To ask what you eat in a day if you are a size 10 or less

[Mamabear04]

Just wondering how much skinny people eat in a day and if I am over eating?

I'm size 8. I can't tell you what 'skinny' people eat as I'm not thin. I have a BMI mid point healthy and plenty of spare flesh. It's probably easier to tell you what I don't eat. I'm vegan, so that does away with a lot of calories from meat and diary and most treat foods. I also don't drink alcohol or drink calories in any form. I eat a varied diet of up to ten fruit and veg a day, protein from nuts and tofu and ALL the carbs. I'm 55 and not as active as I should be so have to keep my daily calories to 1700 or I gain weight. Fortunately plants give a lot of bang for your buck so I can eat a lot and stay within that.

Four squares of chocolate - I mean this is why I'm not a ten 🤣

I'm size 10 ish. Weight varies between about 7 st 10lb and 8st 5lb. I'm 5' 3".

I've been the same size for the last 50 years or so, though over that time my diet has totally changed. I eat much better food now than I used to. I rarely eat takeaways or ready-meals or branded breakfast cereals and I haven't eaten red meat or processed meat for about 25 years.

I eat mostly non-UPF home cooked food, comprising mainly of vegetables, fish, tofu, beans of all sorts, lentils, occasionally chicken, occasionally sourdough, salads, fruit, nuts, barley and the occasional piece of very dark chocolate.

A typical daily total intake is between 1,700 and 2,300 calories, about 120g of fat, about 100g of carbs and about 65g of protein.

Today is not the best example probably!
im a size 6 but running around after 2 small children is probably the cause.

breakfast - cup of tea and 3 oat choc chip biscuits

brunch - beans on toast with loads of cheese

lunch - small portion of leftover roast chicken, potatoes, carrots and broccoli

snack - leftover chickpea and aubergine salad from yesteday

snack - tropical fruit smoothie made with my son. (Pineapple, mango, yogurt)

snack - small Milky Way choc bar

dinner - probably will be salmon and rice and veggies

snack - cup of herbal tea and probably choc

To be fair to her, OP might be cooking veg into the stroganoff or in with the chickpeas. If I make something like that, I tend to throw in peas and spinach, but don't really list it as an ingredient unless asked. It's sort of a "throw stuff in" process. 😅

But that might just be me making assumptions based on my own cooking, though. If it's not the case for OP, I'd definitely agree some veg would be helpful!

Breakfast: Greek yoghurt with spelt flakes, maple syrup, fruit
Lunch: greek salad/potato salad or boiled egg on crispbread
Dinner: anything really
I only drink water or juice. I don't eat anything after 6pm

Size 8 but short so not skinny, just lower side of average.

Ok, completely honestly ...

About 8-10 weeks of:
breakfast - low fat vanilla yogurt and blueberries
lunch - hard boiled egg, carrot, cucumber, lettuce, melon
dinner - zero carb noodles, diced chicken breast, mushrooms, babycorn, peppers
snacks - rice cakes, fruit, babybel lights
overall total - 700 - 950 calories

Followed by 8-10 weeks of:
breakfast - nothing
lunch - nothing
dinner - binge eating on large amounts of junk food (particular culprits being ham sandwiches, Skips, haribo, cake, cheese toasties and icecream but there are other issues...)
Sometimes I will purge that but generally not anymore.
I have no idea of the calorie total on those days but I'm guessing 3000ish+

Weirdly, my weight doesn't fluctuate as much as you'd think with those extremes. I suspect I gain and lose the same stone or so over and over.

Size 10. 5’7. 60kg. Mid 40s.

I get porky really quickly if I’m not careful.

My strategy is

• try to avoid all white carbs - brown rice, bulgar not pasta etc
• never make sandwiches or wraps for lunch - always protein and veg
• never have toast / crumpets for breakfast - always oats, yoghurt, egg
• never eat obvious sugar - cakes, biscuits, chocolate bars. But do eat eg dates, dark choc squares, strawbs. I break this for birthday parties or dinners.
• drink minimally and at the weekend only

It’s boring as hell but I do feel good on it and if I am not disciplined my weight can creep up and up.

I have a BMI of 19. I eat what I want but I don't ever eat rubbish because I don't want it. I also make everything from scratch and don't eat packaged meals. I make all our bread.

Breakfast - toast or porridge or greek yog with berries.
Lunch - soup or eggs, usually. Small cake/chocolate for pudding.
Dinner - family meal - pasta, fish, pizza, always with veg. Followed by a couple of squares of dark chocolate.
Handful of nuts and piece of fruit for snacks each day. Often a glass of wine.

Basically, 3 square meals of pretty normal food!

Breakfast; cereal with yoghurt and a banana
Lunch, third of an M and S quiche and salad
Dinner Burger, bun, more salad. Fruit. Raspberries and yoghurt for pudding

Haven't eaten snacks because I have run out but usually would have a couple of biscuits with coffee at around 11am and again at 4pm. Very fond of a chocolate malted milk or, queen of biscuits, M and S extra cream custard creams ( more filling).

All depends on your height and build, high protein and unprocessed whole foods where possible. Average days are egg on sour dough toast & salmon/0% Greek yoghurt and fruit with oats. Chicken breast sweet potato & veg/tuna jacket potato and salad or soup and sandwich. Meat and veg of some variety. Large portions to fill up and avoid empty calories. Around 1800 cals a day is maintenance at 10 and a half stone (lost 2 St baby weight this year and size 10). Don't starve or you'll end up binging. Still eat the foods you enjoy (healthy fry up and roast/curry on the weekend), buying a pair of digital kitchen scales and using MFP really helps as well as making healthy swaps. As someone else has said work out your maintenance calories online using a calculator then reduce cals by 20% if you want to lose weight xx

This is based on so many things other than size.

I was clinically anorexic at 97lb with a BMI of 15 when young due to medications I was on that destroyed my appetite but could maybe squeeze into a 10 back then (really a small 12 at a push) because I'm pear shaped have wide hips and broad shoulders (my waist however was a small 6).

I'm now healthy weight at 10st and size 14 in jeans and 10 round waist. I have never been called fat, I used to always get called 'skinny' (all the time) and now if weight comes up people say I'm normal/slim.

My best friend was average weight/BMI but is the opposit apple/lolly shaped with huge boobs and all her body weight in her belly. She is super tall and has long skinny legs, small bum and slim arms. She was bullied for being 'fat' at a size 12-14 (round the waist) because her belly looks big on her slim legs but she easily fit in skinny size 8 jeans that I had no chance of ever getting in.

I eat 1 evening meal per day (like burrito or pizza or pasta etc...) and sometime a lunchtime snack (like a sandwich or pot noodle or bag of crisps etc...), personally never seen the point in breakfast.

food timetables are very unnatural, fasting has benefits and eating for the sake of it when not hungry (outside of medical issues) is never good for you.

Shape or not though (unless very active/athletic or very high metabolism like some teens with growth spurts) I honestly don't know how some people eat 3-4 full meals per day plus snacks (or even afford too eat that much). Many I speak to think thats average/normal and 'healthy' amount (breakfast, dinner, tea, supper etc...) and tell others they are 'starving themselves' or fasting is 'unhealthy' (lots of throwing around of the phrase 'starvation mode' which is just bollocks). However they also tend to be the ones to complain about their weight the most, almost like a correlation exists.

OP you may never be a size 10, not everyone can be but being bigger than a 10 doesn't = fat. You can be 'skinny' but still be over a size 10 and unhealthy, you could also eat loads and big/heavy and be very fit & healthy (look at many pro weight lifters or athletes).

Why the derogatory term?
Would you post 'what do you eat in a day if you are fat?
We've had a thread on 'skinny-shaming' already

Anything in very small portions.
No alcohol, very few sweets (don't have a sweet tooth).
Anxiety and physical work helps, too.
😐

5ft 7 and size 10 (used to be a 6 pre-pregnancy).

Today is pretty normal and I've eaten/will eat-

Three homemade waffles with jam, apple sauce and yoghurt (the waffles are smaller than commercial ones)

Handful of dark chocolate buttons

Five crackers with ham and cheese, carrot, half a banana, handful of grapes and blueberries, homemade flapjack (small piece), clementine

Cup of popcorn with butter

Homemade moussaka, salad, mashed potato

Two jelly sweets

Glass of orange juice. Otherwise only water (I don't like most other drinks).

I try and homemake as much as possible for health and taste reasons.

Before peri it was easy to stay thin for me and I exercised a lot. Harder now. Hence going from a 6 to a 10.

I’m more or less a 10 - but I’m also on a quite strict eating plan due to having acid reflux. My weight stays stable, whereas before I always struggled even though I thought I ate healthily.
This is an example - today
breskfast: homemade smoothie w banana, spinach, 1/3 of an Asian pear, date, ginger, plant milk. Homemade wholemeal bread slice w almond butter.
snack:pumpkin seeds
linch - 2 eggs scrambled w smoked salmon, cucumber and wholemeal bread slice, watermelon, 2 homemade oat biscuits, chicory ‘coffee’.
snack: pistachios
dinner - will be leftover homemade mushroom & bean burger from last night. Maybe w some potatoes, avocado cheese and salad.
I’m in my 50s for context.

Yes sorry forgot to add that there was Spinach, onion, garlic in the mushroom stroganoff, cucumber in the tzasiki, I also missed out a mid morning peach and orange as a snack.

Thanks for all the advice, it's starting to make sense I guess. I do think mg diet has changed slightly over the years with living with DH. He eats huuugggggeee portions and is really skinny. Before I wouldn't eat neatly as many carbs but now they've slipped in. Might also to be with not exercising enough. I walk every day pushing a ginormous toddler up hills etc and then I try to do some cross trainer during the week. I enjoy the sweat but I don't feel like it helps to keep the weight off like running did. I'm so fed up with not being able to exercise how I like.

Eggs for breakfast.
Greek yogurt or quark and fruit as a snack.
Soup for lunch.
Babybel as a snack
Teriyaki tofu and veg for dinner.
Protein pudding and something sweet later on.
Black coffee and water throughout the day.

I aim to get 120g of protein a day.

I'm 66 and have always been between a size 8 and 10. I eat anything I fancy but I often get bored with my meal and very rarely finish it completely. It's as though my body just says "enough" and I stop eating. I was discussing this with my sister recently and she is exactly the same.

It's a pain when your favoured exercises are off the cards! Carbs aren't the baddie in moderation (I could live off potatoes), but maybe in this case just do some swaps a few times a week? Carrot mash, cauliflower rice, courgette noodles. You could even do half and half.

Protein definitely helps keep the hunger at bay, too. Maybe an extra egg rather than two slices of toast, etc. (I know you didn't mention toast, just an example). Grill some tomatoes (I know they're not protein, but they can be filling!) to go on the side rather than the full serving of spuds, so on and so forth.

I'm a size 10.
5ft 7"
Approx 68-69kg

I eat a lot. Loads more than my DP who works in a physically demanding, manual job 😂

Yesterday was:

1 flat white (on the way to work)
2 pieces of white toast with butter (breakfast) with a cup of tea
3 rice cakes with cottage cheese (mid-morning)
2 hard boiled eggs (late morning)
Jacket potato with tuna mayo and salad (lunch)
Crisps (mid afternoon)

Steak pie, chips and mushy peas (dinner)

I drink about 2-3 litres of water per day.

I've always been pretty active, tend to be on the go a lot, walking the dogs, exercising a couple of times a week (nothing strenuous). Maybe that helps? Or maybe one day the weight will just pile on??? God knows. I do love my food though so would rather exercise than diet!

The one thing I would say is I don't really like / eat sweet stuff. I rarely eat chocolate, never eat sweets, dessert or ice cream....

When I was skinnier size 8/10 I didn't really eat takeaways or snack much. I ate normal meals but smaller portions, lots of fruit and veg and not much sweet food. Eggs for breakfast, salds for lunch with tuna/sardines etc.,

All bran, flaxseed, honey and yoghurt
Oat bran pancake with chicken breast and salad
Stir fry pork and vegetables, glass of red wine.
Three cups of tea and three biscuits.
I try to avoid carbs - unless eating out/invited. Can't give up that glass of wine though.

I am another one who fasts between 8pm and 11am/midday. I do it because it works to keep my weight down (5' 4" and 8st 12lb). I think it was a campaign by Kellogs many decades ago that said breakfast was the most important meal of the day, to make people buy their cereal!

I used to be a small 10. I used to eat a big lunch box of veg with hot sauce and half a bag of tilda rice for my lunch. Then dinner was a veggie option either home made curry, stir fried noodles, veggie option with loads of veg and salad. Then at the weekend I'd get takeaway and drink loads of wine. Not particularly healthy but it worked 😂