What does your daily diet look like?

[Tatooine_legend1]

I have changed my diet again after gaining a bit of weight since lockdown. I have gone back to fasting and eating 1-2 smaller meals per day.

This morning I ate some chicken livers with a dollop of Dijon mustard on the side.

Other days it's generally been a bone broth in the morning or scrambled egg with a couple slices of streaky bacon.

For dinner it's been a decent sized salad and salmon/tuna/chicken, a simple bean stew type thing including kidney beans, chickpeas, black beans, or I also have an occasional meal of some rice, meat, and steamed vegetables.

I wasn't always eating this good though. My diet has generally been pretty crap since lockdown.

How is your diet looking at the moment?

 

[Welshgal]

I usually have a bagel with cheese for breakfast.

Lunch is sometimes skipped, sometimes it’s another bagel or cereal and dinner is an actual meal. During the pandemic I have gotten way more takeaways though so really trying to have actual homecooked dinners (lots of fish, rice and pasta!).

My biggest problem is snacking

 

[TaylorMomsen]

Breakfast - breakfast biscuit, fuel protein pot or two slices of bacon on one piece of bread
Lunch - leftovers from the night before, usually something like a chorizo and prawn pasta, chicken pesto pasta, jumbalaya, pork steaks and rice
Tea - dishes usually coming in at sub 500 calories, if I have garlic bread or another side goes up to 700, evening meals really do vary for me, sometimes it can be salmon and noodles with lots of veg, other times it can be ribs with mac and cheese
Second tea - sometimes we order in McDonalds if we're hangry and I'll have a cheeseburger or some nuggies
Snacks - popcorn, half a bueno bar, Mars ice cream bar if feeling fancy
Drinks - 3 litres of water throughout the day, can of Pepsi Max cherry at lunch, bottle of Sol with my tea, maybe a vodka and diet coke when watching TV

Exercise - walking at least an hour per day (dedicated 30 minute walk of an evening, ten mins to and from my car at work, plus other general pottering around), 20-45 minute strength session, 20-60 minute spin session, 10 minutes yoga / stretching

 

[Tatooine_legend1]

I usually have a bagel with cheese for breakfast.

Lunch is sometimes skipped, sometimes it’s another bagel or cereal and dinner is an actual meal. During the pandemic I have gotten way more takeaways though so really trying to have actual homecooked dinners (lots of fish, rice and pasta!).

My biggest problem is snacking

Yeah snacking has been an issue for me too. Best advice I can give is to avoid buying any junk food. The occasional pack of crisps is fine, but don't go buying multipacks of crisps, cakes, chocolate etc. Feel the cupboards with nuts, seeds, dried and fresh fruit etc. That is what I try to do anyway. Lockdown was a nightmare for my weight. I snacked on crap and ate meals of junk like pizza.

 

[Welshgal]

Yeah snacking has been an issue for me too. Best advice I can give is to avoid buying any junk food. The occasional pack of crisps is fine, but don't go buying multipacks of crisps, cakes, chocolate etc. Feel the cupboards with nuts, seeds, dried and fresh fruit etc. That is what I try to do anyway. Lockdown was a nightmare for my weight. I snacked on crap and ate meals of junk like pizza.

I rarely have any junk at home but I pass several grocery stores on my way home from work and it's just to easy to quickly pop in and grab some chocolates

 

[Tatooine_legend1]

I rarely have any junk at home but I pass several grocery stores on my way home from work and it's just to easy to quickly pop in and grab some chocolates

Yeah not ideal. Probably best to try use as much willpower as possible to avoid it. Opt for crisps or plantain chips, or even salted nuts if you can. Chocolate is arguably the worse of the bunch, at least from crisps, nuts and plantain chips you are getting some form of nutritional value.

 

[Sarah777]

When working from home I tend to skip meals until the evening and it’ll be a home cooked meal involving pasta, potatoes or rice. Like you guys, if I have snacks indoors I graze on them during the day even though I’m not hungry so stopped buying them when it got warmer. I’ll have breakfast (banana and peanut butter on toast) if it’s a day I exercise in the morning. I drink loads of water, tea and herbal tea.

 

[StrawberryCream]

Breakfast I either skip or have an apple or banana, lunch usually something like soup and some crusty baguette slices, dinner is highest calorie meal but try and include a good portion of veg in, at night I usually snack on sweet and salty popcorn or low calorie ice cream (halo top is my favourite), I also drink lots of tea and coffee throughout the day

 

[Peaches_xox]

I put on weight from lockdown/wfh so have tried to be a bit healthier
At the moment I have soya yogurt with honey mixed with low sugar granola for breakfast. (Around 11am)
a salad for lunch, usually prawn or tuna with some mixed salad, or a soup on colder days. (Around 2/3pm)
dinner tends to be something like chickpea curry, jacket potato & salad, omelette and salad. (Around 7/8pm)
Snacks are the hardest cos I have a 5 year old so we always have snacks in the house

exercise I did join the gym but I don’t enjoy it so now I just make sure I get my 10k steps a day. I don’t weigh myself cos it fucks me off but family did comment that I look more like myself lately

 

[rebremm99]

Breakfast for me is a smoothie: alpro yoghurt, vegan protein powder, berries, flax seed, added vitamins and spirulina.

Lunch is something like lentil soup and sourdough/ vegan sausages in a bagel or a huge salad and a jacket potsto

Dinner is something big like a veggie burger, chips and slaw/ chana masala naan and rice/ soy mince spaghetti bolognese etc

Then after dinner I’ll have like a Violife cheese toastie or crisps.

I’m busy during the day and never hungry in the mornings so prefer to save my calories for the evening so I’ll feel really full and sleep well.
I’m also a firm believer in eating more and exercising more to stay in shape, after many years of trial and error it’s what suits me best and gets me the best results.

 

[WilmaHun]

I don't eat breakfast. I'll tend to have a belvita or cereal bar of some sort mid-morning if I'm hungry
Lunch is usually a jacket potato, sandwich or wrap when I'm at work.
Dinner I tend to have casseroles in the winter, in the summer it's normally salads and a pasta bake or something. I don't eat meat so I might have fish or quorn mince for bolognaise or something.

My downfall is biscuits. I can never just have one. And cake, I love cake

I try not to eat past 7pm every night, although recently I haven't been keeping to that as much.

 

[Ottilie]

I am a vegan with a lot of allergies, I also don't consume alcohol or caffeine but here is what my diet normally looks like:

Breakfast- Two pieces of wholemeal toast with peanut butter and a banana. I love breakfast and will sometimes have 3 pieces of toast if I am really hungry!

Lunch - Bangers and mash with white cabbage and lots of gravy. I always have my main meal at lunch time.

Tea - Two crumpets with butter and fruit and salad. I always have a lighter tea with either breakfast or lunch type foods.

Snack - 4 Weetabix with soya milk.... My snack is normally cereal or a toasted bagel something like that. I always have a snack after I do my last dog walk of the day at about 9-10pm.

I do about 2 hours or dog walking a day and yoga. I drink water, soya milk, diet fizzy drinks and a few different smoothies/juices which I am not allergic to!

 

[Rippedjeanmaybe]

Breakfast- nothing

Dinner- depends, microwave curry, leftover spag bol from the night before, homemade soup, just depends really

Tea- spag bol/curry/chicken fajitas/jackets/pizza (they’re the usuals, all homemade from scratch though).

 

[Welshgal]

Does anyone have any experience with intermittent fasting? I get really tired after eating breakfast/lunch so I‘ve been thinking about „skipping“ one of them, but not sure how to do it best? Is it 8 hours of eating and 16 not? I‘ve also read somewhere that it can quickly affect general health / periods if not done right?