If you’re thIn what is typical day for food and exercise?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 5'4" and 115 lbs, so relatively thin. A yogurt and coffee for breakfast, salad and a slice of bread for lunch, dinner really varies. Last night I ate an Amy's frozen indian meal, the night before that, a few slices of pizza, the night before that a peanut butter sandwich. I work out around 3 times a week - a barre class, or using the elliptical, or Body pump (weights) class. I have one kid. I've always been thin to average.

That's less than a thousand calories a day. How do you even function?

[Anonymous]

I think it's mostly genetic too. I'm thin-ish (5'7", 130) and here is what I ate today, which was pretty average:

Breakfast: smoothie made from figs, banana, almond butter, and 1% milk; one piece of wheat toast with almond butter

Lunch: Veggie club sandwich and small lentil soup from Pret

Snack: 1 cookie and a green tea

Dinner: cheese; roasted Japanese sweet potato spears (1.5 potatoes' worth) over watercress and dressed in tahini; handful of dried apricots; blackberries with whipped cream

I elliptical for 45 minutes 2-3 times a week and make it to a barre class 2-4 times a month.

[Anonymous]

I've always been thin, but I also eat mostly vegetarian, fresh and low calorie. I learned the eating habits from family. I am also fairly active every day.

Raise your hand if you had thin parents, live a sedentary lifestyle, eat too much greasy and fried foods and are thin as your genetics.

[Anonymous]

I'm thin-ish. (5'3" and around 115 pounds.)

I exercise every day for about an hour - mostly running, but also some elliptical, exercise bike and weights.

I also eat what feels like a lot compared to other people. Today I had:

Breakfast: cereal and skim millk
Morning snack: cheese stick, Greek yogurt, Kind bar
Lunch: grilled hamburger with lettuce, tomato and pickle on a bun and green beans, blueberries and strawberries
Afternoon snack: grapes
Dinner: 2 pieces of peanut butter toast and a banana
Snack: Italian ice

To drink throughout day: water and coffee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's mostly genetic too. I'm thin-ish (5'7", 130) and here is what I ate today, which was pretty average:

Breakfast: smoothie made from figs, banana, almond butter, and 1% milk; one piece of wheat toast with almond butter

Lunch: Veggie club sandwich and small lentil soup from Pret

Snack: 1 cookie and a green tea

Dinner: cheese; roasted Japanese sweet potato spears (1.5 potatoes' worth) over watercress and dressed in tahini; handful of dried apricots; blackberries with whipped cream

I elliptical for 45 minutes 2-3 times a week and make it to a barre class 2-4 times a month.

^^ I should add, while my eating is not pristine in the sense that every meal is healthy and well-balanced, my overall diet is fairly healthy and well-balanced. My parents raised us eating very little meat (just poultry and fish with a lot of vegetarian meals), lots of organic vegetables and fruits, whole grains, nuts, and legumes, and whole foods generally. They were a bit ahead of modern food trends (I was born in Berkeley in the early 80s). So while it's partly genetic, it's also partly learned habits.

[Anonymous]

Always thin. Only exercise once a week which is terrible. Toast or whatever is handy and giant vat of coffee. for breakfast. Sweet green for lunch (love it!). Something naughty (cookie) with afternoon coffee. Dinner varies but usually protein, veggie, not much carb.

Typing this emphasizes to me that I need less coffee, more exercise!

[Anonymous]

Today:

3 servings of leftover squash-tomato-onion-(real) parmesan cheese casserole thing I made (spread out over the day)
A few glasses of wine
A pear with some raw blue cheese
Bowl of ice cream
A large cucumber sliced up and marinated with soy sauce, sesame oil, and apple-cider vinegar
A small bowl of oatmeal with a bunch of almond butter and French fruit preserves mixed in


I’m not skinny- 135 at 5’5- but at this weight I eat whatever I want (as the above post demonstrates) and I’m slim enough and very happy. I walk a lot of places since I live in a downtown area. I just try to eat real food and then I let myself have what I want within reason

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've always been thin, but I also eat mostly vegetarian, fresh and low calorie. I learned the eating habits from family. I am also fairly active every day.

Raise your hand if you had thin parents, live a sedentary lifestyle, eat too much greasy and fried foods and are thin as your genetics.

Exactly!

I think it's generally more about what you grew up doing / seeing modeled as normal. And if you had thin, healthy, active parents you are more likely to make similar daily choices

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've always been thin. My mother was always thin, so I assume it's genetic.

I work out about six days a week, in some way. Yoga, dance class, swimming, a hike. Something. I don't consider walking the dog to count. I work out on my lunch hour or after dinner, but mostly on my lunch hour.

Today's food:

breakfast: oatmeal with banana
snack: cantaloupe and nuts (not together, one after another), water
lunch: huge salad, water
snack: green beans, water
dinner: spinach tortellini, raw carrot sticks

You assume it's genetic, but you work out six days a week and eat a low calorie diet. That's not genetic, that's lifestyle.

+1 if the first poster works out 6 days a week on this kind of diet I doubt she nets 800 calories a day.

[Anonymous]

but with these dinners of PB&J or roasted Japanese sweet potato spears, are you serving the same thing to your partner and kids? Or maybe you don't have any?
I couldn't feed my teenage sons like this so I am assuming you all are making two separate meals or just not eating together as a family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:but with these dinners of PB&J or roasted Japanese sweet potato spears, are you serving the same thing to your partner and kids? Or maybe you don't have any?
I couldn't feed my teenage sons like this so I am assuming you all are making two separate meals or just not eating together as a family.

I'm not the pp, but I make a large meal for the family and only eat certain parts of it. Example: grass fed burgers, sweet potatos, salad with roasted chickpeas and tons of other vegetables for the teens and husband. I eat only the sweet potatoes and salad. If I make homemade pizza I have vegetarian toppings for me and they have their own choice of toppings (and eat 4 slices to my one).

[Anonymous]

Hmmm, I'm 5'5" and 115 lbs, and yesterday I ate:

Eggs and a muffin with buttter, glass of whole milk
String cheese and crackers
Five guys double burger and fries
Lara bar and string cheese
Steak, zucchini, pasta
Chocolate bar
Taquitos with sour cream before bed

I'm 35 with 2 kids. Workout for 30 min 3 times a week.

If I really overdo it I can gain weight but mostly I'm naturally thin. I drink whole milk so I don't get TOO thin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:but with these dinners of PB&J or roasted Japanese sweet potato spears, are you serving the same thing to your partner and kids? Or maybe you don't have any?
I couldn't feed my teenage sons like this so I am assuming you all are making two separate meals or just not eating together as a family.

Japanese sweet potatoes here. My husband travels during the week and my child is 15 months old, so I eat solo most weeknights after the baby goes to sleep. We eat somewhat differently when my DH is home. Sample meal with DH: grilled fish, salad, corn on the cob, wine. Or butterflied leg of lamb, roasted potatoes, asparagus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:but with these dinners of PB&J or roasted Japanese sweet potato spears, are you serving the same thing to your partner and kids? Or maybe you don't have any?
I couldn't feed my teenage sons like this so I am assuming you all are making two separate meals or just not eating together as a family.

Japanese sweet potatoes here. My husband travels during the week and my child is 15 months old, so I eat solo most weeknights after the baby goes to sleep. We eat somewhat differently when my DH is home. Sample meal with DH: grilled fish, salad, corn on the cob, wine. Or butterflied leg of lamb, roasted potatoes, asparagus.

Sorry for double post.

[Anonymous]

I'm 5'3 and around 110-115 lbs. I have a small frame but my weight can yo-yo if I don't eat healthily.
Breakfast: coffee, yogurt, toast or oatmeal
Lunch: salad, sometimes soup with bread
Snack: nuts, fruit, cheese and crackers
Dinner: varies, but we usually have a protein, whole grain, and a veggie.
I do yoga a few times a week and walk everywhere (usually between 10k-20k steps). We eat whole, fresh foods, almost never go out to eat, and I don't drink that much. I try not to eat a lot of meat (prefer protein from legumes, veggies) and only eat full-fat dairy. I don't eat processed crap (except for granola bars, I guess) and rarely eat sweets more than a few times a week. Michael Pollan's books really changed the way that I ate when I read them in my early 20s.