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.

quite often find that people who profess to be able to indulge in eating lots of bread pasta and chocolate with no effect on their weight will have some chronic ailment instead. Pretty sure no-one gets away with it, our bodies aren't stupid.

No, our bodies aren’t stupid. They’re very efficient at processing what we eat. Which is why there’s no evidence that eating ‘processed’ food in itself has any bad effect on health. It’s long term diet that matters.

Weight loss/control is a different matter. That in the end is simply about using more calories than you take in. It doesn’t matter what food provides the calories, ‘processed’, ‘organic’ or anything else. A calorie’s a calorie (in old money at least).

For what it’s worth, most of the people I know who fuss about ‘healthy’ eating don’t actually enjoy food. They seem to regard eating as a hazard.

I quite like bitter and sour flavours though. People definitely taste things differently. Same as we register pain differently, or feel the cold, or not.
Agree about it being easier to eat "clean" etc with more money. When I have been poor we filled up more on chips and bread definitely.

I ate a banana as I was doing a fitness test today and it tasted so sweet (low carber)
Definitely experienced that sweetness with the carbier veg but when people say green veg do you mean broccoli/crucifers? Peas are quite sweet anyway especially the ones you shell at home. I do find broccoli requires butter or something to bring out the flavour. Ditto cauliflower and cabbage.

When doing a road trip through the states a few years ago we ended up eating a lot of burgers, american breakfasts and very very little veg. (I think it's changed now and its easier to eat more veg). I ended up craving a salad - an apple - anything fresh and green.

So my body does let me know when I've not had enough veg.

But it's a balance. It's all a balance. I don't want to end up anxious and stressed about food - or thinking about it all the time.

Well I do think about food a lot but it's in a ...ooh what's for tea kind of way.

Sorry to hear you had bulimia.

A quick google indicates bulimic vomiting may damage taste receptors in the mouth, and that people with EDs or obesity may show impaired activity relating to taste on brain scans.

Thing is Kissing for a food addict like me, the “food is pleasure” view took me down a dangerous road where in a way certain foods becomes a hazard. A bit like cigarettes. I had to quit cold turkey when I gave up. I envy people who can have the odd fag. I knew I could not.
Someone might say “well have more will power” but by the time you’ve done a day with a toddler on no sleep, will power is zero.
I had to say, these foods (sugar, flour etc) take me to a place of almost ecstatic joy (!) and for me that is not a good thing. So while I enjoy a nice meal I can’t live with the highs and lows any more.
I think we are all wired differently-my DH does not experience any of this

quite often find that people who profess to be able to indulge in eating lots of bread pasta and chocolate with no effect on their weight will have some chronic ailment instead. Pretty sure no-one gets away with it, our bodies aren't stupid.

Entirely depends how you define ‘lots’. If you generally eat small portions and don’t eat much chocolate -‘lots’ to you may well not be enough to put on weight.

I was given a box of really good chocs for Christmas and I had ‘lots’. My ‘lots’ was around 4 chocs a day for about 4 days - certainly not enough to gain weight.

A quick google indicates bulimic vomiting may damage taste receptors in the mouth, and that people with EDs or obesity may show impaired activity relating to taste on brain scans.

I'm sure it does damage everything, but I obviously wasn't born with bulimia (or obesity), and my taste towards green veg (I'm talking mainly of leafy greens and the brassica family here) hasn't changed over time.

My avridge day consists of
Breakfast : coffee, coffee and more coffee
Lunch: more coffee
Dinner: coffee
Tea: what ever I decide to cook for the hubby and kids followed by more coffee.
I currently have a major food hates me problem due to the fact that everything I eat I have a reaction to so I live of coffee.

Gudgyz so sorry, that sounds awfully hard for you. Could a dietician help?

Lifesucks that sounds equally awful!

washed down with sparking Highland spring water (fresh from the mountain glen)

I made my morning tea with water fresh from a Scottish loch in the hills.

I live in the middle of a big Scottish city and that's where our tap water comes from. OK, it's not sparkling.

I'm off to get a toastie and some coffee for lunch...

I've had two bananas, some Lindt chocolate and a pot of rice pudding for lunch with a nice cup of tea.

People who insist on regaling us with stories about having organic goats cheese and chickpeas on cocktail sticks for breakfast washed down with sparking Highland spring water (fresh from the mountain glen) are......liars!

No one says breakfast like that
But yes some do enjoy avocado on rye or a fruit salad and green tea for example

Me being one. Not lies it’s the truth. I don’t eat crisps, chocolate cake or wine etc ( I would someif served at a party or dinner party though. No food requests here!) but 99% of my diet is things like fruit, veg, salmon etc

Not boasting, not judging. But it is the truth and many friends family and work colleagues have similar diets. I think it’s down to location again in part.

I think it’s down to location again in part.

It’s also down to what you like. I just don’t like shit food.

Ironically I had for breakfast - buckwheat crackers with whole earth peanut butter washed down with... sparkling Highland spring water...

@TatianaLarina

Oh agreed. I’d take salmon and cous cous over a hot dog and fries any day of the week

My point is that a PP thought people were lying when they said they didn’t eat junk.

If she lived where I lived she would see with her own eyes - some people really do way very healthily day in and day out

I am a vegan and I eat normally.

Toast for breakfast.
Sandwich and crisps for lunch
Pizza/risotto/stir-fry/whatever for dinner

Biscuits and fruit for snacks.

I love crisps!

Oh I'm so glad you posted this OP! I was feeling the same reading the usual 'what did you eat today' threads. Especially the posters who claim there is no need for three meals a day or they just plain forget to eat. NEVER happens to me!

I do need a lot of food to be getting on with and get me through, and looking at what others eat can make me feel guilty. Not sure what normal is but this thread is more reassuring than others I've seen.

Yesterday's performance is one I am not proud of:
B: Fruit & fibre
L: Cheese panini, finger of fudge
D: Dahl and rice, KitKat

Snacks (this is where it goes wrong)
Almond croissant
Wispa bar
Two slimming world chocolate things my colleague gave me in an attempt to stop me from hitting the chocolate machine. Did not help.
Handful of almonds
Apple and banana
Crumpet
Two skinny lattes

oops.

In my defense I was very, very tired (DS not sleeping much right now). Hadn't gone to the gym, that usually keeps me in check. Felt very low and flat.

Today is off to a much better start, hoping I can keep it that way. Been to the gym. My triggers are feeling exhausted and stressed by life with two small DC and working, I often reach for chocolate just to get em through another hour till bedtime. I do a lot of exercise though, and I'm within my BMI (just about!). I just don't like the sugar crash that comes from eating too much junk, it really makes me feel horrible, grumpy and unhealthy. But I refuse to diet and love my food.

Looking through this properly.

Jeez. I don’t think that’s normal, I don’t know anyone that eats the amount of junk you lot shove away.

What an absolutely lovely and non judgmental comment. You must be a really well balanced person who in no way at all has issues around food.

You must be a really well balanced person who in no way at all has issues around food.

or just a normal person not surrounded by overweight people. You can be slim without having an eating disorder you know!

What an absolutely lovely and non judgmental comment. You must be a really well balanced person who in no way at all has issues around food

Yes you'll find a lot of these.

I have wasted a ridiculous amount of time boring myself with pages of food diaries and still not found out why sandwiches are devil food

Because bread is baked in the fire pits of hell by Lucifer himself.

Really it's because no one actually has an answer to that.

I’ve found my people!

I’ve had today:
Omelette in 2 slices of toast
Copious amounts of tea (work in an office)
Greggs chicken and cheese baguette with salt & vinegar crisps
For dinner it will be quorn chilli con carne I think

A few biscuits before bedtime with another cup of tea