How much do you eat?

[Justreading]

Genuinely interested...
From threads I follow I see lots of "she barely eats", "is that all she feeds the kids", "she doesnt stop eating", "is she going to eat it or climb it" etc...
So what's normal, how much do you eat? What do you eat?

I never used to eat breakfast so by 10am I'd be starving and gorge on tit food!
Then I'd miss lunch because I'd had the snacks. And then have a huge evening meal to make up for it

Now I'm WFH I have a better routine of breakfast (cereal), lunch (sandwich and crisps with a piece of fruit) then dinner will be your usual spaghetti bol/lasagne/curry - pretty standard family style meals. But usually with garlic bread or similar!

I do tend to pick at stuff during the day from the kids treat box though

My downfall is pepsi max, I go through too much of that!


Writing it down has made me realise my diet seriously needs changing!!

 

[JodieGreen123]

I'm very interested in this thread as compared to my skinny friends I feel like I eat hardly anything, yet I wouldn't call myself skinny and would love to lose a few lbs!

I don't eat breakfast but I have lunch early - usually 11:30 and now I WFH that's usually scrambled egg on toast, or egg and soldiers. I snack on a bag of crisps or a piece of fruit mid-afternoon and then dinner is usually a standard family dinner - carbonara/fish and chips/steak and salad/spag bol etc. with no side and no dessert.

Sometimes I'll then have an evening snack e.g. a piece of fruit or a small choc bar but that's quite rare.

 

[Mulholland Drive]

I do lots of running and have done for years. Therefore I stick to a fairly rigid eating regime of between 2400-2800 calories per day

Breakfast is usually cereals or eggs and wholemeal breads
Lunch is a BLT or Club
Dinner is home made spag bols, chili con carne, chicken curries. And perhaps once or twice a week the odd takeaway

Lots and lots of energy drinks and semi-skimmed milk, pears, bananas and OJ

Still have room for the odd chocolate bar, glass of wine, or beer

 

[WilmaHun]

I don't eat breakfast (I have IBS and for some reason if I eat when I wake up it sets me off so I go without, never hungry in the mornings anyway).

Lunch - at work I tend to have a jacket potato with tuna or some microwave rice. If I'm not at work I tend to just have some noodles, pasta or toast.

Dinner - 1 takeaway a week (usually a Saturday). Other than that I tend to have fish and chips, I don't eat meat so vegetarian versions of spaghetti bolognaise, shepherds pie, roast dinner, stew and dumplings, just really homely meals really..

I don't really snack. I might sometimes have a biscuit or chocolate bar in the evenings but nothing usually between meals. I don't eat after 7pm (again due to IBS).

I don't drink alcohol. I tend to drink water or squash throughout the day. I only really drink fizzy on a weekend too (never drink it at work in case my IBS decides to turn on me).

 

[MissyAnon]

Not alot and then the whole world in the evenings!

 

[Ceelea]

Enough to sustain life.

 

[under the ivy]

My appetite comes and goes relating to how stressed how I am. I have a fairly good appetite normally but I have barely eaten these past 3 weeks due to anxiety/work deadline/not sleeping well.

Usually I have cereal with 2-3 cups of coffee before 10am, I skip dinner because I'm never usually hungry around dinner time, afternoon snacks is usually some rice cakes/crisps/protein bar, tea is usually pasta/meat with vegetables/takeaway once a week (usually Chinese). Then it gets to late evening and I enjoy some chocolate/sweets. I go through a lot of caffeine free Diet Coke too.

I really enjoy working-out and I think I would see more benefit from this if I sorted my nutrition out.

 

[Justreading]

Not alot and then the whole world in the evenings!

This was me! But even with my WFH routine and eating 3 square meals I dont seem to be better for it

My appetite comes and goes relating to how stressed how I am. I have a fairly good appetite normally but I have barely eaten these past 3 weeks due to anxiety/work deadline/not sleeping well.

Usually I have cereal with 2-3 cups of coffee before 10am, I skip dinner because I'm never usually hungry around dinner time, afternoon snacks is usually some rice cakes/crisps/protein bar, tea is usually pasta/meat with vegetables/takeaway once a week (usually Chinese). Then it gets to late evening and I enjoy some chocolate/sweets. I go through a lot of caffeine free Diet Coke too.

I really enjoy working-out and I think I would see more benefit from this if I sorted my nutrition out.

Me too, I exercise a lot. 3 high intensity classes a week, plus lots of walks and running. But I just dont eat well enough to compliment it!

 

[2xblended]

My eating habits are....odd.

I don't eat breakfast, never have.

I have more liquids than solids- coffees with a dash of milk in the morning, teas with a dash of milk in the evenings, 3L of water minimum, sometimes a protein shake if I notice that my calories are too low for the day. If I could never chew food again, I'd be thrilled.

For lunch and dinner it's usually a single meal split into 2 portions because I get full and fed up of eating, can never finish my plate at once no matter how small the portion. So I prepare whatever I want for lunch that day (soup or omelet, or salad with cottage cheese for example) and put half aside for dinner immediately. That's me done.

Some days I forget to eat entirely. Some days I graze on fruit and nothing else. When I'm stressed I can stop eating for days and not notice. When I am eating a solid meal, I inhale it, often eating in under 5 mins. It drives people mad but I can't help it.

It's a very healthy (homemade, lots of fruit and veg, always some sort of protein) yet extremely unhealthy way of eating. Been like this since childhood.
I envy people who enjoy food and really tuck in. I've never been able to savour anything, I just do it because I must.

 

[Smiles0121]

8am - Sausage and fried egg sandwich or pot noodle/cup noodle
11am - 6-8 Chocolate Hob Nobs with a cuppa
12.30pm - Ham sandwich, sausage rolls, crisps, Twix and a can of coke (diet)
2.30pm - A whole malt loaf with butter washed down with a coffee
4.00pm - Bag of crisps or tube of pringles
7.30pm - A take away (fish and chips, Curry, Chinese) or a ready meal for 2 (just for me)
10.30pm - a small handful of grapes and a protein shake.

I also like a Smirnoff ice or 2 in the evening or a glass of blue nun

 

[Pixipoppy]

I feel like I eat a lot more than other people, sometimes I wonder why I’m not the size of a house. I’m naturally quite slim though I do gain weight slowly over time. I can have a few bad weeks here and there with little effect, for comparison I have friends who will gain 3-5lbs after one bad weekend for example. I think what it is, is although I’m always eating/snacking my portions are actually quite small and I never finish what is on my plate, I’m not a massive fan of junk food (but I do have a sweet tooth!). I get hungry often but it doesn’t take much to fill me up, Id struggle to eat a full 3 course meal but then within 2 hours I’ll be hungry again. I think maybe it’s a fast metabolism perhaps? I do recognise how lucky I am, and know as I get older it won’t be so easy.

 

[Frensham90]

Only coffees till around 1ish, snacky bits (fruit, veg crudités with hummus, crisps, nuts or crackers) in the afternoon, a proper meal for tea then more sweetish snacks in the evening. Tried doing 3 meals a day/ 6 small meals and it just doesn’t work for me. I physically can’t stomach food in the morning.

 

[Stan]

I’m forever trying to diet but end up binge eating when I do!
I tend to eat more regimented Monday -Friday and then at the weekends I don’t have any fixed meals and end up eating more crap. Day to day I tend to have the following -
7am - lunch - lots of cups of tea
12pm - usually if at work something like beans (mini tin) on toast (the small 400g whole meal kind)
Dinner around 7ish will be something like chilli, spag Bol, curry, homemade chips with oven fish etc. (I’m trying to do more variety for evening meals using recipes from the bbc good food app)
My meals are generally very healthy - not lots of oil and I don’t have garlic bread or anything on the side of pastas or chillis.
snack wise I do like chocolate but usually have the small fun size bars you can buy if I have some, or I will have a yogurt or fruit.

 

[Am49704]

Breakfast usually around 11am
Granola, berries and yoghurt or branflakes

Lunch around 3pm
Soup or a sandwich or some noodles

Dinner around 8pm
Usually out twice per week and at home Spag Bol / Curry / Stir fry

Will snack on crackers / cereal bar / yoghurt /crisps

 

[Renegadedancer]

This interests me, even with just a few posts in this thread you can see the differences in people’s intake. Let it be said I love chocolate, refined sugar, crisps and pizza. But, I have a tendency to put on weight easily, even when I (think) I eat similar amounts to my friends . To keep me on the straight and narrow I don’t eat breakfast as I’m not hungry first thing. For lunch I will have some protein with salad and maybe a small amount of carbs. Dinner will be Similar, protein and lots of salad or veg and again a small amount of carbs. No snacking and fruit if Im hungry. I guess my body doesn’t need as many calories as I would like to give it. I’d also walk as much as I can, wherever possible. It’s so boring and I often fall off the wagon , but after many years of yo yo eating it’s the only thing that works for me to keep within a healthy weight.

 

[Definitelyme]

Not alot and then the whole world in the evenings!

This is me as well.

 

[openbook1]

I exercise normally 5-6 days a week, on the odd week will do less. I am lifting heavier weights than I used to. I have always been petite, about 104lbs but like that, I am toning up and gaining muscle. Depending on how I feel, sometimes I will do a fasted exercise and have breakfast after.

Breakfast: It varies but this what I tend to rotate. Egg whites with pesto, olives, and wholewheat toast. Egg whites with salsa verde on corn tacos (they are super low carbs). Oats with some fruit (banana, apple, or berries) and nut butter. Boiled egg and wholewheat toast. I am mostly eating a lot of egg whites right now, I prefer them over whole eggs.

Lunch: I don't really eat lunch often. If I had a smoothie/oats in the morning, then maybe egg whites for lunch. When my husband is home, he has chicken with broccoli and I sometimes have that.

Dinners: Varies a lot but we meal plan. Chicken (I love chicken breast topped with cajun spice) w/ roasted potatoes/rice/risotto and veg. Fish, potatoes or rice/pilaf and veg. Curries, we love dahl and it lasts a while. A few different types of corn tacos (beef, fish, and chicken) with refried beans and veg. Chilli and other types of soups. Pasta, we often just throw it together with some veg, herbs, and white wine. We do get takeaway either once a week or every 2 weeks, way less since Covid. Normally pizza, sometimes Indian or sushi.
We never buy packet semi-cooked rice or risotto, the proper stuff, and never eat ready-meals.

Snacks: Chocolate, apple with almond butter, banana with Greek yogurt and nut butter, apple with nuts and cheese, rice cakes with hummus or nut butter, toast with hummus, unbuttered popcorn.

 

[Renegadedancer]

Genuinely interested...
From threads I follow I see lots of "she barely eats", "is that all she feeds the kids", "she doesnt stop eating", "is she going to eat it or climb it" etc...
So what's normal, how much do you eat? What do you eat?

I never used to eat breakfast so by 10am I'd be starving and gorge on tit food!
Then I'd miss lunch because I'd had the snacks. And then have a huge evening meal to make up for it

Now I'm WFH I have a better routine of breakfast (cereal), lunch (sandwich and crisps with a piece of fruit) then dinner will be your usual spaghetti bol/lasagne/curry - pretty standard family style meals. But usually with garlic bread or similar!

I do tend to pick at stuff during the day from the kids treat box though

My downfall is pepsi max, I go through too much of that!


Writing it down has made me realise my diet seriously needs changing!!

I forgot to add I too have a Coke Zero addiction, similar to your Pepsi max love!

 

[Carmen 6]

My twins are due in February, so basically, anything that's not nailed down.

 

[Chipstiz]

I never used to be able to stand eating breakfast, ide feel sooooo sick if I did. Now I can't function if I go an hour after waking up without eating it. So weird how diets adapt.