thin people ,,what do you eat in average day?

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interested,,been reading the posts about what size people are and everyone is so thin....... so what do you all eat usually?

Am I being a bit thick here? I thought that thin people had slower metabolisms and that BMI's are no indicator of how healthy you are. Isn't there equation you are supposed to do after measuring your waist and your hips instead?

Sorry that should have been hard hat!

No breakfast, or a cereal bar if I'm working all day. A sandwich or salad for lunch. Small cooked dinner at night, pasta, curry, meat and veg. Full fat yoghurt at night or a piece of cake every other day. Drink a few cups of tea/coffee a day.

Drink red or white wine about three times a week. Go through a whole bottle if I'm not working the next day.

I realise that I don't eat a lot. I don't like fruit but eat lots of salad and veg. I think a little bit of what you fancy is ok. This diet keeps my weight stable at 8st 3. If I ate more I would have to exercise more. Used to be around 7 1/2 stone in my thirties but I'm well in my forties now and very happy with my figure atm. I also don't believe in dieting and think a lifestyle change is the best way to gradually lose excess pounds a keep it off.

I tend to eat biscuits as a snack but very rarely have puddings (except during the winter months). But that would be about 2 biscuits per day, other snacks would be things like a muesli bar, a banana, cheese and crackers, nuts, bit of chocolate, small piece of cake etc.

I also have days where I don't eat very much (I sometimes forget to eat lunch) but then tend to eat more on other days.

I drink vats of wine and have a ready-meal or a takeaway approx once a week! I may be thin but that doesn't mean I'm healthy!

Ineedsomesleep, there is some ratio, not that I can remember what it is - because putting on weight on your belly is more correlated with heart disease, so having a fat bum is better than a fat belly. That doesn't mean that being massive with the right ratio is the same as being thin with the right ratio though. As a general rule being skinny is more healthy than being fat - skinnies are inclined to have less major diseases, deal better with surgery etc.

The one your talking about googgly is having a waist measurement of 35ins or less.

Thanks ladies for the advice. I have already cut my portion sizes down, I have been with weight watchers so this does teach you about portion control.

I say 2 bottles of wine a week but do swap that for vodka as much as poss as its lower calories.

I am just not one of these people that will lose weight quickly

very interesting thread.

my weight has crept up hugely over last three years. when i lived at home i ate anything and everything and was a size ten with big boobs. now i'm a sixteen, but my weight has shifted to my stomach which worries me.

when you look at some of the lists above they sound like a lot. then you start thinking 'but i did have two chocolate bars in the afternoon', or 'i did have coke, and a fatty pizza, and desert out last friday night' or 'oh i forgot about finishing off dds dinner', 'i always have three weetabix' etc.

i began keeping food diary about two weeks ago anc christ - you block out a lot of what you eat! i think for a lot of cases people who have put on weight just dont realise how much they are eating. weighing out the corrct portion of pasta one day i nearly died!

mama I was the same as you. I started keeping a food diary and weighing portions a yr ago and was

I am a size 10, but unfortunately I have a belly that I cannot get rid of!
For a few years I was a size 12 and since my diet has always been good I am certain it was because of frequent visits to coffee shops for moccas, hot chocolates and cake. I don't do that anymore.

Breakfast: bowl of porridge or corn flakes + 1 slice of bread with a bit of butter and marmite or jam + a coffee or tea.

Snack : whatever I get my hands on, maybe some almonds, or one biscuit, or if I feel like something sweet I'll have an apple/banana or a couple of prunes (because I like them), if I am very hungry then I'll have a slice of bread.

Lunch: I always make a home cooked meal for myself and the boys. It varies really, could be rice with salad and fried fish/chicken, could be pasta with home made sauce and some protein, maybe quinoa and potato soup with a second course, I love casseroles. All sorts of dishes really. This is when I have the bigger portion of food.
Big bowl of fruit for dessert for me and the boys.
Drink: water or homemade lemonade

Dinner: I reheat whatever I had for lunch and eat a much smaller portion of the same. I'll also have a yogurt.
Drink: water (I don't drink alcohol unless I am out for a dinner or something social, and no I am not depriving myself I just don't feel the need to drink wine at home).

I never buy fizzy drinks or fatty biscuits or ice cream, chocolate. If I buy anything like this it will be if I have visitors at home.

Yes, the waist measurement test is useful because it's people who put weight on the tummy who have the greatest health risks (although anyone 3 or more stone over weight wherever it is put on is probably going to get some kind of problem related to it).

"Excess weight, as measured by BMI, is not the only risk to your health. So is the location of fat on your body. If you carry fat mainly around your waist, you are more likely to develop health problems than if you carry fat mainly in your hips and thighs. This is true even if your BMI falls within the normal range. Women with a waist measurement of more than 35 inches or men with a waist measurement of more than 40 inches may have a higher disease risk than people with smaller waist measurements because of where their fat lies.

To measure your waist circumference, place a tape measure around your bare abdomen just above your hip bone. Be sure that the tape is snug, but does not compress your skin, and is parallel to the floor. Relax, exhale, and measure your waist." win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/tools.htm#circumf

I think a lot of people don';t realise the calories in drinks by the way, not on this thread but in general. Also depends on quantities all the time. 5 almonds as a snack is fine. If I open a pack of almonds I would eat the packet which is probably 1000 calories.

Interesting that while people have talked about what they eat activity levels have hardly been mentioned. I used to have an active job and when I gave it up for a more sedentary one the weight piled on. I'm at the top end of the healthy bmi range now but I need to get more active not diet.

Think people should state their age and height - you need that context

I've just been away for a week with my Mum, my sister and DD for a girly holiday. My Mum and I are well built.

I'm about 10 3/4 stone, 5'6", size 12-14. My DSis is the same height, don't knwo what she weighs but is a size 8-10.

Breakfast:
Me/My Mum: fried egg, 2 pieces toast
DSis: fried egg, 1 piece toast, nectarine

Lunch:
Me/My Mum: soup, sandwich
DSis: soup, sandwich

Coffee shop:
Me/My Mum: coffee/tea, cake of some description
DSis: coffee/tea

Dinner:
Me/My Mum: chicken/steak, boiled/steamed veg
DSis: huge baked potato with prawn salad & yoghurt

plus my mum and I snacked on humbugs and liquorice bombs every ten seconds . Dsis and I do about the same amount of exercise so looks like my weight really is just down to eating too much!!

I'm 30, Dsis is 27

at 5 almonds
not slim but slim built with tummy
dont snack too much and love brown rice lentils too
cant shift weight on belly
swim cycle and exercise but obv not right ones

xenia do you really measure waist just above hips? i will do that later not looking forward to it mind you

SofiaAmes, are people really that worried about their weight that they put 1/3 a banana in the fridge for the next day . To be so sorry worried is such a shame.

I haven't yet posted my vital statisics because I'm a freak! 40. 5'1" and 8 stone. Was 7 1/2 stone when I got pg and am still bfing.

I am 26 and 5'3. I am not posting my weight. Sorry.

Ineedsomesleep. I was brought up to not waste food. The point of putting the piece of the banana in the fridge was to not throw it out. It's nothing to do with being worried. But as long as we're talking about that, it's not productive for people who are naturally able to stay thin to tell people who aren't how easy it is for them and that it's all about metabolism so don't bother trying anyway. Some people will have an easier time of staying thin than others. That doesn't mean it's impossible. Good eating habits can be learned and are very important to weight AND health.
Being thin is not just a visual issue. It is also a major health one. But at the same time is super important that one stays thin while staying nutritionally balanced.

I think food diaries are an excellent idea. They really do help you understand what's actually happening. Also cooking everything from scratch is another useful tool.

I was brought up not to waste food either, it would just never occur to me to leave 1/3 banana, what is the point? Just buy smaller bananas or have some "exercise" with your DH to burn it off if you are that bothered.

"it's not productive for people who are naturally able to stay thin to tell people who aren't how easy it is for them and that it's all about metabolism so don't bother trying anyway"

I thought it had been proved time and time again that people who are slim have slower metabolisms. It stands to reason that if your heart is pumping blood around a body that carrying too much extra weight, it would have to work harder and therefore your metabolism would be faster.

Nobody said not to try, or even commented on it.

I eat whatever is at hand if I get hungry ie leftovers mostly. I find it difficult to be bothered enough to make myself a proper meal if it's just me on my own.

I put my figure down to genes, I take after my dad.

I don't age is any excuse for being fatter so not relevant on the thread.

I'm 5 foot 4 or 5 and I think about 9 stone and size 10.

The umb comparison with the slimmer sister is very interesting and I think you do see slimmer people sitting down just with the cup of tea and larger ones having the cake too. Larger ones constantly grazing and smaller ones just eating their meals without really thinking about food in between.

I certainly agree with the comment on exercise. They say part of the reason we are getting so fat (more people on the planet now have health problems from obesity than from starvation which is an astounding change on this world of ours) is compared to the 1950s we move so much less. Even housework involves less action. My mother walked me to school when I was 5 - about 3 pretty long streets - a mile? - pushing my sister in the pram. Then she walked home. Then she walked back up at lunch time and brought us home for lunch and then back and then she collected me when school ended 5 days a week (until she got a car a few years later). My ex husband at primary school was much the same. In 1960s he walked to school and then walked all the way home for lunch, then back and then back again end of the day.

Fatter people do not move as much. Slimmer people supposedly even just move more when sitting such as tapping fingers.

OMG - how do you do it. I only manage breakfast a couple of times a week. Soup and fruit for lunch. I will confess to chocolate on the way home but I often have no dinner. No more than a glass of wine a night and am I skinny? I am not!

Those of you who eat lots, do you exercise lots too?

Xenia, what do you meant 'Fatter people do not move as much'. I work out nearly every day, I never stop and I think that comment is really unfair.

My mum is a size 10 my brothers wife is a size 8 and they both eat double what I eat in a day. So there you go some people no matter how hard they work at can't get skinny.

I'm 5'8" weigh 9 stone size 8 bottoms 10/12 top (due to boobage)

before dd22m I could eat what I wanted and stay slim however I've always been an erratic eater ( can't eat when stressed and anxious binge when chilled) and I've been veggie for 21 years.

Now it's a different story I developed a cake habit when breast feeding and I have to be careful I think my metabolism has slowed down a bit unfortunately.

usually I eat

toast/ryvita with hoummus/marmite for brekkie plus a banana

brie/cheese brown cob sandwiches for lunchor greek salda or left overs from previous nights dinner sometimes a bag of crisps and 3 piesces of fruit.

Snack on fruit through the day, biscuits at work

tea could be vegie shepherds pie, dahl,roated veg in pitta bread with chick pea salad, jackets with cottage cheese and salad or similar. Always home cooked and fresh.

drink a couple of glasses of wine about 2 nights in the week and more at the weekend and have about 6 cups of tea a day plus plenty of water.

Exercise cycling and yoga.

Have a belly now that won't go though so I've stopped worrying about it.