What do you think people eat in a day?

Thin*

If you eat nothing but highly processed food you're not only starving your body of nutrients it needs to function properly but pissing a lot of money away. In my opinion. But ot's okay to eat like an American sometimes. Just bring something like balanced nutrition into it. Have a couple of pieces of pizza with a green salad, or have a doughnut for breakfast with a glass of milk and an orange.

You never know when Doris Day's going to come by, and she loves a good powdered donut.

I'll bite. Here's a typical day - not everyday - although my breakfast is the same every single day and I never tire of it.

Breakfast: Egg whites, roasted vegetables, kale, veggie sausages cooked together, sprinkled with hot sauce One full egg on top, one hash brown, and 1-2 slices of Wasa crisp bread with butter.

Snack: protein bar with low sugar or a banana

Lunch: Mixed salad with protein (salmon, chicken, tofu, etc.) and beans

Snack: mixed nuts or an apple

Dinner: Seared tuna with bok choy, green beans.

Snack: Pretzel thins, dark chocolate-covered almonds, maybe a couple of crackers and cheese

I don't know but I was at the local Koegers outlet today and bought some vegetables. The center of the store, row after row after row, was chips and chips and crackers and cookies and ice cream and just garbage. It was amazing. It reminded me of when I drive through these highway miles of all the fast food franchises I've never been in... they go on forever and ... who is eating there? It sounds snobby I suppose. And I was watching a YouTube video the other day about all the healthy foods -sushi, various weird fresh fish and vegetable prepackaged dishes, that you typically buy in a Japanese convenience store vs what you find - chips, candy, crackers, crap - in a US 7-11 type store. And it seemed to me that US grocery stores are much closer in content to the 7-11 store than I realized. We eat mostly garbage, if the amount of store space dedicated to garbage is any indication

Thin people don’t eat when they aren’t hungry. Feeling hungry is what reminds them to eat.

Thin people eat less than half of what is served to them at a restaurant.

R6 - that's true for me at restaurants - I eat half typically.

Also with the prices of restaurants, it's great to make 2 meals out of it.

I post what I eat for dinner almost every day.

I'm 6'2, 203 - definitely not thin, BMI has me overweight, but just slightly (under 10 lbs). Of course, for over 65 - I'm not overweight, but I'm not sure I buy that.

R4 is eating so much protein his kidney will give way, or he'll get kidney stones. Really poor choices.

I’ve never eaten regular meals. I don’t get hungry until dinner time. I have never ever been someone who is hungry in the AM. As an adult I just can’t bring myself to eat when I’m not hungry. It’s not ideal but I’m not changing it after 60 years.

Saturday morning breakfast- Puffed Corn, Puffed Kamut, Puffed Rice- no sugar, no salt in any of them. They're all only 60 calories per cup. I will be eating them in Trader Joe's Oat Milk.

I water fast 72 hours a week so that I don't have to watch what I eat. I don't do all three days in one stretch--usually one 48 hour fast and then another 24 hour one 2 days later.

I do this because I love to cook/bake and I love to eat. I love food; not junk, but REAL food--real butter, real cheese, good bread, bacon, egg yolks, pasta, but also plenty of fruits and vegetables. I don't count calories on my eating days or limit the kinds of food I eat, but if I'm eating, I want it to be good, home-cooked or restaurant quality food that I can actually savor--not empty, chemical-laden junk food.

Eating this way has made it pretty effortless to maintain at a BMI of 20/21 (with excellent cholesterol and blood sugar levels) without ever feeling deprived. On my fasting days, I don't think about food at all. On my eating days, I enjoy any food I like thoroughly and without guilt.

I have a goat milk latte

R9 - bullshit. It's not even close to what I should be eating in terms of daily protein for someone who is fit and works out 5 times a week.

I was vegan/vegetarian for awhile and I was not getting enough protein at all.

No carbs, OP. Like ever

Similar to r4, except fruit as snacks. I eat sugar-free pie or fruit tart 2-3x/ week for dessert or home made ice cream (with sugar, but limited to 25mg) twice a week. Sometimes I cheat. I rarely eat prepared/processed food from the grocery store and go to restaurants maybe once every other week. I also must eat two snacks with protein in the middle of the night - usually peanut butter or cheese with half an apple for fiber, half a high-protein/no sugar yogurt with blueberries.

95% of what my partner and I eat is cooked at home, which is easy in retirement.

I am rail thin, with liver and kidney disease. Blood tests every other week. If kidney function slips, I cut back on the protein, but then risk losing more weight, including what little muscle mass remains.

Used to eat healthful meals, but with added junk food, salt, animal fat, with wine pairings, and gallons of Vodka. I looked (and typed) fat. Friends and relatives think I look great. Partner knows that I am wasting away. He looks great, having cut alcohol way back and going on Ozempic.

Poor nutrition can have severe, irreversible consequences.

J'adore Dustin's thread and often get dinner ideas there.

I guess I had no idea people I pass in the street might not be eating for two days, by choice.

An extremely large glass of ice water.

I'm sorry Donna....we're out of water. You're getting spaghetti.

I used a strainer.

Fucking whores.

We eat a $5 frozen grocery store pizza every night. It’s amazing. I hope I die before I’m 70.

What grocery store pizza costs $5, r20? Red Baron?

R21 Red Baron yes. But it sucks. So also Jacks and Tombstone. Though I stock up on Screaming Sicilian at Vons when it’s $5.99 at Vons once a month!

Nothing :-(

I'm a Freschetta fat whore myself. I think they made the best frozen cheese pizza on the market. Digiorno is good but it's very bread-y. I also feel very bloated after I eat it.

“I’m gonna do thin things!”

I disagree R9 . R4 is eating extremely healthy. Current medical advice especially for elder gays is to eat 1 g of protein per pound of weight to starve off sarcopenia. Granted you need to be careful about your prescriptions that may be impacting your kidney liver function and be monitored.

I eat a modified Mediterranean diet. Every morning I eat some sort of cooked whole grain. Quinoa, buckwheat, millet, bulgur, brown rice. I mix in a small pat of butter I sprinkle it with a teaspoon of metamucil, and top it with some berries. I have a cup of soy milk. Lunch is usually a.pb&j sandwich on whole grain bread and a piece of fruit, or a salad with garbanzo beans and chopped apples and a slice of bread. For dinner I try to have salmon twice a week with steam sautéed greens such as kale or bok choy. Other days I'll cook chicken or turkey . Usually I'll alternate a potato in its jacket or a small sweet potato. My BMI hovers around 25, but I think my ideal weight would be 10 lbs less than my current weight. I've eaten this way most of my adult life. But exercise is huge. I was sidelined recently by a back injury, and I gained 7 pounds in 10 days. Yikes!

R27 I don't mean to be rude, but I'm not sure a BMI of 25 qualifies as "thin". I think thin is 18-21--maybe 22 if you have a lot of lean muscle.

R28 - the BMI is bullshit. It should be about your fitness and body fat percentage. BMI presumes all additional weight is fat and that is not true.

It's a ridiculous concept for people who workout and lift weights.

You can have a high body fat % and be under 25 BMI - you're just skinny with a low amount of muscle mass and it doesn't look good.

I'm at 15-16% body fat and I'm considered overweight because my BMI is 26. This pic is around what 15% body fat looks like. Guaranteed both men in this photo are considered overweight or could be considered obese according to BMI. This is roughly what I look like.

Serious weightlifters are almost always over 30 BMI, which is obese according to BMI. But they would have 8-12% body fat, which is very low.

I wish we would throw that fucking thing out the window and just measure body fat %.

A BMI in the mildly overweight range is healthier for older people than being skinny-skinny.

I can't imagine eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at all, never mind every day. I haven't eaten that since I was a kid.

^ I don't mean to sound like a diet-and-health nut, I'm not, but that wouldn't be my first choice for a frequent meal.

R31 - I actually have peanut butter and low-sugar strawberry preserves on a slice of crisp bread several times a week. It's good!

[quote]I can't imagine eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at all, never mind every day. I haven't eaten that since I was a kid

You have a serious lack of imagination. They are very tasty.

Homemade almond butter on homemade bread with American Spoon Fruit. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

R34 PP&J has to be one of the most unimaginative meals ever.

R29 I don't necessarily disagree with anything in your comment, although I do think too many people hinge their feelings about BMI on those very rare outlier exceptions (most people are NOT body builders). But my point is I still wouldn't consider the men in those photos to be "thin". Their size would be "average/fit".

*PB&J

I don't want to eat anything I have to drink something with in order to wash it down.

I was raised by children of the depression. When prices go high or my income goes low, I cook from scratch more and drop pricier Sandra Lee cooking. It’s depression-era food that stores well in the fridge - soups, pasta sauces, and casseroles.

I’m pretty much stuck with chicken thighs, 80% lean beef, and cod. The chicken has been the most affordable.

I sometimes substitute a meal involving a family bag of Dorito’s, plasticized cheese sauce, and blended whiskey for chicken vegetable soup. If you’re out of crusty bread, you might as well hold off on the soup goodness.

R37 - most men lift weights. The guy on the left in that pic is not 'average'. I'm not talking huge bodybuilders - but the same concept applies just as certain degrees.

Many fit men who lift weights fall into an overweight BMI and many bodybuilders are in the obese range. Bone density also can contribute to that extra weight.

BMI is just a stupid tool. I've seen it used in healthcare plans to provide discounts to people under a certain BMI. A lot of fit men and women do not qualify.

Then there was that article about X% of US military being overweight - many Navy Seals would be considered overweight or obese based on this.

It's just ridiculous that it is used at all. Many 'thin' men have bodyfat of 22-25% - that doesn't mean they are healthy. They're skinny fat.

[quote] most men lift weights.

I doubt it.

R40 But this isn't a thread about weight lifting/exercise--it's about diet. I'm sorry, but most people do NOT spend hours in the gym every week pumping iron (especially not people so lost to fat whoredom that they aren't even sure what thin people feed themselves) which means they need to be eating far less than those who do.

R41 - most men who workout do - and if they don't, they should.

R42 - yes - well many people don't do the bare minimum to keep up their health at all - with either exercise or diet - and then they wonder why they don't feel good or get diseases. The most effort some people do is to shower and fastidiously brush their teeth. As if teeth are the most important part of health maintenance. And it's not as much time as you'd think each week in the gym. Millions do it with no problems.

But so many people view eating healthy and exercise as unnecessary and a punishment for some reason. It's bizarre.

r43 It's even easier now with the internet, as one can easily find endless healthy recipes and tips on what is nutritious and what to avoid. People as a whole are becoming increasingly dumber. It's as if the human species has a set amount of intelligence, and as the population grows, the intelligence is diluted.

R44 - there are even apps where you select recipes and it creates a shopping list that you can import for online grocery shopping. I mean - how much easier?

And there are very low cost workout/personal trainer apps.

Don't get me started on those meal-delivery services - fucking expensive, and many of the meals are so simple (grilled meat, heated cut vegetables, starch) - the meals would take 10-15 mins Max to make. They're usually not complicated. Oh and they'll throw in cheap fucking pasta with some veggies and a few scraps of protein in a white sauce and people lose their minds over it. Fools.

And some of the calorie counts in those dinners? 1000 calories? What?

I drink black coffee for breakfast and eat either a salad with balsamic vinaigrette or avocado on a piece of whole wheat toast for lunch. Then, between 6 and 9 PM, basically anything goes.

R46 - is that a sort of intermittent fasting? Sounds like it up to the 6-9pm anything goes part.

But I will admit it has always been a challenge for me not to eat anything past 7:30 to bedtime.

BMI is such bullshit. It doesn't take into account your actual build.

The BMI chart insists that 165 to 170 is my ideal weight.

I'd look like a pumpkinhead scarecrow if I weighed that little. I did get down to 182 or so and while I wasn't toned, in clothes I looked terrific.

R48 - My ex was 6 foot and 162 - very little muscle. He did look great in clothes, but he was THIN. ZERO ASS. Not much tone. Rather boney.

A 6ft tall man is considered to be in the 'healthy' range starting at a weight of 137. I'm sorry - but fucking no. That is NOT healthy.

A 6fft tall man is considered overweight at 184 lbs. Please.

BMI was created by a Belgian mathematician - not a doctor or scientist - in the early 1800s. And it was popularized in the 1970s by a dietician.

We WERE thinner several decades ago - but I don't know if we were necessarily healthier?

R43 Don't scold us, please.

You're right about those numbers being ridiculous, r49. I'm 6'1 and looked terminally I'll when I weighed 140. My in-shape weight is around 175. People have weird ideas about how much people are supposed to weigh.

You all seem fat.

Just because we type fat doesn’t mean we ARE fat, r52

Skim milk latte in the am

11 am steel-cut oats, pat of butter, salt

3 pm humus on half piece of thin rye, protein drink

6 pm dinner consisting of protein, vegetables and a carb--nothing fried

Is R54 related to that starving Darfur orphan?

I was 59 and 420lbs with high LDL cholesterol, 7.x A1c, and always fatigued. Now I’m 6’6” and weigh 240lbs. I am still clinically obese. Since October 2023, I have lost nearly 200lbs., but have maintained 240lbs. for about six months now..

Here’s what got me here and staying here.

Black coffee for breakfast and a glass of ice water. *Very* rarely also a thing of Greek yogurt.

Lunch is a few slices of lean deli meat and a couple slices of cheese. A few saltines most days too.

Dinner varies widely — pasta with olive oil, an egg, and grated cheese; or some lettuce, vinaigrette, and grilled chicken or salmon; or whole hog frozen pizza or big burger and fries when I’ve had a trying day.

I never eat after 7PM and do not snack at all. Every day I’m technically fasting for at least twelve hours. My shameful confession is I drink a lot of Coke Zero and when I feel the slightest bit hungry, I drink a soda or a glass of ice water.

My A1c is back in the 5-6 range, my HDL cholesterol is now higher than the LDL, and I stay awake and functional all day. Sleeping 7-9 hours a night for the first time in my adult life. Honestly I haven’t felt this healthy since college.

I don't eat a lot and probably should eat more since I'm too thin but when you reach a certain age a full meal is a turn off. Lighter feels better but I don't avoid sweets.

I have coffee for breakfast every day. And that's it. Nothing else. I'm at the diner with my cell phone leisurely reading the news or meeting up with a friend. I walk there. About a mile and a quarter and I try to walk as fast as I can. My average is about 3.95 miles hour which is pretty fast. And I walk home.

I eat the same lunch every day. I have for years. Blueberries, black berries, raspberries (in season fresh, otherwise frozen), plain grass fed yogurt, powdered organic raw chocolate, with all kinds of nuts, usually: almonds, walnuts, pistachios, cashews

If I eat a snack during the day, it's an Ezekiel English muffin with grass fed milk cheese or goat cheese. Or maybe some dates or figs, sometimes with cheese. Sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds.

I walk back to the diner for another coffee and back home again. So I get in a total of about 5 miles of walking.

Dinner is usually salmon, liver, chicken, eggs, sardines, pork, lamb, grass-fed hamburger. Simply cooked. All kind of vegetables. I like spinach, Brussels Sprouts, beets, kale, mushrooms. I eat a lot of onions. Occasionally pasta. I only use olive oil and grass fed butter. I never eat out.

I drink organic sulfate free red wine. Maybe with 3 dinners a week. A glass. Occasionally a beer. Evian water. San Pelligrino. No tap.

I don't know how healthy all that is, but it's what I truly love to eat. I have no cravings for other stuff. If it's the holidays, I eat what everyone else is having, but I have no desire to eat processed food, sugary things and all that as part of my regular diet.

What I ate today -

Breakfast - Oatmeal with blueberries, cottage cheese, hardboiled egg Snack - Baby carrots and hummus Lunch - Spinach wrap with turkey and swiss, more hummus Dinner - beef pot roast Dessert - 1 vanilla ice cream sandwich

Probably had about 2 glasses of whole milk too. It all adds up to not much calories. Ice cream sandwiches are surprisingly low cal, no need for non-dairy.

R56 - That's incredible! Congrats on all of that!!

Indeed R56 - congratulations to you. That is impressive - you should be proud of yourself!

6'6 and 240 is not heavy when you're that tall.

Thank you, R60 and R61. According to my PCP, I’m still obese. He wants me to lose 30 more pounds. I tell him to fuck himself. I reached 6’6” in tenth grade and have never been under 220lbs. since then. I had a colonoscopy in September 2023 and was mortified when I saw my weight on the chart — 420lbs, I did a lot of soul searching for a few weeks and concluded that I was on the bullet train to an early grave. I had casually been buying larger and larger clothes through my 50s. At that time, I was wearing 52” waist pants and 4XLT shirts. I had to use seatbelt extenders when I flew.

I am not thin now. I now wear 38” waist pants and XLT shirts. I don’t eat “healthy,” in fact, I eat full fat yogurt and cheese, and real butter. Nothing “organic” at all, unless it was cheaper to buy. No whole grain pasta or crackers either. It truly is training myself to eat smaller meals, sate hunger with a beverage, and not eat close to bedtime. I don’t work out, lift weights, or run. Although I don’t know for sure, I think not eating or consuming calories for 12 hours each day helped. At the risk of being accused of injecting a stealth scat component into this thread, I have been pooping solidly, regularly, and completely for the first time in decades.

One thing I forgot to mention: I started injecting testosterone when I started losing weight and that must’ve played a role. My nipple started aching, so my PCP referred me to an endocrinologist. Testing revealed abnormally low T, so I’ve been using it since.

Bravo @ r62!

You could probably have fresh fruit for a snack or two to add some fiber and pleasure?

R62 - And just continue to walk. Don't worry about running!

Great work, sir!

[quote] Skim milk latte in the am

I thought this said "in the arm."

R47, I guess you could call it intermittent fasting. I just find it easier to count/control calorie intake during the workday. When I’m home in the evening or out for dinner it’s tough to bother, so I like having the wiggle room of knowing that I’ve barely consumed any calories in the earlier part of the day.

As mush as I love breakfast, I am just not hungry in the morning. Sometimes I make it for dinner.

My daily routines:

Morning 2 cups of coffee with creamer, water.

Lunch, half a sandwich, using one piece of bread and some various choices of deli meat like turkey (no nitrate) , tomatoes, cheese.

Dinner is usually grilled skinless chicken breasts pounded thin on the grill. This is my default protein, switch it up once a week with red meat and/or pork. Fish once a month. Plus a small portion of carbs like 1/2 a baked potato, or roasted. Plus a very simple salad usually arugula.

Late night snack, a few crackers with cheese. Sometimes a couple pieces of fruit. Maybe a couple table spoons of ice cream but not a whole scoop.

No Alcohol except for rare occasion and only when I am out with friends like a dinner party or restaurant celebration. On average once a month.

^^As MUCH ..... I drink the water first, when I get up, not adding it to my coffee.

For me r59's routine would work really well. Reasonable amounts of protein and fat with lashings of dairy and Middle Eastern food (the hummus.) I HAVE to have breakfast or I'm cranky and faint by mid-morning.

As you age you eat far less and the same meals at the same time every day,

R67 - I'm curious, why so little fish? I try to have fish twice a week since I switched our diet in March (3 days chicken, 2 fish, 1 red meat, 1 vegetarian).

R69 I do a lot of pot cooking without recipes. I finish up work late, and around that time meat is often discounted at the grocery stores, so I'll pick up chicken or beef and pot sear it all with sweet potatoes, carrots, and a random assortment of other vegetables and legumes. I keep frozen berries around with a lot of plain greek yogurt and oats for easy breakfasts. Another common breakfast is half a small bag of frozen mixed veggies in a pan with scrambled eggs, mushrooms, and some spam.

R72 I meant to write saute not sear.

[quote] As you age you eat far less and the same meals at the same time every day,

I don't actually eat "far less" as I age. I don't even eat less.

I don't allow myself to buy chips or popcorn, or other kinds of snack foods. But yes, supermarkets flood the zone with that junk because it's "back to school" time. I have two bars of Lindt 70% chocolate in the fridge and I will have a small square with almonds or walnuts. I have been craving those dark sweet cherries. They're expensive but I have been buying them t his summer and they're a great snack. I will roast chicken breasts or salmon I eat Chili and I have broccoli, brussell sprouts green beans and lots of salad. I have an air fryer so my french fries are cooked in there. Or I will nuke a jumbo red skin potato in the microwave. I use olive oil and plant based butter. Whole grain bread, yogurt ( 0% fat) and fresh pineapple or cantaloupe. I may have pasta made with brown rice. I am not thin. But I am not obese. I eat four or five times a day and don't feel compelled to eat big meals. It's easier for me to control portions when I free myself of the habit of making some huge meal. So maybe I will eat a salad around 4 PM, and then have broiled salmon and a potato at 6:30. I bought two one pound boxes of sugar in 2020. They have never been opened.

Let's say that as I age I'm more careful about portion control, getting all my daily nutrients, and keeping my gastrointestinal system quiet.

Gays are always bitchy because they're hungry.

For breakfast, I might have a packet of sugar-free instant oatmeal (100 calories) or a lite yogurt (70 calories).

For lunch, maybe a MorningStar Farms veggie product (100 to 160 calories) with fat-free cheese (35 calories).

In the afternoon, maybe a FiberOne brownie (70 calories) or a low-fat mozzarella stick (50 calories).

For dinner, a low calorie frozen entree (170 to 300 calories) or a bowl of Progresso Lite soup (130 to 160 calories).

I also eat a couple of salads during a week, using only fat-free dressing. Plus, I have frozen vegetables regularly.

Occasionally, I'll get carryout from a restaurant and that will of course have a lot more calories.

I forgot to mention the little shelf-stable packets of tuna and chicken (80 to 110 calories) that I might have for lunch. I only eat tuna once a week, as advised.

That's a lot of processed food.

I can eat as I like so far as weight is concerned, as I don't have a huge or constant appetite. It's easy to put down the fork when after thinking, "that's very tasty but that's enough." My weight in my mid-60s is the same give or take a couple pounds as when I was in college; it's never varied more than a small margin.

I live in Europe now where choices are generally healthier and food (to my taste) better, and it's more common to enjoy multiple smaller meals each day. The junk food is for the most part better but I find myself eating better than I did in the U.S.

Light breakfast mid morning. Either the mid-afternoon meal (around 14h or 15h) or the evening meal (at about 22h) can be the main meal, with a very light snack between, maybe. I will usually have one good dessert or maybe a rich pastry as well most days, but one, not a healing plateful. I'm lucky not to have to worry and out weight and diet.

I don't want to eat anymore, thanks..

There was this viral thread, not on Reddit, but a similar site, where the same question was asked. It got tons of replies and a lot of thin people said they often 'forget to eat'. Sounds like an eating disorder, but I thought about it and it's true. For thin people, eating is not foremost on their mind. Even when they're hungry, they're too busy with something else to think about food. Fat people are often lazy.

Per the logic of R83, fat people are lazy, therefore they remember to eat.

R78's example is that of a person eating what they believe to be a healthy diet, but it is all ultra processed food, high in sodium, low in fiber and essential fats and calories - per R78 s/he eats only about 700 calories a day. Methinks somebody is making shit up.

I can believe r78's diet as it sounds similar to what I once ate daily when I did Weight Watcher's eons ago. Was buying all of my food from them. Wasn't aware of salt or fiber issues the time, which I have to deal with daily now. At another point in life I did the Adkins Diet (it was actually JumpStart MD and was expensive). It was disgusting after two months, but it worked, as did Weight Watchers when I remained consistent. The keys for me were just planning regular meals instead of impulsive eating when feeing very hungry -- and especially not consuming alcohol. I was pissed to learn that even Vodka rocks had so many calories! Silly me.

Multiple cakes with buttercream frosting.

R78 the dreadful low-fat highly processed food diet. Good luck.

I eat ass

This YouTube playlist goes over foods of different categories in a lot of detail regarding their nutrient content. I found it really useful.

Breakfast is either four pieces of wholegrain or multigrain toast with 2 pieces being low salt peanut butter and two olive spread with jam, washed down with half and half orange juice/ sparkling water. Thats if I'm off work or working from home. Or if I'm cycling into work its half a dozen fruit muffins (unbuttered) or half dozen hot cross buns (unbuttered) washed down with black coffee and chilled water. Thats after a 25 km bike ride plus a 2km swim so I'm hungry by then

Lunch is wholegrain crackers or rice cakes (really thin biscuits/ crackers) with some dips - really more snack than lunch

For afternoon snack I have some grapes or other fruit (strawberries or mandarins when available) and either a slice of fruitcake or some cookies/biscuits, these are my main vice I guess

Then I either cycle back home at end of work day, or if I am working from home I cycle to the pools (8km) swim 2 km then ride back, sometimes take a side trip to shops to get stuff so my ride will be either 16 or 20 km or so

Dinner is whatever partner makes unless I cook which isnt all that often as I'm pretty basic. Usually theres a salad, with pasta/ fried/ baked chicken, or air fried chips, with veges of some sort. Dinner varies too much to pin down, but I usually do baked fish fillets or vege burger patties, both with salad on the side. Usually the biggest meal of the day. Sometimes have 3-4 biscuits/ cookies later with a cup of black tea

I dont drink alcohol except the odd sip on social ocassions. Dont have a lot of sugary shit except cookies, ice cream is for special ocassions or a treat. Dont eat bacon, ham salami or any of those cured meats cos I dont like the taste, never have. Only later found out its supossed to be bad for you. I sort of watch what I eat but not really

I'm 173 cm/ 71 kg, which in US units is 5'8 and 156 lbs I think. I'm either a very tall dwarf or a short giant

I eat a lot of chicken and big green salads.

I make a chunky lentil stew frequently, as well as other homemade soups (squash, chicken, cabbage).

I never order Door Dash or restaurant food, but about twice a month I'll grab two slices of pizza, or a meatball hero.

R91 Air fried chips?

breakfast - large coffee with cream, zoloft, reishi mushroom supplements, cigarette

lunch- large coffee with cream, whatever is leftover from dinner the night before

dinner is where it's complicated. sometimes it's a gorgeous salad with chicken breast cooked in hot sauce. sometimes it's homemade macaroni and cheese with 3 pounds of various cheeses and broccoli and bacon. sometimes it's quinoa with shrimp and spinach. sometimes it's a goddamed pizza.

snack, pint of ben and jerries.

I am fat with good blood sugar and cholesterol.

Struggling after pan pizza (one rectangular slice) for lunch, Definitely feel the carb load and will do vegetables for dinner. Your body knows what it needs. Mine does well with a half hummus sandwich and vegetables for lunch.

Often there's a disconnect between what the mind equates to happiness and your physiological needs. Not on a semiglutide but I understand the process is similar for those on the drug.

I don't digest chicken well. It's a very dense meat.

Breakfast - chia pudding mixed with oats, vegan protein powder, vanilla, cinnamon and soy milk + a bunch of berries and a little almond butter. Weekend - a tofu scramble with spinach and half an avocado on top or a vegan protein pancake.

Lunch - a smoothie of some sort

Dinner - whole grains or sweet potato, tofu/tempeh, roasted veg or spelt pasta with vegan sausages and veg. Always at least half our plates are vegetables for dinner.

R93, yes, done in an air fryer like this. You can also oven bake them which is what we did before we got the air fryer

They still have Kmart in New Zealand? 🤔

Yes and Australia too

Tofu...I'd rather eat glue. I can't eat it anyway, it makes me sick.

I read recently that people are preprogrammed to gain weight throughout life until disease or loss of teeth causes appetite to fail and eating to decline. In other words, dieting and even maintaining a steady weight are, in a sense, working against nature. Without changing my diet in any way for 30 years, either in kind or quantity I've gone from what anyone would consider a very underweight condition to what is considered a normal weight - and for my age, I am considered lean (but I know I am not!) That's only because the people around me are gaining weight even more quickly. I know my diet is far healthier than the average American diet, so I'm not going to change it radically. I think I can reduce portions, slightly, without feeling deprived in any way. I can do a better job of refusing desserts. But I don't think trying to return to my underweight days is either realistic or even healthy. I'm health conscious, but I'm now having issues with my back and hips (spinal stenosis) so I'm having to be creative about getting sufficient exercise and working around pain. Long story short, no one is knocking down my door to sleep with me because of my beautiful body (if they ever did), so my motivation to limit weight gain and to continue moving as much as I'm able has to be health and health alone.

[quote][R67] - I'm curious, why so little fish? I try to have fish twice a week since I switched our diet in March (3 days chicken, 2 fish, 1 red meat, 1 vegetarian).

I am not much of a fish eater to begin with, plus it stinks up the house and a lot of fish contains mercury, plus it can be expensive. So I usually wait until I am out at a restaurant to avid stinking up the house.

R103 - that depends on the fish. I won't cook salmon in the house, and a few others. Fresh cod doesn't (or shouldn't) smell. Neither do many fillets. The grill is your friend, if you have one. The mercury concern has been overstated.

While it can be expensive, it's often less expensive the beef, depending on the type of fish. I just bought swordfish for $13.99 - cheaper than a ribeye or a NY strip.

You really don't need to worry about the mercury unless you're a pregnant woman or a small child, even then you'd only be advised to reduce most seafood to 1-3 servings per week and avoid large predator fish.