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.

Eating a single chocolate-covered strawberry, versus "a piece" of one, is not a huge contrast. Eat the whole damn strawberry. It's really okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

No offense, but to these disordered biddies, you're not thin. (Of course you are)

[Anonymous]

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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?

We like to eat when we get done with work, I guess. Instead of coming home and grabbing a snack, we just make and eat dinner. Our kids are also young - 6, 3, and a baby - so early dinner works great for them. But even before kids we’d eat that early. We’re early birds in the morning too, fwiw. Up before 6am, even on weekends.

[Anonymous]

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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).

Big caveat: unless you’re prediabetic. You’ll jack your blood sugar and increase your chances of getting diabetes.

I used to IF and when I wore a continuous glucose monitor I could see that if I didn’t eat by 9ish my blood sugar would shoot up all by itself.

https://www.everydayhealth.com/type-2-diabetes/diet/skipping-breakfast-tied-higher-type-2-diabetes-risk/

Literally every meal of the day “just adds calories” to your day. You could say this about lunch or dinner, too.
I’m 107 pounds and I feel sick if I don’t eat breakfast. I don’t care about lunch and don’t feel it’s necessary. Everyone’s body is different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Eating a single chocolate-covered strawberry, versus "a piece" of one, is not a huge contrast. Eat the whole damn strawberry. It's really okay.

Both are in contrast with what you really expect: eating the whole box or at least half of it is what normal people should do.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Okay, obviously a digression, but this was kind of rude. I am not a SAHM, but my kid is older. SO I walk the dogs in the early a.m. for an hour. They get another 45 minutes after work, and 20 minutes before bed. So not 2.5 hours, but it can be done and some people do make the time. And your dig at SAHMs who have nothing better to do than walk their dogs was so unnecessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Eating a single chocolate-covered strawberry, versus "a piece" of one, is not a huge contrast. Eat the whole damn strawberry. It's really okay.

Both are in contrast with what you really expect: eating the whole box or at least half of it is what normal people should do.

Our culture is so messed up that the idea of eating a single chocolate cover d strawberry is so offensive to some people. I sometimes eat a few small pieces of dark chocolate after dinner and I find it pretty satisfying. I don’t need to binge and eat the entire package, I can stop eating after a few. Clearly some of you cannot do this.

[Anonymous]

All of you thin people with great genetics, I envy you! Used to be pretty thin in 20's and 30's (size 0/2, 5'5"), but since my mid-forties I have to really be on the straight and narrow not to blow up. At 51, I wear a size 6, but have to work really hard to stay there. If I eat more than 1400 calories a day (of veggies/fruit, lean protein, v. limited carbs/sweets, no alcohol), I gain weight. And I exercise 7 days a week, cardio and weights.

TL;DR: menopause can really throw you a loop, weight-wise!

[Anonymous]

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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.

Are you trying to lose weight? Eating more protein in the morning will help you feel full and be good for health. You sound like you are starving yourself.

I think I’m trying to lose about 10 lbs ideally. But I don’t think I’m starving myself by any means. I didn’t even write what I eat the rest of the day there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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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.

Feel free to make a super easy alternative suggestions! I’m open to it! But I’m getting 3 kids and myself ready for work and school and I don’t have much time at all. Like two mins. Lol.

[Anonymous]

Genetics and don’t drink alcohol. Also eat smaller portions - I’m just not able to eat as large servings as I did when I was younger.

Also 8 hrs of sleep a night. Little sleep = weight gain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Feel free to make a super easy alternative suggestions! I’m open to it! But I’m getting 3 kids and myself ready for work and school and I don’t have much time at all. Like two mins. Lol.

I try not to get involved in these catty remarks on other people’s food choices, but that oatmeal really is terrible. Just get plain oats if you want oatmeal. Another easy suggestion is to grab a couple of hard boiled eggs - you can buy them already cooked and peeled! - and eat. No prep time at all, high protein and filling, no sugar.

[Anonymous]

People who tell you oatmeal, if it’s not some slow cooked flax laden kale bowl, or bananas or any fruit or a piece of bread are unhealthy are orthorexics. They believe there is such a thing as “eating clean” or that you can “detox” with some weird diet. I pity them. I’m 5’7” 120lbs and I eat in moderation. Some days I binge junk food, some days I eat little, 90% of the time I’m in between. I move my body and I don’t drive everywhere and I try to lift heavy things sometimes. Some of it is genetic, a lot of it is realizing I’m up to 125lbs and my pants are tight so I cut back on something or move more.

[Anonymous]

I’m 5’4” and 110lbs, size 0/2. Age 39.

Breakfast - big smoothie with Fage 5% yogurt, frozen blueberries, frozen banana. And black coffee.

Lunch - usually a sandwich I make with deli meat, cheese, mayo and mustard. With some crackers and a sparkling water or a Coke.

Snack - cookies and whole milk or a Clif bar.

Dinner - usually a Blue Apron meal, half a frozen pizza from Trader Joe’s, or some takeout like an Indian curry and naan.

Bedtime snack - I often have a small bowl of cereal with whole milk. I love cereal.

I have no idea how many calories this is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Genetics and don’t drink alcohol. Also eat smaller portions - I’m just not able to eat as large servings as I did when I was younger.

Also 8 hrs of sleep a night. Little sleep = weight gain.

People definitely don’t appreciate the effects of alcohol and lack of sleep and how the two go together. The single best thing I ever did was essentially eliminate most alcohol consumption. We still drink and eat poorly at times, but it’s limited to a few days and we just want to go back to normal.