What do you eat in an average day

[Zara445]

Not sure which board to post this on but will try here.

I eat a lot of an evening, I’m always hungry and seem to binge eat I also have big sized portion meals. I don’t put weight on as I’m still a size 8-10( this will probably catch up with me one day)

But my diet is shocking at times, I live on sugar and skin is awful at the moment, my hair is in an awful condition. I have a lot of brain fog. In an average day what do you eat?

I'm breastfeeding, so my appetite is through the roof but typically I eat

Overnight oats/porridge with fruit for breakfast
Snack is usually a decaf latte made with coconut milk and some dark chocolate and nuts or I may have this in the afternoon and have fruit as a snack here
Lunch is a sandwich with soup or carrot and cucumber sticks and hummus,
Afternoon snack is fruit
Dinner is something homemade but quick- chicken, potatoes and veg all cooked on one tray in the oven, stir fry, pasta Bolognese, etc
I need to have something sweet for dessert, so have a treat here

No breakfast, just cups of tea. Lunch is usually a large soup (no bread), or a couple of fried eggs on a slice of toast, or sometimes things like Heinz Bolognese in a tin. No afternoon snack. Tea is mostly home cooked from scratch, a takeaway maybe once a month. If we want something quick I'll pick up a supermarket pizza and some salad.
I snack in an evening, so almost save up my calories throughout the day knowing I'll have a couple of biscuits or a packet of crisps. I run twice a week and walk daily and this means I can drink wine a few days a week and not have to worry about weight gain.

Peanut butter porridge.

2 apples, half an avocado, a pot of full fat cottage cheese.

Home made dinner with small (30g) portion of complex carb like rice/quinoa/lentils/fonio. Tonight we had a coconut curry, tomorrow we're having a Spanish stew for example. Lots of vegetables and vegetarian protein sources.

Snack on carrots and cucumber. And keeping my diet as free from refined sugar and artificial sweeteners as possible. Occasional slip ups, but that's life!

Oh and 1/3 pint of kefir for pudding in the evening! Flippin love that stuff!

I’m there with you on the shocking diet with sugar.

I don’t usually get much time to eat which might be the problem but I know I could and should plan better. Skins alright but hair is fucked and I don’t get enough sleep either.

I dont get chance to eat in the morning plus I’m not usually hungry, and I don’t get much chance to eat in the day. I will have 3-4 coffees in the morning.

I usually get something sugary at about 2-4pm and if I get to grab something it makes me feel a bit sick. So then I crave something savoury, but I’m still at work or with the kids and it’s too close to dinner time to eat anything substantial. So I end up with either nothing, or some crisps or a premade salad pot if I’m lucky and I’ve bought one in advance because I can’t leave work.

Then I end up really hungry for my dinner which is usually reasonably healthy (soup, pasta dishes, roasts, curries, hotpots, steak or fish with salads type thing) but then eat some sugary shit or drink wine after it. Then crash and do the same the next day.

I’m always cold and probably don’t manage to eat until about 7-9pm maybe three days a week. I really can’t see a way round it. Following for tips!

Terrible at the mo and a stone heavier than I should be.

Breakfast - egg & toast/crumpet
Snack - biscuit
Lunch - soup, no bread. Apple.
Afternoon - couple of quality street or chocs
Dinner - home cooked big plate of food
Evening - handful of chocs & coffee

Way too much food but I'm struggling post covid so no energy to change anything.

I've only just started today. My calorie allowance is 1350 however I'm going to do 1300 for now. My day today:

Coffee, lacto free milk.
2 poached eggs on sourdough. I've bought some 55 calorie bread so will swap to that tomorrow.
Tin of soup and ryvita and cheese.
Tea and those new 99cal snicker bars. Deceiving as they were tiny!
A Gousto quinoa and prawn thing which I got out of the freezer (286 cals), with lettuce cups, air fried cauliflower and some Greek yoghurt sauce thing I made up.

Came in under calories and felt like quite a lot of food to me (usually get my cals via wine/pizza 🙄). Didn't hit my protein target so will try and not go mental on carbs or sugary low cal treats.

I’m on 1300-1400 cals daily. This is a typical day’s food:

Breakfast: protein shake with unsweetened almond milk and oats, one slice whole meal toast with peanut butter
Lunch: (main meal of the day) tofu/ seitan/ pulses with lots of cooked veg and some sort of carb eg potatoes/ quinoa/ couscous/ occasionally pasta
Mid afternoon snack: soya Greek-style yoghurt
Dinner: salad with plenty of protein eg hummus and tofu

How old are you OP.....I’m an 8 to 10 at 57 years.....i now ‘Only’ eat around 1500c a day.....pre menopause I ate around 1800 to 2000

I average around 1400 calories at the moment, but I'm trying to lose weight or it would be a bit higher.

Have you tried increasing your protein and veg OP? That might help with the hunger. How much water are you drinking?

Oh sorry, just realised OP posted in early Jan and hasn't been back!

Digestive biscuit and a slice of avocado, square of dark chocolate

Plum

2 mini pork pies, beetroot, empire biscuit

6 mint chocolates

Homemade venison burger in two thirds of a wrap, coleslaw, apple

Latte made with unsweetened coconut milk and snack pack of jammy dodgers

Snacking is my downfall

One slice of toast with marmalade and two eggs chappped up in a cup with butter for breakfast.

Mid morning snack is a fibre bar with a coffee.

Lunch is carrot and coriander soup or similar. Piece of fruit.

Dinner is sea bass (two fillets) cooked in lemon butter. Salad accompaniment.

Supper is porridge with blueberries.

Snacks are ice lollies (fruit ones) and a few sticks of cheese.

Today has been fairly typical:
No breakfast
Lynch was a salad - lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, grated carrots, roasted chickpeas, grilled halloumi (2 slices) with pomegranate molasses and lemon juice. I normally make enough of this for two or three days and then just add the dressing when I want to eat.
Dinner was roast chicken, one Yorkshire, two roast potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, greens beans and gravy. Dessert was stewed apple, greek yoghurt and grape nuts which I mix together and leave in the fridge for a bit - looks like concrete but tastes like cheesecake 😁 I'm maintaining on this kind of food - dinner is usually protein heavy, carb light and decent amount of veg and there's always wine on Fridays

Avocado, banana, eggs, orange juice and a coffee with full fat milk for breakfast

Leftovers from previous dinner for lunch, or a salad with lentils/quinoa, or pasta-tuna salad

Fairly traditional dinner like fish and veg, stew, meat and 2 veg, spag bol, rarely have a takeaway

I snack on nectarines, nuts and dried apricots.

Size 6-8, and don’t calorie count.

This is a regular day/week - we occasionally have takeaways and I’m partial to the odd chocolate bar or two!

Breakfast - bacon medallions, poached eggs, avocado on toast. I have the same thing everyday 😂👍

Lunch - chicken or tuna with air fryer potatoes and salad, leftovers, I hate lunch so whatever is easiest! Love a Ryvita actually with turkey breast and cream cheese!

Dinner - pasta dish, chicken/beef/fish with potato/rice, chicken wraps; something like that!

Snacks - protein yoghurt or protein bars

Im a size 10, (attempting to) build muscle mass currently and I calorie count and have a six day training split at the gym - so I mainly eat what I do to fuel my workouts hence why I have protein, carbs & fats spread evenly across most meals with a focus on protein! :)