To ask if you are a normal weight...

[Moomoomango]

If you are a normal weight as in roughly within the range of healthy BMi what an average day of eating looks like?

I’ve just never been an average weight and I’ve just lost 7 stone but struggling to loose the last 4. I wonder how people who maintain a healthy bmi do it? Do you never have the odd piece of cake? Or chocolate? Do you generally eat well but indulge sparingly?

Muller not mullet

As others, I eat what I fancy but naturally have a small appetite so I eat less of it! I listen to my body and know when to stop (most of the time!!). Don't feel the need to finish a plate.

When my weight does creep up, I try to snack less and fill up with more fruit/veg than carbs/crap, but it's hard! I also don't really exercise, so I'm sure that would help too. (I'm just under 10st and 5' 3)

I’m a normal weight and I eat whatever I fancy. But - I do a lot of exercise, lots of walking everyday, dance cardio 4 times a week. If I didn’t do that I think I would struggle to keep a normal bmi- especially since I have Addison’s disease which means I need to take daily steroids for the rest of my life which means I can pile on the pounds easily. So for me exercise is key.

Today I’ve had boiled eggs and toast for breakfast. McDonald’s for lunch (milkshake and fillet of fish large meal and an apple pie!), came home and ate half a family pack of milky bar buttons, then a bagel with butter, and for dinner I had a whole Chicago town garden vegetable pizza. I’ll eat the other half the buttons later.

Today has been a very junk foody day as it’s the weekend but during the week I’ll still eat maybe 2 chocolate bars a day and a bit of cake. Dinner and lunch will be generally healthier though!

I know I should eat more fruit etc but I really don’t like it. I’m 5ft 7 and 10 stone.

Should maybe also add I’m 38 and have two children, youngest one is 6.

Typical weekday:

Breakfast: overnight oats with fruit, flaked almonds and a couple of raisins

Snack: banana

Lunch: prawns, veg on toast. A few chocolate biscuits.

Snack: pineapple/an apple/a peach

Dinner: pasta with homemade tomato sauce and cheese, or with chicken and mushroom. Fruit or dark chocolate for dessert.

Drinks: water or black coffee. Often a few glasses of wine or champagne (a weakness)!

I am a normal weight. I don't eat breakfast, I never have. I just can't face food when I wake up.

On weekdays, I drink water when or soon after I wake up (e.g. on the bus to work). When I get to work (at 08:15), where I will have a small black coffee if there's time.

Typically, I eat a Granny Smith apple, or grapes (e.g. 15 grapes), or strawberries (e.g. 6 strawberries), or a small cucumber at any time between 10:45 and 11:30. Occasionally, I forget to bring it with me, or don't have time. If it's a colleague's birthday, I'll eat a piece of cake, a biscuit, or a pastry at that time. I'd say this is about once every 3 to 4 weeks?

Lunch is at 14:00 or just after. I have a small tin of tuna in springwater with salad. I get the salad from the school canteen (lunch is part of the teachers' remuneration) and bring the tuna from home. In summer, I'll have a cup of gazpacho too (when it's on that day's menu - once or twice a week). About once a fortnight, the cooked food takes my fancy and I will have that. The pumpkin soup is one of my favourites!

Sometimes I will have a snack after work (any time from 17:00 to 18:30) which might be fruit, a boiled egg, some seeds, chia seeds soaked in water if I've remembered to make them in advance.

After work, I go for a run and / or to the gym. (Usually run 4 nights a week and gym 2, sometimes 3). Not a long run - 4 or 5 km. in summer and a little longer / faster in winter.

We eat dinner at 20:30 / 20:45. Lunch is everyone in the family's main meal so we don't have big dinners in the week. Often we have omelette or homemade pizza, with salad or a green vegetable. Sometimes salmon. Chicken is also popular in the colder weather.

I don't drink anything except water (the only drinks I like are water, black coffee, some herbal teas, and, erm, booze. Very rarely have a glass of wine or a small lager in the week - only if I went out for someone's birthday or something. I'm not a big or frequent drinker).

On Saturdays, I play sport for 2 to 3 hours in the morning and then often we go out as a family for brunch or lunch. I'd have something like a coffee with poached eggs and avocado on toast, or sometimes a burger with chips or sweet potato fries. Saturday night dinner could be anything from leftovers from the week or something like frozen chicken fingers with veg.

On Sundays, we tend to have fruit for a late breakfast/brunch (something nice like melon or grapefruit) and then eggs. Dinner same as Saturday.

On the whole, I eat whatever I want. This time of year, we will take the kids for an ice-cream on our evening walks most days and at least once a week I'll feel like having one too. That said, when I go to the "British supermarket" (we live abroad), I'll refrain from buying bags of Walkers crips or a bag of Cheese Savouries as I know I'll just scoff them. But that's more for health than weight.

Hope this helps?

Bloody hell 7 stone, congrats OP. That's almost my entire body weight!

I eat cake and ice cream. I love ice cream. I do eat quite healthily the majority of the time.

I am slightly under at this moment in time but I'm generally at a healthy weight and BMI for myself,

I don't eat particularly healthy I still have the diet of a picky 7 year old it's just I assume because I don't eat much of it?

We do have a takeaway every Saturday and I get a burger and chips but split them with DD

On an average day I have either buttered toast for breakfast or cereal(krave)
For lunch it's usually a sandwich (cheese and pickle, egg and cress, chicken Cesar ect)
And for dinner if it's not takeaway night I usually make some more toast, or jacket potatoes beans and cheese, baby potatoes and green pesto or skip(i do sometimes especially tonight as I'm on amoxicillin and feel bleh)

In between I will sback usually wotsits, babybels, or some more toast (I like toast )

if I'm on the weight gain I use a jar of green pesto as a dip and dip my wotsits in it

I generally eat the same things but DH DSS and DD eat a good variety, I cook mine separate to theirs depending on what they're having, I don't quite like pizza or such haha

As for drinks I'm heavily on tea with occasional Pepsi Max or sprite zero
And a lot of chocolate especially since I got on implant I've been snacking more haha

And also well done OP! (without being condescending )

It's important not to give up DSS slowed down in his weight loss at one point it happens no matter on diet especially if you lose loads and are down to a last few

I"m 5 foot 5 and weigh about 9 stone 3, size 8 on average. I work out 6 days a week. I'm quite lean and muscly looking so am often told I look "too thin" but I think I'm pretty normal and fit / healthy looking. I definitely do not look l

I would say that the difference between what I eat and what overweight friends eat is portion size and composition of meals. I eat until I'm comfortable and rarely overeat. I don't snack often but if I do I eat a piece of fruit. I eat early in the evening and tend to eat my biggest meal at lunchtime.

I hate feeling uncomfortably full. Some days breakfast might be a smoothie but it's usually a big bowl of muesli or granola with greek yogurt and berries. Lunch is often a big falafel wrap with hummus and roast veg with fruit or yog to follow.

Evening meal is usually protein plus veg or a bowl of veggie chilli with tofu or lots of lentils and beans - or home made soup in the winter. I don't overeat starchy carbs/grains but I do eat them.

I don't eat a lot of junk or processed foods, or a lot of extra added fat. I might eat a takeaway on occasion but would tend to just eat until full and freeze any leftovers.

I don't really have a very sweet tooth but if I feel like something after my evening meal I'd have a bit of chocolate or some dried fruit. I loved dried apple rings and medjool dates with a few squares of chocolate, or some chocolate covered nuts.

I'm 5ft 7, size 6-8.

A typical day:

Big bowl of granola type cereal with whole milk. 2 slices white toast with butter and jam

White bread sandwich with cheese and Quorn ham, butter and mayo. Packet of crisps, plus toddler's leftovers. Usually something extra like more cheese, rice cakes etc.

Dinner is home cooked. Fish and veg, pasta, chilli or curry etc. Usually with sides like naan bread, dips, garlic bread. Fairly large portions, but if still hungry will have cheese and biscuits for afters (I like cheese!).

I snack between meals as well. I eat more than my husband, and a lot of people I know! But I don't have a sweet tooth. I enjoy puddings, chocolate and sweets, but would rather have crisps or cheese!

Oh, and I do no exercise. I believe that if you want it, eat it, or you'll just crave it even more and more likely to binge on it.

My BMI is 23, and I am fairly healthy, very strong for my size.
Breakfast is coffee and a piece of fruit, lunch usually a plate of pasta, dinner is vaied, but I am a vegetarian. I snack, if I am hungry, on whatever is handy, I adore chocolate, rarely eat cake though oh, have 3 DC and am late 30s. When I was in my 20s I had a BMI of 18 and ate crap.
Hope that helps you.

5’3 54kg breakfast: choc corn cake lunch: salad or baked potato (600 cals or under) supper: as above, no snacks. Allow glass of wine or G&T. No snacks, no juice etc. Try to only have carbs (rice, potato or lentils) with either lunch/supper. Lots of protein. Lots of veg. Try for 1,500 cals a day. Maintain weight, bang on middle of BMI for my age. It’s tough though but being coeliac really helps to control what I eat.

Bear in mind to lose more weight, you have to eat under what is your new daily calorie requirement. Possibly made harder by being overweight in the past, look at the Biggest Loser weightloss studies.

Maintaining a new lower weight "should" be easier, as you wouldn't be eating in a deficit. Your issue now is the amount of food you need to eat to lose more weight is probably significantly less than you're used to eating, even with dieting for so long to lose so much.

As in you are smaller now, so the amount of calories needed just to live is less. Adding a deficit on, particularly if on the shorter side, is hard.

Best thing now would possibly be looking to improving your body composition by adding some resistance training in, if you don't already...so you look leaner and burn more calories, as muscle uses calories.

Bmi of 18, tall size 8.

I eat toast for breakfast if I remember. Plus two coffees.
Lunch is usually a sandwich and often a treat such as a cake or crisps.
Fruit and a lot of nuts for snacks. The odd biscuit or cracker.
Supper will usually be vegetables with a serving of whole grains or potatoes. Sometimes meat too.

I’m not a healthy bmi but I’m almost there.
I wear a fit bit to see how many calories I’m burning in a day and eat less than this.
I aim for 30% protein.
On a good day I’ll eat 1500 cals. On a bad day between 1800-2000 but I’ll make sure I exercise on the bad days so there is still a calorie deficit.
Meals at the mo
Protein shake for breakfast, usually with banana in and some kind of healthy fats so nuts or avocado.
Lunch poached eggs, 1 wholemeal bread and a Skyr yogurt.
Tea anything really, depending how many calories I have left.
I also have 1 protein bar mid morning when I get hungry.

My BMI is 19. The difference between my eating habits and those of the overweight people I know is:

I eat BIGGER portions (yes I know, but it's generally healthyish stuff)
I always have a substantial, carb-heavy snack just before bed.
I don’t eat takeaway
I don't drink alcohol
I don't eat breakfast
I don't eat fried food or food with added sugar

But I often eat processed food and loads of snack bars (eg Nakd) and other crap. Oh and I eat huge amount of fruit (which apparently is a BAD THING) but it doesn't seem to do my weight any harm (my teeth are another matter). And some days I eat loads and loads, and some days not much at all. I eat when I'm hungry and don't worry about it.

well done on losing that much weight! that's a great achievement

healthy bmi.
what I eat: what I want.
but I do 5:2 intermitted fasting for health reasons, so on those days I only eat dinner (with tons of veg to bulk it out)
no snacking
only eating until I don't feel hungry anymore, not full
occassionally, like every few months, I check for portion size/calorie count. with some foods it's astounding how small a portion actually should be.

Oh, and take aways are a rare treat, I am a very confident cook and a fussy eater to boot portion sizes are not huge either.

Well done OP.
I eat what I like but I do love veg and salads. I've never been much for carbs or High GI food/snacks.
I haven't much self control with 'treat' type foods. I can't behave around things like crisps and biscuits so I don't have any unless I know that I can only have one or two.
My mum says don't eat bread or cakes or stuff especially not in the morning or you'll be craving them all day.
I don't eat in the evenings, so hardly ever eat out or have takeways.

I'm a healthy bmi but I do have some unhealthy foods, Monday is curry night and we usually have a veggie balti, Saturday is wine and pizza night. Breakfast is usually porridge or marmite on toast, lunch is usually pasta salad, fruit and some ginger biscuits or veggie humous and falafel wraps, fruit and ginger biscuits. We tend to have a lot of veggie Bolognese, chillies, tofu stir fry. Jacket with beans is a common one as I love potatoes in all its forms, bean burritos are also a staple. We have a massive portion of greens every evening meal, either spinach, kale or spring greens. I think being a mixed vegetarian and vegan household helps keep us slim, you can eat quite big portions of veggie food so long as it's not dairy heavy and it won't be that high in calories.

I weigh 8.5 stone at 5ft6.

Breakfast: toasted muffin with butter or oatibix flakes. Cup of tea.

Mid morning: can of diet coke.

Lunch: Cheese and apple sandwich or roll. Small bag of crisps. Grapes. Coffee with a chocolate biscuit.

Snack: fruit or toast or nuts or all three!

Dinner: veggie and cashew nut stir fry or pasta with garlic bread or veggie chili or pizza or lentil curry with rice. Maybe a chocolate biscuit. Glass of wine.

I used to think I had a big appetite (I eat mostly what I want and don't deny myself anything) but then I posted on a thread saying that a tub of Ben and Jerry's lasted me and my husband a whole week and was told I had a disordered relationship with food

I’m just not interested in breakfast , but have something- as bland as possible ! Maybe a weetabix and oat milk ( dairy intolerance)

Lunch - a quite plain sandwich usually plus maybe soya dessert or piece of fruit

Supper - fish or meat with vegetables and some carbohydrate like rice.

Also several cups of tea with oat or soya milk, pieces of fruit, , small snack at about 4 pm of ryvita /oatcakes with humus and marmite. My DH likes baking so a small slice of whatever he is test driving . Some nuts sometimes.

Haven’t got a very sweet tooth, naturally, but like savoury things especially salty. Could have open boxes of chocolate in the house without bothering to have any. Sometimes some crisps - maybe once a month . Portion sizes have always been relatively small - a big plate of food puts me right off.

Drink wine a couple of times a week but can easily do without. Dairy intolerance means I dont tend to eat desserts and can’t eat ice cream or cheese. Cheese would be a definite temptation if I could. Takeaways - just don’t feature, not something we enjoy. Most meals are from scratch because we both enjoy cooking.

I don’t feel I deprive myself but neither do I tend to go in for a ‘blow out ‘ I think I eat quite normally - but then maybe most people do !