocolate (like 2 or 3 squares). Maybe an apple. Water.

Lunch - salad with some quinoa, maybe tinned tuna if there's any, and hardboiled egg. Glass of water.

Afternoon: rarely hungry after all that! Cup of tea, probably. Water.

8pm - dinner of whatever I like. Always fresh/homemade, meat only once a week, if even, as DH is vegetarian. Generally fairly healthy and low salt. We spend quite a lot on food rather than going out and it always features lots of fresh vegetables etc. Glass (or 2!) of red wine.

Occasionally there is a slice of cake or a cinnamon bun in there somewhere if I've been baking, or our au pair has.

I'm 38, 5'6", 8.5 stone, size 8.

Not as much as I want to.

I eat 2 slice of toast when I want fried bread and a full breakfast.

I can eat what I want or be fat.

Soup serenely lunches and week. Same with sushi. When I want fish and chips and a milkshake.

I used to be very overweight. I lost it with a combination of SW and then a vlcd. I'm maintaining my current weight with the whole30 eating pattern - essentially lean protein, veggies, fruit but no grains, dairy, soy, legumes, sugar, alcohol, artificial sweeteners.

Today was:
Breakfast - black coffee with eggs, bacon, mushrooms.
Lunch - tuna & sweet potato cakes with coleslaw (home made mayo using olive oil not soybean oil) and a green salad
Dinner - spag bol mince with spiralized crispy potato
Two litres of carbonated water during the day and a few cups of peppermint tea.

I'll have the odd 🍷 when my friend comes over at the weekend and if I get hungry (pretty rare) I snack on fruit.

Although I am losing weight I eat at maintenance for my goal weight plus exercise. An average day for me might be :

Breakfast : shredded wheat + Almond milk (181C)
Lunch : Poached egg on rye bread with salad, melon+grape (313C)
Dinner : Ginger, lime + chilli chicken with root mash (331C)
Snacks : coconut+goji seed shot, banana with coconut soya yoghurt, cashew nuts, almonds, rice pudding, banana+date seed shot. (816C)
Drinks : 3 cups tea (63C), pre workout (40C)

Total Calories : 1744

Dinner - avocado and pea smash, grilled halloumi, pitta bread.

I would be chewing my arm off an hour later if I had that for dinner.

I have:

Breakfast: 2 x teas, 2 x toast or weetabix

Snack: chopped carrots, cucumber, strawberries & grapes/blueberries.

Lunch: sandwich, usually egg mayo or ham salad, or a salad with a carb in it so rice, potato or cous cous.

Snack: banana & orange

Snack: chocolate bar

Dinner: very varied but always a decent size and consisting of a carb, veg and either meat/fish/pulse. Typical would be stuffed chicken wrapped in bacon with potatoes & green beans.

Pudding: magnum/ice cream/donut/whatever I can get my hands on.

I drink LOTS of water throughout the day.

I've always maintained a very health weight, never dieted. I do Pilates every other day.

I'm doing (mostly) the Forks Over Knives plant powered approach. It's been brilliant for losing weight without trying and I've ended up 12kg lighter than I started and have levelled out now at 56kg, I'm 5'4 (and I can only do weight in kg and height in feet!) Today I have:

Breakfast: coffee, overnight oats made with Koko milk, pistachios, chia seeds, raisins and a couple of strawberries (DP made this for me - I usually skip breakfast or have a banana)

Lunch: Salad with grains, carrot, avocado, mango and cashews

Mid afternoon: nuts

Dinner: mushroom pearl barley risotto and baked cauliflower with a dollop of tahini / soy yoghurt dressing. Couple of glasses of wine (not on the FoK plan!)

This is how today will probably pan out.

Breakfast - scrambled egg (2 eggs, tomatoes), banana

Snack - banana, grapes

Lunch - tuna salad, cheese crisps

Snack - some sort of fruit

Dinner - Kheema mince with burger wheat

I drink the 1.5 little bottle water. I should drink more but don't. I don't drink through the week (Monday to Friday unless out Friday night)

I train 4 or 5 days a week.

Mainly I limit processed sugar intake.

Bulgar not burger

I swear snacking (of any kind) is the devil's work on my individual weight.
I haven't really changed the way I eat in years (everything in moderation, pudding if I fancy it, huuge greasy takeaway every Friday night) but I've lost almost a stone in the last year, putting me at 8 stone and in a size 6/8.

Never been on a diet. I do exercise but don't find it makes much difference to my weight.

Typical day:

Breakfast - cereal with skimmed milk or fruit and fruit yogurt.
Lunch - sandwich / soup / salad, fruit and some nuts
Evening meal - generally involves meat / fish, some carbs (not many) and salad / veg.
May have a chocolate mousse or ice cream etc for dessert but not always.
5 cups of tea and coffee with skimmed milk and a few glasses of water. Will drink a few glasses of wine at the weekend and will eat the occasional biscuit or small bar of chocolate but it is rare.

I've struggled with my weight in the past but am now a size 8 and genuinely eat whatever I want - the difference is that I really can't actually fit a lot in and don't feel hungry between meals (something I never would have imagined before when I had to force myself to go to the gym and plan out exactly what I'd eat for the whole day every day). I do run now, but because I enjoy it rather than have to force myself to do it. Anyway, since you asked! Here is a typical day's food for me:

Breakfast: thin bagel with peanut butter and a cup of tea
Lunch: sandwich or wrap from the shop plus a bar of chocolate and/or a frappe style coffee
Snacks: Multiple cups of tea, maybe some biscuits
Dinner: baked potato with beans and cheese and salad. Maybe a mini magnum after.
I also have an alcoholic drink or 2 at least once or twice a week (maybe 2 pints after work would be typical) - although have the odd night out where there are too many drinks to count. Also go out for a meal probably once every couple of weeks.

I realise this isnt the healthiest diet - not advertising it but just showing that you don't need to live on kale to keep a healthy weight!

I do exercise but don't find it makes much difference to my weight.

I agree with this. Training firms you up but I really believe most people can't out train a bad diet.

I would imagine that many of us who maintain a healthy weight take action fairly quickly when we find our weight creeping up or our trousers being a bit snug.

At my absolute max weight (still within mid normal range of BMI) I was well within a stone of my ideal. I don't buy bigger clothes, I eat less and fit into my old clothes.

I vary my food a lot so I don't get bored of the same things.

Yesterday:
Breakfast: Apple, Banana
Snack: Yogurt (Osoka?), 1x salted caramel diet biscuit
Drinks: 2 cups of Earl Grey, 1 cup of Sage tea, lots of water throughout
Lunch: Half a pot of Green Veg soup with a white bun. 4 slices of salami.
Snack: Choc ice
Dinner: Cheese and tomato omlette with big salad

Most of my snacks are during the day. I didn't eat anything after dinner. I generally try and avoid sugar but if I feel like it (see yesterday... biscuit and choc ice!) I'll have it. I don't have biscuits every day, nor ice cream. Dinner is often fish. Lunch is some variation on fruit, chopped veg, soup or salads. On the odd occasion leftovers.

Today, so far I've had:
Apple, 1 coconut breakfast slice, half a lemon, Peppermint tea, a few nuts, and falafel for lunch. About to slice up an orange.

So far today coffee with a lot of double cream (had run out of milk). Bread/marg/tapenade sandwich. Snickers bar and jacket potato with chilli con carne.

Am still hungry.

I've never dieted.

I'm just over 9 stone and a size 8.

Breakfast is usually a homemade smoothie made with banana, almond milk, berries, etc (sometimes a few oats as well) or Greek yoghurt with some berries.

Lunch is usually salad, soup, pasta or chilli.

Dinner really varies but I like stuffed chicken served with spiced cauliflower (Body Coach recipe - look it up it's delicious!), chilli (without rice usually), meat with sweet potato mash and greens.

I'll usually eat bigger meals on Friday or Saturday night, and often have a takeaway on a Sunday. And lots of wine and gin at the weekend!

I also run a lot and do circuit classes. And drink A LOT - around 3.5 - 4 litres of water and peppermint tea a day.

I'm half a stone over the weight I feel good at so I've overhauled my diet and exercise to get back to where I feel comfortable. I wanted to do it anyway to give me a bit more energy.

B - low sugar cereal like cornflakes or shreddies. Measured out. Full fat milk
L - salad or a wrap.
D - tonight will be burger (no bun), salad & baby potatoes
S - I don't snack. If I'm going to the gym I'll have an apple or banana on the way.

Alcohol is my downfall - I'll have a glass or two of fizz most nights.
Exercise - I try for 1hr at the gym 3 times a week and work out at home twice a week for 30 mins.

Never eat breakfast never have
Lunch: salads/sandwiches/wraps/Pitta and hummous
Try to snack on fruit but can rarely say no to a few squares of chocolate so eat more of that than would be ideal!
Dinner is usually very veg heavy, most normal meals would be veggie curries/Dahl with spinach/bean burgers and veg etc

I drink litres of diet Coke
I have a remarkably sweet tooth and can eat tonnes of sugary food if I allow myself

This is really interesting. I'm a terrible snacker, but I notice a lot of you don't really snack, or if you do then it's fruit or similar.

Coffee & pastry at the train station
Enormous chicken salad and small bread roll for lunch
Fish/Meat and plenty veg for dinner
Occasionally some dark chocolate

Porridge or fruit and yoghurt for breakfast
Salad soup or jacket potato at lunch
Evening meal meat fish or poultry with veg or salad
Drink alcohol only at weekends
Save chocolates etc also for weekends

I'm no heathy eating saint but I keep sugars and carbs to a minimum . I eat 2 or 3 times a day with protein ,fat and vegetables on every plate .Sometimes my portions look big.
I might have two eggs and an avocado and some bacon in the morning .
Then 2 chicken breast with broccoli for supper .
Or 1egg in the morning , salmon salad lunch and a small steak with vege for supper.

I work with a number of very obese people who snack constantly which totals to huge amounts of crap over the day. One has at least two huge creamy topped flavored buckets of ice coffee a day and drinks full fat coke like my car drinks petrol.

ifyoulikepinacolada can you give method for the yum sounding avocado & pea smash?

Re. snacks - a habit formed from when I was bf-ing was snacks = bowl of cheerios or a plate of buttered toast and marmalade.

When I switched that out for a small handful of almonds (like 15 or so - not as many as I can hold with two cupped hands!!) and a couple of squares of dark chocolate, or an oatcake with almond butter and a touch of blueberry jam, I immediately started losing weight.

I only had about 1 stone or so to lose after I stopped bf-ing, and it was all about snacks, it transpired. And having a lower carb lunch.