Everyday is different- I think I'm pretty intuitive when it comes to eating and finding a balance between satisfying cravings and getting in a decent variety. This was yesterday.

Breakfast- Black Iced coffee, small bag of roasted almonds, baked pear with honey

Lunch- Made at home salad with spinach, feta, craisins, shrimp, red peppers, walnuts and a gorgonzola vinaigrette

Snack- iced almond milk latte

Dinner- baby frozen quiche (pepper/mushroom and spinach/swiss), a piece of crusty bread with butter and a small bowl of gazpacho

Snack- Raspberries and cool whip

Anonymous wrote:I am thin but not skinny. Lunch is my main meal of the day. Here is a typical day:

Breakfast:
two pieces of toast with butter and jam. Black tea.

Lunch:
salad with avocado, tomato, full fat dressing and grilled chicken

or

home made black bean soup with 1/2 baked potato

or

chana masala with yogurt and puri

or

chicken burito

or

chic-fil-a chicken nuggets with fries

or

home made cheeseburger with sweet potato fries


Snack:
two cookies, bubble tea with milk and sugar

Dinner:
greek yogurt

Snack (2x - 3x per week):
potato chips

Dear Gosh! What's with line spacing. That is the only thing I got from your post, that you are an annoying line spacer.

I am thin but not skinny. Lunch is my main meal of the day. Here is a typical day:

Breakfast:
two pieces of toast with butter and jam. Black tea.

Lunch:
salad with avocado, tomato, full fat dressing and grilled chicken

or

home made black bean soup with 1/2 baked potato

or

chana masala with yogurt and puri

or

chicken burito

or

chic-fil-a chicken nuggets with fries

or

home made cheeseburger with sweet potato fries


Snack:
two cookies, bubble tea with milk and sugar

Dinner:
greek yogurt

Snack (2x - 3x per week):
potato chips

My sister, in her early 40's, is super-slim, doesn't exercise, has three young kids and a full time job. Here's what she eats in an average day:

Breakfast: sugar cereal/cookies

Snack: candy, treats

Lunch: half sandwich, diet coke, chocolate

Snack: candy, cookie

Dinner: a few bites of whatever family is having

Snacks: pretzels, chips, bread, cheese, fruit, etc.

Her diet is not terribly healthy but her calories per day don't add up to more than 800 or 900.

She has a tiny appetite, and never lets herself get too full.

I could never exist on this, but it seems to work for her.

Today I ate three eggs with bread to sop up the egg yolk for breakfast.
For lunch, I had a bowl of a baked potatoes and cooked black and white beans.
I will have the same for dinner. I will snack on some Jaffa cakes, probably a whole box.
I am 116 lbs.

Anonymous wrote:No, looney, pp said, today, as is today. Only a disordered dcum dieting pp would assume that meant all the time. One day is one day.

If this wasn't representative of her typical food consumption, she should have chosen a different day. Like once in a while I eat a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast, pasta for lunch, and then have pizza at dinner, but I wouldn't use that as an example of what I eat regularly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Are we talking the fairly common "thin" of a low BMI and small dress size, or how I think of "skinny" which is more along the lines of getting looks on the street and family concerned about your health

Those two are pretty much the same on Dcum.

Which is weird. Are we talking 5'4 and 110-125 lbs "thin" here or are we talking 95-105? Because it's a big difference.

Oh c’mon. We all know what OP means by skinny. Looks thin and fit. Pretty sure OP doesn’t want to know what to eat (or not eat) to look 5’5” 100 lbs and emaciated. No one wants to look like they have an obvious eating disorder.

Anonymous wrote:My skinniest friend frequently eats chipotle, chick fil-a. and burgers.... I haven't seen her eat a salad ever in 10+ years of knowing her!

She’s under 40.

Anonymous wrote:

Are we talking the fairly common "thin" of a low BMI and small dress size, or how I think of "skinny" which is more along the lines of getting looks on the street and family concerned about your health

Those two are pretty much the same on Dcum.

Which is weird. Are we talking 5'4 and 110-125 lbs "thin" here or are we talking 95-105? Because it's a big difference.

Anonymous wrote:Breakfast: Greek yogurt with walnuts, or egg with some bacon, or oatmeal with Nutella

Lunch: usually smoothie made of strawberries and whey protein, and water. Or a small sandwich with low calorie bread and meat and cheese or PB&J

Dinner: literally anything. Today it was 2 pieces of cheese pizza with a stuffed crust and a glass of red wine. Yesterday it was steak and eggs with breakfast potatoes and sautéed spinach. Like basically anything.

Low calorie bread?? This is only made for people with eating disorders or who are
overweight and must have bread. Just eat normal bread, please. Your body will thank you

Breakfast: Greek yogurt with walnuts, or egg with some bacon, or oatmeal with Nutella

Lunch: usually smoothie made of strawberries and whey protein, and water. Or a small sandwich with low calorie bread and meat and cheese or PB&J

Dinner: literally anything. Today it was 2 pieces of cheese pizza with a stuffed crust and a glass of red wine. Yesterday it was steak and eggs with breakfast potatoes and sautéed spinach. Like basically anything.

I don’t think this thread is absurd.

I get the same question quite often.

Not OP

When I was my skinniest

Breakfast; Lucky charmed with whole milk
Lunch: Sub or Chinese or tuna sandwich with Mac and cheese or PB&J with milk
Snack Snickers bar with real coke
Dinner: Burrito and chips, fried chicken and biscuit, Mac and cheese, chicken breast with rice a roni
Snack: Ice cream

Weekends: 5-6 glasses of beer or wine on fri/sat

Anonymous wrote:What happened to my S/O what do you eat if overweight thread?
Nobody was nasty when I checked a few hours ago? It was to show the absurdity of these what do you eat if skinny questions.

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What happened to my S/O what do you eat if overweight thread?
Nobody was nasty when I checked a few hours ago? It was to show the absurdity of these what do you eat if skinny questions.