If you’re thin what do you eat daily (and approximate calories)

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. There is some serious gross disordered eating described on here.

+ 1 trillion

Why? Most women who replied have a normal BMI and are petite or medium height.
How many of them would be advised by a professional to gain weight?

Not all..but there are a handful of sample diets do seem to be very minimal calories and intentionally restrictive.

I know this might be hard to believe but once formed good habits become unintentional.
Most overweight people use their own logic to point out some sort of calculation "intentionally starving" when in reality most thin people don't think much about food, let alone obsess with calories.

That's why the legendary chocolate covered strawberry is someone's satisfying sweet treat and to others a sign of disgusting disordered eating. It's a huge contrast of what amount of food / sugar can make one satisfied.

I’m obese and I think you’re completely right. So many of us are totally out of touch with what an appropriate amount of food is.

I'm thin and totally agree (I used to be fat). When I was overweight, I was always obsessing about food and calories and carbs. Now I never even think about it and give myself permission to eat whatever I want and usually I just don't want that much.

PP, good luck on losing weight. It is tough but you can do it.

I already did it. Lost 80 lbs. Then I regained every pound over 2 pregnancies (after maintaining for many years and getting back down after my first pregnancy). Good luck to you maintaining. It’s not as easy as I thought it would be.

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Anonymous wrote:No breakfast - studies came out showing that the "you must eat breakfast to stay thin and healthy" was garbage. All eating breakfast does was add additional calories to your day.

Lunch - a bagel with cream cheese, smoked salmon, avocado and sliced tomato, with water on the side. I swear since I started eating this a year ago, my usual state of "borderline UTI" has stopped.

I sometimes have a snack in the afternoon - like a chocolate from valentines day or whatever.

At 7pm, DH and i have a cocktail every day. Plus half the time I have a little small bowl of bar snacks - like smoked almonds or a handful of cheese sticks. Dinner ranges from terribly unhealthy (like a giant bowl of cheesy pasta) to decently healthy, but always vegetarian. Dinner is almost always homemade with fresh ingredients, but we eat too much at dinner - it's our weakness. I have dessert a few nights a week - like a full on big cake slice or similar.

I run every day for 30 mins (weekdays) to an hour (weekends).

I aspire to this menu and lifestyle. Not really working for me right now with a 4yo and a 15mo but I'm gonna get there.

Wait, why would this lunch prevent UTIs?

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5'5", 120 in my 40s and I have started doing IF couple of times a week for health and to slow weight gain. IMO its easier skip breakfast vs skipping dinner I am not usually hungry in am until noon or so. I get so hungry at dinnertime but yeah the joys of fasting I also do moderate exercise/yoga 3-4 times a week and do not skip on fasting days. Just my view try doing some planks and if you can support your body weight all good but unfortunately women tend to store more fat and eating less and working out is the answer there are no easy shortcuts.

Breakfast: coffee with cream and sugar and a slice of toast
Lunch: pasta with veggies and yogurt
Afternoon: coffee with cream and sugar and banana
Dessert: piece of chocolate
Dinner: sparkling water

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35yr old with 3 kids,5'9 and thin.

I eat non stop. it's a problem. I never count calories and never weigh myself. I do about 1-2 hrs of high intensity cardio each day.

Today I ate:

5 chocolate hearts, 2 pieces of cantaloupe, a strawberry, a slice of marble cheese, 2 cups of coffee with cream and sugar, an apple, many crackers, handful of cherry tomatoes, handful of cashews, more chocolate hearts and some Hershey's kisses, more coffee, a candy cane, another apple, baby carrots, salad (kale, peppers, nappa, tomatoes, cheese, olive oil dressing), handful of dried mango, chicken, fried brussel sprout, carrot cake, more crackers, and orange. Loads of water.

I swear, the less I focus on weight the better I feel. Whenever I think I should be more careful I end up gaining weight. life is too short to be miserable being you!

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Anonymous wrote:5'5", 120 in my 40s and I have started doing IF couple of times a week for health and to slow weight gain. IMO its easier skip breakfast vs skipping dinner I am not usually hungry in am until noon or so. I get so hungry at dinnertime but yeah the joys of fasting I also do moderate exercise/yoga 3-4 times a week and do not skip on fasting days. Just my view try doing some planks and if you can support your body weight all good but unfortunately women tend to store more fat and eating less and working out is the answer there are no easy shortcuts.

Breakfast: coffee with cream and sugar and a slice of toast
Lunch: pasta with veggies and yogurt
Afternoon: coffee with cream and sugar and banana
Dessert: piece of chocolate
Dinner: sparkling water

This is concerning. How do you function eatting so few calories? I dont want to offend you, but this is basically anorexia.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to be slim. Idk what people think after I’ve had 3 kids - not as thin.
Anyway I literally have small bones fwiw.
I don’t drink my calories. I have one cup of coffee in the AM with a little sugar & a little milk - but other than that water and one la croix daily.
I should probably eat something different for breakfast but most days I have one packet of Quaker maple & brown sugar oatmeal made with hot water.
Morning snack is often apple & PB. And then it kind of goes downhill from there.

I drink alcohol fairly moderately. One to two drinks a week on average I would say. I exercise at least 20 mins 6 days a week.

I’m trying to limit myself to one dessert daily of around 100 cals.

I try not to do anything too crazy because if it’s too strict of a diet - I can’t maintain it. I try for slow and steady and what I can keep up with long term.

I do the oatmeal too. Satisfying and low calorie.

might as well just eat candy

What? Are you equating oatmeal with candy? You have an eating disorder.

Stop being inflammatory and do a little research. Don't just spout nonsense.
Have you looked at the nutritional value of the Quaker maple and whatever oatmeal? Probably one of the worst foods you can eat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. There is some serious gross disordered eating described on here.

+ 1 trillion

Why? Most women who replied have a normal BMI and are petite or medium height.
How many of them would be advised by a professional to gain weight?

Not all..but there are a handful of sample diets do seem to be very minimal calories and intentionally restrictive.

I know this might be hard to believe but once formed good habits become unintentional.
Most overweight people use their own logic to point out some sort of calculation "intentionally starving" when in reality most thin people don't think much about food, let alone obsess with calories.

That's why the legendary chocolate covered strawberry is someone's satisfying sweet treat and to others a sign of disgusting disordered eating. It's a huge contrast of what amount of food / sugar can make one satisfied.

She didn't eat a WHOLE chocolate covered strawberry; she had a PIECE of a chocolate covered strawberry. A PIECE of a strawberry with some chocolate on it!!!!! Even large strawberries are small. She had a PIECE of some small thing. That's a sign of someone with a problem.

Anyone who is overweight or obese has a HUGE problem with significant negative health implications. Taking a bite from sweets and then stopping? Nope.

I’m the chocolate covered strawberry poster. DH bought a box from Trader Joe’s of them. They come in pieces. I took one. If they came in whole strawberries I would have taken one. It wasn’t about anything deeper than that.

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The people saying these diets are gross are being ridiculous. What is gross about eating three meals and no snacks? I’m 5’2 and weigh 117, here is what I had yesterday:

Breakfast: coffee with sugar and cream, two eggs over easy
Lunch - salad with steak, goat cheese, tessemae ranch dressing
Afternoon - hot herbal tea
Dinner - chicken, broccoli sautéed with garlic and soy sauce
Two glasses of wine

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:5'5", 120 in my 40s and I have started doing IF couple of times a week for health and to slow weight gain. IMO its easier skip breakfast vs skipping dinner I am not usually hungry in am until noon or so. I get so hungry at dinnertime but yeah the joys of fasting I also do moderate exercise/yoga 3-4 times a week and do not skip on fasting days. Just my view try doing some planks and if you can support your body weight all good but unfortunately women tend to store more fat and eating less and working out is the answer there are no easy shortcuts.

Breakfast: coffee with cream and sugar and a slice of toast
Lunch: pasta with veggies and yogurt
Afternoon: coffee with cream and sugar and banana
Dessert: piece of chocolate
Dinner: sparkling water

This is concerning. How do you function eatting so few calories? I dont want to offend you, but this is basically anorexia.

Few calories and no nutrients, beside lunch. Your body does so much for you, treat it well!

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. There is some serious gross disordered eating described on here.

+ 1 trillion

Did you think the thin women you know were just going with the flow? No.

I think I get the problem with American diets now. Americans expect to eat everything and anything in whatever quantities and stay thin. Their idea of "healthy" foods, like granola with 15g of sugar per serving, is grossly distorted. If one does not eat large quantities of all foods and abstains from some, that person has an eating disorder. So no wonder almost 80% of Americans are overweight and almost 40% are obese.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. There is some serious gross disordered eating described on here.

+ 1 trillion

Did you think the thin women you know were just going with the flow? No.

I think I get the problem with American diets now. Americans expect to eat everything and anything in whatever quantities and stay thin. Their idea of "healthy" foods, like granola with 15g of sugar per serving, is grossly distorted. If one does not eat large quantities of all foods and abstains from some, that person has an eating disorder. So no wonder almost 80% of Americans are overweight and almost 40% are obese.

Right? I just can’t fathom those who think eating some of what is described here is gross. You know what is gross? Stuffing your face full of over processed junk food all day long and then complaining when you can’t find your size at the store and whining about fat phobia. That is gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. There is some serious gross disordered eating described on here.

+ 1 trillion

Why? Most women who replied have a normal BMI and are petite or medium height.
How many of them would be advised by a professional to gain weight?

Not all..but there are a handful of sample diets do seem to be very minimal calories and intentionally restrictive.

I know this might be hard to believe but once formed good habits become unintentional.
Most overweight people use their own logic to point out some sort of calculation "intentionally starving" when in reality most thin people don't think much about food, let alone obsess with calories.

That's why the legendary chocolate covered strawberry is someone's satisfying sweet treat and to others a sign of disgusting disordered eating. It's a huge contrast of what amount of food / sugar can make one satisfied.

There's definitely some re-learning needed for what's an appropriate portion size. I started the Factor meal program a couple weeks ago (but insert whatever meal program you'd like), and the smaller portion size takes some getting used to. But my body/brain is learning, and now I feel satisfied (and actually more energetic).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever the f I want.

Seriously, can we stop these threads? I’m 40 and I’m thin because (1) I have really good genes, (2) I run, and (3) I actually really like vegetables and healthy foods. Yes, I eat ice cream and French fries. But mostly I eat a plant-forward, locavore diet with lots of whole grains and leafy greens.

+1. Have never counted calories and never will. I eat a healthy diet of lean protein whole grains and fruits/veggies because I like it and it’s healthy for my body. I barely exercise but have good stamina and walk to get places. I enjoy hiking/skiing and do it when I can. I also eat some fries/ice cream/sweets/sugar just not boatloads bc it’s not good for you. I am 5ft 9in and weigh 120 pounds. Live healthy and the right weight for you will follow.

Uh, you have a BMI of 17.7, if those are truly your stats. You are underweight and in danger of osteoporosis, among other conditions. Yikes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5’2” and 107lbs.

Breakfast: coffee with cream and sugar
Lunch: half turkey and cheese sandwich, chips, cucumber slices and strawberries. Mini can of coke.
Dinner: lasagna, spinach salad, one slice of garlic bread. Jello for dessert.

This was very typical. I never need more that a cup of coffee for breakfast (I add sugar and cream since I’m trying to maintain, not lose weight. Otherwise I like it black). Have soda sometimes but 99% of the day it’s tap water. Pretty much eat a plate of food at lunch and then another at dinner with a dessert most nights. I’m not a snacker. Eat until I’m full but not stuffed. I think I have always naturally eaten sort of “intermittent fasting” style. I’ve always skipped breakfast and we always are done with dinner by 5:45/6pm. So my normal rhythm has a 15-16 hour fasting period.

Is there a reason you eat dinner so early?

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever I want, I don't count calories. I get in at least 2.5 hours of walking everyday (dog) and I do strength training twice a week.

Today I had/will have:

Breakfast: N/A I never eat breakfast
Lunch: chicken breasts stuffed with sundried tomato pesto and mozzarella cheese; roasted broccoli and potatoes
Dinner: Snack on prosciutto and cheese while cooking. 2 glasses white wine, rice, Pork meatballs with spinach and mushrooms in a coconut cream sauce

So basically you eat Keto, less the 2 glasses of wine. Not knocking it, it sounds pretty doable actually. Also 2.5 hours of walking! I need to get a dog

Who honestly has time for 2.5 hours a day of dog walking? Must be a SAHM. I have a Shepherd/Husky mix, which is a very active dog, but don't exercise him for 2.5 hours a day.