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

@Goatinthegarden Oh well... that's precisely where I go wrong. It does feel as if anything eaten over the kitchen sink doesn't count

@endlesscraziness halving your food intake isn’t ‘starving yourself’ - this is where we are going wrong, our portions are so enormous that regular meals are seen as ‘snacks’ and normal size portions as ‘tiny’.

Breakfast: porridge or yoghurt and muesli
Lunch: leftovers or soup
dinner: pasta/noodles/baked fish with lots of veg
not big snacker, usually some fruit or trail mix. A few coffees and teas, and water, no other drinks apart from wine at weekend

@Cuppasoupmonster that is such a spurious comment. Yes some people can probably half their intake or more. Some if they do that will be malnourished. Safe consistent way of losing weight; calculate TDEE, deduct 4-500 cals. Eat to that, prioritizing whole foods and protein. Assess in 3 weeks if you E lost weight, if not up steps or drop cals by 10%

It sounds like you're trying to justify disordered eating which in itself can be dangerous to health.

I’m a teacher and struggle to eat properly at school due to busy lunchtimes.
My typical day looks like this:
Breakfast: Black Coffee
Lunch: Protein bar and banana/apple
Dinner: (I’m starving by this point!) A nice big homecooked (by me) meal. Chicken + rice + veg, pasta, Chilli con carne, fish with mash etc.
Always followed by a piece of fruit, a small yoghurt, and a square of dark chocolate
Supper: If I do an evening workout, I always have porridge made with water mixed with protein powder afterwards.

Who on this thread is competitively undereating? I can see no-one doing that.

this is what I’ve had today...

Brown bread x 2, butter, blackcurrant jam, peanut butter.
Cup of tea.

Almond croissant, small latte
(met Mum in cafe)

Wholemeal bread x 1, butter.
Ready salted crisps. Cup of tea.

Lindt chocolates.
Chocolate peanuts.
Handful green grapes.
Roast peanuts & almonds.
(premenstrual munchies)
Cup of tea.

Mixed leaves, spinach, red & yellow peppers, Feta, green & kalamata olives, pasta salad (olive oil, basil pesto, Parmesan, pine nuts), beetroot, pumpkin seeds, roast almonds, herbs, balsamic dressing.

1.5 hour walking (have no car).

No one on this thread is competitively under eating!

It was a very busy day for me today and I run off adrenaline often at work.

Couple of coffees
3 boiled eggs
Left over lentil and veg curry
2l water

Trying to lose weight and succeeding, albeit slowly - have lost 33 lb in the last year. I need to lose another 30 lb to get down to a BMI of 25.

I don't eat breakfast - a couple of cups of tea normally do me. On the other hand, I don't go to work or have small children so I don't get up particularly early. If I did, I'd probably eat something like cereal but to lose weight I'd have to eat less later.

Lunch is often a sandwich and some fruit. Occasionally I'll have poached eggs or beans on toast. Today I had some leftover cooked brown rice, so I stir-fried some spring onions and mushooms and a slice of ham chopped up, and then stirred in the rice and a tablespoonful of kung pao sauce. Whatever I eat, I have a piece of fruit - usually an apple, a pear or a clementine, sometimes grapes or cherries.

Dinner last night was some veggie curry with brown rice and some baked pears and blueberries. I peel and cut up pears, chuck blueberries over them and a slosh of sugar-free apple and blackcurrant squash, cover and bake them in the oven until the pear seems cooked. We try and leave a gap between dinner and dessert, so dessert feels more like an evening snack.

I try not to snack, but occasionally have a chocolate digestive biscuit mid-afternoon, or a few small cheese crackers.

I drink tea or coffee - mostly water with a dash of milk, no sugar.

Can't really see competitive undereating. Maybe 1 or 2 posts but not many, and certainly not enough for there to be a competition.

B - Homemade celery, cucumber, spinach, and ginger juice. Avocado on toast.

L - Homemade vegetable and lentil soup with pumpkin seeds on top. A handful of cashew nuts.

D - Bean chilli, brown rice, side salad, and a handful of Doritos.

Would add extra carbs to lunch if exercising. Generally do martial arts, yoga, hiking, running etc.

45 BMI 21.

Today I have had

breakfast - porridge with 1/2 banana (split with DP) honey and cinnamon, and some brown toast

lunch - I usually have quite a late and big breakfast (as above) so not too interested in lunch I had some potato cakes about an hour ago.

dinner - will be home made tandoori chicken on naan with salad and mint yoghurt dressing.

snacks - biscuits! I might sneak a sausage roll if we have any.

this is a pretty standard day for me, could definitely do with some more fruit and veg. I sometimes have yoghurt with loads of fruit and granola instead of porridge.

Yesterday I had-
B overnight oats with lactose free Greek yoghurt, chia seeds, cinnamon & banana
S peppermint tea and babybel mid morning
L BLT on gf seeded bread & packet of salt & vinegar crisps.
S 2 oatcakes spread with crunchy peanut butter and sandwiched with blueberries
D Jacket potato with tuna Mayo & side salad
S bowl of sweet & salty popcorn & 2 squares of 70% dark choc.

currently on the low fodmap diet trying to work out my ibs triggers plus increasing protein as weight lifting 2-3 a week.

Breakfast is nearly always two poached eggs on toast with an orange juice.
Morning tea is usually biscuits.
Lunch is an egg sandwich at present with a piece of fruit.
Afternoon tea - nothing.
Dinner - family meal - 2~3 veg plus meat etc.
Before bed - yoghurt.

@ChatInMyFlat unless those coffees were some elaborate coffee shop creation at a push you probably ate under 1000 cals which proves my point

@Tanfastic please can you share how you make your crust less quiche

After reading what you all typically eat in a day I’m so ashamed what I would eat and things are definitely going to change from now on. I snack way too much. I can easily eat a packet of biscuits, a large bar of chocolate in one go. No wonder I’m a size 16 and 3 stone over weight. I do eat a healthy and dinner. Just made a plan for the new healthy me

Crustless quiche (aka frittata in this house): I spray a pie dish with non-stick spray. I put together whatever ingredients I want. Often it's chopped up spring onions because they don't need to be sautéed to taste good when cooked, but I do sauté ordinary chopped onions if I don't have spring onions. If I have ham I sometimes add that. If I have roasted peppers in the fridge or in a jar I sometimes put those in. Then grated cheese (whatever you have in) and I beat up four or five eggs (or more depending how many I'm cooking for, but it's usually just the two of us), season with salt and pepper and fresh or dried herbs and pour them over the top. Possibly a bit more grated cheese on top, but it's not essential. Then I bake at maybe gas 5, 375F or whatever that is in C for maybe half an hour or until it looks done and isn't liquid in the middle but not dried out.

Thank you @Britinme