Can you tell me what you (honestly!) eat in a day?

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I'm getting blood tests for weight loss this week - yeah, yeah, I know, poor me, huh? This isn't stealth boasting though - I am concerned and so is GP. However, I do wonder if I am actually eating enough or if I have lost sight of what is 'normal'. Or if I'm just busy and burning it off?

Hi, just thought I'd come back and post what a 35lb overweight person eats in a day as today was an absolutely typical day for me.

I had a bowl of apple and blueberry Oats So Simple made with semi skimmed milk. Small glass orange juice.

Lunch was one wholemeal pitta, 5 thin slices of salami, about 8 olives, a dollop of hummus and a large raw carrot.

Snacks: 1 apple, 1 shortbread biscuit.

Dinner was mushroom omelette made with two eggs, green salad, steamed Anya potatoes (about 4).

Three mugs of tea with ss milk, one mug coffee with ss milk and a cube of sugar, glass of lime squash.

It was yummy thank you Jajas, especially the omelette!

bibbity: That sounds very balanced and healthy to me. I'm considered "underweight" and eat much, much less healthy than you do!

Me yesterday:

Breakfast: bagel with butter and jam, large mug of coffee with skimmed milk
lunch: quarter pounder with cheese meal at McD (took DS who was off from school there as a treat), diet coke
dinner: innocent Bombay pot, plain yoghurt with berry compote
snack: handful of nuts and dried fruit, 2 small squares of dark chocolate

Bibbity - that would, in my book, be an exemplary way of eating for healthy weight loss! If you eat like that all the time, do you lose weight at all?

If not, could it be that 35lbs over your "ideal" weight is in fact your natural weight, where your body sits comfortably? The guidelines as to healthy weights are, imo, to be taken with a pinch of salt. the key is how healthy you are. If you eat like that all the time and your energy levels and general health is good, it may be time to change your perception as to what is overweight for you and what is not.

Eating less, generally, than what you eat now, would I would have thought be pretty unhealthy... so maybe this is healthy for you? I don't know, my view is skewed, but I have gone through a lot of talk about accepting your natural weight and changing your perception as opposed to your eating if your eating and exercise is already good.

I don't know how old you are, if you have already gone through menopause or what size is normal for the other females in your family, but all of that plays a part....

And this is where I think women need to help eachother really - by rejecting the one size fits all mentality that is portrayed everywhere, and accepting and enjoying healthy (healthy in every sense - so mentally as well as physically) lifestyles rather than focussing on food as such.

That's a very wise post, legally.

Dinner last night: Waitrose ready-meal ? special seafood fried rice. Added fresh pak choi and red peppers. Steamed prawn dumplings, also Waitrose.

Herbal tea. A pear. Few green grapes.

Breakfast today:
Wholemeal bagel, salmon pate, goats cheese. Soy-milk coffee.

Another soy coffee, Waitrose bakery chocolate twist (new discovery and delicous!). Banana.

I'm back (this is very addictive!)

Today:

Oatso simple apple and Blueberry with skimmed milk, 1/3 of a big banana on top

Prawn salad - salad was lettuce, cucumber, roasted veg, beetroot shreds, cress, couple of slices of tomato, handful of plain prawns, salt and pepper (bought from a deli)....... and half a tub of blueberries

One skinny creme-brulee latte out with friends, one coffee at home and a diet coke

dinner is left over stew from yesterday (yum), beef. Probably a Muller Light.

And

I am 20lbs over my ideal weight (the weight at which I feel light and energetic) and I would not lose weight on bibbity's sample diet sheet for Thursday. As it is I feel as though I have a heavy ugly blanket on me all the time. I never really get hungry, just end up eating meals at "mealtimes" just because everyone else is. I've learned to override/ignore not being hungry for the sake of sharing a social moment with my family. I've not really been hungry as such for over 10 years. I so wish that I could lose weight on that amount of food because it's a "normal" amount for an adult to eat but depressingly I just gain weight if I eat a normal amount.

So far today I have eaten:

breakfast: Small bowl of porridge made with water with a small teaspoon of lemon curd for flavour
Cup of caro made with splash full-fat milk

Then spent the morning rowing (about 2.5 hours)

Noon: Cup of hot chocolate with rowing friends

Lunch at 2: Bowl made up of 3/4 steamed parsnips from last night with a serving spoon of beans and lean minced beef- all leftovers from previous night.
Cup of caro with full-fat milk

I'm only just starting to feel a little peckish now and it's 5:30

Duchesse - can I just clarify that that is not a "diet sheet", it is a typical days eating for me. I am not trying to lose weight at the moment, if I was I would eat less! hth.

Today:

Porridge with cinnamon and sugar made with lactofree skimmed milk
Glass of cordial
Black decaff coffee
Detox box thing for lunch (avocado, spinich, nori wrap, salmon, beansprouts) [more filling than it looked!]
Nutty flapjack as a sweet treat
Lots of water

I'm meeting friends at the pub tonight so will have a hot dinner and a glass of wine.

Yesterday :
Museli
Orange juice
Green tea
Small Nakd bar
Big thai red chicken curry with brown rice and a little salad
Grapes
A granola bar
Goats cheese toasty with cherry tomaties and onions on the side
Lots of water

not enough tbh-
today-
a satsuma
a peice of toast
packet of crisps
slice of pizza

and thats more than usual!

That's what I mean bibbity- you eat that and neither lose nor gain, if I ate that I would probably gain, and if someone else ate that much they might lose weight. It's all a little nebulous.

oh i forgot my hundred cups of tea with full fat milk and sugar

Breakfast: Work am's Porridge with fruit, other mornings weetabix or toast

midmorning break: cereal bar or fruit

Lunch: toastie or soup or a salad for lunch, yoghurt with fruit (had nectarine, plum, satsuma and banana)

Midafternoon, piece of fruit or a mini pack of jammi or choc dodgers

Tea is a main meal such chicken fajita's, stew, spag bol, baked fish and chips, salmon, baked potato

usually have a small snack of fruit or toast before bedtime if hungry.

I sometimes have a packet of crisps if the mood takes me. When I wrote down what I ate for slimming world, the consultant said I ate well and plenty and that would be why my weight loss was good.

I would definitely lose weight on bibbity's diet. I'm guessing most people would gain weight on mine. There is more to it than calories in and out, I am sure, although obviously that's important, too.

Breakfast: Two large coffees with full fat milk (half strong coffee, half milk) and two sugars, fried egg on toast, apple, banana, Greek yoghurt with honey, handful of nuts.

Snack: toast and jam, satsuma

Lunch: chinese deep fried chilli beef, rice, broccoli, chocolate mousse, packet of salt and shake

Snack: two raw carrots, cucumber, breadsticks, taramasalata, hoummous

Dinner: pizza with anchovies/olives/ham/mushrooms, salad with olive oil and lemon juice dressing, garlic bread, ice cream with chocolate sauce and wafers.

Bottle of beer, large glass of orange juice, two cups of tea with milk and sugar.

Oh I love a post what you eat in a day thread! Where is everyone else?

Today I had

Golden syrup flavour Oats So Simple made with semi skimmed milk. Glass of apple juice.

A cranberry and raspberry Frusli bar.

2 vegetable samosas from Sainsbury's deli with about a tbsp of tzatsiki.

A large handful of green grapes.

Salmon en croute, steamed green beans and peas.

2 large glasses white wine.

2 mugs tea with ss milk.

2 coffees; 1 black, 1 white, with 1 tsp sugar in each.

I think it is even more interesting when people include weight and height.

I have been florred at the diets of people who are X amount overweight. Often the diet is very healthy and moderate, and it seems bloody unfair they are overweight. I showed a couple of posts to a friend who has been rather critical of obese people in the past, not considering it may genuinely be metabolism, genetics etc. rather than greed.

Anyway.....
yesterday I ate
brekkie - two bowls of museli, two apples, tea

snack - some mango and two satsumas

lunch - as yesterday, I felt really strange (I have taken a pregnancy test but negative). Threw away my soup as it made me nauseous. Then, later on i had a cold tin of baked beans! two small bowls of museli, yoghurt, two apples, a latte

snack - crusts of ds' cheese toastie and two satsumas

dinner - innocent ready meal that needed to be eaten before expired, some peas, a yoghut
snack - two large handfuls of dry cheerios

5'6, 8 stone

Wow, this is fascinating! I'm quite shocked at the variations in people's height/weight ratios- I am 5"6 and weigh 10st9 post Christmas. My ideal weight it usually 10st (it's been creeping up and Christmas just tipped me- I'm a size 12 at the moment, usually a size 10. I'm shocked at people in my height bracket who are 8st or 8 1/2 st- I would look really ill! For my wedding I was 9st 8 and people said I was getting too thin! I also couldn't stay at that weight for long, I was too thin for me somehow!

Typically I eat:

2 wheetabix, skimmed milk.
Veg soup for lunch, 2 slices of whole meal bread and butter/salad box with cous cous, no dressing and bag of walkers baked crisps/2 poached eggs on toast.
Lean minced beef burritos/fish, 2 veg, boiled potatoes/roast chicken, sweet potato mash, 3 veg, 2 Yorkshire puds.
Snacks consist of an apple mid morning and fresh pineapple in the afternoon.

Drinks, I have 2 cups of tea per day, skimmed milk, no sugar and water (sometimes with sugar free cordial, but mostly without)

At the weekend I'll have a glass or 2 of beer or wine and tend to have a treat meal ie frozen pizza or beef burgers with coleslaw etc.

Ps, I cycle 16miles per week, walk the dog every day, run for 20mins and go to gym once a week for 1.5hrs- I am reasonably muscular I purpose, but not big from it in any way! 8st........ Sigh!

I'm 1m65 and weigh 67ish kg. My ideal weight (I have a very small frame) is more like 58-59kg.

Yesterday:

Morning: bagel with butter and jam, large mug of coffee
lunch: tomato soup poured over leftover pasta
snack: 2 small squares of dark chocolate and handful of mixed nuts, 1 oat biscuit
dinner: Leggere pizza and small glass of wine (took DS to dinner at Pizza Express), small non-fat frozen yoghurt

5'2", size 4-6

Hmm - yesterday:

Breakfast - 2 cups of tea (I know, but never feel hungry in morning)
Lunch - big rice salad with chicken, rocket, tomatoes. Several Quality Street still knocking about from Xmas.
5pm - leftover chicken nuggets from kids plates....
Dinner: Rump steak with pepper sauce, mash and spinach.
Late night: Big slice of cheese.
Drinks: lots of water, one Diet Coke and several (ahem) glasses of wine....

5 foot 11 and 10 stone.

Yesterday was a bad day for me foodwise- no fruit or veg at all and lots of alcohol

I had
2 chocolate brioche
end bit of ds' banana (literally a bite sized bit so doesn't count as fruit)
packet of hula hoops
small packet of mini chocolate digestives
ham sandwich (wmeal)
half ds' sausage roll
4 grapes (as above not enough to count)
a lollipop (ds' rejects)
2 slices of toast (wmeal) with butter and marmite
Some chocolate
8oz steak and chips (weatherspoons, didnt realise it came without veg/salad)
3 cups normal tea with ss milk
2 cups decaff tea with ss milk
2 large glasses of water
6 vodka and tonics
5 apple sourz

Such an unhealthy day! But that isn't a reflection of a normal day for me, although my diet isn't super healthy it is usually far far better than that. Not surprising I felt hungry all day, I pretty much only ate carbs until the steak.

I agree with whoever said it's down to frame earlier in the thread. My sister and I are the same height and dress size (though she has much bigger boobs) but her healthy 'normal' weight is 8kg heavier than mine and you can see looking at our wrists or ankles that her bones are bigger than mine, same with ribcage-she is 2 inches or so bigger than me there but still within the same dress size.