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

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Anonymous wrote:I‘ve never been overweight, but I don’t think counting calories is healthy. No naturally think woman I know counts calories.

Dieticians recommend tracking food, but I guess you know better what the world should do?

She knows how to live life without obsessing about food/calories, isn't that the goal? Or you'll just continue dieting and counting calories daily, until the rest of your life?

I’ve never dieted. Shrug.

I track calories as directed by a dietician, because my “feel hungry” mechanism doesn’t work due to medication. So, yeah, I’ll track as long as needed to gain weight and muscle.

It’s working well. New muscles. Less cold. More energy.

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Anonymous wrote:I‘ve never been overweight, but I don’t think counting calories is healthy. No naturally think woman I know counts calories.

This is a chicken and egg thing. Naturally thin women don't HAVE to count calories,...because they're naturally thin. Those of who have to count would prefer not to, of course. Would be thrilled to be naturally skinny without having to count anything. And no I don't eat junk, drink soda, or even alcohol.

There's no such thing as naturally thin. Women who have always been thin were raised not eating junk food for every meal or eating too much. Their eating doesn't change because they have always ate at or under what they need to to be thin. No such thing as naturally thin.

There is such a thing, because I am thin without working at it, as was my mom, as was her mom. Genetics are indeed a thing.

right, but the genetics didn't make you thin what makes you thin are you eating habits and movement. Appetite, eating habits, how accurately your brain is able to your want for food vs your need for food. So while it doesn't feel like work to you, someone else eating the same portions and items you are eating that has a much larger appetite and some sugar addictions is going to have to "work" to stay thin

I don't exercise (so there goes the movement factor) and I eat what I want with no portion control. You are correct that someone else could eat the same sleeve of thin mints or pint of ice cream with different results. That's genetics.

Oh you sweet little unicorn. We believe you.

I seriously don't get the point you're trying to make. Are you insisting that everyone who's overweight is to blame for their body size, and could be thin if they just worked a little harder at it? Because based on my own personal experience, that's not all there is to it.

+1. My mil is one of those unicorns I guess. She’s very petite-5 feet and maybe 90 pounds-no matter what she eats.

But the “no matter what she eats” doesn’t equal all that many calories over a day and on a regular basis. I had a room mate like this. She would bake a batch of brownies and eat the whole pan! But it was literally all she eat the whole day and then she wouldn’t be hungry again until half way through the next day.

A box of prepared Duncan Hines brownies is 3200. Even if she only ate that for 2 ENTIRE 24-hr periods then it would still be 1600 cal average per day. In your example is 1.5days so assume she ate a 400-500 dinner then that's 36-3700 so 1800 calories.

People can be overweight and petite and have trouble losing on 1800 calories. Your friend was thin and petite and maintained or lost weight on 1800 calories. So either its genetics or bulimia.

That is also disordered eating btw. Its called bingeing.

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Anonymous wrote:With the exception of a few of you, I'd love to see the rest come back when you are in your early 50's and report back on how your diets/calorie counts are working for you then. Sadly, things tend to change *for most women* in their late 40's, and you have to make major changes to either your calories or your food choices or both.

signed,
fit woman in her early 50's who has had to drastically change eating habits and exercise to maintain fitness and desired weight

Eh. Opposite problem here. I struggle to keep weight on. Not everyone has problems with overeating. Some of us have small stomachs or not much interest in food.

I gained 10 lbs on purpose and want to gain 5-10 more.

Interesting. What makes you food adverse? I have to listen to the obese people at my job talk about food all day and that it's international fill in your food here everyday. They share snacks all day and eat all day. Weirdly they hardly if ever go to the bathroom. I assume they're all constipated.

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Anonymous wrote:I‘ve never been overweight, but I don’t think counting calories is healthy. No naturally think woman I know counts calories.

This is a chicken and egg thing. Naturally thin women don't HAVE to count calories,...because they're naturally thin. Those of who have to count would prefer not to, of course. Would be thrilled to be naturally skinny without having to count anything. And no I don't eat junk, drink soda, or even alcohol.

There's no such thing as naturally thin. Women who have always been thin were raised not eating junk food for every meal or eating too much. Their eating doesn't change because they have always ate at or under what they need to to be thin. No such thing as naturally thin.

There is such a thing, because I am thin without working at it, as was my mom, as was her mom. Genetics are indeed a thing.

right, but the genetics didn't make you thin what makes you thin are you eating habits and movement. Appetite, eating habits, how accurately your brain is able to your want for food vs your need for food. So while it doesn't feel like work to you, someone else eating the same portions and items you are eating that has a much larger appetite and some sugar addictions is going to have to "work" to stay thin

I don't exercise (so there goes the movement factor) and I eat what I want with no portion control. You are correct that someone else could eat the same sleeve of thin mints or pint of ice cream with different results. That's genetics.

So let me get this straight. Can you eat everything an obese person like Tammy from 600lb life and remain thin? Can you down 12000 calories a day and not gain an ounce because you're naturally thin?

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Anonymous wrote:With the exception of a few of you, I'd love to see the rest come back when you are in your early 50's and report back on how your diets/calorie counts are working for you then. Sadly, things tend to change *for most women* in their late 40's, and you have to make major changes to either your calories or your food choices or both.

signed,
fit woman in her early 50's who has had to drastically change eating habits and exercise to maintain fitness and desired weight

Eh. Opposite problem here. I struggle to keep weight on. Not everyone has problems with overeating. Some of us have small stomachs or not much interest in food.

I gained 10 lbs on purpose and want to gain 5-10 more.

Interesting. What makes you food adverse? I have to listen to the obese people at my job talk about food all day and that it's international fill in your food here everyday. They share snacks all day and eat all day. Weirdly they hardly if ever go to the bathroom. I assume they're all constipated.

I’d argue that the person monitoring their colleagues’ bathroom habits has bigger issues than obesity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Breakfast - smoothie with greens, mango, blueberries, seeds
Latte

Lunch - Large salad with protein (usually salmon, chicken or shrimp), avocado and/or hummus and veggies

Snack - coconut oil roasted Brussel sprouts; coffee

Dinner - lentil soup with veggies

Desert - square of dark sea salt chocolate

This all sounds delicious! I wish someone would make all this for me. I would eat it but too lazy to put it all together myself.

[Anonymous]

Yesterday (no calorie count ever)
7 am-coffee with oat creamer
9 am-half an apple and sun chips at my desk
2 pm-piece of grilled salmon, broccoli, and roasted potatoes. Chocolate chip mini muffin
8 pm - takeout - 2 large servings of butter chicken with rice and naan, a couple of pork dumplings

Today I had coffee in the morning and probably won’t be hungry until lunch due to last night’s late dinner. I eat only when I’m hungry. Exercise a few times a week - walking, tennis- but not on a specific schedule. Active at work, on my feet much of the day.

My parents are slender and fit also, I don’t take for granted that genetics plays a role.

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Anonymous wrote:Yesterday (no calorie count ever)
7 am-coffee with oat creamer
9 am-half an apple and sun chips at my desk
2 pm-piece of grilled salmon, broccoli, and roasted potatoes. Chocolate chip mini muffin
8 pm - takeout - 2 large servings of butter chicken with rice and naan, a couple of pork dumplings

Today I had coffee in the morning and probably won’t be hungry until lunch due to last night’s late dinner. I eat only when I’m hungry. Exercise a few times a week - walking, tennis- but not on a specific schedule. Active at work, on my feet much of the day.

My parents are slender and fit also, I don’t take for granted that genetics plays a role.

Forgot- age 45. 5-3 and 107 the last time I was weighed at doctor. Ok with putting on a few pounds in menopause if it means not being overly restrictive with food. Willing to exercise more though, I enjoy that.

[Anonymous]

Coffee with almond milk in morning after workout

Then at 1:00 started eating
One scrambled egg with two bacon one flax brownie
Almond milk smoothie with bananas, blueberries, almond butter
Steak with white rice and broccoli
Another flax brownie with green tea
A few gluten free chips
Two gluten free raisin toast with butter and jam
I’ll probably eat one more thing before 10 pm and then I’m done until noonish tomorrow.

I’m 5 foot 4.5 inches. About 127 pounds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coffee with almond milk in morning after workout

Then at 1:00 started eating
One scrambled egg with two bacon one flax brownie
Almond milk smoothie with bananas, blueberries, almond butter
Steak with white rice and broccoli
Another flax brownie with green tea
A few gluten free chips
Two gluten free raisin toast with butter and jam
I’ll probably eat one more thing before 10 pm and then I’m done until noonish tomorrow.

I’m 5 foot 4.5 inches. About 127 pounds.

This is like healthy what should be average. I'm you're height and 12 lbs less and that has not been deemed "thin." Nothing wrong with that, but I think people here are looking for "skinny" not "healthy weight."

Start at 5 feet 100 lbs go up 5 lbs for every inch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coffee with almond milk in morning after workout

Then at 1:00 started eating
One scrambled egg with two bacon one flax brownie
Almond milk smoothie with bananas, blueberries, almond butter
Steak with white rice and broccoli
Another flax brownie with green tea
A few gluten free chips
Two gluten free raisin toast with butter and jam
I’ll probably eat one more thing before 10 pm and then I’m done until noonish tomorrow.

I’m 5 foot 4.5 inches. About 127 pounds.

This is like healthy what should be average. I'm you're height and 12 lbs less and that has not been deemed "thin." Nothing wrong with that, but I think people here are looking for "skinny" not "healthy weight."

Start at 5 feet 100 lbs go up 5 lbs for every inch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coffee with almond milk in morning after workout

Then at 1:00 started eating
One scrambled egg with two bacon one flax brownie
Almond milk smoothie with bananas, blueberries, almond butter
Steak with white rice and broccoli
Another flax brownie with green tea
A few gluten free chips
Two gluten free raisin toast with butter and jam
I’ll probably eat one more thing before 10 pm and then I’m done until noonish tomorrow.

I’m 5 foot 4.5 inches. About 127 pounds.

This is like healthy what should be average. I'm you're height and 12 lbs less and that has not been deemed "thin." Nothing wrong with that, but I think people here are looking for "skinny" not "healthy weight."

Start at 5 feet 100 lbs go up 5 lbs for every inch.

You are pretty close to being clinically underweight. I’m similar height/weight to the PP and a size 2-4, that is thin to me. If thin to you is only a zero then you are a minority in thar opinion. I don’t think anyone’s goal here is to be borderline underweight. OP just wants to look “thin” which likely means not overweight

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I’m thin naturally (my mom weighed about 90 as her set weight even though she had 7 kids, I’m 5’5” and have weighed about 105-110 my entire adult life except during pregnancies). However I’ve been going through a deep grief that I can’t shake and it has killed my appetite. So I’m thinner now (under 100 for sure) and it’s because I feel sick at the thought of eating. Count your blessing Op if you enjoy food and just live your life. I’d trade places with you if I could.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coffee with almond milk in morning after workout

Then at 1:00 started eating
One scrambled egg with two bacon one flax brownie
Almond milk smoothie with bananas, blueberries, almond butter
Steak with white rice and broccoli
Another flax brownie with green tea
A few gluten free chips
Two gluten free raisin toast with butter and jam
I’ll probably eat one more thing before 10 pm and then I’m done until noonish tomorrow.

I’m 5 foot 4.5 inches. About 127 pounds.

This is like healthy what should be average. I'm you're height and 12 lbs less and that has not been deemed "thin." Nothing wrong with that, but I think people here are looking for "skinny" not "healthy weight."

Start at 5 feet 100 lbs go up 5 lbs for every inch.

I don’t think so. That height and weight should make her around a size 2. I don’t think you need to be size 0 to be deemed thin even on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m thin naturally (my mom weighed about 90 as her set weight even though she had 7 kids, I’m 5’5” and have weighed about 105-110 my entire adult life except during pregnancies). However I’ve been going through a deep grief that I can’t shake and it has killed my appetite. So I’m thinner now (under 100 for sure) and it’s because I feel sick at the thought of eating. Count your blessing Op if you enjoy food and just live your life. I’d trade places with you if I could.

Please see a physician. I’m so sorry for your loss. I’m the same way - anxiety and depression kills my appetite. But this is going down a dangerous road, and maybe some therapy and medication could help you.