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

[nethunsreject]

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?

hope your test results come back ok nethun

Typically

Breakfast Toast with poached egg, cuppa tea and a banana.
Lunch Sandwich, baked spud or soup or salad.
Evening Casserole, pasta something, sausage and mash, chops and

vegetables etc.

I drink loads of tea and water and eat very little between meals though I've had a few sugared almonds today. Left over from Christmas, would be a shame to waste them wouldn't it?

Hi OP. This is really interesting reading. Just trying to think what I ate yesterday:

Cup of tea
portion of tinned grapefruit
bowl of wheat free cereal

2 cups of coffee during morning

wheatfree roll with cheese
apple

cup of tea and piece of wheatfree christmas cake

roast chicken, sweet potato, green bean
yoghurt

2 chocolates and mug hot milk (DH was in danger of eating entire packet and they were MY christmas present!)

That's normal for me (apart from cake and chocolates), but I generally don't eat enough. I am 5 ft 6, weigh around 9 and a half stone.

I had an overactive thyroid when DS2 was born - I was drinking complan between meals, but the weight just fell off me, plus the shakes, nightmares, sore wrists etc.

Anyone up for doing this on a daily basis? I think it's fascinating to actually see everything you eat written in a list. My diet is generally OK, I think, but I know it's variable depending on where I am and how lazy or food-oriented I'm feeling.

Today so far:

wholemeal bagel with avocado and salmon paste
two coffees with soy milk
two squares of milk chocolate (good quality)

two rye cracker things, one with blue goats cheese and one with avocado
small bunch green grapes
small chunk of hard goats cheese
sliced raw courgette, quite a large one

Loads of water (three pints so far, I think).

Will probably have a handful of fancy crisps and more chocolate later, and one or two cups of tea with soy milk.

Dinner will be fresh fish, probably mackerel, with some kind of shop-bought stir-fry sauce, with brown rice, half a head of pak choi, a few shiitake mushrooms, another courgette and some raw red pepper.

Herbal tea and a couple of squares of dark choc before bed.

Today:

Granola bar
Sushi (tuna and vegetable, wasabi)
Muller light yogurt

Usual a million coffees, well 5 so far

will have fish & chips takeaway tonight with friends.

I am currently on a reduced calorie thing - I have been unwell recently and have a chronic syndrome which means I am on a shedload of steroids. My weight has fluctuated and due to the steroids, and I need to watch what I eat anyway (no alcohol, reduced protein, low salt) because of the illness.

I want to get down to my fighting weight of 9 stone 12 so need to to lose 2 stone (normal weight is about 10 - 10.5 stone). I am 6 feet tall.

What I had yesterday:

Breakfast - porridge made with water (don't like dairy)
Lunch - french onion soup, pitta bread with houmous and carrot, apple, 2 satsumas,
Dinner - chicken tagine, with cabbage on the side

Drinks - 2 or 3 coffees, fizzy water

No snacks

It is a limited diet but I feel very uncomfortable and unhealthy at this weight.

I am not hungry at all by the way, and in fact teh above is probably healthier than my normal diet (my normal preference is to exist on coffee all day, and then have one large meal late at night).

Yesterday was a well behaved day for me, despite the time of the month. I had a bowl of oatibix with light soya milk for breakfast, small slice of marmite toast mid-morning, pea and ham soup with slice of wholemeal bread and piece of cheese for lunch, followed by an alpro yoghurt thing. When i got home with the kids, I had a satsuma to re-fuel after the long walk, then had a bowl of pasta with tuna and vegetables in tomato sauce, with a sprinkling of parmesan for dinner. At 9 o'clock-ish, I had a mug of cocoa. About 1700 calories in all.

Breakfast-only eat it at the weekend as dont have time on school mornings
sat-croissant or toast
sun-fry up in bed served by dh

Lunch-home made soup-though I do have a very bad tendency to eat the whole pot

Dinner-usually bog standard stuff like cottage pie,casseroles,curries,pasta-family fare basically. I always have 2 veg with dinner but tend to serve too much bread with it too-we are a carb loving family!

snacks-usually chocolate or biscuits-lots!

Have 2 cups of coffee a day and a pot of tea in the evening.

I am 5'6 and weigh.....dont actually know but am currently a 14/16. Would like to get back down to a 12 so probably need to lose a stone and a half.

Breakfast: Porridge
No mid morning snack

Lunch: Crackers/cheese/ham, or ham salad or Pasty if I'm having a greedy day! Plus a small cake (something like a fondant fancy for my sweet tooth!).
Mid afternoon: bit of the DCs afternoon fruit snack.

Dinner: Something like fishcakes and salad, jacket potato, cheese (too much) bacon and salad, or Chicken, veg and jacket, or Pasta. Yoghurt. (all goes to pot on the weekend when we have a takeaway or pizza!)

After dinner it all goes HIDEOUSLY wrong and I usually end up demolishing some left over xmas/halloween/birthday sweets/chocs and then cursing myself for my lack of willpower!

I am 5'11" and weigh too much: 11st8lb.

Good idea, Lady! Although I eat pretty well I could certainly use some new ideas as I tend to eat the same things over-and-over again. Your avocado and salmon bagel sounds really yummy.

Today for breakfast I had a whole-grain English muffin with non-dairy spread and all-fruit jam and scrambled egg whites and an orange. Two extremely large cups of coffee with soy-milk.

legallyblond

Oh- so you are a moderator now, are you?

I must have missed something, but I thought this was a public forum where, if anyone felt like it, they could reply to posts. I didn't realise that I had to ask if my comments were "called for" in advance.

I think you need to stop being patronising. I fully understand BMI so there was no need for the lecture on it. FWIW I think you are the confused one. BMI is worked out by height and weight- so a taller person will not necessarily have a higher BMI than a short person weighing less! The healthy range is 18.5-25. This takes into account whether you are 6'5 or 4'10, and every size inbetween. And yes, athletic people with loads of muscle can have BMIs outside the upper limit and still be healthy.

And as for women criticising each other- there has hardly been a post here where women have not referred to their food intake as "good today" or "bad" and referred to weight they want to gain or lose.

It's not such a big step to take that to the next stage is it- and say well, this is why you are overweight, underweight, whatever.

No one is making anyone post about what they eat. Are they?

For those interested in a food log, can I recommend myfitnesspal.com?

Many of you will know about it already, but it's a very easy and free way of monitoring your calorific intake, but also your exercise levels and the nuritional value of what you've eaten.

It's great. It can really get the weight off if you do it properly, and it is not a diet, it is just food awareness...

Amelia, you know it is possible to debate this stuff, and even be encouraging and informative, without sounding sanctimonious and winding people up

I agree with TheScarlettPimpernel.

"No one is making anyone post about what they eat. Are they?"

no, but some of your comments could definitely be putting people off! TBH i couldn't quite understand why you felt the need to start commenting so negatively on other people's diet on a thread which was started by someone just looking for information.

I have just tried out myfitnesspal.com. It is quote good and calculates exercise too.

I've been writing up a daily food log for a couple of years now. Started during WW days and just continued it. I still use it to track points.

Today:

Porridge with banana, saltanas and honey. Made with water.
3 rice cakes with marmite
Apple
2 x skinny capuccino
3 x Pumpkin Ryvitta with low fat cottage cheese and ham
1 x dried fig

Dinner tonight with either be home made vegetable soup or baked salmon fillet with spinach and roasted tomatoes depending on hunger levels.

Have also done an hours Body Pump class.

I can't believe how much fat is in a tablespoon of olive oil. I usually slop it all over my salad, and I love dipping bread into it.

Food focus sounds the same as my fitness pal I think, today has been ok for me as long as I eat nothing for the rest of the day!

I'm enjoying this thread.

OK...

Breakfast: Weetabix, All-Bran or branflakes with a somewhat excessive amount of raisins and a banana. About eighty cups of tea.

Mid-morning: Coffee and a few gallons of water (I exaggerate of course, but I am breastfeeding...)

Lunch: Sandwich or baked potato with cheese or egg or cheese or hummus or cheese, lots of fruit or salad or both. And maybe a bit more cheese. Plenty of water and herbal tea.

Dinner: Pasta or rice or couscous or polenta with lentils and veg and possibly some cheese. Lots of fruit and water and tea, herbal or otherwise.