If you have a BMI of 18-20 (or lower) come in

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BMI 17.8 5’6.75 113 lbs

Breakfast: coffee with 1 T cream

Lunch: smoothie made with kale, coconut/almond milk, frozen fruits, banana, 2 T hemp seeds. Either leftovers, almonds, or whatever else I have. Today I had a slice of homemade focaccia with olives, almonds, and rosemary.

Dinner: Burmese Coconut-Chicken Noodle soup. Yesterday I had Costco rotisserie chicken with asparagus and rice.

Dessert: sometimes ice cream, cookie, or brownie. Usually a matcha latte.

This is super sad.

Yes, this is the diet of a bulimic. Notice almost everything is liquid?

Someone's jelly

PP here. I’m not bulimic. Never had an eating disorder. Today I had coffee with milk; ramen with egg, chicken, coconut milk, and veggies; smoothie made with kale, banana, frozen fruit, and almond milk; panini made of focaccia, pear, kale, red onion, Brie, and raspberry jam; brownie with ice cream. I ran 5 miles this morning (25 miles for the week).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m lower BMI. Like 17%. I have trouble with lots of foods and have a hard time enjoying food or eating. Even when I get hungry. I eat high protein shakes to help. It’s hard when you can’t eat a lot. Anything over 2-3 ounces and I feel sick. I’ve been to all sorts of doctors....

I had a friend who struggled like this and ended up being diagnosed with something called gastroparesis.

I hope you get well soon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BMI 17.8 5’6.75 113 lbs

Breakfast: coffee with 1 T cream

Lunch: smoothie made with kale, coconut/almond milk, frozen fruits, banana, 2 T hemp seeds. Either leftovers, almonds, or whatever else I have. Today I had a slice of homemade focaccia with olives, almonds, and rosemary.

Dinner: Burmese Coconut-Chicken Noodle soup. Yesterday I had Costco rotisserie chicken with asparagus and rice.

Dessert: sometimes ice cream, cookie, or brownie. Usually a matcha latte.

This is super sad.

It's sad that pp doesn't recognize that this is a healthy diet. For a small frame person (even at that height), it's more than enough calories. The reason that first pp can eat this way is because the foods are high in protein and healthy fats. The quality of the food matter more than the quantity of the food.

113 lbs at around 5'-7" is clinically underweight.

BMI is just a guiding tool. It is not an accurate tool for many people.

I am 5'8". At 130 pounds, my BMI is in a healthy weight range. It is 19.8.

However, I looked extremely thin at 132 pounds. My ribs were protruding out.

BMI is way off for me.

It could be slightly off for PP. (she is very close to BMI's standard). She might have a very small frame and less than average muscle tone.

I'm also 5'8 and 130. The most I've weighed (non-pregnancy) was 140, and I was called big, thick, fat, you name it. I look best at 125. Very small framed.

Yesterday I had a soy milk latte for breakfast, a Chop't palm beach salad for lunch, and 2 slices of pizza for dinner. Somewhere in there I had 2 glasses of wine and a handful of peanuts.

[Anonymous]

5’5, 120lbs.

Breakfast - unsweetened overnight oats with almond milk, cinnamon and strawberries. Coffee with whole milk.

Snack - Iced coffee with cream, roasted almonds (I make my own so there is very little salt)

Lunch - avocado toast on Ezekiel bread with everything seasoning and little slice of cheddar cheese

Dinner - kale chicken Caesar salads with cheese crisps, homemade dressing and no croutons.

Dessert - three small squares of dark chocolate

[Anonymous]

5'7: 119

Breakfast: Green smoothie: (Kale,banana, apple, chia seeds, greek yogurt), tea with cream

Lunch: Salad with some sort of protein or soup or egg scramble

Snack: Nuts, fruit, or something dipped in hummus

Dinner: Whatever food family is having but I usually skip the carb side

[Anonymous]

I am 20 BMI 5’6 and about 124, I eat whatever, really. It’s about portion control. I know it will catch up with me when I am older. The heaviest I’ve been was about 143. I felt eek but looked ok because I have a very large frame so the extra weight was ok. I got there by not practicing portion control: (large dinner and huge desert, for example.) I eat three meals a day and snack mindlessly. I do not eat a lot of fried food and now less takeout. So those posters who post giant amounts of food maybe eating very small portions thereof.

[Anonymous]

My BMI is at 20 and I have a roll of waist fat in front. It only disappears when I go under 18.

I used to be able to eat anything I wanted. Now at 40 and with a chronic thyroid auto-immune disease, I have to eat less than 1000 calories to maintain a 20 BMI.

This ridiculous myth that adults must not eat less than 1200 calories hurts a portion of the population that has a very slow metabolism. They exercise, keep eating a socially acceptable amount (which for them is too much), and wonder why they can't lose weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll bite. BMI of 19. 5'7 120.

Breakfast: one egg, one English muffin, 2 cups of coffee, piece of fruit (generally an apple but in the summer I prefer peaches and nectarines)

Lunch: Big salad with lots of veggies, light dressing, a few croutons (no bacon or cheese).

Snack: Bowl of fruit salad (pineapple, raspberry, strawberry, blackberry, and blueberries)

Tonight we're having shrimp scampi and a side of steamed broccoli. I'll eat the shrimp and broccoli without the pasta.

Sometimes if I'm still hungry and everyone else is having dessert I'll have a yogurt so my kids don't see me not partaking. I think that sends the wrong message, especially to girls.

Yes, never eating dessert and only eating yogurt instead is definitely on point the right message, for sure.

[Anonymous]

Up until my mid-40s when menopause set in, I was at BMI 17. I never even thought about what I ate or how much. I was always athletic -- hiking, cycling, yoga, swimming. Plus great metabolism -- my siblings were the same, too, so probably genetic. Until menopause, I was 5'2" and 105 pounds. I was solid muscle.

Once i hit age 44(?) I had to watch my diet. First time in my life. It has been torture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5’5, 120lbs.

Breakfast - unsweetened overnight oats with almond milk, cinnamon and strawberries. Coffee with whole milk.

Snack - Iced coffee with cream, roasted almonds (I make my own so there is very little salt)

Lunch - avocado toast on Ezekiel bread with everything seasoning and little slice of cheddar cheese

Dinner - kale chicken Caesar salads with cheese crisps, homemade dressing and no croutons.

Dessert - three small squares of dark chocolate

Just curious - do you use stove at all? This seems like picnic food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BMI 17.8 5’6.75 113 lbs

Breakfast: coffee with 1 T cream

Lunch: smoothie made with kale, coconut/almond milk, frozen fruits, banana, 2 T hemp seeds. Either leftovers, almonds, or whatever else I have. Today I had a slice of homemade focaccia with olives, almonds, and rosemary.

Dinner: Burmese Coconut-Chicken Noodle soup. Yesterday I had Costco rotisserie chicken with asparagus and rice.

Dessert: sometimes ice cream, cookie, or brownie. Usually a matcha latte.

This is super sad.

Yes, this is the diet of a bulimic. Notice almost everything is liquid?

Someone's jelly

PP here. I’m not bulimic. Never had an eating disorder. Today I had coffee with milk; ramen with egg, chicken, coconut milk, and veggies; smoothie made with kale, banana, frozen fruit, and almond milk; panini made of focaccia, pear, kale, red onion, Brie, and raspberry jam; brownie with ice cream. I ran 5 miles this morning (25 miles for the week).

Correct you HAVE an eating disorder. This is almost the exact diet they put my sister on when she was trying to recover from her eating disorder. The liquid intake was to combat her body dysmorphia. If she ate something solid she could literally see it on herself. It was really sad because she’s absolutely gorgeous.

[Anonymous]

This is such a depressing thread. I came in hoping to incorporate some of the things posters eat but that didn't happen. And who has time to weigh out all their meals?

[Anonymous]

I’m 5’2 and 110, so I think that’s a BMI of 20.

Like a PP, I was blessed with a muscular build and a high metabolism. I’m 37 and don’t expect it to last forever.

My diet varies a lot from day to day. In general breakfast is just coffee with bit of cream because I’m not that hungry first thing in the mornings. If I feel hungry, I’ll have fried eggs, toast, hash browns, and/or a smoothie.

Our staples are (in no particular order): chickpeas, red peppers, avocados, tomatoes, homemade sourdough bread, pasta, red lentils, shallots, mushrooms, apples, blueberries, quinoa, olives, peanut butter, spinach, salmon

We’re mostly vegetarian but occasionally buy ground beef and sausage. (Dh + kids love sausage. I lean more purely vegetarian but buy meat that’s easy like frozen meatballs)

Lunch is my favorite meal. Before COVID, it was usually a Sweetgreen salad plus the bread or something fast casual downtown. Now I try to make giant chickpea salads with many above staples plus whatever else we have. Yesterday I made a giant pasta salad w/ tortellini and veggies to much on throughout the day.

I like curries and lentil soups. I Make a red lentil soup with other veggies; Coconut milk is another good addition. We have pasta a couple of meals per week with homemade sauce. We’re growing tomatoes, cucumbers, berries, squash and zucchini.

I love sweets and carbs. I bake bread and cake and love cookies and gelato and chocolate and gummi bears. If sweets are in the house, I’ll eat them all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is such a depressing thread. I came in hoping to incorporate some of the things posters eat but that didn't happen. And who has time to weigh out all their meals?

Can you fathom some people have more time than you?

[Anonymous]

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