If you have never dieted and maintain a “normal” weight (within height/weight chart recommendations-I realize there is some room for interpretation there. I’ll leave that up to you.), I want to know what/how much you ate today or yesterday. You can’t have ever in adulthood intentionally tried to gain or lose any significant amount of weight.
Hope to hear from you.
Male, 18, never dieted.
Today I ate a bowl of turkey rice soup, 2 bagels with creem cheese, a salad with ranch dressing, a lemon danish and a glass of cranberry juice for breakfast.
For dinner, I just had a chicken breast sandwich with provolone cheese and guacamole, a large roast beef and cheese wrap, and a bottle of Vitamin Water.
Everything was chosen solely based on taste.
So far today I’ve only had two Cokes and two Pop Tarts. I’m about to make spaghetti with meat sauce.
Yesterday I had a cheeseburger and potato chips, then a bunch of finger-food at a party.
Female, 19, never dieted.
Ate two bowls of cereal today (Frosted Flakes), a Reese’s cup, a bacon cheeseburger, chili fries, and one dinner roll. Oh, and drank 3 Cokes.
Yum.
Male 24.
But I do exercise. In fact, I prefer exercising to dieting. 
Female, 22, never dieted (to lose weight- my blood sugar’s all wonky so I stay away from sweets).
Breakfast:
2 pieces of wheat toast. One with peanut butter and jelly (both organic, no sugar added), the other with I Can’t Believe It’s not Butter and a fried egg.
2 pieces of bacon
1 cup of coffee with cream, no sugar
Lunch: 1.5 cups of pasta salad with pesto, hazelnuts, and fried chicken breast
Dinner: 2 Cups of stew with chicken, pasta, tomatoes, cheddar cheese, and mushrooms. One medium apple. Desert was a square of dark chocolate.
Snacks: string cheese around 10am, and I snack on nuts throughout the day.
I eat high-protein because I can go longer without being hungry, and it keeps my blood sugar on an even keel.
Female, never dieted. I had coffee, 2 croissants with butter and marmite, applepie with whipped cream, vegetable soup & 2 tomato/cheese-sandwiches, more coffee and chocolate cookies, lasagna, chocolate ice-cream, more coffee and more pie.
In between: salted almonds, olives, chips and in the middle of the night 4 Twix bars.
I’m 1.72 meter, My weight is around 50 kilo. [one week I’m 48, next week I’m 52 kilo]
*[I haven’t got my converter in handy. Forgive the Dutch measurements] *
according to USDA Healthy Eating Index, what I ate yesterday had about 2300 calories.
Male, 23, never dieted
Food today: Medium popcorn at the movies; two York peppermint patties; two mini 100 Grand candy bars; venison with homemade buttermilk biscuits (mmmm); a couple servings of corn.
Drink today: 20 oz. Mt. Dew; later, a 12 oz. Mt. Dew.
I’ll probably have another meal today, although I might just have some tea.
I’m such a healthy eater. :dubious:
(This is definitely skewed for me because it’s the weekend.)
Female, 21.
Yesterday:
Breakfast
Nothing
Lunch
2 toasted salami and cheese sandwiches
Dinner
Lamb rack with roasted pumpkin and potatoes.
Snacks
Constant snacking on cookies and jellybeans
Drinks
1 can of coke and 1 glass of water
Midnight Snack
Meatballs and rice.
Male, 22, 145 pounds
Today:
Frozen tv dinner for supper (don’t know what type… It was chicken with mashed potatoes. I ate both chicken filets and about a quarter of the mashed potatoes.
1 Pepsi to go with it.
2 doughnuts…1 cup of coffee with cream and sugar.
Yesterday…
Duck filets (ate out) Not too much though, because I got hungry later and had to snack on cookies and pork-rinds. Two cokes, one red wine. One Omelette with ham and cheese, two coffees, and a biscuit.
That’s it…
oh, and I’m 5’8
Female, 24, 5’
I’m 5 months pregnant, so take that into consideration, but I’m not overly gaining weight. A lot of what I eat are small meals so I don’t get sick.
Bagel with cream cream and strawberry jam
Bowl of Easy Mac
Ham and cheese sandwich
2 packs of Gushers
2 small servings of pot roast with vegetables
A little bit of rice
3 pieces of chocolate
Bowl of cherry vanilla ice cream
Lots of orange juice and water
That’s all I can think of what I had yesterday.
Female, 18, never dieted. I’ve not had much of a problem maintaining a constant wait. While I don’t go out of my way to eat healthy, I try not to go too overboard on the junk food.
Yester day I ate:
One of those granloa bar type things
bowl of broccoli cheddar noodles
a couple handfuls of puppy chow
some chicken from chicken noodle soup, probably enough to equal one chicken breast half
a brownie
lots of juice
probably random other things that I can’t remember, I snack a lot.
Female, 29, 5’7". Never in my adult-life have I been on a diet to lose weight. Fortunately, and maybe thanks to genetics, I’ve always been able to maintain a healthy and constant weight without having to think about it.
Now I do try to avoid processed foods and I exercise regularly. Let’s see, what did I have to eat/drink yesterday:
2 bowls of cereal
granola bar
bagel
couple handfuls of trail mix
2 slices of homemade pizza
1 glass of red wine
lots of water throughout the day
I think that’s everything. Now that I think about this, I really should eat more fruits & vegetables.
:eek:
Female, 22, 6’1
Yesterday:
Breakfast: Bagel and cream cheese, cup of coffee
Lunch: Apple crisp, cup of milk
Supper: Beef dip and fries, coffee
Dessert: Cookie, coffee
and tea before bed
Today (so far):
Breakfast: Coffee (usually I also have a scone or a slice of whatever loaf we have going)
Lunch: chicken sandwich, chocolate
Supper: I am thinking of making shepherd’s pie
Yesterday was somewhat skewed as family came over so we went out for the afternoon and evening. I don’t usually drink so much coffee. I really need to eat more fruits and veggies though. My weight does go up and down somewhat, but is fairly steady.
Yesterday…
Breakfast: one Petit Ecolier cookie and a cup of skim milk
Lunch: a serving of lamb, eggplant, and tomato casserole with cheese on top
Tea: two ginger cookies, a clementine orange, and hot tea
Dinner: four golfball-sized kefta with 1/4 cup hummus, four olives, and a sliced tomato
Evening at the coffee house: chamomile tea and most of a brownie
Female, 30 years of age, 130 lbs.:
Yesterday:
Coffee
Bean soup
Slice of banana cream pie
Two bowls of homemade mac and cheese
Carmel corn
Half a Mr. Pibb
Three beers
Today:
Coffee
Banana
Bean soup
Tonight, probably:
Frosted mini-wheats
Various snacks
Also, I do workout 3x a week and do the Abslide every day.
Today I ate a bowl of Red River cereal with soy milk and brown sugar. I’d have had a smoothie but we were out of bananas. Cheese pizza for lunch, I regret it, it’s sitting funny.
Yesterday I ate cereal (exactly like today) and a smoothie (bananas, juice, soy milk, mango); Vegetarian Portobello and Swiss burger (is this delicious product another reason to envy Canadians? I think it might be …); dinner out was hot and sour soup, spring roll, Assorted Gluten and Soy Products Platter, and Chinese Mushrooms and Mixed Vegetables on noodles, with fried tofu. Yum!
Why do you ask?
Mail, 53, never dieted - though my wife and daughter are dieting, and I eat the same things they eat for dinner, but with no portion control, and with uncontrolled deserts, etc. I have lost 5 pounds on this non diet.
Yesterday I had a bagel with cream cheese and lox for breakfast, some turkey corn soup for lunch (two big bowls worth) spareribs, rice, and Sphaghetti Squash for dinner, and birthday cake for desert. (It was my birthday ) BTW, I have blood pressure which is low but not too low, and very low chlorestrol, without doing anything to control it. Some of us just got lucky in the genes department.