What do you eat and drink in a typical day?

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It depends what day it is for me.

i have two typical days, the first when i'm teaching, the second when i'm working at home.

no breakfast. (both types of day)

banana or cereal bar thing at break time (teaching day).

lunch - small portion of whatever i ate the previous night, if cool/cold day, a combination from fruit (dried or fresh)/salad/cheese and pitta or crackers on hot days (on really hot days, i find it difficult to eat). (teaching day).

dinner (both days) - carbohydrate basis is rice, pasta, potatoes or bread. i usually have to eat something i can prepare and eat within 20 mins, or else i go off the idea, so i eat a lot of stir fries. i have fresh vegetables every day, and prefer spiced food, especially turkish, chinese, arabic, indian and thai. again, on hot days, or if i've had lunch at school, i tend to eat salads or just fruit, bread and cheese.

this is me on a good day, however - i do go through times when eating is difficult for me. and i also have times when i eat chocolate every day (i have a few squares or something. at the moment, it's a Bendicks Bittermint after my dinner... mmmm...). and i do have days when nothing less than gack food will do. but then there is a chinese saying: "eat 80% healthy, 80% of the time", so i reckon i do okay. i am VERY fussy about food and eating - it's both one of my obsessions (i have 3 shelves of cookery books) and one of my hang-ups (hence being underweight).

for drinks: earl grey first thing (with honey and goat's milk, preferably), then coffee until after lunch/14.00 (the latter if i don't eat lunch), then earl grey or rooibosch tea until dinner, then one more coffee (i eat dinner between 14.00 and 18.00, depending on how busy i am, but NEVER after 19.00), then rooibosch or milk and water, or juice (NOT squash), possibly a glass of wine, until bedtime. and like hale, i drink 2 litres of water during the day, more in the summer.

god, i could go on for pages on this one, so i've tried to be brief, and am sure i've left EVERYTHING out...

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I'm healthy as a horse. I hardly ever get sick. And it doesn't matter how much McDonalds and junk I eat. I'm always skinny as a toothpick. The amount of water I drink makes up for it. The fact that I walk a lot (To and from almost everywhere I go) also helps.

The Usual
Breakfast: hot decaf tea or coffee, either cheese or cereal.
Lunch: deli-sliced meat, cheese, nuts, fruit, water, decaf tea or coffee.
Water, unsweetened iced tea, splenda-sweetened "Kool-Aid Invisible" (no color), or decaf coffee all day long.
Dinner: preferrably chicken, veggies, whole grain pasta or brown rice.
Snacks: pistachio nuts, peanuts, Turkey Hill brand fat-free splenda vanilla ice cream. A square of Baker's semi-sweet baking chocolate. Rum & diet Coke.

I generally don't drink milk, eat potatoes or bread, and I try to avoid beef (not always successful).

So Far Today
Lots of water/iced tea.
Breakfast: shredded wheat biscuits with a bit of milk, and a small glass of orange juice.
Lunch: grilled chicken sandwich from McD's - chicken breast, lettuce, tomato, mayo (blecchh), with the bottom bun removed. I forgot to ask for no mayo. Diet Coke, refilled twice.
Dinner will be whole wheat spaghetti with marinara, and a salad.
Lots more water, tea, maybe a Diet Coke.

I eat much healthier now than I did for most of my previous 42 years. I really did use to look like a hobbit!

10691047, wait till your metabolism slows in your late 30s. Plus, you may look healthy, but be careful of heart attacks in the future. They don't just happen to fat people.

Sorry. [/MOM]

Heart problems run in the family. But what else can I eat? There is nothing in the house at all. I personally look at the nutrition information at McDonalds (Behind the spam ad paper on the tray) and what I eat is actually better for me then the salads they have there. I eat fast food usually 3-4 times a week with the rest being whatever is in the freezer.

Breakfast: Orange juice, a banana, and a scone (or some granola).

Lunch: Whatever is the special at the diner in my office building (or a tuna salad sandwich and pretzels, if i don't like the special).

Dinner: I usually cook a big meal on Sunday and eat leftovers most of the rest of the week. Right now, I'm working on some braised brisket and roasted vegetables.

I drink a lot of water during the day, and sometimes have a drink (wine or Scotch) after dinner.

10691047, why does your mother only ever give you four or five dollars so that it forces you to resort to fast food? (if you know the reason, that is).

I eat muffins a lot.

Ooh, muffins...

Breakfast - none, I can't cope with food first thing in the morning

Lunch - salad, cheese, houmous, wholemeal bread

Dinner - fish, pasta, pizza, curry - I don't eat meat but I love to cook (although lack of organisational ability means it takes ages!) and enjoy cooking fish or vegetarian meals.

Drinks - tea, fruit juice, lemonade, beer

I'm surprisingly unfussy about food. The few things I dislike are due to texture, but other than those few items and the fact I don't eat meat, I will stuff my face with almost anything available. My boyfriend is the fussy one

Breakfast: None. Noone should be up in the morning, let alone eating. (Though I will have a glass of milk, to make mum shut up)

Morning snack (at about 11): a granola bar or small bag of sunchips

Lunch: Either nothing or a smallish bowl of dry cereal or a cup of ramen noodles ( I used to eat peanut butter sandwiches everyday, but there's a peanut butter ban at my school and I've never found a good substitute)

After school snack: Yoghurt cup and a peanut butter sandwich. Sometimes toast and peanut butter instead of a sandwich.

Supper: Whatever is cooked, usually pork chops, baked chicken, steak or a hamburger concoction, noodles or rice and veggies.

After supper snack: popcorn, crackers or another yoghurt.

Before bed snack: more popcorn or a piece of fruit

Favoured drinks: milk and juice. I can't stand water since they put us on a purification system and not on our well.

I can't see the original post but....well.

I eat whenever I feel stress, and I eat a lot of sweets then. But I consider this a problem.

If I eat whenever I feel stress, how can I be sure that I eat
the right thing?

Morning: 10-80 cals worth of vegetarian protein (a veggieburger, veggie dog, etc), 2 logs of string cheese, two apples.

Daytime: 16 other miscellaneous weight watcher's points, often including diet popcorn.

I also live on diet drinks (soda, crystal lite lemonade, diet cocoa, tea)

Breakfast: Ovaltine w/skim milk, raisin bran, multivitamin

Lunch: Turkey on whole wheat, carrots

Supper: Whole wheat ziti with low-sodium pasta sauce & lots of veggies, green salad

For random snacks: peanut butter & honey on whole wheat.