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?

Yesterday I ate: (this came to 1335 calories)

Bfast - 1x mcvities chocolate digestive
lunch - 1x pret chickent raita wrap and bag of crisps
dinner - 1.5x m&s onion bhaji, cup of dahl, cup of rice, blob of beetroot chutney
1 pint bitter

nightcap - 1 weeny sherry

I am of those of you that can eat at regular times of the day.
I'm scatterbrained and on the go which is great for burning off calories but not if I am consuming more later on in the day.

Breakfast - dislike it and if I get around to eating at at all it will only be fruit or yogurt. I should have more foods that would satiate. Any ideas that don't include cereals?

Lunch - lunch could be anytime after 1.30 or as early as 11, all depending on whether my stomach rumbles. Mainly a couple of sandwiches or a salad.
If I'm out shopping I may stop for a coffee and a scone as well. Butter only, no jam or cream.

Tea time is usually a combination of two vegetables with chicken or fish. I try to cut down on the carbs but love love baked pototoes.

No chocolate. I like cake but rarely sit down long enough to have a chunk slice.
Biscuits very rarely.
I drink only decaf coffee as I buzz quite nicely all on my own maybe two or three cups a day, and I drink water.

I walk fast and eat slow. I could do with eating at set times. I'm a little overweight (hence the name) not because of what I eat but of when and why I eat.

5'6 and 8st9 to 9st1. I weigh myself every day and it changes daily! Sightly obsessed.

Breakfast, either an apple or sometimes home-made sourdough and marmite
Lunch, normally red lentils and peas with some chilli or barley / brown cous cous with basil and pine nuts
Supper, roastveg, big salad, veg casserole

Snacks, air popped popcorn and fruit. Small bowl of porridge.

But this is coming from someone who used to be twice the weight and eat SOOOO much rubbish. Until three years ago.

Yesterday I had:

yoghurt with muesli and a few blueberries for breakfast
cheesy penne, small chips and salad for lunch
finished the third of the mac cheese for 1 that dd left
two small sausages and a small left over baked potatoe and gravy
2 x tea, 2 x coffee
3 glasses of wine

Today:

two rashers bacon and an egg on one slice of toast
1/2 chicken breast and leaves and a tomatoe with 1 tsp mayo
1 cup a soup
pork and mush stroganoff thing with rice and courgettes (later)
2 teas, 2 coffees
2 glasses of wine

That's fairly typical for me and I walk about 3 miles a day. Am 51, 5'4" and 11st 6lb. Would love to lose 2 stone but nothing seems to work since the menopause - I know I could cut out the wine. I have quite a large frame.

OP - I was slim in my mid 20's and dieted to keep it that way, by about 28 I very thin and eating very sensibly (like a horse), at 31 I was diagnosed with graves disease and had a subtotal thyroidectomy and then thyroxine supplements from then on. Although I'm now heavier than my early 20's (about 9st then) the correlation of my weight/eating is more similar to my early 20's than it was when the thyroid was not properly controlled.

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Rest of yesterday went:

lunch ham, cheese and pickle sandwich on white bread. Salt and black pepper crisps. Small bar Divine orange/milk chocolate .

Afternoon small bag cream cheese and chive pretzels.

Dinner sesame prawn toast and seafood noodle soup from takeaway.

Today:
breakfast seedy bagel with avo and salmon paste. Two soy-milk coffees. Few Amarettini biscuits.

snack two rye crispbreads with avo and feta. Earl Grey. Three squares Divine orange/milk chocolate. A pear.

Hoping DP can be arsed to go out and get us takeaway sandwiches or something, because I can't. If he doesn't go I will snack on bits of toast, chocolate and chunks of cheese all afternoon.

Here's yesterday:

B: Two cups coffee with soy-creamer and overnight oats: oats, blueberries, walnuts, chopped dates and dried apricots covered with almond milk and left to soak overnight in fridge. In the morning it's a bit like bircher-muesli.

L: Brown rice sushi from Whole Foods made with salmon and avocado, Thai coconut-veg soup, blackberries and pomegranate arils. Green tea.

S: Handful Brazil nuts, orange, peppermint tea.

D: Enormous Glass of white wine, Chickpea, Tomato and Fennel soup from Ottolenghi cookbook, spinach salad and piece of WW bread with mashed avocado. Two squares 85% cocoa chocolate and an orange.

Typical weekday meals are:

Breakfast - Generous portion of muesli or corn flakes with semi-skimmed milk

Lunch - Piece of fruit, normally a banana or apple, and a coffee

Evening meal - Something fairly robust like chicken leg with skin on, baby potatoes and 2 or 3 veg (generous on the veg portion) with one or two rye bread or a brown roll and a mug of coffee

Snacks - more cereal (not sugar based ones), porridge, fish like a fried kipper or tin of salmon/sardines, more fruit, soup with or without a brown bread roll

At the weekend, the only change would be that breakfasts are a bit more generous e.g. some weekends we have beans on toast or soup

Sweet things would generally be honey on toast, marmalade - I'm not a big fan of sugar primarily because of diabetes running in my family

Oh - and based on the above, I am within a healthy BMI weight (I'm about a UK 12, based on the fact that I'm also a short arse so carry any extra weight fairly poorly)

If I feel myself putting on a few pounds like at Christmas (too many meals out), I cut back on bread really, seems to do the trick

I should have more foods that would satiate. Any ideas that don't include cereals?

Try:

• More proteins like fish - even a tin of tuna thrown in amongst a couple of chopped tomatoes and a few leaves of salad is filling to me
• Eggs! Omlette can be really healthy, warm and filling
• 'healthier' cereals can really fill you up - shredded wheat where the box says it literally is only wheat (not extra sugar crap)
• Porridge with nuts and seeds
• 'dippy' egg soldiers, can use rye bread rather than white loaf crap
• avocado on rye, or as part of a sandwich filler with normal bread
• homemade soups - we batch cook it and freeze in portions (I'm talking nearly 20 portions normally - from meat lefovers sometimes, but mostly filled with healthy stuff like leftover veg and lentils)

Breakfast: small glass fruit juice, porridge or muesli or cereal with oat milk, green tea.
2 cups coffee with milk at work, snack on nuts and dried fruit if hungry
Lunch: sandwich or soup and bread or salad and bread, fresh fruit
Get home, might have toast and nut butter if hungry, with cup of tea
Supper: 'normal' family meal e.g. roast chicken etc, risotto, pasta, sausages, potatoes and veg.
Occasionally eat biscuits and chocolate too, but don't buy them for myself.

Am mature woman old and despite taking regular exercise (running, walking around town and hillwalking) my metabolism is noticeably slower these days.

Breakfast - 2 slices toast with marmite or tomato and v light soft cheese or mushrooms
or
2 X Oatibix and ss milk
or
2 bananas
Black coffee

Lunch - small helping pasta or a baked potato with salad (but not if I have had breakfast with carbs)
or
large salad (this is the favourite choice)
Piece of fruit

Dinner - omelette and salad/grilled chicken and salad or some such
Fruit and natural yogurt

Anything more and I put on weight rapidly

Blimey all these lists sound like diet food to me and I would loose weight on them.I'm a size 14 and never vary,eat what I like but I try to avoid friend food and to keep the fruit/veg up although often don't manage.

Today:-

orange and mango juice
banana
2X seeded w/m toast,butter and marmalade

butternut squash and peanut butter soup(home made)wfw
2X seeded w/m toast and butter

2X Werthers sweets

just eaten 150g salted cashews
2x Crabbies ginger beer

going to have
oven baked home made chicken curry (wfw) and rice

if I'm good nothing else
if I'm bad:green/blacks choc or some other choc.

Mmmm....lots of good ideas here. I need to make omelettes for dinner more often--easy and filling and kippers! I love them but they are really hard to find here so will have a harder look.

Reindeer-when you do sardines do you mix anything in with them or just eat them plain?

Butternut squash and peanut butter soup?!? YUM. That sounds amazing...

MrsHeffley, your list doesn't sound very different to some others' lists on here ... toast, soup, home-made curry etc. I don't think it sounds as if you eat very much, really (although maybe this isn't a typical day); I eat a not dissimilar lunch and dinner but also need a more substantial breakfast than that, elevenses, and an afternoon snack or several.

I think your fruit and veg intake sounds good. Would you have veg with or in the curry? I find that a very easy way of eating more veg; I cook some in the curry, which I make in batches and freeze, then every time I defrost them to eat I add more fresh veg.

PS I hope that didn't sound judgeypant-ish ? it wasn't meant to. I'm just concerned when I don't think someone is eating enough

It's a HFW one,has coconut milk,tinned tomatoes,onion,garlic etc so I guess yes to veg in it.

I do pick throughout the day during the week but it was a bit hectic today.When I pick I try to go for nuts,oatcakes,cheese,fruit etc but since Christmas it's been those German hearts,choc and toast/marmite etc.

I do get a craving for sweet stuff in the evening.As I have a carb heavy day I try to go for tinned fruit or choc.

I have proper spreadable butter as don't trust the shite in spreads so worry I'm quite sat fat heavy but we don't eat a lot of meat(lots of nuts though).

Often have fruit/fibre for breakfast.Always have a double expresso latte(home made) sometimes with full fat milk(mostly semi)too.Always have something at 10 during the week,often homemade cake or biscuits but try to make them with fruit eg apple cake,banana cake,things with oats.

Normally would have wine on Fri,Sat maybe the last of the bottle Sun but we're on no spend Jan hence the drinking up of the Crabbies.

I do go through phases when I'm too busy to eat as much,never have fish and chips,burgers or stuff like that but I'm under no illusions my diet is hardly weight watchers.

I'm 5 foot 8 (91/2 stone -10 stone,maybe 10 stone don't know as I don't weigh,I'm always well in my bmi,have never ever gone into the shaded bit)though and a bigish girl,small waist but bigish bum and thighs-a typical British pear I guess.I never change but if I watch what I eat(cut out the carbs and fat I loose weight)or run around and don't graze constantly I loose weight albeit not as easily as I used to.

Would like to be thinner but can't be arsed and like my food too much.I only worry about health.

Re the op I'm of the thyroid opinion(sounds like my sis)but make sure you get it checked.

Popbiscuit sometimes plain, sometimes I use the tins with tomato sauce in them (very rarely though), sometimes heated up with some toast... or put on a rye bread. Or thrown in with some salad. Or with a little "snack pack" (cut up carrots, some cucumber and sardines too). go wild!

Had HFW Every Day for Christmas,has some nice stuff in,not too expensive.Doing the almond/apple cake thing tomorrow and will have roast pork with roast veg(more squash,onions,carrots etc for lunch,sadly no red wine with it though.

Breakfast:Porridge or boiled egg and toast
Lunch:Sandwich or homemade soup
Dinner:pasta and sauce or meat[chicken or steak ] or fish and veg + potatoes
fruit for puds and juice with breakfast[I like apple and ginger dh likes V8]
snacks-two a day- a biscuit at bedtime and either scone or cake at 4 ish
We are both overweight [ esp dh]but not seriously.

Have not read whole thread although plan to, went through about 5 pages and then thought - geez...

When I lived in the UK...

B: Usually nothing, perhaps a piece of toast or banana once I got to work

Snack: Banana or Innocent fruit smoothie (kids size)

L: Always a sandwich, bacon & egg or ham - always brown bread, lite yogurt, maybe a juice

Snack: Satsuma or Innocent fruit smoothie (kids size)

D: Main meal portion, sausage casserole (sweet potato, tomato, squash, peas), OR spinach pasta with red sauce OR chicken, pepper, onion fajitas OR chicken & rice & veg casserole, something similar

I walked at least 10 miles a day, and was a nanny so forever chasing after toddlers, hardly ever had a sit-down during the day. So plenty of exercise. And I was VERY overweight. No idea why

Now I live in America - land of the obese - and I do embarrassingly less exercise, I'm pregnant, I eat food which surely has more fat and processed things and I weigh less Go figure that one out.

Thanks for the suggestions! Will try those.

Is this the soup recipe?
Will def. try.

Thats the one although we didn't have the stuff on top as I forgot.The oven baked chicken curry is lovely too,just tasted it!