What do normal sized people eat?

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Posting for traffic and I'm being deadly serious.

Always had issues with food (abusive childhood and neglect started it I think)

I'm on a weight loss journey, doing well.

What do people normally eat? Those who are average sized and not gaining weight?

I feel like my portion sizes are insanely large but I also don't know what people would eat for lunch and stuff? I feel like porridge, sandwich, crisps, fruit and then tea (dinner) would be a lot of calories for me.

Following as I have always seemed to eat double everyone else's portion size. I would be starving on what is currently described in the what fo you thread! I am average sized (higher end of "normal" bmi)

I'm probably a very average weight. BMI of around 21.

I eat porridge 40grams with semi skimmed milk topped with berries. The plain porridge oats not the syrup sachets.

Lunch - a bread roll with chicken/salmon/cheese/egg and salad and a yoghurt

Dinner - something like chicken breast with rice and veg, a baked potato with cheese and beans, a homemade curry, a roast dinner. I don't have big portions.

Greek yoghurt with berries and nuts for dessert

Don't really snack but if I do it's a handful of nuts, a slice of toast, some fruit and Greek yoghurt.

If you google TDEE calculator you can input your height, weight and activity levels. It will then calculate various calories for you to either stay the same weight or to lose weight etc.

Today:
Black coffee
Two fried eggs on rye sourdough with half an avocado, a tomato, quarter punnet mushrooms, and a 20cm pan full of sprouting kale from my garden
Black coffee
25g bar 85% cocoa chocolate
Half a small punnet of strawberries
Dinner is rogan josh with brown rice
Likely to have rye sourdough toast for supper with hawberry jam or peanut butter

Yes and generally people don't need as many calories as they probably think. Especially if you're not very active.

Also relevant is how active they are .

Salad with protein. It fills me up a lot. Then I have a takeaway curry or something with rice and it's a treat, a genuine treat. Too many people eat "trears" too often. Packet of crisps used to be a once or twice a week thing when I was small.

I hate actually eating fruit and vegetables/anything healthy seeming so I drink 3 cups of smoothie every day with 3 handfuls of spinach, half a cup of berries, almonds chia and 250ml of kefir for nutrition and the berries mask it so well that I don't feel like I'm eating healthy. Then usually scrambled eggs and toast and a couple of spoons of almond butter and a protein bar. Sometimes I have one of these if I remember to make them, I put extra honey and chocolate chips in though. - https://www.theconsciousplantkitchen.com/almond-butter-energy-balls/

Myprotein does some really good protein snacks if you struggle with craving treats especially their hazelnut spread, they're very filling too.

I don’t eat breakfast. Just have a couple of coffees.

Lunch is a sandwich… tuna sweetcorn, cheese salad, plain ham, or avocado, tomato and pumpkin seed on toast with olive oil if I can be arsed

Dinner… takeaway at least once a week. Otherwise something pasta. Or fish, potatoes and veg, pizza and salad, home made burgers, some sort of meat based thing with rice and veg. Whatever is quick!

I don’t really snack either.

My diet probably isn’t the best but it’s what I honestly eat! I start work around 7am so I’m too tired to be bothered with complex meals…

Normal sized people eat too much.

Normal people are overweight.

@S0livagant that all sounds lovely.

I've never dieted or weighed myself ( apart from the last few years 2 x yearly for HRT at the doctor). I'm around 5 ft 7" and last weighed I think 68 kg. I'm a 10-12. I'm definitely bigger than I used to be but always been fairly slim.

Average day in the working week:

Yogurt and low sugar 'Eat Natural' granola with pomegranate seeds or raspberries.

Some sort of crackers, oat cakes with cheese and nuts / crisps / grapes

Snacks : banana or apple or crisps

Evening: spag bol or salmon and jacket potato/rice/pasta. Maybe soup.

Always chocolate after tea.

Lots of water throughout the day.

What are you classing as normal sized?

I’m slim (BMI under 20) and very active. Typical weekday food is a black coffee first thing, then a mid-morning meal of a (big!) sandwich, 4 eggs scrambled on toast or similar, plus a protein bar. I don’t eat again until dinner which will be lots of protein, lots of veg and some carbs, eg a chicken breast, roast cauliflower and chickpeas and a salad. I drink loads of water throughout the day.

Until I hit 40 I ate fairly sensibly, was certainly never hungry, and if I did put on a few pounds, I could easily lose them by just cutting out my standard half a packet of biscuits a day. So I always assumed that people who "couldn't" lose weight must be eating way more than they were admitting to themselves. I definitely would have lost weight from eating what you describe.

But since I've turned 40, I've been piling on the pounds eating exactly as I did for the past 20 years, and I can't get any of it off! So now, the only way I can slow down my weight gain is small breakfast, small lunch (soup + bread roll or similar) and a small, boring healthy dinner - no biscuits at all. Sigh. And I'm still putting on weight 😫

For me age is making a big difference now. I'm 41 and noticed I can't eat anywhere near the same amount as I could only a few years ago. I don't calorie count but I don't eat breakfast and have a small lunch and a dinner (not big), if I add any snacks, treats I gain weight. I'm not massively active though but do walk often.

I think start buy massively reducing portion sizes and try fasting. I need a big calorie deficit to actually lose weight.

I have never gained weight. Never dieted and eat a mix of everything. They only thing I guess I do is I don’t eat much upf foods ( I make almost all bread/ baked goods) and rarely snack. I have always been around 50kg since teens, bare pregnancy weight then back straight after.

today:
Breakfast: x2 toasted tea cakes ( homemade)
Lunch: rye bread open sandwich, cheese, radish/ tomato/ cucumber.
Dinner: will be roast veg couscous, Greek port skewers, tzatziki.

Yesterday:
breakfast: granola, peach, berries, seeds
lunch: leek potato soup. Bread. Vanilla yoghurt and cashews
dinner: lasagna, salad, garlic bread

I have made pizza dough today for pizza night tomorrow here

I don’t eat much in the way of carbs and completely avoid white carbs and sugar (excluding fruit), but am generous with fats and don’t restrict myself on things like cheese, double cream, olive oil.

Breakfast: porridge with seeds, big dollop of peanut butter, nuts (pecans, walnuts, cashews), loads of fruit – chopped apple, frozen berries – and extras like desiccated coconut, chia seeds, with a big heaped dessert spoon of greek yoghurt and maybe a teaspoon of thick cream. V tasty and really satisfying 😋

(Eat this quite late – maybe 10 or 11 – but have a coffee first thing)

Lunch: Maybe 5 fresh falafel with some baba ganoush or some cauliflower curry from the freezer or something along those lines.

Tea: Roasted mediterranen veg with mozzarella, or big pile of winter veg with blue cheese sauce, or something along those lines. Big bowl full. Maybe a second extra bit if I fancy it.

Dessert: Greek yoghurt with nuts, or fruit with cream.

Snacks: Cheese, apples, sometimes a few wholewheat crackers.

Loads of coffee (first normal, the rest decaf)

Do deviate from this sometimes for a meal out with a dessert. (At the weekend had a roast with pudding and custard).

Height about 5“8, BMI about 20.

Did also put a stone or so on in lockdown when I was eating loads of delivery pizza and fries and lots of cake and chocolate.

Same 😭

I'm 66 , BMI 21 and been the same weight all my life. I did start to gain a bit a couple of years ago but slightly reduced portions and that did the trick. I never exclude food.
Breakfast oats, fruit, skimmed milk.
Lunch tuna salad. Lettuce, radish, cucumber, carrot, sauerkraut, corn etc. Topped with olive oil.
Dinner Whatever I like, example pork steak with honey and soy sauce, saute potatoes (say one medium potato), 3 or 4 types of veg. Ice cream. A decent sized scoop.
Evening snack - cake and tea.

Very similar every day. If I have wine in an evening I'll have nuts or a few crisps with it.

My diet isn't the best, I have a sweet tooth so eat quite a bit of chocolate every day and stuff like cheesecake, I'm going to tuck into some butterscotch Angel Delight in a minute which is calling me. I have Oatibix for breakfast and quite a small lunch and dinner which is usually something like scrambled eggs, chicken or fish with veg, I'm not interested in takeaways, fish and chips, stuff like that but anything sweet and creamy I love. I also eat a lot of yogurts and similar fridge puds. I'm tall, in my 60s, bmi is about 22.

I must say most on this thread sound like they eat super healthy.

I’m not a great person to answer because while I’m a healthy weight at 9.5 stone I am not healthy and this is something I really want to get better with.

breakfast: cereal or bagel with butter and jam

lunch: chocolate bar

tea: spag Bol, meatballs, roast dinner, curry, anything like that. Often use sauces from jars like dolmio if in a rush

snack: couple of biscuits

drinks: water, squash, tea and Diet Coke

Overnight oats for breakfast:

30g porridge oats
100g 5% Greek yoghurt
Little bit of water to loosen the consistency

With either 100g frozen berries or cinnamon mixed with the oats and 100g homemade apple compote (basically stewed apple no extra sugar)

Lunch varies but these are pretty standard…

4/5 oat cakes, two Ryvita or a couple of slices of that dark German rye bread with thickly spread Philadelphia, cucumber, tomatoes and celery salt on top.

OR

Vietnamese salad: one round (portion) of rice noodles as they come out the packet, thinly sliced carrot, cucumber, radishes, spring onion, raw green chilli and coriander leaves with a handful of prawns or a handful of leftover roast chicken on top. Lime juice and soy sauce to dress it. If there’s more than a meal prep container of food, I split it into two days.

OR

a standard size meal prep container of last night’s dinner

OR

Tin of Heinz tomato soup with half a cheese sandwich.

Dinners…

Turkey chilli, rice, half and avocado and salad

Chicken curry with rice and poppadoms…usually made from the leftovers of a roast chicken we have with salad.

Lamb bolognaise with spaghetti.

Pasta pesto with courgette, spinach, peas, green beans and broccoli.

Evening snack…

A yoghurt pot sized crème caramel, ice lolly, child sized chocolate like a Curly Wurley or Freddo.

I eat quite a lot I think, I’m 6ft 10.5stone. Yesterday I ate
2 boiled eggs and 2 toast
nuts, banana
hot chocolate
chicken sandwhich
apple
chocolate
Hm chicken smash burger thing, wedges and salad

That’s probably a typical day, sometimes I have cereal or porridge for breakfast.
I have a couple of drinks at the weekend and tend not to snack after dinner.

I am the same size now at 55 as I was at 20. I wear an 8/10. This is important to me because I love my clothes and want to be able to fit into them. I have some things I love which are 20 years old.

Breakfast is a boiled egg, a few cherry tomatoes, handful of blueberries and 3/4 Brazil nuts. An odd combination but lots of nutrients.

Lunch is homemade soup, made with lots of veggies and lentils.

Dinner is fish or chicken or vegetarian, includes lots of veggies again. Sometimes with pasta or rice.

Snacks are nuts, fruit, cheese or plain Greek yogurt. I don't have a sweet tooth but I love salty crisps, etc. but wouldn't eat them too often.

I don't drink and looking at friends that do, I think no alcohol has made a big difference to holding my weight steady over the years. So many calories in wine/beer that add up over the months/years.

I assumed they meant a healthy weight.