[Closed] What do you eat?

Babies

Porridge
Couple of pieces of fruit
Light lunch
Fish/meat and veg
34 packets of crisps

Pig out now and again but generally fairly healthy. Weight stays off I think due to predominantly veggie diet and exercise but constantly finishing off the kids meals is going to add up at some point!

I had some toast earlier which is unusual. Big bowl of pasta for tea.

I have to say that doesn't seem excessive to me. My dad used to say "I just need 3 square meals a day and a bit of supper". I've followed his axiom and I'm as skinny as he was.

Is that all?
I'm critiquing yours without listing mine - yet.
You need to increase beer intake and cut out the somethings.
No fruit, other than banana?
Wine, spirits?
Any veg with your stew? What accompanies the pasta?
Fish or Chicken or Steak or Pork chops?
Cake or fruit scones?
How about some Greek yoghurt?

I don't think that's too bad at all SaxonRider!

me, during lockdown:

small bowl of muesli with Kefir
3x cups of tea with milk
1x decaf coffee (no milk, no sugar)
lunch today was a tin of mackerel on toast, some tomatoes and black olives
an apple
evening meal, often quite carby i.e. pasta with a veggie sauce, baked potato, stew & mash, sausage and bean casserole. Today was actually veal escalopes wrapped in proscuitto with fried potatoes and a marsala wine sauce, which is unusually extravagant for a weeknight (and resulted from an online ordering error at the farm shop)
a couple of smallish glasses of wine
maybe 3 chocolate digestives depending on how full I am (didn't feel the need for them tonight)

if I was in the office it would be a bit more than this, partly because I cycle 8 miles a day so get hungrier, partly because there are always cakes knocking around

Smoothie in the morning: 1 large banana, splash of coconut milk, frozen fruit (various).

'Beans on Toast', not that Heinze junk though - I use either 0.5 can of black or kidney beans, spices, red onion, garlic, mixed into .5 can of chopped tomatoes. Fried up and served on thick rye with hummus and olive oil.

My mum likes baking vegan cakes, so I had that with some back coffee for lunch. One slice.

Dinner was a vegan (again my mum's handywork!) shepards pie, but I baked it with kale, mushrooms, black olives, and broccoli. Seasoned with sea salt, cracked pepper and olive oil.

I was expecting worse, maybe I'm eating too much.....

Today?
Small bowl of granola with yoghurt
Tin of soup and five small salt and pepper flatbread strips with some goats cheese
Yoghurt and half an apple
Two stroupwafels and a slice of bread with honey
One small chicken fajita with cheese
Small chocolate mousse.
One cappuccino, four cups of tea, half a bottle of Amstel with dinner.

Have not ridden for 12 weeks. Gained about a kilo, but was already the same above race weight. I always eat breakfast. Normally cereal based. Varies between meat/fish/vege. Weekends is brunch and dinner. And I'm not a big eater unless riding, then it's "show me the carb cupboard". I drink infrequently, although last night was lamb and malbec. Five units a week would be a lot for me.

While I’m on furlough:
Breakfast - bowl of Crunchy Nut, mug of tea, glass of orange juice
Tea/dinner - whatever my g/f decides to cook, today was a cheese omelette with a nice mixed salad, yesterday was a stir fry with noodles, prawns, water chestnuts, peppers and some other bits and bobs.
I might have a packet of crisps and a Kitkat in the afternoon if I’m peckish.
When I’m working, same breakfast, maybe sandwiches, or a Tuna based snack, or whatever I decide to take with me, then whatever the chef has rustled up for us for dinner, depending on what shifts we’re working.
She insists on healthy eating - who am I to argue? 😊

No lunch on furlough, cz?

Scarily your list could be mine on many days! Don’t eat much meat, make most of our own bread with stoneground spelt flour, often lots of salad (our own) at lunch time, or home made soup usually from our own veg but eat too much cheese.
Getting on a bit so now if I don’t exercise as much, now much more frequent, I now annoyingly have to eat less.

Today's menu was...
Bowl of Cheerios with red top milk (emergency purchase as porridge finished yesterday) and cup of tea for breakfast before cycle to work.
~0.25l water while indoors.
Ham and egg on white bread Spar sandwich, Walkers salt n vinegar crisps (because Spar have no other snack option like Tesco's banana in meal deal) and 500ml Dr Pepper (rare non "diet" pop treat).
2l Spar diet Cherryade plus ~0.25l more water while delivering for ~4 hours from after 1000 on hot sunny day.
2l ice cold Tesco diet coke at home.
Stir fried veg in Teriyaki sauce with could cous, followed by slice of birthday cake I didn't have yesterday.
Tall glass of squash.

So so day, no choc raisins or cold X buns, but no fruit and that cake must have been Calorie loaded.

Seems like a lot of fluid, but I don't cope well when temps go north of ~16C and it hit ~23C!

Doesn't sound too bad but depends on size of those meals. Is there half a bottle of mayo in the tuna? How big is the portion of granola or pasta?

I love food and at the moment it is often the highlight of my day apart from riding bikes which I do about 3 times a week and daily dog walks.

I eat 2x home made slice sourdough toast with butter, marmite and cottage cheese. Tea with dash of milk.

Lunch is homemade sourdough pitta with ham or cheese, butter, squirt of mayo and salad, bag of crisps and if riding a cereal bar or a noodle soup bowl with veg and cashews.

Dinner anything you can imagine but favs are stir fry, curry, sausages (3)and mash, salmon, veg and mash, hallumi or mackeral salad with spuds or grains, pizza, pasta pesto and veg, fajitas, bbq etc. A good sized plate full of food and if we're being good a yogurt pot and glass of squash or bad cheese and crackers with apple and grapes. Booze 3 nights per week about 3 to 4 small cans of cider or half bottle of wine occasionally. If i could reduce portions or cut down on cheese and butter a bit I'd like to lose a couple of kg to be an ideal weight but i like my food too much so it's a trade off.

If you knocked the sugar out of the tea and coffee that doesn't seem to bad.

Is granola not just basically sugar with some oats thrown in?

Doesn't sound excessive tbh, you're feeling fat cos you're not doing anything, get out man!.

I try very hard to keep a balanced diet, but it often fails.

Breakfast: Muesli w/yoghurt and coffee x2
Lunch: Pasta/potatoes and something protein. Små kakor och kaffe
Evening: Potatoes/pasta/rice and something protein

I do have a bad habit of snacking though and working from home has had me hitting biscuits quite hard. I also need to drink more water; I'm geting bad leg cramps at night now.

Either I’m eating rubbish too or you need to be less critical!

Breakfast: bowl of porridge with a whole banana, jumbo raisins, blueberries and a couple of strawberries.
Or: two rounds of seeded toast with posh peanut butter and a whole chopped banana.
One cup of tea
Lunch: a sandwich with either tuna mayo and cucumber or ham cheese and mayo.
An Apple or plum/peach with a glass of squash ( I was having half a glass of chocolate milk but I’ve stopped now)
Dinner: mixture of things varying from pasta to burgers. Possibly a pizza now and then or sausages. Sometimes salmon or a baked potato.
Then at 9pm I have another cup of tea with a treat. Biscuits for dunking or a bit of chocolate.

I do cycle a lot and walk the dog every day if not twice. Some days I’ll have a second cup of tea mid morning and mid afternoon I may have a treat if I’m getting hungry and know I’m riding after I finish work.

Yep, knock the sugar on the head, study the contents of cereals and then buy porridge, cut down on the bread and pizza, don't snack, drink espressos. Make (what should be) the size of your stomach with your hands, that's the size of your main meal. Eat fruit and fish. Blue milk but less of it. Do all of that and you can drink beer in industrial units.
With sugary cereals, I can almost feel the blubber and suet going on. What with the possibility of us adopting US food standards and starting to grow those oh so distinctive chunks, flaps and wings, we'll probably cut out the meat apart from the occasional bit bought from a local known source.

Anything that cannot outrun me.

Luckily, the weight gain kind of helps you reach equilibrium with this diet....

Breakfast 2 X coffee

Lunch toasted bagel, one whole poached egg and one poached egg white + coffee

Dinner some form of potato (sweet, garlic cubed) usually some oven ready chicken dish from Tesco and side salad or veg.

Snack: packet of Belvita

On days I lift weights or go on a ride I slip in a protein drink as well.

Weekends are a disaster though. Usually Chinese or Indian on a Friday night, steak and chips on Saturday, a few beers on Saturday night with some pretzels or Doritos.

Aye, granola is basically sugar, it's not easy to find a low sugar granola locally, sainsbury do one, Lizi's, my wife likes it. I can't eat cereal, unappetising, cold and unfulfilling.

Make your own granola! Probably better, to your taste, and cheaper.

Breakfast - either muesli with skimmed milk, 2 slices of brown toast or a 2 egg omelette and a slice of bacon.
2 espressos.

Lunch - a sarny of some kind, normally involving chicken and cheese, and a bag of crisps. Normally some chocolate too. Will sometimes make a salad of some kind but it depends what foot we have in.

Evening - varies from an omelette to a cottage pie, depends on what we have in and how long I have to cook it. Will finish with a bit of yoghurt with some oats and grapes.

1 evening a week all bets are off and we’ll drink beer and eat something naughty.

No real day snacks and loads of water drank.

Is granola not just basically sugar with some oats thrown in?

Not really. 24g/100g in Jordan's raisin and almond, and some of that is from the raisins. Similar to many breakfast cereals. And it's pretty low GI as it fills me up much more than any other cereal or grain based breakfast. I don't eat it any more though.

WFH, everything, I mean everything I could get my chubby hands on and stuff into my face. It didn't help my Wife's journey though mourning is paved with chocolate, we both eat our unhappiness and it makes us more unhappy.

Things are a little bit more normal now, but snacking it a hard habit to break.

Today, the 'plan' is:

Bagel with Flora and 2 poached eggs,

Tuna in one of those salad bowls you can get in Tesco, they've usually got one with beetroot or something in it, failing that I'll add some sweetcorn because it's amazing.

Dinner is a prawn curry.

It's only about 1400Kcals so there's ample scope when I **** it up to stay under 1800.

study the contents of cereals

More importantly, weigh the cereal. The muesli I used to have looked ok on it's traffic light listing- but it was based on something like a 30g serving. When I weighed what I would serve up it was more than double that. Then apply that actual portion vs recommended to the tasty but sugary "treat" cereals I had at the weekend (and frequently in the week) and it's no wonder I was getting fatter.

My weight loss plateaued on Chub Club, so I took the opportunity in lockdown to try intermittent fasting and skip breakfast. The rationale being if I struggled and had to eat before lunch I can get something healthier than what's in the vending machines/cakes that have been brought in/sandwich van etc at work. First couple of days were a chore, but have now adapted. It gave the chub loss a boost and I'm not sure if I will go back to breakfast every day.

Waaaay less than I used to.

Going from bike commuting 60 miles a week, plus 20 odd fun miles a week to nothing due to injury for 18 months had quite a significant impact on my weight, so trying to redress that now. Went from a fit 12.5 stone to not fit 15.5 stone, now down to 14.5 stone. Zwifting has helped too.

Currently on 2 meals a day, very few snacks

Sandwich or Ramen noodles, between 1130 and 1
Evening meal that tends to be meat and 2/3 veg or pasta.
Maybe a small snack mid afternoon, not always.
washed down with Diet Coke

All bets are off on fat fridays though, obvs.

Erm..

Breakfast- either a large bowl of cereal with full fat milk or 3x slices of toast. Coffee.

Sandwich/baguette for dinner (ham/tuna/egg). Juice.

Crisps/cake/biscuits and another coffee as a afternoon snack.

Supper could be, pasta, chips, curry etc

Cheeky bit of chocolate later.

Hopefully my metabolism keeps on trucking..

With no science to back it up, I'd say max out on breakfast then taper down throughout the day. Breakfast combos of porridge, dried fruit, blueberries and seeds can get you right through the day. Snacks are lethal, the French don't do it, think of Southend then think of Hourtin.

Me:

Breakfast - latte

Brunch - latte

Lunch - whatever I find in the fridge which is usually some left-over pizza after the weekend (we do homemade pizza night on Saturdays) or something simple like some spreadable cheese on toast or a jacket potato.

Afternoon snack - a biscuit occasionally

Dinner - plate of pasta / homemade fish fingers / chilli / Indian / Thai (depending on the day and whether the kids are eating with us).

Evening - a few beers

I am almost 53 and stick around the same weight as I have been for most of my adult life (although I have been heavier and lighter at some points).

I'm addicted to anything beige - potatoes, pasta, pastries, crisps, couscous, brown rice, bread.

I wash it down with meat, fish, pulses, lots of veg and fruit but let's face it, beige is best!!

I was expecting worse, maybe I’m eating too much…..

I'm assuming that was breakfast and he's going to post lunch and dinner later!

A fairly typical lockdown day looks like:

Breakfast: coffee (black, no sugar). Sometimes no food, sometimes 2 to 4 slices of toast with flora and jam
Another coffee, probably a couple of biscuits (4? 6?)
Dinner: quorn ham and vegan cheese toastie, bag of crisps, an apple or two, another 'few' biscuits (6?), tea (black, no sugar)
Mid-afternoon munchies = another bag of crisps or some more biscuits
Tea: a huge plateful of proper food - last night was a veggie/chickpea sauce with pasta (if we're doing pasta for all four of us, we cook the whole 500g bag and I eat more than my fair share)
Probably some more biscuits or a Magnum
Couple of beers or glasses of wine

My weight has crept up from just under 70 kg to just over 72 kg over the last three months, but I'm still wearing 31" jeans, so I think I'm okay.

Edit: I'm just under 6' tall, and almost 43 years old.

Breakfast - 2.5 tablespoons muesli with a couple of lumps of chopped up glace ginger and plain yoghurt, 250ml orange juice, espresso

Lunch - couple of proper doorsteps (nominally 1/2 loaf or 200g of homebaked or local bakery bread) with cheese and pickle or whatever cold meat is left over from Sunday dinner, piece of fruit, yoghurt.

Post work cuppa - there may be some snackage here - teacakes/scones/crumpets kinda thing. 2 or 3 times a week maybe.

Dinner - whatever the missus cooks. Pasta, risotto, home baked beans, home made pizza, sausage & mash. Sundays is always a roast, and there's usually pud (typically fruit crumble and custard). Otherwise dessert is a couple of squares of good chocolate.

I try and keep snacking to a minimum (don't always succeed - biscuits are a perennial weakness, so I try not to buy them) and drink very little booze. Doing a lot of riding at the mo. (2hrs+, 6 days a week) so I've lost a bit of weight through lockdown - a BMI of 20 currently, for what its worth...

I moved - from very high to higher - protein diet so everything I eat now comes with a doe pf protein targeting about 120g per day.  Typically:

Breakfast - 2 poached eggs on wholemeal / bacon, omelettes / hams

Lunch - Ham / chicken salad / egg sandwich

Dinner - Meat with everything - chicken, pork, fish etc

Evening - protein shakes, meat snacks

Snacks - currently a fair few carbs to support bike training, but otherwise Fridge raiders, cold meatballs, fruit, nuts, peanut butter on wholemeal toast etc.

OK, so now I feel like a right fat pig. An avg day goes something like this

Breakfast- bowl of shreddies/Weetabix/shredded wheat.

at least 4 coffees with milk but no sugar

1 packet of biscuits (bourbons or custard creams)

2 packets of crisps (because one isn't big enough)

1 chocolate bar

Lunch - Sandwhich or instant noodle. Piece of cake. packet of crisps, kit kat type chocolate, yoghurt, apple or banana.
Dinner - Large carb and protein dish. Maybe pizza, pasta, curry.

several evening snacks - more biscuits, crisps, ice cream, whatevers in the cupboard.

Breakfast - cocopops

Dinner - Butty or Pie. sometimes a pie butty.

Tea - bangers n mash

Breakfast - bowl of crunchy nut with semi skimmed or a couple of crumpets with butter. Black coffee

Lunch - prepackaged sarnie, occasionally crisps and s couple of bits of fruit.

Snacks will be more fruit, or some nutty bar of whatever.

Drinks - black coffee and water.

Tea - generally something like a curry/stir fry/ tomato pasta thing or freezer treats with veg or beans. Generally pretty healthy. Maybe more fruit, I don't have a sweet tooth, but will have the odd cake if the kids have baked stuff.

Weekends will go a bit more to pot, and there will usually be at least one takeaway if not two, depending on the kids and who is where doing what etc

Main problem is I tend to have my tea late and then there is the sweet sweet booze!! To many calories but to late in the day. I put on some weight back end of last year due to a hamstring injury, lived a bit loose and wild thinking it will come off in the new year when I'm riding and running again. Then Covid hit and work went bonkers, but have shifted some weight over the last month or so.

Yesterday was
Breakfast usually 2 poached eggs one slice of wholemeal toast
Mid-morning apple & an orange
Lunch microwave rice with cooked chicken and mixed veg, apple, orange, banana and a cereal bar
Dinner was homemade tomato pasta with ham and a bit of grated cheese.
3 cups of tea 3 cups of coffee. No sugar or milk
Some grapes and a couple of chocolate biscuits.

I am not a racing snake, although did run a lunchtime 5km.

Today I have had.

An apple.
2 slices of marmite on toast
1 slice of marmalade on toast
Bacon sarnie with lettuce, mayo and ketchup.

I expect to consume chicken fajitas with salad this evening.

A shake for breakfast, one for lunch, and a proper dinner....

DrP

breakfast: couple of marlboros
lunch: stellas
tea: some more stellas with vodka chasers

breakfast, good size bowl of oats with protein shake on, maybe a banana, mug of coffee
mid morningses, usually a tuna butty in the office or ham/cheese sarnie
lunch, same as mid morningses, fruit of some sort, crisps, mars bar.
mid afternoonsies, same as mid morningses
...I always make the same thing three times, because life's too short, couple of tins of tuna mixed with a big glob of olive oil spread across three sarnies
dinner, regular meal, usually a meat & two veg or pasta sauce.
suppers, another bowl of cereal, muesli, corn flakes, if I'm feeling peckish, or a couple of bits of toast and jam
and a jar or two of ale in the evening

haven't gained or lost weight for years

Usually have sugar-free alpen & emi-skimmed for brekkie, maybe some fresh fruit added if we have any (blueberries, raspberries that sort of thing). 250 cal

Couple of biscuits / snack mid morning 200 cal

Sandwich + some veggies for lunch, some pudding 650-700 cals

PM snack - couple mor biccies 200 cal.

Dinner was a big sausage, and some dressed salad, some melon for pud and a couple of low alcohol beers - 925 cal

Couple of squares of dark chocolate later in the evening - 120 cal.

Roughly 2400 cals (my target) in a day where I did zero exercise.

MyFitnessPal is a necessity for me: otherwise, the biccies would be doubled, the chocolate would be doubled and I might have had a "normal" beer - which would have put me 500cal over for the day.

Days that I exercise offset the days I eat pizza and drink beer.

FWIW, I've lost just under 25kg in total, 10kg in the last 6 months without feeling like I've deprived myself.

breakfast: couple of marlboros
lunch: stellas
tea: some more stellas with vodka chasers

That's actually scarily close to me in my 20`s

Yesterday:
Granola for brekkie
Lunch was a quorn ham, lettuce and coleslaw sanger (seeded bread from a local baker)
Tea was some jack fruit, black bean and harissa concoction with a buckwheat wrap (It was a bit bland to be honest).
Massive bowl of ice cream for pud.

2 cups of coffee, a few glasses of squash and a strip of Dairy milk during the day. There was no cake in the house unfortunately.

Then 2 glasses of red in the evening.