Curious to find out what people eat and how much including liquid calories ie coffees etc. how many calories do you think you eat. Do you think about what your eating or not really? And are you carrying any extra weight?
Do you ever wonder if you eat a lot or a little compared to other people?
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A general day for me is,
Two eggs for breakfast (either scrambled or fried) and a coffee (1 sugar and full cream milk)
Lunch is usually a salad with lots of avocado. Or cheese slices topped with avocado and tomato. Usually another coffee (sugar and full cream milk) and if I’m still hungry I have a low carb protein bar.
Dinner is usually meat and veg.
Usually have a cup of tea at night too and some sugar free chocolate if I need it.
I drink about 800ml of water (which is not enough but all I manage in the winter)
I’ve been following this for a few weeks and lost a kilo a week. It’s essentially the keto diet. High fat, low carb. And I’m always full.
Am carrying some extra weight. Probably another 8kg to lose, I’m down 4kg already
Not worth comparing to other people. Whats important is input vs how much your body is using.
After years of swinging between under eating and binge eating anc worrying about my weight I decided to draw a line in the sand. I stopped following ‘wellness’ pages (which were mostly full of bull crap) and see a professional.
So after seeing a dietitian I feel much better. I can finally enjoy food without worrying and I don’t compare myself to others any more. I know that all my blood tests from my Gp are excellent.
I eat weirdly compared to other people I think. For breakfast I like dinner foods so risotto, curry, stew etc. during the day I eat boiled eggs and toast, peanut butter toast.
lunch I will have a roll with meat and salad or two ham and salad sandwiches. I snack all day on chocolate coated dates, peanuts, pretzels. I eat a lot of white bread. Dinner is meat and vegetables, lots of fish. Curries all the time. I drink about 2 litres of water and have about 6 cups of herbal tea a day and 2 chai’s
Coffee with soy milk in the morning and then probably another coffee or two until dinner time. May snack throughout the day on whatever is around (so could be pieces of fruit or chocolate) but not a huge amount. Then dinner which is either meat and veg, hearty salad or rice with curry/stir fry. Then we have sweets like ice cream or cake (dinner is when the kids are asleep).
Not really ideal😬 But too busy throughout the day to even think about eating properly for me.
I try to look at food as fuel. Eating fresh nutritious food rather than following a restrictive type of diet or calorie counting. If you are eating fresh foods full of nutrients that your body needs and you move your body each day in some way, then what does it matter, what number the scales or clothing say?
I eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, approx 3 coffees a day.
I’m approx 18 kilos overweight. I’ve recently lost 8 kilos.
I eat 1500 calories a day, and I’m moderately active. Lunch is my biggest meal. (I’m a student in a very active job position)
I’m currently aiming for 30mins cardio a day and I do not eat after 6.30.
I currently weigh 83kilos and I’m 167cms tall
I will start by saying I'm about 30-35kg overweight (100ish kgs at 162cm tall). I haven't always been - I went back on anti-anxiety meds a few years back and I've always used food as comfort when anxious.
I usually start the day well - black coffee, protein shake, grainy bread as toast with a scrape of Nutella and some fruit.
Lunch will usually be a protein source, some veggies and/or grainy carbs.
I will usually have some sort of sugar-free soft drink during the day, and sometimes a protein bar or some nuts.
Dinner again is a protein source and veggies.
By this point I have usually consumed around 1900 to 2000 kcals over the course of the day. On most mornings I weight train, and my job is about 75% on my feet with some desk time.
After dinner is my problem. I deal with feeling lonely, tired, frustrated, exhausted (and any other negative, to be honest) by snacking (read: binging) on junk. It has been my undoing for a long time and is the habit I need to address and change to be successful at weight loss.
I’ve been on lite n easy for the past 20 weeks and have lost 20kgs. I have been eating 1200 calories a day. I eat eggs and bacon most mornings, yummy salads or rolls or soups ( with bread and butter) for lunch. Frozen dinners which are all around the 400 calorie mark. I eat at least 2 snacks a day. All this is 1200 calories. The most important thing is portion control. Eat good food but eat less of it is what I have learned.