Is there anyone who just eats normally?

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I can't believe the amount of threads where the OP claims to eat only a boiled spinach shake for breakfast, plain cous cous for dinner and a salmon fillet with veg for tea. With of course, only an apple as a snack in between.

Is there anyone like me who just has a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast, a meal deal for lunch and then whatever I can be arsed putting in the oven for tea? I'm beginning to wonder if I'm massively unhealthy in comparison to most or whether people are just making this up.

syrup on toast for me hahaha

IJustLostTheGame you to just have those days don't you.

Today i've eaten fried egg on toast for breakfast, tomato soup for lunch, for dinner i had quiche, couple of potatoes, tomatoes and peas, probably have some chocolate later.
Saturday dinner is alway's a take away, pizza, kebab or chinese, can't stand when l alway's say these certain food's are good for you, l know what's good and bad to eat, my diet is only my concern.

If my dh isn't around to cook, I have an awful diet.

He's away on business.

Today I have had nothing apart from 3 cups of black tea, until just now when I ate one lemon sole goujon nicked off my son's plate

Ah, and my people!

B: fruit salad, cherries, raspberries,strawberries, black grapes.
L: chicken Caesar salad,
Yazoo milkshake, two teas, a couple of gulps of water
D: baked potato with butter and cheese. DD will have beans but I hate em.

BadlyAgedMemes. I think the misery you've been through really does highlight what I see as a problem today. That is the much too exaggerated attention put on what we eat, how we eat, whether we are "good" about what we eat, whether our food is bad for us and will give us "nasty diseases" etc. And, of course, the ever-nagging, what size/weight are we? There are food programmes all the time. All it does is make us feel guilty or maybe a few people feel super proud of their virtuous food regime. There was a time when we just ate! Also we didn't weigh ourselves except at the anti-natal clinic. We tried not to over eat sugary things and we had vegetables and fruit but we didn't go on and on about it! We'd eat cake without it having to be a "treat" and not get overly fat. Now I get bullied about white bread! But all the other bread makes me ill, so do I just give up bread? Inconvenient! I say, just have in your food cupboard a range of decent stuff you all like and eat without any fuss!!

Today I've had
A cheese and tomato toastie
Mediteraneanish fish stew (basically fish and veg)

I try to be healthy but I'm not rabid about it. I dont really like most unhealthy food though. Apart from a cheese toastie obviously. Don't have much of a sweet tooth fortunately.

Today I've had:

Breakfast: at work, at about 10.30 a.m., a Cadbury's raisin brunch bar
Lunch: beef and tomato cup-a-soup
Snack: one white chocolate biscuit left over from Christmas in the office kitchen
Further snack in the car waiting for children to come out of school: 3 Cadbury's raisin brunch bars :)
Supper: A few chips, baked beans and 2 mini breaded chicken breast fillets (not enough for all of us so I give myself small portions).

I top up with tea.

Small bowl of porridge with raspberries for breakfast.
Salad for lunch (Quorn, olives, tomatoes, carrot, cucumber)
Omelette, paprika fries and peas for tea.
Snacks are caramel rice cake and two satsumas.
Drinkwise, lots of tea.

I know! People who eat healthily can't wait to share what they've had with others! A school mum couldn't wait to tell me that she had an egg on avocado for her breakfast. Then after school told me she was surviving on juices!! I enjoy my weetabix, soup and cooked dinners, lifes too short to be miserable!

Today’s meals:

Breakfast was hummus and artichoke hearts on sourdough
Lunch was falafel and salad in a pitta bread
Swedish cinnamon bun and coffee around 3 in a café
Dinner will be black beans, rice, avocado, salsa etc
I’ve accidently had a vegetarian day and also pretty healthy aside from the cinnamon bun!
However, yesterday I had pasta bake for lunch AND supper and several glasses of red wine.....hey ho. Variety and all that...
I try and do several vegetarian / fish or white meat based meals mid week so can be more relaxed at the weekends. Am often thwarted by the husband and kids who moan at me till I admit I’d much rather have a delicious steak too. Oops.

B porridge with skim milk and blueberries
L jacket potato, cheese, tomatoes, salad
S scampi, rice, spinach
Snack some bread and loads of butter
G and T !

'...a lot of us are finding in our forties that we suddenly gain weight despite no increase in food... people are having to drastically cut their intake if they want to be the same weight as before. *

I agree. I wasn't trying to be overly harsh but just saying why so many people have some kind of method to track their eating. Changes like getting older being one.

I think a lot of people could eat way more than their tdee and really struggle just to maintain. I know I do. Our bodies could easily eat hundreds over but a deficit of hundreds under is so difficult. It's like our bodies are against us sometimes especially with hormone changes or illness.

Porridge
Two biscuits
6 egg and cress sandwiches, crisps, banana, bread sticks
Glass of red wine
Slice of cheese
Cheese crispbake and salad

Oh hi, here you all are!

This morning I had a fried egg (I have one every morning, on it's own) and a cup of tea
Break was a powdered Cappucino sachet and an apple
Lunch was a tin of chicken noodle soup, a cheese scone given to me by a coworker and a cup of tea.
Afternoon snack, 2 crackers and a slice of cheddar, cup of tea.
Dinner was leftovers. Some curry, some cauli cheese, bulked out with fish fingers, cup of tea.

God, I eat so much

I don't eat gluten so today I had a late breakfast at Macdonald's Sausage & egg muffins minus the muffins, hash browns and coffee. Lunch was some cheesy oat cakes with soup. I have my periods of eating very healthy and some not so much...

The way I see it is I could drop down dead tomorrow. I’d rather eat what I enjoy and go with a fulfilled smile on my face and a satisfied belly than shuffle off this earth depressed by some lettuce leaf diet.

I just try and eat a balanced diet really. Make sure I’m eating fruit and veg, good mix of red and white meat. Have fibre and vitamins in my food. And just try to cut down on too much fatty/takeaway crap (so it’s not cut out completely, just limited to being weekend treats). I’ve cut out fizzy pop because I have an overactive bladder and it makes me piss all day if I drink pop. So I just live on squash and red wine (somehow red wine is the only alcohol that doesn’t make my bladder go crazy)

Ive been terrible today
Shredded wheat for brekie and coffee
Crisps
Cheese burger and coke from maccy d's (first time ive had onr in over a year)
Whole pack of giant choc buttons ( the big one)
Two boiled eggs
A raw corrot
Banana

I eat pretty much the same diet that I have always eaten from a child, and tbh probably what my own parents were brought up on. I'm a fairly standard size 10 /12, gained a pound or two early in my forties but easily stabilised through smaller portions.

Breakfast: muesli and greek yoghurt, coffee
11 am: biscuit if there are any in the staffroom!
1 pm: standard small roll (the type you get multipacks of from the supermarket bakery) with e.g. cheese or ham, tomatoes, piece of fruit, home-made flapjack. At weekends, homemade soup, roll, fruit.
c. 7 pm. Cooked supper from scratch - curry, risotto, casserole, pasta etc. Through economy and preference, most meals are light on meat and longer on vegetables. Fruit for pudding.

Drink coffee at breaktime, sometimes tea in late afternoon, water with meals and a cup of decaff coffee to go to bed (with one of the endless supply of Christmas chocolates at the moment). Will have a slice of cake at about 4 pm with my tea at weekends.

I enjoy making an effort with food and eating loads of fruit and veg, pulses and beans. It's not just about weight loss, eating junk, too many carbs and sugary food makes me feel shit as well and affects my energy levels, mood and sleep. It's about feeling good every day.

I dont eat any junk and to be honest i cant understand why people are so lazy and treating their body like garbage bins stuffing with some processed cancer causing junk... its beyond me why people are so lazy... they would not treat a luxurious car putting the cheapest questionable quality oils fuel etc in... why to treat like that your own body?? Did marketing brainwash people’s brains so much?
Wjats wrong with soups porridge vegetables as snack home cooked food and organic salad? Unless somebody a labourer i can not see why somebody would need to eat a lot or badly?

Today I've had a slice of wholemeal toast with butter and gooseberry jam first thing (the jam because I forgot today was going to be a fast day ). A small salmon fillet with huge salad and two slices of a seeded baguette for tea. Plenty of cups of tea, a pomegranate, two plums, a satsuma for snacks. With any luck not too far over 500/600 calories, though apparently Michael Mosley's now saying we can have 800, yay!

Yesterday was not a fast day. Two Weetabix, slice of wholemeal toast with butter. Caesar salad for lunch. Two of the grandsons' Babybels, several of their jelly babies, an apple, a kiwi and a couple of plums for snacks. Chicken breast with potato salad, roasted carrots and parsnip and peas and a slice of chocolate cake for tea. Three g & ts and half an egg sandwich at the pub quiz later. I love my food.

I eat normally. Well, vegetarian normal.
Greek yog, blob of Muesli. Black coffee.
Banana/nuts at break.
Oat cakes and Philadelphia lunch.
Tagline and couscous for tea.
Jaffa cakes.

Yesterday I ate a whole bag of squashes. I was going to give to the kids in revision class, but thought I deserved them more.

Sorry, squashies. Wouldn't manage a bag of squashes.

I dont eat any junk and to be honest i cant understand why people are so lazy and treating their body like garbage bins

You don't eat any junk food? Ever?

You're not going to keel over because you eat a bar of chocolate every now and then it sounds extremely boring to never allow yourself a bit of indulgence.

And please, no one has properly explained yet what's so bad about a sandwich at lunch. Today I had a chicken sandwich on brown bread from the bakers down the road. Is it because I didn't grow the wheat in my own garden and slaughter the chicken myself in the morning, or buy my butter from the local organic farmers market?