Yes, everyone should incluse dog food as part of a healthy diet!
No, puppy chow. Like the stuff you make with chex mix and chocolate and powderd sugar.
ah :smack:
I thought you were going all Al Gore medicine-or-food on us.
Male, 46, 5’8’’, 170 lbs, never dieted or needed to.
Today: part of a bag of chips, one each of bite-size Twix and Milky Way chocolates, a cup of tea, going to make another one now.
Yesterday: A bowl of Vegetable Beef soup and two bologna & mustard sandwiches. A cup of tea. Several Cokes.
Previous day: Pecan pie and Fudge Brownie ice cream; Pot pie & fries; a cup of tea and several Cokes.
Yesterday: Pancakes & sausage, about 5 Oreo cookies, small steak with sauce, cheesy potatoes, cooked carrots, salami sandwich, tea with honey, lots of coffee
Today so far: Salami sandwich, cheese stick, an Ensure Plus (350 calorie nutritional drink), Doritos and salsa, packet of cheez crackers, and a Tootsie roll. Lots of coffee.
I don’t know what I’m having for dinner yet, but I’ll be having another full meal at least, plus some cookies before bed. I don’t know if I qualify for your study, as I’ve actually made an effort in the last year to gain 10 pounds. I did gain 5, but I can’t seem to get the rest.
Male, 22, 6’3. I’ve never tried to gain/lose weight but according to my Body Mass Index I’m a bit underweight.
Today’s food.
Breakfast (normal)
Glass of orange juice
2 Weetabix with sugar
Cup of Tea
Lunch (normal-ish)
Ham sandwich (white bread, home made with Tomato ketchup on)
3 of those nut crunch bars (I think 2 were Trackers and one was a Frusili)
An orange
[normally I have a small cake too)
Dinner (very un-normal)
A 9" thin+crispy ham and cheese pizza
Last night’s dinner was 2 quarter pounders, chips (fries to the Yanks) and peas.
Female, 24. I’m a bit underweight by the chart, but I’m very fine-boned. Today I’ve had some leftover tuna casserole, cereal, and two Cokes so far.
Yesterday, for dinner, vegetable soup and cornbread. (And Coke, of course)
Lunch, tuna casserole and Coke. I’ve got something of a Coke problem.
Breakfast, who the hell are you kidding? 
Midmorning cottage cheese and pears.
In between all that, there’s a bag of candy corn and a bag of Reese’s Pieces I’ve been spoiling my appetite with for days. Snarfle snarfle. I also graze a lot - always putting something in my mouth. Chips and crackers and cereal and things. I swing between eating big meals and not eating much at all - I just eat when I’m hungry (or when there’s food just lying there and I’m bored, I guess.)
Female, 26, never dieted as I’m opposed to anything that’s going to make me grumpy and food-obsessed, healthy weight according to Body Mass Index thingymajig.
Yesterday:
Breakfast: Full English, consisting of 2 pork sausages, 2 rashers of bacon, 1 fried egg, mushrooms, baked beans, 3 slices brown toast with butter; coffee; glass of freshly-squeezed OJ.
Lunch: None - still digesting breakfast!
Dinner: Baked potato with butter and sour cream; later cheese, onion and mayo sandwich on wholewheat bread; 2 glasses white wine.
Today:
Breakfast: Whole wheat cereal with semi-skimmed milk, no sugar; coffee with semi-skimmed milk.
Lunch: Oyster mushrooms on foccacia bread, with small portion of fries and sweetcorn.
Dinner: Brown rice and spinach bake, glass of white wine. Later I shall have a small bar of fudge.
I probably should be the size of a house, and to be honest my weight is creeping up as I get older and my metabolism slows down. I try to eat sensibly during the week and indulge myself at weekends, and I rarely eat between meals.
I’m enjoying reading your responses…thank you!
Female, 125, vegetarian:
Yesterday (off work)–hot tea/small chocolate orange cappuccino, one large pumpkin spice coffee (both with added cream)/ bag dried apple chips, bag cheddar popcorn cakes, ice tea/ bowl veggie chili with corn chips, sugar free chocolate mousse, hot tea.
Today (at work)–hot tea/ bran muffin, coffee with cream/ veggie salad with dressing, cheese and veggie wrap. For supper I’ll probably finish the chili and corn chips.
Male, 24, 5’10’’, ~150 lbs, ~9% bodyfat.
Breakfast
Coffee with sugar
Chicken cooked in bacon and cream, with steamed potatoes and brocoli (leftovers from last night)
Two glasses of milk
Multivitamin
Mid-morning snack
Hazelnut brunch bar
Two chocolate muesli bars
Lemon and orange muesli bar
Coffee with sugar
Lunch
Confit of duck, with steamed potatos, carrot, pumpkin
Rocket salad, two boiled eggs
Bread roll
Chocolate tart with whipped cream
Afternoon
Hazelnut brunch bar
Six water crackers with camembert cheese
Tea
Small packet of crisps
Dinner
Meatballs with spaghetti (quite a big serve–I cooked a recipe for four, but finished the whole lot with my roommate).
Glass of red wine
Right now
Two cups of tea
About 12 squares of milk chocolate
What do I win?
(Yep, I’m a massive pig. I eat pretty well since my company has a free (FREE!) good-quality restaurant for lunch and snacks. I go to the gym two or three times a week, walk about 40 minutes a day.)
A year’s supply of museli bars? 
39 years old and never dieted. 6’4" tall and weigh approx. 190 lbs.
Yesterday
A dozen munchkins from Duncan Donuts and a large cup of Earl Grey w/ cream and sugar
4 pints of Newcastle, club sandwich, and fries
An insane amount of blackened and fried Amberjack, fried calamari, yellow rice, collard greens, conch fritters, bread, etc. for dinner (vacation meal from fish we caught ourselves prepared by a local restaurant.)
Today
3 scrambled eggs, grits and toast w/ water
Ham & cheese sandwich with chips and iced tea
Homemade chicken, noodle, vegetable soup
Jammer
I’ve never dieted and I eat all the time.
One of my children is overweight/fat.
One is not fat.
I figure that perhaps eating a lot of small servings instead of meals (called browsing in the diet books) has made the difference.
I’m sure we all eat the same foods, but perhaps in different ratios.
I just wish the feds would design some diet tests to sort out once and for all if a diet works or not. This is not rocket science, and it’s more important than any Mars rover.
31 year old female, never dieted, currently 9 months pregnant but have only gained 27 lbs (13 kilos) during the pregnancy. Have previously been overweight but lost it a couple years ago by quitting booze and cigarettes and by starting a regime of pretty heavy duty exercising.
I eat three times per day, no snacking. This is what I ate today:
Morning: Bowl of Corn Flakes with a little sugar, a banana, small glass of orange juice, B9 vitamin, skim milk
Lunch: Tuna sandwich on a pita with lettuce, tomato, mayo and boiled egg. Two slices of cheese (camembert), a green apple, lots of water
Dinner: Piece of steak, carrots in cream sauce, small piece of chocolate cakey thing, water, tea.
I will wake up at 3 am to eat a yogurt and a piece of hard cheese, though. If I wasn’t pregnant, I prolly wouldn’t eat in the middle of the night.
I don’t own a car and walk to the store, to the library, to school, to work, to my friend’s house, etc. If I take the Metro, I deal with a lot of stairs. When I’m not pregnant, I run three times a week for an hour.