To ask what you think of this typical food intake?

[ivyball]

This is what I’ve eaten over the last 7 days.
Does this seem like too much food to you or not a lot of food?
Female 5 foot 2.

Day 1

4 egg omelette with 2 pork chops and red pepper, sweet corn.
Snacks - half a 900g pack of cheddar cheese and half a 200g pack of mixed nuts spread out and picked on over the day.
5 cups decaf coffee.

Day 2

3 chicken thighs and 2 chicken legs with some veg.
Snacks - half a 900g pack of cheddar cheese and half a 200g pack of mixed nuts picked on throughout the day.
5 cups decaf coffee.

Day 3
4 egg omelette and pack of prawns, sweetcorn and spinach.
Snacks - half a 900g packet of cheddar cheese and half a 200g bag of Mixed nuts.
5 cups decaf coffee.

Day 4
Half a roast chicken picked at.
Snacks - half a packet of 900g cheese and half a packet of 200g nuts to pick throughout the day.
5 cups of decaf coffee.

Day 5
4 fried eggs, mushrooms, an avocado, tomatoes and bacon.
Snacks - half a pack of 900g cheddar cheese and half a packet of 200g mixed nuts.
5 cups decaf coffee.

Day 6
500g diced beef fried with red pepper and mushrooms.
Snacks - half a packet of 900g cheddar cheese and half a packet of 200g mixed nuts.
5 cups decaf coffee.

Day 7
1 Tin of tuna and salad.
Snacks - half a packet of 900g cheddar cheese and half packet of 200g mixed nuts.
1 bottle of white wine.

2 fillets of salmon with green beans, broccoli and red pepper.
Snacks - half a 900g packet of cheddar cheese and half a 200g packet of nuts.
5 cups of decaf coffee.
1 bottle of white wine.

I have used the term half a pack instead of (450g) cheese and 100g nuts because I thought people would be able to imagine a 900g block of cheese and 200g pack of nuts easier as that’s how they come.
Does this sound like too much food or not enough food please?
I typically eat one meal a day in the morning and pick on cheese and nuts sporadically for the rest of the day.
This is because I need to eat until I’m full or I will still feel hungry after so I eat a big main meal first thing as it works for me and I feel full.
The cheese and nuts are because of a craving for cheese. I love my cheese.

This is a textbook Atkins style diet which puts your body into a state of ketosis. You might well actually be quite underweight OP. Are you?

It would probably be cheaper to buy a cow at this rate.

Op, do you honestly think this is a balanced healthy diet? Have you never read anything about eating fruits, vegetables, legumes? Fibre? Exercise? I mean I can't open Instagram without someone telling me about a healthy lifestyle. Not to be cruel, I just don't believe you think this is good.

What have your family been telling you? They're clearly concerned to have raised it with you.

Most people eat 3 meals but only one "main" meal, and the other two meals will not amount to the amount of calories you eat in snacks.

Breakfast might be a bowl of cereal and lunch a sandwich or light salad.

You're also eating at least double the normal amount of dinner every night.

If you're not active you must be quite severely overweight.

I see what you say about intolerances but your body always finds it hard to tolerate what it's not used to. If you switch to a diet high in fibre, fruit and veg you might well find that you get digestive issues for a while but your body will get used to it. At the moment I'd imagine you are also severely constipated!

They do sell 900g cheese

Anyone else waiting for the OP to answer the questions around her weight and amazing us all with the fact that the laws of thermodynamics don’t apply to her and, despite eating 3,000+ calories every day, has always been a size 8, never budges above 7st, and has a 6’ 4” rugby playing hollow-legged son who doesn’t eat her much as her?

If she is on that medication she quoted it will absolutely affect her eating, she wont feel that hungry but equally may seek out food in strange quantities and with particular satiations.

I think if this is real, I understand this now. Probably would have been helpful for OP to mention this at the start.

Methylphenidate is usually taken for ADHD and in people with ADHD it curbs food cravings and lessens appetite, but it seems to work very differently on neurotypicals.

If someone asked you if you eat chocolate how would you respond? I find many people who eat lots of cheese are oblivious to how much fat they’re eating and how they think the fact they don’t really eat chocolate means they’re doing okay. A matchbox sized piece of cheese is the guidelines. More veg and fruit and way less cheese as a starting point.

No but I bought some this morning. It’s always available in mild or mature ( I like both) it’s the everyday essential range. Very moorish.

Ketosis does not cancel out the laws of thermodynamics. And there are studies to prove it. Unless the OP is a medical mystery, I highly doubt she is "quite" underweight.

Moorish.

I think you might have jumped the shark there.

All weight loss diets create a calorie deficit. Unless there's something else medically going on for the OP who says she is not active, weight loss is not what a pound of cheese and a load of nuts daily will give her.

Honestly, I think the way you eat sounds far more like someone with an eating disorder than someone with food intolerances.

I thought people were going to tell me I ate really healthy meals or that I should eat more because one meal a day isn’t enough.

But you aren't only eating 'one meal a day'. You're eating several. You're just spreading them out instead of sitting down to eat them.

You are eating ALMOST HALF A KILO OF CHEESE every day. Just because you're not sitting down and eating it with a knife and fork at set times, that doesn't mean it's not 'a meal'. In fact, it has enough calories for three meals. Your 100g portions of nuts are also as many calories as one meal. And your actual dinner, of four eggs and two pork chops or a 500g packet of mince, is twice as much as most people would have.

You're not eating one meal a day at all. You're eating around six meals a day.

If you genuinely thought this was a low intake or a healthy diet, I think you need some serious intervention and education about food, because I'm amazed that anyone with eyes or ears could possibly have the impression that this is a) a low calorie intake or b) healthy.

Look, I've had long periods of eating TERRIBLY and eating way too much sugar, fat, snacks, you name it. But I at least KNEW I was eating badly.

I really would love to know your BMI, I'm guessing you are a healthy weight, it sounds like a high protein diet similar to the keto diet. A low carb diet is healthy in my opinion. Your diet sounds delicious!

I think you mean moreish . Unless you are referring to cheese made by an old Muslim civilisation in North Africa and Spain.

OP, you mention driving to the office. Are you getting up in the morning and frying 500g of beef to eat at 7.30am? I am equally as baffled by that as the cheese thing. It’s a very strange diet. Do you ever go out to eat, or eat at other people's houses? You say your family are being ridiculous about it, what is it that they say?

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@ivyball I've recently joined Slimming World so, for the first four weeks, I have to write out everything I eat on a special form and hand it in to my SW consultant to check that I'm following the SW guidelines correctly. I do it after every meal/snack because it's very easy to forget what I've eaten if I leave it until the end of the day

I'm just wondering why you've documented all the food you've eaten for the past 8 days as it's quite an unusual thing to do?

Mild cheddar from the Aldi essentials range is just about as sad as it gets. It tastes of plastic.

This op. No wonder you’re not hungry for another meal (or you can’t “tolerate” another meal. 450g of cheese would make me feel sick. And I love cheese, and I'm Most certainly not an inveterate under eater either.

Was your elimination diet low fodmap? If not it might be worth looking up. I have a lot of food intolerances but there are some very low fodmap foods i can tolerate that are healthy, chicken, spinach, carrots, eggs etc. which would lower your fat intake

My first thought was you're on the keto diet. I ate similarly on keto and lost 20kg! But obviously nowhere near that amount of cheese!

Just as an aside I don’t get eating cheese by itself, always with crackers, Ryvita or with cheddar digestive biscuit. Otherwise it just seems wrong!tk eat it by itself, even if with nuts.

Bloody hell, I’ve just checked the size of the cheese 900g, that’s a whole pack of cheese, every day?!

Oh apologies, half a pack, still a lot though.