If you are 5’3 and weigh under 8.5 stone, what do you eat in a typical day?

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And how much do you exercise?

I want to lose some weight, ideally to be around the 8 - 8.5 stone mark.

This is a helpful thread and mainly sensible eating (not replies saying you eat one stick of celery a day!).

I wondered if any of you who have commented also count calories and could say approximately what your daily calories are each day?

I’m 5ft2, 8st10, age 42 and would like to lose the few pounds I seem to have gained over the last year. (I’m very active - lots of walking, dumbbells workouts at home, etc.).

5ft 3in 118lbs
Exercise: At least 10k steps a day. I’m trying to get back into going to the gym a few times a week so I’ll be adding a protein shake or something to what I’ve listed below.

My diet is rubbish, don’t copy me! I definitely need to stop eating so much cheese and eat far more veg than I have been. I don’t over eat but I don’t under eat either.

Some days I have more of an appetite than others. I usually have one big meal a day either at lunch or evening meal depending on when I feel hungry. If I have a big meal at lunch, I’ll just have a sandwich or something small in the evening.

Breakfast: I hate eating breakfast but have to eat with my medication so I’ll have a yoghurt protein pouch thing.

Lunch: A small cheese sandwich on wholemeal bread, a toast with lots of butter, or a jacket potato with cheese and beans or cheese and coleslaw.

Evening meal: Veg pasta with lots of cheese or if I’m feeling really hungry then I’ll have half a takeaway pizza or a cheese and onion pie, chips, and mushy peas from the chippy.

Snacks: A mini cheese stick thing and a bar of chocolate

Edited to make it clear that when I get a takeaway pizza, I have half of it. Sometimes I’ll have the other half the next day but I can’t eat the full pizza in one go on my own. And also to add that I’ve noticed the chip shop portions are a lot smaller than when I was growing up, the tray is definitely smaller!

So many people seem to eat so little protein, fibre or fruit and veg.

Very good advice. Though I did nearly all that and was two or three stone overweight for 15 years.

I’m 5 foot 4 and weigh 8:1.

Breakfast is one weetabix with sweetener, blueberries and semi skimmed milk

Lunch is a Grenade protein bar

Dinner is something like chicken and vegetable stir fry, or salmon with salad. Followed by a chocolate protein pudding.

I am disabled and can’t really exercise.

I maintain this weight with this intake, am not losing weight. I am in my sixties.

It’s pure laziness in my case. I’m busy but so is everyone else! My pasta and bread is always whole grain/wholemeal but I could do a lot better.

What’s your height, weight, and diet?

That's fine too! 8.5 stone is on the very low side. Most women can't maintain that low weight and shouldn't try.

I would look like a child at that weight. I’d look dreadful.
I’m sure the other posters look great and it suits them … but it wouldn’t me.

It’s not “very low” at all! My BMI is 21! To be “very low” it would be 18.5 and to get to 18.5 BMI at 5ft 3, I’d have to lose nearly a stone to weigh around 105lbs. A stone might not sound like a lot to someone who is taller but it is a lot for those of us who are 5ft 3!

just slightly under that height wise, I basically calorie count and do 1200 and try to mix up what I eat a lot, I read the 1200splenty sub for ideas, yesterday I had a taco for lunch, oats for breakfast, and a salad with some sweet potato fries for dinner

I'm 5ft 3in and weigh 9st. I'm 69 and my weight has always fallen between 8 and 9st. I eat the same things more or less every day unless I'm going out, but it isn't a conscious calorie or even health thing. I rarely have breakfast unless I'm on holiday but I have lunch at 12pm which is either a liberally buttered crusty white roll (real French butter with salt crystals) with cheese and onion, hummus with a side of black olives and feta cheese, smoke mackerel or a couple of hard boiled eggs. After that I have a small bowl of full fat greek yoghurt with some fruit. Once or twice a week I'll also have a danish pastry or slice of cake after lunch or lately a hot cross bun. For tea in the summer I have a bowl of mixed salad drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and a jacket spud with butter and full fat greek yoghurt on top. In the winter I'll have something like a lentil curry or veg stew. I've never dieted and although I'm reasonably active, I don't deliberately exercise.

Edited to say that I also usually have two glasses of red wine in the evening.

5ft 3 and 50kg which I think is 8 stone.
Breakfast: rarely eat anything, just two cups of tea.
Lunch: porridge with seeds/nuts/dried cranberries/fresh blueberries
afternoon snack: crackers and cheese, banana
Dinner: home cooked meals like prawn risotto/veggie chilli/salmon teriyaki etc…

I don’t think I eat enough protein, in fact I’m not sure I eat enough full stop tbh. I will use this thread to try to motivate myself to eat different foods.

I think what I'm taking from this thread is that there is a massive variety of ways to eat. If I ate the way some posters did I would fade away - if I ate the same way as others I would gain weight. I guess we are all different.

OP - if you are still there, I would recommend you make small changes to your habits, get them to stick, and then make more small changes and so on. And be patient.

Slightly taller, 125lbs, age 36.

Two meals a day.
Exercise class (barre or HIIT) 5-6x a week
Lots of walking

Eat healthily during the week, no snacking
More relaxed at the weekend

It’s not a low weight for someone petite at 5 foot 3. It’s a healthy bmi

You stop eating at 3pm?

Lunch is hummus, veg sticks and breadsticks

That's a meal? How are you not super hungry all day?

You're my height.

How did you manage to maintain the weight loss after completely stopping WLI?

Most women can't maintain that low weight and shouldn't try.

Why?

I have either popcorn, small bowl of porridge or toast about 6 and the fruit then too. I’m up at 5 am so by 3pm I’m very hungry 😄

You go from 3pm till bedtime with nothing?

I’m 5’2 am 8 stone 11, any lower and I look gaunt, I’m petite boned as well and I like this weight as it gives me gorgeous curves , but I do go the gym 4 times a week to keep toned and strength training as I like to look and feel strong.

breakfast - bacon or eggs or porridge with one slice of toast.
lunch - chicken or ham salad sandwich brown bread & yogurt or protein drink
dinner - pasta bolognaise or a curry with rice , jacket potato with anything and try to add a portion of veg no matter what dinner may be.

nothing else I just have 3 meals a day no snacking and don’t ever feel Hungary

oh also I drink tea normal and green and two coffees a day.

I am 157cm and around 51 kg or so. I have been this weight pretty much all my life.

B: large latte and either sourdough toast or overnight oats. In weekends I may have a late brunch (eggs, toast, avocado).

L: sandwich if in the office, maybe a salad with egg or tuna etc if at home.

D: usually a vegetarian pasta, or something like chickpea curry with rice, etc.

Snacks: fruit, nuts/dried fruit.

When I was this weight it would be:
Breakfast - Fat free greek yoghurt, strawberries and blueberries
Mid morning - Coffee
Lunch - Either Plain chicken breast/ salmon fillet/ prawns/ hard boiled egg with salad and no dressing.
Afternoon - An apple or grapes
Dinner - home cooked meal, trying to keep it under 600 cals
Evening - Something sweetish (two squares of dark chocolate with cup of tea)

Ate like this for around 5 years but one day I just started eating and couldn’t stop, now I’m closer to 11 stone 😅

I drink more than I should, 2 pints, but 4 times a week at the moment.

Takeaway twice. Crisps, cheese, bread, pasta.

The reason I stay slim is I never overeat and recognise fullness.

I don’t snack, unless you could crisps with a sandwich as ‘snacking’

And I don’t really do sweets / chocolate / sugar, outside what’s in the things I eat / drink listed above.

Exercise- No heavy exercise, I walk around 30
miles a week. Moderate pace.