Skinny people who don't diet but just eat carefully. What is on your plate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5’3”, 107 lbs, early 40s

This is what I ate yesterday.

Breakfast - black coffee
Lunch - 10 pieces of sushi
Dinner - beef tacos (3 small flour tortillas), roasted cauliflower, two glasses of wine

It’s definitely in part genetic. My parents/grandparents are thin, and I’ve been always thin. I eat/drink whatever I want, but in moderation. No breakfast.

Ten pieces of sushi is how many calories? 400?
Beef tacos, even if you had huge ones, are around 400 calories, no? Cauliflower, less than 100, plus 160 for wine? You had less than 2000 calories.

[Anonymous]

Not super-thin PP, but what many people don't want to admit is that we actually don't need very much food to survive, especially after we age. A small-framed person could easily get by on 1400 calories per day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thin after 40 is genetic.

Absolutely this. Generic or starving herself. You will get responses like “I had 17 cheeseburgers today and I am 5 foot 10 and 100 pounds!” And guess what - their mothers are those old skinny women that can barely stand up on their stick legs. Genetics or disorder after 40. 100% true. I’m not talking about normal - I’m talking about “skinny.”

My entire family is thin, my kids have always been in the 1-5% for weight. A menu for me is a toasted bagel with cream cheese, yogurt, egg, banana, sometimes all of these, for breakfast, snack could be a few cups of almonds or pistachios, chocolate trail mix, bowl of pretzels, tortilla chips, cornbread or banana bread, crackers and cheese lunch crackers and cheddar cheese, tomato soup or a pb&j sandwich or chicken nuggets, dinner is anything from slow cooked chicken or beef and potatoes, steamed fish, rice, pasta, pizza, caesar salad, any veggies raw or cooked with Italian dressing in a salad or butter and salt on cooked, love mexican food, guacamole, rice and beans, dessert is cookies, piece of pie, ice cream once in a while, drinks include water, tea, coffee, red wine only. I am mid 40s and bmi of about 20. My parents have been the same weight since their 20s and eat whatever they want always have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thin after 40 is genetic.

Disagree. Skinny after 40 is intentional, not genetic.

Agree with Disagree.

I am 50, 5'3", weigh somewhere between 105-110 and don't exercise or watch my weight.

It's genetics. But my good metabolism is balanced out by a family history of cancer, so there's that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone really agree with this image of a 24 30 as overweight? I would think this is really not healthy to call a person looking like that overweight by any standards.

Yes BMI is an unhealthy measurement and standard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not super-thin PP, but what many people don't want to admit is that we actually don't need very much food to survive, especially after we age. A small-framed person could easily get by on 1400 calories per day.

This. I don’t think most people understand how little food we require.

I’m thin and my overweight friends would likely say it’s genetic. The truth is that I eat less. I’ve never known anyone who is overweight who does NOT eat a good bit more than I do. However they likely think we eat a similar amount.

For example if I go out to dinner with friends, I don’t eat much the evening before. I likely don’t order fries or only eat half my entree. It’s the little bit more than they eat at every meal that is resulting in the higher weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thin after 40 is genetic.

Absolutely this. Generic or starving herself. You will get responses like “I had 17 cheeseburgers today and I am 5 foot 10 and 100 pounds!” And guess what - their mothers are those old skinny women that can barely stand up on their stick legs. Genetics or disorder after 40. 100% true. I’m not talking about normal - I’m talking about “skinny.”

My entire family is thin, my kids have always been in the 1-5% for weight. A menu for me is a toasted bagel with cream cheese, yogurt, egg, banana, sometimes all of these, for breakfast, snack could be a few cups of almonds or pistachios, chocolate trail mix, bowl of pretzels, tortilla chips, cornbread or banana bread, crackers and cheese lunch crackers and cheddar cheese, tomato soup or a pb&j sandwich or chicken nuggets, dinner is anything from slow cooked chicken or beef and potatoes, steamed fish, rice, pasta, pizza, caesar salad, any veggies raw or cooked with Italian dressing in a salad or butter and salt on cooked, love mexican food, guacamole, rice and beans, dessert is cookies, piece of pie, ice cream once in a while, drinks include water, tea, coffee, red wine only. I am mid 40s and bmi of about 20. My parents have been the same weight since their 20s and eat whatever they want always have.

You’re an outlier. Go sit down at an Applebee’s in middle America. Watch what everyone is eating. It’s extremely obvious why they are overweight.

[Anonymous]

I have a low BMI but I don’t look skinny. I am 5’1 and 110. I look proportionate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone really agree with this image of a 24 30 as overweight? I would think this is really not healthy to call a person looking like that overweight by any standards.

Yes BMI is an unhealthy measurement and standard.

I'm a 24 and definitely look a little overweight in my hips and stomach. I am large breasted but could stand to lose 10-15 pounds easily.

[Anonymous]

I'm 43, 5'2" and 117. I've been between 110 and 119 for the last 25 years (other than 2 pregnancies). The only time I've "dieted" was eating slightly less for a few weeks before my wedding. But, before kids I worked out 6 days a week for 20 years and now I do 4 days a week plus walks.

Yesterday I ate:
- A scrambled egg with half a slice of bread. Coffee with milk.
- A small midmorning snack that I don't recall (typical e.g. half a homemade granola bar or leftover fruit from my kids)
- Lunch was a salad with leftover chicken and roasted veggies, with half an avocado and some thousand island dressing
- Snack of popcorn and watermelon
- Dinner was butter chicken with about 3/4 cup rice and green beans (it wasn't enough dinner, actually)
- Some M&Ms for dessert.

I eat a real dessert a couple times a week. Have a drink a couple times a week. We do pizza once a week (I eat 2-3 slices). We don't eat out much, which helps a lot.

I think that putting in the decades of working out and maintaining basically the same weight for all this time helps me be more flexible with my diet now. In the last year, we've tried to be less carb-y, such as eating a salad instead of a sandwich and pasta only once a week but that's mostly to help my husband lose weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For me, it’s genetic. 42yo.
I don’t eat particularly well. I don’t eat a ton, though...

Yesterday was a junk food kinda day.
Half a breakfast Sandwich from Starbucks
Half slice of pumpkin bread
Black iced coffee

Lunch:
Turkey and cheese sandwich with mustard
Pringles
Water

Dinner:
2 slices cheese pizza
2chicken wings
Brownie

Usually I start to crave lots of fruits and vegetables as it gets warmer, so I eat more of those in summer.

I think your statement that you do not eat a lot is the key here. You really do not eat a lot! I think your menu shows that you can truly eat anything you want and be slim, as long as you limit your portions.

DP and I'm a dietitian. Yes, this is true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m 5’8 and 118.

For breakfast I had three latkes with sour cream (maybe two tablespoons? I don’t measure, it was a lot). Three 10 oz lattes before lunch.

Lunch was half a leftover chipotle burrito bowl with brown rice, black beans, sofritas, cheese, sour cream, and fresh salsa.

Afternoon snack two slices of cheese in between conference calls and then one pita with hummus and two more lattes on conference calls.

Dinner is pizza, probably two slices, and mixed salad. Also one to two glasses of wine (I’m on my first now...we will see). This is a pretty typical day although probably with less veg than usual.

How old are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone really agree with this image of a 24 30 as overweight? I would think this is really not healthy to call a person looking like that overweight by any standards.

I don’t. If so, I’m over weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone really agree with this image of a 24 30 as overweight? I would think this is really not healthy to call a person looking like that overweight by any standards.

I don’t. If so, I’m over weight.

Actually I just calculated my BMI, I am at 22. So normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buckwheat breakfast bowl

Lunch: Beet or tomato mozzarella salad w/ balsamic dressing (homemade)
Rice crackers or carrots with hummus

Dinner: small salad, a sort of veggies with meat or seafood.

This is the basic meal during the week. Weekends when out I do not care what I consume.

Yum. Please share more about this buckwheat bowl. Thanks