Breakfast - Blueberry muffin (whole grain) and Blue machine drink from Naked

Lunch - 1.5 sandwiches from Devin and Blakely (1/2 tomato mozz and 1 cubano) plus two pieces of cornbread and a cookie

Dinner - tuna avocado sushi and two pieces of fried chicken, 1 beer

Dessert - Thai "pudding" (coconut milk with taro root)

Throughout the day: lots of water

I'm about 130 lbs. Currently breastfeeding, don't work out right now (hope to again soon when I have more time!)

To the PP with the extremely low intake, you have probably really damaged your metabolism by eating this way. You realize you're probably burning off more than your total caloric intake for a day with one 5-mile run, and that is not right. You need calories to fuel your activities both physical and mental and instead, you're starving yourself. I'd talk to a nutritionist and see if you can somehow reset your metabolism so you can actually eat like a normal person.

I weigh 150 at 5'8" (typically more like 140-145) and can eat 2,000 calories a day without gaining, and run 5-6 miles a day 3-4 times a week. and this is my slowed-down metabolism at age 40.

Anonymous wrote:Breakfast: an apple (my usual)
Lunch: raw veggie salad (red cabbage, radish, beats, carrots, green onions and arugala on top - all raw)
Dinner: miso soup with tofu or tempeh (home made)

2 liters of water
a cup of coffee with milk in the morning
a starbucks chai tea latte

Ran 5 miles (do so three times per week)

I am 5'6, 153, size 8 or 10. Could certainly lose 10, but don't consider myself overweight.

If this is a typical day for you the math doesn't make sense. At all. Have you had a physical recently? Because you're consuming *maybe* 500 calories a day (why are you eating so little?), burning it all off, and yet your BMI is just about considered overweight. Time to consider medical reasons IMHO.

PP here. Walked about 3 miles in NYC. Would not mind losing 10 lbs.

1/2 bagel w/ cream cheese and 1 orange (breakfast.)
small corn & chicken chowder (lunch.)
1 glass red wine/ chopped salad/ 3 beef sliders w/ cheddar cheese & fries (dinner.)
Shared a hot fudge sundae (dessert.)
3 chocolate non pariels before bedtime

Breakfast cup of tea, and egg sandwhich with one slice of wheat toast and one slice of canadian bacon

Lunch - La Madeleine mediterranean salad with chicken and very little dressing on the side, no egg (I hate hard boiled eggs on my salad) and 1/2 the cheese left. Diet Coke

Snack- 2 carrot sticks in a dip of hummus

Dinner: 2 grilled skinless chicken thighs, a cup of TJ's basmati rice medley, grilled asparagus and one TJ guilt free brownie... oh and 2 glasses of Vinho Verde wine.

Ran this a.m. for 4 miles (do that 4x week). Currently 145, 5'5 and working on that last 10 lbs. Using Fitness Pal to help me record as a food diary which makes me a more aware eater. Today was not my most stellar day, but it could have been worse.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Breakfast: an apple (my usual)
Lunch: raw veggie salad (red cabbage, radish, beats, carrots, green onions and arugala on top - all raw)
Dinner: miso soup with tofu or tempeh (home made)

2 liters of water
a cup of coffee with milk in the morning
a starbucks chai tea latte

Ran 5 miles (do so three times per week)

I am 5'6, 153, size 8 or 10. Could certainly lose 10, but don't consider myself overweight.

It is am amazement to me that you have not wasted away. If that were a normal day for eating for me, I would collapse into a heap of bones. I too am a runner, running about 25miles a week and consume about 2200cal a day 5'9' 140lbs.

How many calorie you doing a day....800?

I wish I were! this is today. M - F less Friday night drinks I try to be this regimented. I only drink alcohol on weekends and generally eat what I want on weekends. this is my weekly routine to keep it all together. Some days I have a piece of toast rather than an apple. 10 years ago I would have weighted 15 pounds less, but at 40 my metabolism has slowed down enough this maintains my frame. It is what it is.

Anonymous wrote:Breakfast: an apple (my usual)
Lunch: raw veggie salad (red cabbage, radish, beats, carrots, green onions and arugala on top - all raw)
Dinner: miso soup with tofu or tempeh (home made)

2 liters of water
a cup of coffee with milk in the morning
a starbucks chai tea latte

Ran 5 miles (do so three times per week)

I am 5'6, 153, size 8 or 10. Could certainly lose 10, but don't consider myself overweight.

It is am amazement to me that you have not wasted away. If that were a normal day for eating for me, I would collapse into a heap of bones. I too am a runner, running about 25miles a week and consume about 2200cal a day 5'9' 140lbs.

How many calorie you doing a day....800?

I work nights:

Somewhere around 1 am: 2 cups coffee with cream and a quarter cup of tj tzatziki dip, plain

Around 0830: chicken soup, no noodles and a square of do chocolate.

Around 4p: spinach omelet with salsa and Parmesan cheese, soy latte, avocado half, and anothe piece of dk chocolate. Handful of craisins.

This is a rest day, so no exercise beyond chasing patients all night and 6 flights of stairs.

Not fat. Losing weight anyway.

Breakfast: an apple (my usual)
Lunch: raw veggie salad (red cabbage, radish, beats, carrots, green onions and arugala on top - all raw)
Dinner: miso soup with tofu or tempeh (home made)

2 liters of water
a cup of coffee with milk in the morning
a starbucks chai tea latte

Ran 5 miles (do so three times per week)

I am 5'6, 153, size 8 or 10. Could certainly lose 10, but don't consider myself overweight.

Anonymous wrote:Breakfast - two cups of coffee, a cup of oatmean (steel cut, 1/4 cup dry) with handful of walnuts and raisins, sweetened with agave nectar, and a yogurt.
Snack - grapes and celery sticks
Lunch - Homemade Lentil soup (just lentils, onion, water, and salt and pepper) and an apple
dinner - salad with oil and vinegar dressing - chicken and cherry tomatoes
snack - popcorn

not fat.

Probably anorexic!

Breakfast - two cups of coffee, a cup of oatmean (steel cut, 1/4 cup dry) with handful of walnuts and raisins, sweetened with agave nectar, and a yogurt.
Snack - grapes and celery sticks
Lunch - Homemade Lentil soup (just lentils, onion, water, and salt and pepper) and an apple
dinner - salad with oil and vinegar dressing - chicken and cherry tomatoes
snack - popcorn

not fat.

Breakfast: Luna bar and big travel mug of coffee w/ skim milk and real sugar

Lunch: spicy tofu roll, small spinach salad with carrots, peppers, quinoa and balsamic vinaigrette, and water

While prepping kids' dinner: way too much Pirate's Booty, more than a few cubes of cheddar cheese (was making spinach, egg and cheese omelets for kids' dinner)

Dinner: turkey burger (99% fat free turkey) and slice of swiss cheese on wheat english muffin, grilled zucchini, small mixed green salad with ginger dressing, water, 1 glass of red wine

Late night snack: very small cup of rice pudding

I'm 5'9", 127 lbs and nursing. I weigh about 5 pounds less than normal, but I'm sure that will change once I wean for good. Baby is 13 months and I'm still nursing in the AM and PM. I've always been tall and lean but could definitely be more toned. The only exercise I do is yoga 2x week during lunch and walking our dog.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with the way I eat. I have a fairly fast metabolism, so can eat larger portions. I don't snack during the day. I do need to work on the grazing while I'm prepping the kids' dinner. DH and I don't eat until after the kids are in bed, so it's 8 or 8:30 by then. I should eat something healthy when I leave work or right when I get home, so I'm not grazing on crap during that time.

Here's what I have/will eat today:

Breakfast:half a bowl of cereal when I got up (5am, buttcrack of dawn as always). Splurged on a coffee.

Lunch: white chicken chili with cheddar cheese and blue corn chips

Dinner: I don't know yet. I don't get home until 8pm three days a week so sometimes I don't eat dinner, just a snack.

Snacks (I may not eat all)
Yogurt
Strawberries
Smart food popcorn (100 cal bag)
Glutino wafer cookies
Handful of Hershey's kisses

I'm about 140, so I need to lose about 10 pounds (or a few more if I want to get back to my college weight). I try to run at least 10-20 mins a day, and I walk to/from work.

Anonymous wrote:
breakfast) bowl of oatmeal with 1/2 banana, cup of coffee with coconut based creamer (am breastfeeding and on non dairy, non soy).

lunch) turkey ,tomato, and avocado sandwich on 1 large slice bread.

snack) 3 squares dark chocolate (from a larger bar)

dinner) glass of wine, bowl of arugula salad with 1/2 apple and a handful of walnuts, olive oil/balsamic dressing. 1/2 c. mango sorbet. 3 bites of my son's pasta that he did not finish.

I am currently about 10 lbs overweight. I gained 22 lbs during pregnancy and have 12 lbs to lose still, 3 months PP. since delivery my weight will not budge. Meanwhile my other breastfeeding friends are nearly skeletal.


Are you hungry all the time? I'm a pretty small woman and I would pass out and/or kill someone if I ate this little-and I'm not breastfeeding.

If I eat enough protein I am not hungry all the time although I do get hungry eating like this if I am also working out and breastfeeding--- though I try not to get hangry (hungry angry). Some days I eat more. Today I had a turkey burger with avocado at lunch and a piece of salmon and lots of sautéed spinach for dinner, so lots of protein and healthy fat--I also worked out. But I can't indulge like some people--and never have been able to. I was diagnosed with a thyroid condition 15 years ago and am medicated for it, but have never had a fast metabolism, but the corollary is that I don't need as much food as someone with a super fast metabolism either.