@Yellow1793 I'm slim (5'4 and usually 8 stone, but heavier at the moment as I'm 18 weeks pregnant). I don't eat like your friends at all! They must be hungry! A typical day for me would be:
-Cereal (mostly weetabix or bran flakes) or toast. Fruit. Maybe some natural yoghurt too.
-A mid morning snack. Often a carb like a brioche roll.
-Lunch - an example would be a tuna baguette with lots of salad in it, crisps, veggie sticks, fruit. Occasionally a small choc bar.
-Mid afternoon snack - sometimes something sweet like biscuits or cake, or sometimes something like a crumpet with butter. I often try to eat some raw veg too like pepper or carrot just to up my veg intake.
- Dinner - home cooked meal (always containing veg) like spaghetti Bol (sometimes meat, sometimes the veggie version) with salad and garlic bread, a stir fry, pasta bake, sausage and mash, veggie chilli, veggie curry etc. I try to have 2 or 3 veggie nights a week, mainly to cut down on meat consumption.
- Sometimes I have cereal before bed.
We probably have around 2 takeaways a month.
I don't drink a lot of fruit juice or alcohol (obviously no alcohol at the moment!) but that's not through choice, I'm just not that bothered. I like a nice, cold glass of water!
As for exercise, I enjoy walking, but I don't do planned exercise like the gym, classes etc. I don't enjoy it. I also have a 2 year old, very active toddler to chase around, so don't sit down that much!
However, I have had a petite build my entire life like my mum, so some of it is definitely genetics.