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.

You should focus on getting your 5 veg/fruit a day and drinking two litres of water. Then focus on no processed food.

To me that looks like a massive amount of animal protein and fat, and nowhere near enough fruit and veg. But you do ok on the no processed food part.

How do you go to the loo???

You need to eat some fibre. This is a seriously worrying diet. You need an intervention.

Cheese is addictive because cows milk needs to be addictive to calves so they'll feed. Go cold turkey for a few weeks.

Some days the op is consuming up to 300g of protein, the strain on her kidneys must be enormous, even if she weighed 150kg, 23 stone, it would be far too much, unless she was body building muscle.

that much protein with all the fat as she’s frying foods, so will have a lot of oils in that, and also eating all the cheese and nuts, will see kidney damage, calcium loss, so osteoporosis , dehydration, constipation and her cholesterol must be through the roof, risking heart attack of stroke.

I hope this thread is a wake up call, for her sake and her families, as she’s killing herself and she will have significant health issues, either now or very soon,

@Willowy2 That's great, thank you very much. Looking forward to trying it out

Funnily my teenage daughter told me that just now.

You must be at risk of a heart attack eating all that cheese, and no water at all and no roughage. Madness.

I believe cheese can be addictive, so you might find it hard to stop your current diet. I’m not sure if cold turkey or weaning off it would be better, but just be understanding of yourself if it’s not easy

It's simultaneously way too much food and not nearly enough food. I asked ChatGPT:

Day 1
(eggs + pork chops + veg + snacks)

• Calories: ~3,300–3,600 kcal
• Protein: ~180–200g
• Fibre: ~12–15g
• Saturated fat: ~110–120g

Day 2 (chicken pieces + veg + snacks)

• Calories: ~3,000–3,300 kcal
• Protein: ~170–190g
• Fibre: ~12–15g
• Saturated fat: ~105–115g

Day 3 (eggs + prawns + veg + snacks)

• Calories: ~2,900–3,200 kcal
• Protein: ~170–190g
• Fibre: ~12–16g
• Saturated fat: ~100–110g

Day 4 (half roast chicken + snacks)

• Calories: ~2,800–3,100 kcal
• Protein: ~150–170g
• Fibre: ~10–12g
• Saturated fat: ~100–110g

Day 5 (eggs + bacon + avocado + veg + snacks)

• Calories: ~3,200–3,500 kcal
• Protein: ~170–190g
• Fibre: ~18–22g (avocado helps here)
• Saturated fat: ~110–120g

Day 6 (500g beef + veg + snacks)

• Calories: ~3,300–3,700 kcal
• Protein: ~190–210g
• Fibre: ~12–15g
• Saturated fat: ~120–130g

Day 7 (tuna + salad + wine + snacks)

• Calories: ~3,000–3,400 kcal
• Protein: ~150–170g
• Fibre: ~12–15g
• Saturated fat: ~100–110g

Day 8 (salmon + veg + wine + snacks)
(you listed an extra day, so including it)

• Calories: ~3,200–3,600 kcal
• Protein: ~170–190g
• Fibre: ~12–16g
• Saturated fat: ~100–110g

What this actually means

Calories
You’re consistently around:

• ~3,000–3,600 kcal per day

For most people, that’s a surplus, sometimes a large one.

Protein

• Very high (150–200g/day)
• More than enough for muscle maintenance or growth

Fibre

• Low to moderate (10–20g/day)
• Recommended is ~25–30g+

This is one of the weaker areas.

Saturated fat
This is the standout issue:

• ~100–130g saturated fat per day

For context:

• UK guidance: ~20–30g per day

You’re at 4–6× that level, almost entirely from the cheese.

So – too much food or not enough?

In energy terms:

• This is a lot of food, not too little
• Even with one meal a day, the snacks alone push you well over typical needs

In structure:

• The main meal approach is fine if it works for you
• The issue isn’t timing – it’s what fills the rest of the day

The real lever
This isn’t a complicated diet to fix.
It comes down to one thing:
The cheese quantity is doing nearly all the damage.

If you changed nothing else and:

• cut cheese from 450g → 100–150g

you would:

• drop 1,000–1,300 kcal
• cut saturated fat massively
• still keep the foods you enjoy

Final take

• You’re not under-eating – you’re eating well above maintenance
• Protein is more than covered
• Fibre is a bit low but fixable
• Saturated fat is extremely high, driven almost entirely by the cheese habit

The structure works for you. The content needs adjusting.

If you want, I can reshape this into something that still feels like your routine but lands in a healthier range without losing the foods you like.

(I am about to tell my robot overlord that this isn't ME)

Where’s the fruit, veg, fibre? I thought I ate a lot of cheese (50g?)-to get calcium because I don’t like milk, yoghourt etc, but 450g a day is insane.
All that protein is a nightmare for your kidneys.

Surely this is a wind up? You eat 7lbs of cheese a week?!

Op if it helps, thr British heart foundation says we should not eat more than 30-40g of cheese a day,

so I think it’d either stop completely and don’t have it in the house, if you can’t control yourself, or weigh out 35g, about a match box size and only have that. Maybe buy pre portioned packages,

id also split your one meal into three, don’t fear hunger, and add some veg and fruit in, stop frying stuff, as there are a huge amount of cals in oil and butter, boil, poach eggs, or have scrambled, an omelette is good. Do veg in the oven, or boil, add some carbs back in, rice is a good one, but again watch portion size, a micro bag is two portions, avoid bacon other than a rare treat.

I’d knock the nuts on the head, we shouldn’t eat more than 30mg of unsalted a day, again if you struggle with it, don’t have it in the house.

and eat with your family again, knock the one meal a day thing on its head. Eating three or four meals in one sitting isn’t healthy, aim to eat every four or five hours, and maybe a snack in between, dried fruit is good. But again watch portion size.

‘recognise if you’ve been attempting low carb or keto, this diet isn’t it, because ultimately cals in count, and your wine would always knock you out of keto if you ever got there, because you’re drinking a bottle at a time, so it will take a couple of days to burn off the sugar in that, then another four days to get into keto, possibly longer, but on the third day you’re adding the wine back in.

these are big changes, but an absolutely necessary as there is no way you can survive eating like this,

Cheese contains a lot of salt.

What have people said to you apart from feck that is A LOT of cheese and how have you responded?

What is your education level? Because your lack of awareness about how imbalanced your diet is seems quite remarkable. Or is it a case of because you're not overweight or have health concerns that you are telling yourself that it's a great diet?

That's a heroic amount of cheese!
It does sound like you're basically on a low carb, high fat & protein diet aside from the two bottles of wine on the weekend.
I suppose you will be able to tell if it's too much of too little by whether you gain or loose weight.

Is your BMI within the normal range @ivyball?

You need a lot more salt on keto.

She also has low blood pressure so more salt is probably fine too, I was told to increase my salt for low blood pressure and it's still chronically low.

I think everything has already been said. An insane amount of cheese, 50g per day is probably more normal. And where is the fibre, green vegetables, fruit etc? And very heavy on the protein.

Really? That doesnt sound that many

This is the funniest thing I've read in a while, so thanks OP.

The little cheese portions are 20g each. You are eating the equivalent of 22.5 portions a day. What the actual fuck.

Think me and you were the only one's who picked up on the meds....

I want some cheese now

About right for a family of four if the kids are teenagers. Is that your normal shop?

The big question OP is at 5' 2", how much do you weigh? Lots of calories going in.

That’s a terrible diet

Why are you eating only one meal a day and so much cheese?!

do you only drink wine and coffee?

OP, has anyone ever shown you the Bristol Stool Chart? A healthy stool is type 3 or 4.