What do you eat in a typical day?

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Looking for inspiration. Always curious about what people typically have for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks? Do you work out? And would you say you're a healthy weight?

Breakfast - usually toast with something or cereal, sometimes eggs

Snacks - cereal bar or crisps or banana

Lunch - beans on toast, cheese on toast, roll, bagel etc with yoghurt or crisps and fruit.

Dinner - anything! Usually a yoghurt or sweet treat after

Breakfast - protein oats, peanut butter, greek yoghurt, pomegranate, banana, almonds.

Lunch - broccoli, green beans, chicken, rice

Dinner - chicken, rice, Mediterranean veg, broccoli.

Snacks - caramel oat latte from starbucks, chocolate mini roll.

Work out - hour dog walk each day and weightlifting three times a week.

This is really interesting! Did you all ate only what you wrote? As in: nothing else, no slice of this, or a handful of that to add to the mix throughout the day? Or you just wouldn't count it as it was "just a bite"?

A typical 'good' weekday for me is:

B: soy latte
L: Vegetable noodle soup, dahl and bread, tuna/beans/rice, salmon with veg or felafel and salad
D: nut milk protein shake with added banana or yoghurt

Snacks: nuts, fruit, olives etc

On weekends and when out and about, I eat whatever I fancy (but am meat and mostly dairy free).

I would be really interested to know about this huge piece of toast! Did you cut it yourself?

Breakfast - don't eat it

Lunch -
usually a sandwich with ham/tuna/cheese and coleslaw or salad
Bag of popcorn/crisps (usually the lentil baked ones)
Moser roth mini choc bar

Snack - apple/banana/protein yoghurt

Tea - anything but often batch cooked so cottage pie/stew/pasta bake, always have a portion of the frozen steam veg on the side
Yoghurt if I haven't had one earlier or Aldi choc protein mousse

Exercise - varies, virtually no steps due to desk job. 4-6 spin classes a week, stretch daily, lift weights a couple of times a week and try and do yoga (then get fed up and do spin instead!)

BMI 34

Today( I had a day off work )

Breakfast - Leek and tofu Miso soup, rice, dried seaweed, pickled vegetables, fermented soy beans Natto(My husband hates it!) and a banana.

Lunch - Rice, sausage casserole(leftover from last night), bean vermiselle salad and an orange

Dinner - Ton katsu ( pork cutlet), prawn, crab stick mayonnaise salad on gem lettuce, parsnip and carrot soy sauce saute, rice and grapes

I make lots of dishes with plenty of vegetables when I have a day off work and I freeze them. This helps me to prevent from eating out or getting takeaway when I am tired from work ( we eat out once a month). I also freeze some dishes in tiny silicon cops. They are put in bento( Japanese style packed lunch) for my children to take to school and for me to take to work.

Breakfast is toast with marmite/peanut butter or a bowl of special K. Occasionally porridge with blueberries. Always with a cup of coffee.

Lunch is usually a cheese roll (depending on whether toast for breakfast) with things like coleslaw, cherry tomatoes, fruit, activia yoghurt

Dinner tonight was wholewheat pasta with pesto, red salmon, broccoli and mozzarella

Snacks are bananas and chocolate/cereal bars depending on what I fancy and what my blood sugars are doing (type 1)

Ah Mumsnet! Didn't take long for the competitive under-eating posts to appear

Sorry to sound like an idiot but I’m extremely interested; what is your BMR? Mine is a measly 1350 calories a day (BMR) which means to lose weight, with my daily exercise class, I need to eat around 1000 calories a day! It’s awful! How has your weight loss been going?

@AG247 your BMR is what you burn if you do nothing but sleep all day! It's only 60-70% of what you burn a day. You need your TDEE to calculate maintenance cals and deduct from that for fat loss. Try this www.jamessmithacademy.com/macro-calculator/

No it was this one
groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-specially-selected-white-sourdough-loaf-500g/4088600065991
The slices are 2X the size of most slices and don't fit in the toaster.

I try not to snack regularly anymore and if I do, I make sure I ‘notice’ it and eat it mindfully. I portion out the snack into a bowl.

I used to be overweight and it was honestly a bit frightening how much food passed my lips without me registering. I’ve been conscious of my snacking for about four years now and slim ever since. I enjoy them much more now too.

i am 5ft 4 and just under 10 stone. Trying to lose a few pounds.

Yesterday I ate:

breakfast: Greek yoghurt and granola
lunch: tomato soup
dinner: chicken drumsticks, mini potatoes and veg
snack: grapes, homemade oat cookie

I try really hard to not eat between meals and only have non calorific drinks in the week (black coffee, herbal tea, water).

Breakfast - 2 crumpets
Lunch - toastie with mozarella, pesto and tomato
Snack - banana, yoghurt and honey
Dinner - Prawn pasta with tomato sauce

Drinks : Coffee, elderflower cordial, water

Would normally have porridge for breakfast but there were crumpets in the house so 😄

Yesterday I had:

Breakfast- fruit & yogurt
Lunch- cheese salad bagel
Dinner - chicken curry & rice
Snacks - apple, few pieces of dark chocolate
Drinks - orange juice, tea, water

BMI is 20 (healthy weight)

Yesterday I had,
Breakfast - yoghurts with seeds and fruit
Lunch - onion bhaji salad sandwich, and half a packet of walkers baked, an apple
Dinner - steak with asparagus and fries.

Did 13K steps including a run.

32 y.o. (almost), size 8.

Breakfast - always the same: slice of bread with 2 slices of ham, 2 slices of prosciutto, 2 slices of cheese, a piece of chocolate, latte
Lunch - something like pasta/ rice with meat and vegetables simmered in soy sauce/ rice with salmon and broccoli/ Japanese style curry etc.
Snack - latte and a piece of chocolate or a couple of cookies
Dinner - same as lunch

I do 10-15 min strength training every evening, occasionally go to ballroom dance and typically speed-walk for an hour every day with 11 kg/ 1.7 stone toddler in a baby carrier and her heavy nursery bag.

Frankly we could do with a bit more competitive under eating given the size of the nation!

@Cuppasoupmonster under eating often leads to a binge restrict cycle and stops people successfully losing weight. Some people on this post are barely eating enough for a toddler and will make other people think they need to starve themselves to lose weight when overly restrictive diets are doomed to fail and perpetuate the obesity epidemic

If they’re stuck to they don’t. I hear so much about ‘starvation mode’ and ‘binging cycles’ yet I don’t know anyone who has halved their food intake, stuck to it, and not lost weight. I think people keep looking for clever ‘reasons’ that they are supposedly ‘dieting’ despite eating pretty much what they always did, but the only answer really is to eat less and eat better.

Or maybe some of us just don't eat as much as others 😒

The point is starving yourself is unnecessary, you just need to eat in a deficit. A successful diet is maintaining the loss a year later; most starve themselves and then gain it back, if they lose it at all because extreme low calories are very difficult to stick to and navigate life.

There was a post on here before Christmas called 'lose 3 stone in 3 months' that perfectly illustrates the issue as the most anyone has lost is 5lb since then and most have lost nothing because they set unrealistic goals that they couldn't stick to. Sustainable weight loss doesn't need to be as difficult and restrictive as diet culture likes us to believe

I’ve always been slim which I think is down to luck (genes) and being active with a healthy diet monday to Thursday. Yesterday I had:

B: homemade breakfast granola, handful of nuts

L: Big salad of celery, red cabbage, spinach, beetroot houmous, leftover cooked parsnips, seeds and a small piece of Roquefort

D: leftover veggie curry, half an avocado, steamed butternut squash and one large spoonful of the risotto I made for the dc

Snack: small overripe banana left in fruit bowl with tlbsp peanut butter, small chocolate biscuit, one piece of dark chocolate, half an apple

I try to fill up on veggies and protein, if I’d been hungry I would have added a fried egg to dinner but I wasn’t. Trying to cut down on bread as it bloats me unless I’ve made it in my own bread machine.

Dog walk and 30 mins cardio with weights at home. In general I try to do something active once a day and only have wine and dessert at weekends.

A typical day for me would be
2 cups of tea
weetabix or porridge with oat milk
coffee with oat milk
cereal bar or two dark chocolate biscuits (or both, or 4 biscuits, or an almond croissant, or some toast- depends entirely on appetite)
toast with marmite and cheese or avocado, or a sandwich.
sometimes a satsuma, sometimes Greek yoghurt with seeds, 2 dark chocolates
herbal or green tea x 2

Dinner would be a home cooked meal of some description with 3-4 different veg. Then more herbal tea.

I basically eat all morning then have a break until dinner (usually around 6) and then eat nothing after that. Too much chocolate, not enough fruit and veg. BMI 19, 42 years old. Walk at least 6km 5 x a week (briskly), yoga twice a week.