Am I overeating?

[Ellalovescake]

I get told a lot by family that I overeat and I’m starting to worry that I might be.
For breakfast I eat: a large bowl of porridge with two bananas and yoghurt and two slices of toast with jam on and either a coffee or a hot chocolate. For lunch I usually have a croissant, another 2 bananas, a yoghurt, some carrot sticks, an apple, some grapes, a Bourbon biscuit and a glass of orange juice. For a snack in the afternoon I then normally have a glass of milk and a digestive biscuit. For dinner I usually have something like a roast dinner (with 3 veg) or spaghetti bolognaise (admittedly I quite often go back for a second serving) and for pudding I mostly have a chocolate yoghurt or just a plain yoghurt. Before I go to bed I often have a hot chocolate or warm milk and if I’m still hungry sometimes a slice of toast. I’m 5 foot 7 and I’m 10 stone 9 pounds and am 28 years old so I’m not really overweight but do get what I think is reflux which is mostly worse after eating. I just wondered if this seems excessive to be eating and if anyone thinks that cutting down might help with the reflux?

Ellalovescake do you do a lot of exercise?

You're hardly eating any protein! I think your blood sugar is dropping every few hours from all that fruit, juice and carbs heavy foods. I bet anything that if you start eating eggs for breakfast and some kind of protein with a dressed salad or veg for lunch, you'll not only be a lot less hungry and wanting to snack, your reflux will disappear too.

Also, 4 bananas a day are way too many. Eat one at the most.

It is a lot, I’d feel very sick if I had all that. For me, it’s one meal a day. Today no breakfast, a veggie burger in pub for lunch, no dinner. I don’t feel hungry.

For what it’s worth I used to be 14 stone (5’7) and eat non stop.

Btw I don’t limit to one meal, I just never feel like breakfast and if I eat lunch I won’t be hungry again. Mostly though I’m not hungry until about 5pm.

Wow that’s a lot of food albeit quite healthy, you could cut that by half and have things like a biscuit, croissant and hot chocolate once a week. I would need to go back to bed after that breakfast

Thank you all for your replies! I’m definitely going to start cutting down (especially with the bananas!) and have more of a meal at lunch! I swim and go to the gym very regularly so I think I always feel like I can eat as I please!

I'm confused about what's healthy about all the food OP is eating?
I don't mean to be flippant but fruit juice is not healthy. Jam is not healthy. All those bananas and fruit are not healthy. Unless the yogurt is Greek full fat, it's not healthy - low fat yogurts are full of artificial sugars which aren't healthy. Croissant and toast, not particularly healthy unless made sourdough or wholegrain. Hot chocolate is not healthy either.

As some of us have mentioned, there's no protein which should be eaten at every meal.

Oh, and OP, eventually what you're eating will catch-up with you and going to the gym will not keep things in check. Believe me, I know this from experience. I wish I'd have realised this before I found out the hard way.