My friend couldn’t gain weight at all so she would stuff herself with junkfood everyday. She was desperate to gain weight. She was so skinny that people who didn’t know her thought she was anorexic. She even went to the doctor and got pills that was supposed to help her gain weight but she turned out allergic to them.
She looks more normal now that we’re in our 40’s and she’s had a child but before that her childhood, teenage years and 20’s were her looking like she had an eating disorder.
My husband is naturally thin. Although he is often observed eating junk food, he overall doesn’t eat a ton of calories. He never finishes his plate, and won’t eat at all if he is stressed, tired or busy. He wants to gain weight but simply can’t eat if he isn’t hungry and he’s rarely hungry.
Anything I can scrap together, random leftovers, mainly Trader Joe’s or like one thing a day idk lately I’ve been living on crumbs cause im too shy to bother my parents about groceries
Peanut butter sandwich for breakfast, freezer meal for lunch, rice with some meat and vegetables for dinner. Like half a bag of chips for a snack before dinner. Totals to like 1200-1500 calories a day.
I would typically have a sausage butty for breakfast, 2 cheese toasties for lunch, half a dozen biscuits (cookies) mid-afternoon, two helpings of supper (pasta, risotto, curry or suchlike), fruit for pudding. Maybe some chocolate before bed.
I do exercise but not nearly as much as I used to.
At 7am coffee and a protein shake. Then at 7pm I pork out on everything: sushi, chips, pop, nuts, blueberries, I love blueberries, I spend a lot of money on blueberries.
I always thought I was naturally skinny, until I wasn’t. At 35, the beer reaaally caught up to me. I don’t drink beer anymore, that definitely helps
I have a GI autoimmune disorder. I’ve been thin my whole life(25yr) even before I was diagnosed. I can definitely get away with eating anything. I’ve been slowly gaining weight(now at 155lb) over the past 2 years after being stuck at 140-146 for multiple years, mostly due to consistent fitness. However, I don’t let my thin figure lure me into a bad diet. I’ve had family members with Alzheimer’s and other conditions, so I really want to do everything in my power to promote longevity, and I think food is a huge factor. I love to cook and try to limit the amount of fast/junk food. My mother taught me to love the food that I make and eat, and I am lucky I can enjoy whatever/however much I want.
i was skinny naturally until 24yo. i suddenly turned chubby. i use to just eat anything. ANYTHING, pizza, hamburgers, whatevs. i then realized why i was skinny, walking to highschool every day, and walking 1-2 miles from my university parking lot to each classes. i stopped uni for a cushy mcjerb. i exploded. i haven’t been able to loose the weight since. its so difficult now 🙁
Skip breakfast entirely, just decaf coffee. Eat whatever I want the rest of the day. I limit myself to one can of soda per day though and drink mostly water. That’s where people go wrong, they drink their calories.
Well, I start my day with a nice, hearty bowl of stress, followed by a mid-morning snack of existential dread. For lunch, I usually have a side of imposter syndrome, and for dinner, it’s a generous serving of burnout. Don’t forget the dessert – a nice big helping of overthinking!
I eat small portions several times a day. Never eat until full. I can walk away from a meal simply because I don’t like the feeling of “I’m stuffed.” i just don’t get how people can enjoy that.
Protein shake in the morning if I’ve been to the gym.
Overnight oats with natural yoghurt, berries and sliced banana mid-late morning.
Coffee with oat milk.
Some fruit in the afternoon. Maybe a protein bar or some nuts.
Dinner in the evening, could be pasta, a stir-fry, fajitas, whatever we decide.
I’m 6’4 and have never weighed more than 175lbs in my life. Today I ate two McDoubles, a large fry and a smarties mcflurry (breakfast). Then at lunch I ate 4 slices of pizza, a Caesar salad and yogurt. I’m about to eat a bowl of soup and a ham and Swiss sandwich. When I get home from work at 7am this morning I will more than likely eat a bowl of cereal and and an omelette and then go to bed. I work 7pm-7am. This is a normal day of food intake.
It varies greatly from day to day. Some days I’ll eat a burger with chips and 4 jaffels. With Energy drinks / whatever else I’ve got around. And other days I’ll only eat dinner.
I used to eat what I want and be really skinny until about age 35 and after that something changed and now I just smell food and get fatter. I do more exercise now I’m older too.
I’m 5’5” and last time I weighed myself (like 2 months ago?) I was 107 lbs. I’m 33 year old woman.
I just try to limit overly processed foods.
I usually have a peanut butter sandwich with a cafe au lait for breakfast (oatmilk). The bread is whole grain tho and the peanut butter is just peanuts as the ingredients.
I’ll snack on some nuts here & there. A lot of fruit.
Lunch or dinner will be like lentils. Or tofu. With rice. Sometimes with pasta (I like chickpea pasta for the fiber/protein).
I have a small piece of chocolate to end my night though. Every single day. Extra dark, about 70-80% dark chocolate. I love Hu Chocolate with Cashew Butter in particular. Nomzzz
Also I only drink water for a beverage. I never eat fast food and maybe eat at a restaurant once or twice a month.
Mostly what I want, actually. I’m trying to gain weight and muscle mass, but I get easily full after a meal.
Breakfast 6:30: Porridge with 2 dl oats, chia seeds, apples, whatever nuts/seeds I have available Topped with something sweet like a bit of chopped chocolate / a teaspoon of nutella / honey. Same breakfast every morning
Then I typically don’t eat before noon, maybe a bit after because of work. But IF I do, it’s normally some type of home-baked buns with a lot of seeds/coarsely ground flour in it to keep me full, topped with whatever spread (hummus, paté, etc.) I have in the house. On weekends make an egg (or nutella on sundays just because it’s nice).
For lunch, 12-1pm: Leftovers from dinner (mostly) / pasta-salad with a lot of veggies and pesto / rye bread with the same I’d put on the bread.
Snack 4-5 pm. When I get home,e I normally snack on an apple, a few crackers, a cup of tea. Whatever the mood. Typically nothing more than a handful of whatever. I try not to eat candy here or ultra-processed food because it f*cks up my stomach and changes my appetite. I tend to have an after-work slump where I get hungry, wants to eat something sweet, so I always have some homemade wholesome snacks in the fridge/cupard/freezer.
Dinner 6-7pm: I always make a salad on the side. Then we eat very varied, actually. Italian, Asian. Typically something to make in a huge badge, lasting for a few days. Chili con carne, lasagne, potato-salads with asparagus/beans/herbs, Dahl, poke-bowl, soups. Whatever has vegetables in season and then venison, chicken, turkey, pork on the side. We often pair the salad and meat with homemade potato/carrot/beet-fritters in the oven (just peel + slice the fries into chunks and then the oven for 30 min) and some homemade mayo (easy to make, tastes better, cheaper)
Dessert is really only a weekend/when company thing. Sometimes we snack on popcorn or some fruit if we ate early and stay up late.
Generally we try eat as varied as possible (15-20 different ingredients a week counting in the nuts/seeds/grains) and plan out the food for the week (preps buns, snacks, lunches) in the weekends/monday so the healthy choice is the easy choice. We avoid as much processed food as possible because it doesn’t keep you satisfied and makes my gut weird.
Hearing this always remind me of my Aunt when she was a Teenager. Her friends and classmates always called her that. But in actuality she was a workaholic she studied so hard sometimes that she needed to hospitalized just to get her away from her studies and be fed threw tube. But now she’s a doctor, has a kid, a husband all of them are really fat
Everything, whatever I want. It’s nice but as a man it’s infuriating trying to gain muscle. I once ate 3500 calories a day for months and barely put on a pound. Crazy stuff
Usually various snacks through the day, shipping breakfast and sometimes lunch, then gorge myself on a massive dinner, then some light snacking through the evening.
Snacking can be whatever I find laying around; fruit, crackers, potato chips, random small food items. Dinners are usually varied. Can be fastfood, can be homemade asian style chicken tenders, meatballs and mashed potatoes. Few vegetables, mostly a combination of carbs and protein.
2 slices of bread with butter and jam and a cup of coffee with milk no sugar in the morning, 2 scrambled eggs with 2 more slices of bread with butter at lunch, then something sweet like a bar of chocolate (maybe half of it) plus a fruit between lunch and dinner, then a bowl (about 360ml) of either soup or savory dish, then black tea with no sugar or hot cocoa with 2 spoons of sugar, then maybe another smaller portion of dinner if im staying up late. Sometimes i eat less, sometimes more, but it’s usually what i eat in a day, and if i force myself to eat more than that i feel sick so i don’t try to overeat
I honestly think I have decent portion control. People underestimate how important that is.
Drink less alcohol. Major metabolic difference.
Also, stress and anxiety. It eats you up inside, as well as whatever you’re consuming.
A lot. I can easily get through twice as much as the ‘average’ healthy person and burn it off within hours. I only started to fill out when I hit 40 after a lifetime of being underweight
Rice, steamed veggies and fish mostly. Corn chips for snacking. Chocolate. I have IBD though. People are thin for all sorts of reasons, I hope you don’t ask them though or comment about their skinniness because people like me with chronic diseases don’t tend to love others idealising their bodies for something that results from a serious illness.
I’ve been extremely skinny my whole life, and honestly, my ‘secret’ is being highly sensitive to everything , especially stress. Even small emotional shifts can make it hard for me to eat, so it’s not really a choice, just how my body reacts.
Yesterday I ate a chocolate bread, a Clementine, a bowl of noodles with tomato sauce and half a pizza. That’s kinda how much I eat everyday (I’m not a grown up tho, I’m 14)
Whole wheat bread, peanut butter (the ‘only peanuts’ kind), fruits and vegetables, whole grain rice/whole wheat pasta, lean protein like chicken breast, yoghurt, olive oil and unsalted nuts/legumes, mostly.
I’m 193 cm/6’4″, weigh about 85 kg/188 lbs at a bf% of ~11-12% currently and it’s always been kind of difficult for me to put on mass. Now that I eat 3600 kcal in a day I’m slowly gaining some weight. A couple years back I weighed around 72 kg/160 lbs.
A bowl of granola with a banana for breakfast, yesterday’s dinner leftovers (about 700grams) for lunch, some sort of sweet snack, and dinner (randomly selecting 1 carb like potatoes and pasta, 2 greens like lettuce and tomatoes, one protein – usually about 300 grams of meat. I’m 197cm and 73kg heavy. I do not worry about what to eat, but I get really hungry if I don’t eat enough meat.
Yesterday, I ate six sausages in four hotdog buns, and a bag of microwave popcorn.
The day before that, I ate a packet of ramen, a bag of popcorn and a 10 inch pepperoni pizza.
The day before that, I ate a family sized bag of salt and vinegar crisps, and a 10 inch pepperoni pizza.
The day before that, I ate two hotdogs, a burger and two packets of ramen.
I haven’t eaten much veg in the last week, because I’m trying to eat the stuff that I already have in my freezer. Most of the meat I’ve eaten recently was purchased in 2019, and has been taking up space ever since.
But if I’m not running around and being active, I generally don’t develop much of an appetite. If I’m working out and running around the place like a lunatic, then I’ll be eating six meals in a day.
In my sedentary state, I burn around 2000 calories a day, but can’t make myself eat more than an average of 1500 without feeling sick. If I’m being active, I tend to overdo it and burn more than 4000 calories in a day. (According to my fitbit, anyway.) In such instances, I can easily eat 6000 calories in a single day. Swinging back and forth between these two extremes is probably why [I stay in such comparatively good shape.](https://i.imgur.com/cwJ6GEm.jpg)
Thin people are often built that way. They have the right genes, the right body chemistry, the right gut microbes, etc. and their bodies just know when to stop eating, So IMO, they eat the same as everyone else. They just know not to overeat.
If you do a fecal matter transfer from a fat person to a skinny person, the skinny person becomes obese. Documented cases. It is speculated the reverse is true.
I constantly amazed at my son, who can eat “anything”, and not gain an ounce. Losing weight for him is easy. He does not have to even think about it. It can just happen. And there are times, when something happens to him, we really worry about him becoming too thin.
I on the other hand, am not so blessed, and struggle everyday, eating the same healthy meals, to maintain my weight, never mind lose anything.
I am 6’2” male and weigh about 155. I don’t eat breakfast, no appetite for it. Usually just two meals a day and maybe a snack if I’m hungry before bed. I can and do eat a lot though in a sitting. A typical meal from a restaurant or fast food doesn’t usually fill me up.
When I was much skinnier (I’m kind of normal shaped now, thanks depression meds), I basically ate nothing. My ADHD meds made me not feel hunger and so I just didn’t eat.
I’ve always been naturally very skinny & to be honest for the longest I ate whatever the hell I wanted. Fast food, bags of candy, cookies were my weakness, I loved pizza….On the other hand I’ve always lived a very active life since a young kid….hiking, surfing, swimming, biking, running etc. even my job adds up to like 10k steps each shift as well using my arms a lot. It’s a blessing to be very skinny naturally but as I get older I feel like my looks are “boyish” & it’s very hard for me to gain muscle/weight. Past 2 years or so I began taking my nutrition a lot more seriously (not perfect) but i’m mindful of what i eat. Lots of home cooked meals centered around protein + fiber then sides come last. So these days I don’t eat so freely anymore but I will indulge in a nice desert or fast food combo when I want it
Depends on if I remember to eat. My favorite dish is literally rice with broccoli. Sometimes I eat pizza or other frozen and easy food, sometimes I cook and sometimes I just don’t eat.
Never been more than 150 lbs in my life 5’11” male
People ask me all the time. “Where does it all go?”
“Where are you putting all that, in your legs??”
When they see how much I eat those are the types of comments I get.
I also used to eat whole large pizzas by myself in one sitting several times a week. I don’t do that anymore though. Not because I can’t, but because it’s pretty bad for you.
I eat only when I am truly physically hungry. Stomach-growling hungry. I don’t snack. If I’m truly hungry enough to eat, then I just eat my next real meal, not a snack. When I eat out, I eat just the main course. No appetizers or desserts or bread/chips they bring out first. Restaurant appetizers are terrible. So you’re eating a plate of food to ‘appetize’ for… another plate of food? I eat until satisfied. Not full, not stuffed. Satisfied meaning the hunger is quelled and I’m ready to move on with the day. I have no issue leaving food on my plate. I decide how much I need at the time and not just the size of the portion I’m given. These are lifelong habits and attitudes that we instilled by my family who are all naturally thinner. None of us ‘exercise’ per se but we also rarely just sit around watching tv. Food varies for me everyday but I think the underlying food attitude makes the difference. Is food your friend/comfort/escape, etc? Or is it just another basic function of the day like showering? Weird analogy but, if you were to walk past a restroom and didn’t have to pee at the time, would you go in there and pee? Likewise, if you see food but aren’t actually hungry, would you still eat the food?
Before I get too full my body literally stops itself from swallowing the food, it starts to taste gross. The only time I gained weight was when I added protein shakes but I lose weight fairly easily. Also I have to force myself to eat or remind myself, takes a bit for me to feel hungry idk
I think there are habits nurtured from childhood leading toward more healthy choices toward fruits and vegetables and aversion to junk food.
People who are naturally skinny also do have genetics that enable that, but are significantly benefited from the habits they have engaged in from a young age.
If your idea of dinner is a frozen pizza, or a mix of veggies with low fat meats like chicken, then you’re going to have a different result.
Back when i still WAS naturally skinny, a minimum 5000 calories of (mostly) whatever i’d dumpster dived that day/week. Usually McDonalds, Church’s chicken, Safeway deli stuff, and bread. Lots and lots of bread.
Mainly meat and a little bit of vegetables. I don’t drink soda and don’t like sweets or bread. On the rare occasion I eat pancakes, I don’t even put syrup on them. I’ve always been this way even as a child. I’ve “accidentally” been on a low carbon diet my whole life
My wife and I are very skinny despite having the obesity gene and every single family member being obese. First, vegan. Second, one dessert treat a day, just one. Third, walk as much as possible plus weights and exercise bike every day. I have heard others say that it is easy to stay skinny if vegan (although I admit you have to be certain to get vitamin B, D, iron etc somehow) Oh, havn’t eaten any food that I havn’t prepared myself in over ten years, which is also cheap–zero restaurants, zero takeout etc
Low carb. Anyone u see eating a bunch of junk food and saying they’re naturally skinny is either lying or not a risky eating it all, just taking small bites
I have three meals a day, roughly, I don’t really watch what I eat, mu cholesterol is right at the edge of being too high. The only thing I can think of is I really don’t eat sweets, like at all, nor drink sweet drinks like Coca Cola. I’m 183 cm and 72 kg.
My wife eats, from what I can see, the same as me or less. Yet she’s 80 kg.
Genetics?
I am more neurotic than her, so maybe that’s what’s eating away at me. Success?
I have three meals a day, roughly, I don’t really watch what I eat, my cholesterol is right at the edge of being too high. The only thing I can think of is I really don’t eat sweets, like at all, nor drink sweet drinks like Coca Cola. I’m 183 cm and 72 kg.
My wife eats, from what I can see, the same as me or less. Yet she’s 80 kg.
Genetics?
I am more neurotic than her, so maybe that’s what’s eating away at me. Success?
I usually have nothing for breakfast except a large coffee, maybe toast at about 9am
Lunch is usually leftovers from the night before, could be soup or a stew or a curry or pasta at about 1/2pm
If there’s no leftovers because the meal was something like burgers or a baked potato then I will make a sandwich (ham and tomato, egg mayo, pastrami or something)
Dinner is usually the main meal of my day at 8pm and I usually cook enough to serve 4-6 people and eat a portion that’s likely enough for 2 people, saving leftovers.
I usually have a takeaway once a week but never more and if it’s something like a pizza I take that for leftovers the next day
I tend not to snack throughout the day but after dinner I may have some chocolate of some kind, or crisps or a few biscuits (cookies).
That’s my usual working day
If I’m not working then probably won’t eat anything until 2/3pm, eat dinner at 8pm and then bed by 11pm.
I smoke which probably does something to my appetite and I work an active job and have 2 dogs so I easily do 10k steps a day.
I don’t go to the gym, never have and I also don’t drive and walk to work, walk to get groceries etc.
So while I’m probably sitting down to larger than necessary portions, I’m likely burning it off.
But to conclude I’m probably just lucky to have an active metabolism, but that will probably end one day and my body will slow down.
I’m always hungry ngl but it doesn’t take much to satisfy me. Fries is a must at least twice a day. Plus one normal meal (maybe rice or pasta) and carbonated drinks.
I eat the same shit everyone else eats, just less. And I have a job where I’m moving all day.
You just have to find your calorie limit. Use an app like LoseIt and weigh yourself for a couple months, and pretty soon you’ll develop a feel for what throws you off balance. For me, I know I can only “afford” to eat out once in a day, or my calories are thrown off. So like, if I want a delicious breakfast sandwich from down the street, I’m making lunch and dinner to make up for it.
Of course, not every day needs to be balanced either. Eat more on the weekends and scale back on weekdays if you love food.
Aged 14-25 everything. Didn’t make a difference.
25+ still everything but started putting on weight. This was pretty easy to lose so not an issue. Put on a bit of weight, I’d just start eating a bit less and lose it again.
35+ I now put on weight in the blink of an eye and have to try really hard to lose it.
I was in my early 20s when I started to notice I couldn’t eat junk all the time and still say thin.
Now that I’m almost 50, I’m still pretty thin but I do have to watch how much I consume bc my weight gain is mostly all in my stomach area. So when I’m on vacation I eat whatever just less of it. For daily eating again I try to eat relatively healthy with lots of lean protein, veggies, etc. But I also generally eat whatever I want. I just avoid the worse things like soda, fast food, etc.
I also have a job that requires me to move a lot and I have a regular exercise regimen too.
My last three days look pretty typical for me, unfortunately. I usually eat around ~2500 calories/day. I’m 6′ and currently about 170-175 lbs, I think (I don’t own a scale). I know that’s not super skinny or anything, but I was much more so for most of my life (6′ and about 120 lbs in high school, for instance). About a year ago, after I’d gotten into the habit of getting high almost every night, I realized I was around 185-190 lbs. That was a bit more than I liked. So I spent the last year frequently shooting for eating less each day, which was frequently difficult and I felt hungry often. But also I have ADHD and will fixate on something for a long time and subsequently not eat for a while because of that anyway (though I have the unusual side effect of my ADHD meds seemingly making me more hungry instead of less lol). So I was able to drop around 20 lbs in the last year or so, though I think I’m back up a bit to over 170 lbs currently. I definitely still look quite skinny though.
Today:
Cinnamon Toast Crunch for “breakfast” at noon
A box of Trader Joe’s jalapeno and cream cheese wontons, a bag of sour Skittles gummies, and a can of Pepsi for dinner
Two small Chips Ahoy muffins, a few swigs of milk, and half a bottle of strawberry kiwi Snapple for a midnight snack
Yesterday:
Cinnamon Toast Crunch for breakfast/lunch
Three pieces of pizza from Papa Murphy’s and a can of Squirt for dinner
Another piece of pizza, medium sized glass of grape juice, an ice cream bar, and a handful of Tim’s jalapeno chips all for snacks
Wednesday:
Trader Joe’s wontons and a Pepsi for lunch
Trader Joe’s frozen mac and cheese for dinner
Like half a big bag of Tim’s jalapeno chips for snacks
I eat whatever I feel like, and I didn’t realize how little that was until I tried counting my calories. Most of the foods I’m drawn to are low in calories, like fruits and vegetables. I also don’t usually stop for snacks during the day because I’m focused on other things. I hate the way sugary foods make my mouth feel and taste afterwards, so I only eat candy or drink sodas occasionally. Water is my beverage of choice, but sometimes I go for milk or juice.
Today I ate a bowl of cereal with 3.25% milk, a banana, 4 lemon cookies, some chocolate covered almonds, 3 or 4 small roasted potatoes with carrots and onions, about 3/4 cup high protein yogurt with chia seeds and blueberries, two corn muffins, a few cubes of watermelon and some celery and cucumber slices with dip. This was a low activity day, and I tried to eat more than usual to gain weight.
I’m 36 years old, 6’1″ and have been around 165 my whole life. I fluctuate between 150-180, but tend to be 165 on average. I’m incredibly cut with 6-10% body fat. I have clothes that fit fine from when I was 16.
I eat a tremendous amount. Growing up I had an overweight friend and we ate around the same. I have food addictions, to where when I start, I can’t stop. Especially with chocolate, but you would never guess because of my weight. It throws my fiance for a loop and she doesn’t understand because she’s the only one who truly sees how much I can eat.
After years of eating like garbage, I try to keep my general health in check. I try to eat my protein and fat in the beginning of the day to help satiate me so I don’t get food cravings. For dinner I just eat what she eats (she’s vegetarian) as long as it falls under being “real food” being some vegetable recipes we make for her after work, or just fruit.
It took me a while to realize that food was designed for me to eat a lot of it, but when I stick to real foods, I’m usually fine for the most part.
I think calories are almost irrelevant to weight loss, but rather quality food is what to look for (100 calories from soda are different than 100 calories from steak for example,) I never look at the nutritional facts of things, usually just the ingredients. I don’t think red meat is bad, nor any real food for that matter, at least in comparison to everything else out there.
People have often told me they’d be happy with stopping working out if they had my body, even though I don’t work out often. It has me convinced that if I weren’t so damn ugly, I’d be a lady killer, if I knew how to communicate with them. Best compliment I ever got from a woman was that I’d be hott if my head was cut off. Oof.
I overeat and can’t seem to gain. I eat biscuits boiled in water with shredded chicken lately. I eat like no less than 10 pounds of meat in a week. The sheer amount that I consume is absolutely disgusting. You’d think “there’s no way this little fellow is going to eat all of this.” And watch in disgust as I smash it all in under 10 minutes. I also workout a lot though so 🤷♂️
Inadvertently been intermittent fasting my whole life before I ever knew it was a thing. Pretty much never eat breakfast, but then throw down for lunch or dinner. Don’t watch calories or carbs or anything like that, but do try to stay away from frozen, processed, junk types of food for health benefits not related to weight.
Cereal, leftovers, snack/sandwich, dinner. I order in a lot and don’t pick especially healthy option (pizza, fried foods, whatever). I just try to only eat if I feel like I need to. I really think the key is not snacking and the key to not snacking is to not have a bunch of snacks in the house. Or make it a healthier snack like popcorn or a meal replacement shake.
I eat anything and everything yet I hardly gain weight, unless I actually eat a crap ton of food and hit the gym. On the other hand, if I don’t eat properly for a week, I start losing a lot of weight.
Bowl of rice/pasta and a bit of protein either chicken/red meat/fish and maybe a handfull of nuts for lunch. Most of the time it’s just dinner meal and your good to go and become skinny
Society may drive us to always think that we have to put on weight, when if we remove that thought from our life, we actually will just maintain our weight by responding to what our body wants
Yeasterday I ate 3 boiled eggs, Greek joghurt, berries and seeds, Fanta lemon, rye bread with cheese and ham, grilled chicken leg and 4 fruits. 2 cups of tea. Usually I eat more, but yesterday I was busy.
Honestly? What ever I want whenever I want. I don’t eat breakfast, I have a small meal for lunch, a bunch of little snacks, and then a decent sized dinner. I can’t eat if I’m not hungry, so i don’t have set meal times, just whenever by body needs it. I only work out 3 or so days a week, and never for more than an hour. Highest weight I’ve had was 130 lbs.
I start the day off with oatmeal. Then, for my second breakfast, I eat smoked salmon sandwiches, usually on freshly toasted bread. Then, dinner – vegan, because my wife is vegan. Then, for an afternoon meal, any leftovers from that dinner. Then, finally, before going to sleep, either just tea, or again salmon sandwiches.
I have a higher metabolism, which kind of sucks cause I’m constantly hungry despite being skinny and 170 seems to be my forever weight as it hasn’t changed all that much in the last 5 years. Typically I try to keep it at the very least somewhat healthy by cooking at home, but damn is fast food junk a good option sometimes. I’ll have weeks where I’m addicted to Wendy’s double stack biggie bags despite my efforts.
Basically lots of carbs protein and fats. Although being skinny won’t last for me, usually with the men in my family they have ridiculously fast metabolism that eventually slows as early as 30
I’m active and eat a lot. Petite female (28). I have life threatening allergies so my diet is boring. 4 lbs potatoes, 4-5 lbs veggies and then either fish or 2-3 eggs (sometimes both). That’s one day and yes that’s how much I eat. About 2,300-2,400 calories.
I’ll eat a small breakfast sandwich for breakfast.
I’ll eat a small amount of whatever leftovers we have for lunch
For dinner I pig out and eat the most food so I can go to bed unapologetically happy and full.
It’s not really an intentional thing though I don’t eat that way to stay skinny. Dinner is just when I’m not busy and really have the time to just sit there and eat.
The biggest thing for me is that I don’t snack ever. I just eat the three meals. For me to gain weight I had to not only eat large meals at breakfast lunch and dinner. I had snacking in between. But eating like that gets expensive and time consuming so I went back to my original diet and slimmed back down.
Usually wake up not hungry at all. Force myself to drink a protein shake, or Soylent/Ensure, and maybe some fruit in the afternoon. Then, for dinner we usually make one of those meal kits (mostly vegetarian or pescatarian)). Then, starting at around 10pm, the hunger hits me hard and I wind up eating mostly sugary garbage til I collapse from exhaustion. I don’t recommend my diet.
Reading these comments, and working alongside people who are naturally super skinny all the time, I’m convinced you are either always skinny or always overweight based on what your stress response is..
My entire family? Stress eaters, all of us, and all of us are overweight. Skinny friends who I see pack down an entire plate of fries, a burger, an appetizer, and 2+ beers at a restaurant? They were too stressed to eat all day, so that’s their first meal of the day.
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Anything I want
I eat a balanced diet with plenty of fruits, veggies, whole grains, and lean proteins. I also snack on nuts and yogurt throughout the day
Chicken, apple, celery, and one japanese flying squid
I eat anything I want, a lot and once a day
My friend couldn’t gain weight at all so she would stuff herself with junkfood everyday. She was desperate to gain weight. She was so skinny that people who didn’t know her thought she was anorexic. She even went to the doctor and got pills that was supposed to help her gain weight but she turned out allergic to them.
She looks more normal now that we’re in our 40’s and she’s had a child but before that her childhood, teenage years and 20’s were her looking like she had an eating disorder.
More junk food than I should
Stress, coffee, pasta
One or two meals. Snacking in between
My husband is naturally thin. Although he is often observed eating junk food, he overall doesn’t eat a ton of calories. He never finishes his plate, and won’t eat at all if he is stressed, tired or busy. He wants to gain weight but simply can’t eat if he isn’t hungry and he’s rarely hungry.
Coffee, snack, huge meal, dessert
Anything I can scrap together, random leftovers, mainly Trader Joe’s or like one thing a day idk lately I’ve been living on crumbs cause im too shy to bother my parents about groceries
Peanut butter sandwich for breakfast, freezer meal for lunch, rice with some meat and vegetables for dinner. Like half a bag of chips for a snack before dinner. Totals to like 1200-1500 calories a day.
I would typically have a sausage butty for breakfast, 2 cheese toasties for lunch, half a dozen biscuits (cookies) mid-afternoon, two helpings of supper (pasta, risotto, curry or suchlike), fruit for pudding. Maybe some chocolate before bed.
I do exercise but not nearly as much as I used to.
Only when I’m hungry… And very little sugar
At 7am coffee and a protein shake. Then at 7pm I pork out on everything: sushi, chips, pop, nuts, blueberries, I love blueberries, I spend a lot of money on blueberries.
I always thought I was naturally skinny, until I wasn’t. At 35, the beer reaaally caught up to me. I don’t drink beer anymore, that definitely helps
I have a GI autoimmune disorder. I’ve been thin my whole life(25yr) even before I was diagnosed. I can definitely get away with eating anything. I’ve been slowly gaining weight(now at 155lb) over the past 2 years after being stuck at 140-146 for multiple years, mostly due to consistent fitness. However, I don’t let my thin figure lure me into a bad diet. I’ve had family members with Alzheimer’s and other conditions, so I really want to do everything in my power to promote longevity, and I think food is a huge factor. I love to cook and try to limit the amount of fast/junk food. My mother taught me to love the food that I make and eat, and I am lucky I can enjoy whatever/however much I want.
2 shitty poptarts, some snacks, and an actual dinner
Oatmeal with butter, black tea, 2 eggs, and whatever there is for dinner if I like it.
Have no appetite, no time to eat during day and quite picky.
Trying to compensate more during weekend and eat more.
34 male, 58kg.
Ever been max 70kg.
Whatever I want to. But I have a mechanical problem. Missing upper intestines. Which isn’t a good thing.
i was skinny naturally until 24yo. i suddenly turned chubby. i use to just eat anything. ANYTHING, pizza, hamburgers, whatevs. i then realized why i was skinny, walking to highschool every day, and walking 1-2 miles from my university parking lot to each classes. i stopped uni for a cushy mcjerb. i exploded. i haven’t been able to loose the weight since. its so difficult now 🙁
1 weetbix with milk, coffee
1 slice of bread with a can of tuna,
Whatever mum cooks for dinner (I live with my parents)
I’ve struggled with an eating disorder since 15, and I’m on a meal plan to introduce snacks into my daily eating ‘schedule’
Skip breakfast entirely, just decaf coffee. Eat whatever I want the rest of the day. I limit myself to one can of soda per day though and drink mostly water. That’s where people go wrong, they drink their calories.
Well, I start my day with a nice, hearty bowl of stress, followed by a mid-morning snack of existential dread. For lunch, I usually have a side of imposter syndrome, and for dinner, it’s a generous serving of burnout. Don’t forget the dessert – a nice big helping of overthinking!
I eat small portions several times a day. Never eat until full. I can walk away from a meal simply because I don’t like the feeling of “I’m stuffed.” i just don’t get how people can enjoy that.
Prior to being on mirtazapine, whatever and however much I wanted. On mirtazapine I gain weight just by existing.
I live on a strict diet of h u m a n s o u l s
Protein shake in the morning if I’ve been to the gym.
Overnight oats with natural yoghurt, berries and sliced banana mid-late morning.
Coffee with oat milk.
Some fruit in the afternoon. Maybe a protein bar or some nuts.
Dinner in the evening, could be pasta, a stir-fry, fajitas, whatever we decide.
I’m 6’4 and have never weighed more than 175lbs in my life. Today I ate two McDoubles, a large fry and a smarties mcflurry (breakfast). Then at lunch I ate 4 slices of pizza, a Caesar salad and yogurt. I’m about to eat a bowl of soup and a ham and Swiss sandwich. When I get home from work at 7am this morning I will more than likely eat a bowl of cereal and and an omelette and then go to bed. I work 7pm-7am. This is a normal day of food intake.
It varies greatly from day to day. Some days I’ll eat a burger with chips and 4 jaffels. With Energy drinks / whatever else I’ve got around. And other days I’ll only eat dinner.
Egg, veggies, not a lot of anything.
Lots of protein. Black coffee.
Sometimes I don’t eat until 7pm, just go on coffee. Just because were thin doesn’t mean were healthy.
I used to eat what I want and be really skinny until about age 35 and after that something changed and now I just smell food and get fatter. I do more exercise now I’m older too.
Junk
Asian food. (Rice/fish/eggs). Its easy to stay skinny when you only eat beef once a week or so, and don’t drink calories. Noodles. Pizza once a month.
I’m 5’5” and last time I weighed myself (like 2 months ago?) I was 107 lbs. I’m 33 year old woman.
I just try to limit overly processed foods.
I usually have a peanut butter sandwich with a cafe au lait for breakfast (oatmilk). The bread is whole grain tho and the peanut butter is just peanuts as the ingredients.
I’ll snack on some nuts here & there. A lot of fruit.
Lunch or dinner will be like lentils. Or tofu. With rice. Sometimes with pasta (I like chickpea pasta for the fiber/protein).
I have a small piece of chocolate to end my night though. Every single day. Extra dark, about 70-80% dark chocolate. I love Hu Chocolate with Cashew Butter in particular. Nomzzz
Also I only drink water for a beverage. I never eat fast food and maybe eat at a restaurant once or twice a month.
I am a 5ft10ish, 41yo woman, and I weigh between 55-60kg. I have long limbs and I am considered “skinny” by friends and family.
I am Autistic, vegetarian, and I tend to eat the same foods most days.
Breakfast: Milo Mocca with oat milk, one piece of toast with peanut butter and half a banana.
Morning Tea: Latte with oat milk.
Lunch: 2 slices of cheese, small tub of Vanilla yoghurt, half an apple OR 5 grapes. Glass of water.
Afternoon Tea: 4 piklets with Nutella. Cup of tea with oat milk.
Dinner: plain pasta (no sauce), steamed corn, peas, carrots, and spinach.
No food after Dinner. Water if I’m thirsty.
I suppose it’s healthy.
I can eat whatever I want and I just look fit. No exercise.
So to compensate nature gave me type 1
Coffee, coffee or redbull, big dinner when I get home
Mostly what I want, actually. I’m trying to gain weight and muscle mass, but I get easily full after a meal.
Breakfast 6:30: Porridge with 2 dl oats, chia seeds, apples, whatever nuts/seeds I have available Topped with something sweet like a bit of chopped chocolate / a teaspoon of nutella / honey. Same breakfast every morning
Then I typically don’t eat before noon, maybe a bit after because of work. But IF I do, it’s normally some type of home-baked buns with a lot of seeds/coarsely ground flour in it to keep me full, topped with whatever spread (hummus, paté, etc.) I have in the house. On weekends make an egg (or nutella on sundays just because it’s nice).
For lunch, 12-1pm: Leftovers from dinner (mostly) / pasta-salad with a lot of veggies and pesto / rye bread with the same I’d put on the bread.
Snack 4-5 pm. When I get home,e I normally snack on an apple, a few crackers, a cup of tea. Whatever the mood. Typically nothing more than a handful of whatever. I try not to eat candy here or ultra-processed food because it f*cks up my stomach and changes my appetite. I tend to have an after-work slump where I get hungry, wants to eat something sweet, so I always have some homemade wholesome snacks in the fridge/cupard/freezer.
Dinner 6-7pm: I always make a salad on the side. Then we eat very varied, actually. Italian, Asian. Typically something to make in a huge badge, lasting for a few days. Chili con carne, lasagne, potato-salads with asparagus/beans/herbs, Dahl, poke-bowl, soups. Whatever has vegetables in season and then venison, chicken, turkey, pork on the side. We often pair the salad and meat with homemade potato/carrot/beet-fritters in the oven (just peel + slice the fries into chunks and then the oven for 30 min) and some homemade mayo (easy to make, tastes better, cheaper)
Dessert is really only a weekend/when company thing. Sometimes we snack on popcorn or some fruit if we ate early and stay up late.
Generally we try eat as varied as possible (15-20 different ingredients a week counting in the nuts/seeds/grains) and plan out the food for the week (preps buns, snacks, lunches) in the weekends/monday so the healthy choice is the easy choice. We avoid as much processed food as possible because it doesn’t keep you satisfied and makes my gut weird.
Oh an rarely sodas, juices, alcohol….
Hope it helps 😉
Hearing this always remind me of my Aunt when she was a Teenager. Her friends and classmates always called her that. But in actuality she was a workaholic she studied so hard sometimes that she needed to hospitalized just to get her away from her studies and be fed threw tube. But now she’s a doctor, has a kid, a husband all of them are really fat
Everything, whatever I want. It’s nice but as a man it’s infuriating trying to gain muscle. I once ate 3500 calories a day for months and barely put on a pound. Crazy stuff
Usually various snacks through the day, shipping breakfast and sometimes lunch, then gorge myself on a massive dinner, then some light snacking through the evening.
Snacking can be whatever I find laying around; fruit, crackers, potato chips, random small food items. Dinners are usually varied. Can be fastfood, can be homemade asian style chicken tenders, meatballs and mashed potatoes. Few vegetables, mostly a combination of carbs and protein.
2 slices of bread with butter and jam and a cup of coffee with milk no sugar in the morning, 2 scrambled eggs with 2 more slices of bread with butter at lunch, then something sweet like a bar of chocolate (maybe half of it) plus a fruit between lunch and dinner, then a bowl (about 360ml) of either soup or savory dish, then black tea with no sugar or hot cocoa with 2 spoons of sugar, then maybe another smaller portion of dinner if im staying up late. Sometimes i eat less, sometimes more, but it’s usually what i eat in a day, and if i force myself to eat more than that i feel sick so i don’t try to overeat
anything that appears in front of me
I honestly think I have decent portion control. People underestimate how important that is.
Drink less alcohol. Major metabolic difference.
Also, stress and anxiety. It eats you up inside, as well as whatever you’re consuming.
A lot. I can easily get through twice as much as the ‘average’ healthy person and burn it off within hours. I only started to fill out when I hit 40 after a lifetime of being underweight
Rice, steamed veggies and fish mostly. Corn chips for snacking. Chocolate. I have IBD though. People are thin for all sorts of reasons, I hope you don’t ask them though or comment about their skinniness because people like me with chronic diseases don’t tend to love others idealising their bodies for something that results from a serious illness.
I’ve been extremely skinny my whole life, and honestly, my ‘secret’ is being highly sensitive to everything , especially stress. Even small emotional shifts can make it hard for me to eat, so it’s not really a choice, just how my body reacts.
Skin.
Yesterday I ate a chocolate bread, a Clementine, a bowl of noodles with tomato sauce and half a pizza. That’s kinda how much I eat everyday (I’m not a grown up tho, I’m 14)
Hate eating 1 sandwich and coffee
Cereal with full fat milk for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, veg heavy dinner with pasta, rice or noodles. I snack on plain nuts.
I’m naturally thin, but also average 1600+ active calories a day, so I eat unholy amounts of the above just to stop myself wasting away.
Sandwich, protein bars, smoothie, Sweetgreen salad, an apple, yogurt, eggs.
Whole wheat bread, peanut butter (the ‘only peanuts’ kind), fruits and vegetables, whole grain rice/whole wheat pasta, lean protein like chicken breast, yoghurt, olive oil and unsalted nuts/legumes, mostly.
I’m 193 cm/6’4″, weigh about 85 kg/188 lbs at a bf% of ~11-12% currently and it’s always been kind of difficult for me to put on mass. Now that I eat 3600 kcal in a day I’m slowly gaining some weight. A couple years back I weighed around 72 kg/160 lbs.
A bowl of granola with a banana for breakfast, yesterday’s dinner leftovers (about 700grams) for lunch, some sort of sweet snack, and dinner (randomly selecting 1 carb like potatoes and pasta, 2 greens like lettuce and tomatoes, one protein – usually about 300 grams of meat. I’m 197cm and 73kg heavy. I do not worry about what to eat, but I get really hungry if I don’t eat enough meat.
One small meal…rest of the day is devoted to nicotine and alcohol.
Protein yogurt, biscuits, bread and cups of tea. Maybe some chocolate.
Yesterday, I ate six sausages in four hotdog buns, and a bag of microwave popcorn.
The day before that, I ate a packet of ramen, a bag of popcorn and a 10 inch pepperoni pizza.
The day before that, I ate a family sized bag of salt and vinegar crisps, and a 10 inch pepperoni pizza.
The day before that, I ate two hotdogs, a burger and two packets of ramen.
I haven’t eaten much veg in the last week, because I’m trying to eat the stuff that I already have in my freezer. Most of the meat I’ve eaten recently was purchased in 2019, and has been taking up space ever since.
But if I’m not running around and being active, I generally don’t develop much of an appetite. If I’m working out and running around the place like a lunatic, then I’ll be eating six meals in a day.
In my sedentary state, I burn around 2000 calories a day, but can’t make myself eat more than an average of 1500 without feeling sick. If I’m being active, I tend to overdo it and burn more than 4000 calories in a day. (According to my fitbit, anyway.) In such instances, I can easily eat 6000 calories in a single day. Swinging back and forth between these two extremes is probably why [I stay in such comparatively good shape.](https://i.imgur.com/cwJ6GEm.jpg)
I’m naturally built for bulk and cut.
Thin people are often built that way. They have the right genes, the right body chemistry, the right gut microbes, etc. and their bodies just know when to stop eating, So IMO, they eat the same as everyone else. They just know not to overeat.
If you do a fecal matter transfer from a fat person to a skinny person, the skinny person becomes obese. Documented cases. It is speculated the reverse is true.
I constantly amazed at my son, who can eat “anything”, and not gain an ounce. Losing weight for him is easy. He does not have to even think about it. It can just happen. And there are times, when something happens to him, we really worry about him becoming too thin.
I on the other hand, am not so blessed, and struggle everyday, eating the same healthy meals, to maintain my weight, never mind lose anything.
I am 6’2” male and weigh about 155. I don’t eat breakfast, no appetite for it. Usually just two meals a day and maybe a snack if I’m hungry before bed. I can and do eat a lot though in a sitting. A typical meal from a restaurant or fast food doesn’t usually fill me up.
When I was much skinnier (I’m kind of normal shaped now, thanks depression meds), I basically ate nothing. My ADHD meds made me not feel hunger and so I just didn’t eat.
I’ve always been naturally very skinny & to be honest for the longest I ate whatever the hell I wanted. Fast food, bags of candy, cookies were my weakness, I loved pizza….On the other hand I’ve always lived a very active life since a young kid….hiking, surfing, swimming, biking, running etc. even my job adds up to like 10k steps each shift as well using my arms a lot. It’s a blessing to be very skinny naturally but as I get older I feel like my looks are “boyish” & it’s very hard for me to gain muscle/weight. Past 2 years or so I began taking my nutrition a lot more seriously (not perfect) but i’m mindful of what i eat. Lots of home cooked meals centered around protein + fiber then sides come last. So these days I don’t eat so freely anymore but I will indulge in a nice desert or fast food combo when I want it
So much unhealthy food
Whole lotta food and a whole lotta stress 😁
Girl everything
Eat?
I eat slowly, so slow I even loose appetite before I’m finished
Depends on if I remember to eat. My favorite dish is literally rice with broccoli. Sometimes I eat pizza or other frozen and easy food, sometimes I cook and sometimes I just don’t eat.
Coffee
Muesli with fruit yogurt mixed nuts
A lot of Soylent drink
Frozen pizza
Takeout
Never been more than 150 lbs in my life 5’11” male
People ask me all the time. “Where does it all go?”
“Where are you putting all that, in your legs??”
When they see how much I eat those are the types of comments I get.
I also used to eat whole large pizzas by myself in one sitting several times a week. I don’t do that anymore though. Not because I can’t, but because it’s pretty bad for you.
not much
I sometimes forget to eat
Zyn, Reign, salad
Genuinely not much tbh.
Today:
Breakfast: oatmeal porridge with goji berry and almond milk.
Brunch: a banana.
Lunch: rice, fried egg with onion, lentil curry. Pineapples for dessert.
Afternoon tea: leftover birthday cake & earl grey tea
Dinner: buckwheat, sardines, boiled cabbage. Another slice of cake for dessert.
I eat only when I am truly physically hungry. Stomach-growling hungry. I don’t snack. If I’m truly hungry enough to eat, then I just eat my next real meal, not a snack. When I eat out, I eat just the main course. No appetizers or desserts or bread/chips they bring out first. Restaurant appetizers are terrible. So you’re eating a plate of food to ‘appetize’ for… another plate of food? I eat until satisfied. Not full, not stuffed. Satisfied meaning the hunger is quelled and I’m ready to move on with the day. I have no issue leaving food on my plate. I decide how much I need at the time and not just the size of the portion I’m given. These are lifelong habits and attitudes that we instilled by my family who are all naturally thinner. None of us ‘exercise’ per se but we also rarely just sit around watching tv. Food varies for me everyday but I think the underlying food attitude makes the difference. Is food your friend/comfort/escape, etc? Or is it just another basic function of the day like showering? Weird analogy but, if you were to walk past a restroom and didn’t have to pee at the time, would you go in there and pee? Likewise, if you see food but aren’t actually hungry, would you still eat the food?
Before I get too full my body literally stops itself from swallowing the food, it starts to taste gross. The only time I gained weight was when I added protein shakes but I lose weight fairly easily. Also I have to force myself to eat or remind myself, takes a bit for me to feel hungry idk
I think there are habits nurtured from childhood leading toward more healthy choices toward fruits and vegetables and aversion to junk food.
People who are naturally skinny also do have genetics that enable that, but are significantly benefited from the habits they have engaged in from a young age.
If your idea of dinner is a frozen pizza, or a mix of veggies with low fat meats like chicken, then you’re going to have a different result.
Back when i still WAS naturally skinny, a minimum 5000 calories of (mostly) whatever i’d dumpster dived that day/week. Usually McDonalds, Church’s chicken, Safeway deli stuff, and bread. Lots and lots of bread.
Mainly meat and a little bit of vegetables. I don’t drink soda and don’t like sweets or bread. On the rare occasion I eat pancakes, I don’t even put syrup on them. I’ve always been this way even as a child. I’ve “accidentally” been on a low carbon diet my whole life
My wife and I are very skinny despite having the obesity gene and every single family member being obese. First, vegan. Second, one dessert treat a day, just one. Third, walk as much as possible plus weights and exercise bike every day. I have heard others say that it is easy to stay skinny if vegan (although I admit you have to be certain to get vitamin B, D, iron etc somehow) Oh, havn’t eaten any food that I havn’t prepared myself in over ten years, which is also cheap–zero restaurants, zero takeout etc
Low carb. Anyone u see eating a bunch of junk food and saying they’re naturally skinny is either lying or not a risky eating it all, just taking small bites
What do chubbier people eat? Honest question.
I have three meals a day, roughly, I don’t really watch what I eat, mu cholesterol is right at the edge of being too high. The only thing I can think of is I really don’t eat sweets, like at all, nor drink sweet drinks like Coca Cola. I’m 183 cm and 72 kg.
My wife eats, from what I can see, the same as me or less. Yet she’s 80 kg.
Genetics?
I am more neurotic than her, so maybe that’s what’s eating away at me. Success?
Everything. Still gaining weight is one of the hardest tasks I have ever done. It simply won’t stick with me.
What do chubbier people eat? Honest question.
I have three meals a day, roughly, I don’t really watch what I eat, my cholesterol is right at the edge of being too high. The only thing I can think of is I really don’t eat sweets, like at all, nor drink sweet drinks like Coca Cola. I’m 183 cm and 72 kg.
My wife eats, from what I can see, the same as me or less. Yet she’s 80 kg.
Genetics?
I am more neurotic than her, so maybe that’s what’s eating away at me. Success?
I usually have nothing for breakfast except a large coffee, maybe toast at about 9am
Lunch is usually leftovers from the night before, could be soup or a stew or a curry or pasta at about 1/2pm
If there’s no leftovers because the meal was something like burgers or a baked potato then I will make a sandwich (ham and tomato, egg mayo, pastrami or something)
Dinner is usually the main meal of my day at 8pm and I usually cook enough to serve 4-6 people and eat a portion that’s likely enough for 2 people, saving leftovers.
I usually have a takeaway once a week but never more and if it’s something like a pizza I take that for leftovers the next day
I tend not to snack throughout the day but after dinner I may have some chocolate of some kind, or crisps or a few biscuits (cookies).
That’s my usual working day
If I’m not working then probably won’t eat anything until 2/3pm, eat dinner at 8pm and then bed by 11pm.
I smoke which probably does something to my appetite and I work an active job and have 2 dogs so I easily do 10k steps a day.
I don’t go to the gym, never have and I also don’t drive and walk to work, walk to get groceries etc.
So while I’m probably sitting down to larger than necessary portions, I’m likely burning it off.
But to conclude I’m probably just lucky to have an active metabolism, but that will probably end one day and my body will slow down.
I’m always hungry ngl but it doesn’t take much to satisfy me. Fries is a must at least twice a day. Plus one normal meal (maybe rice or pasta) and carbonated drinks.
I used to be naturally skinny. Eat almost everything. Now I’m naturally thick..k.
I eat the same shit everyone else eats, just less. And I have a job where I’m moving all day.
You just have to find your calorie limit. Use an app like LoseIt and weigh yourself for a couple months, and pretty soon you’ll develop a feel for what throws you off balance. For me, I know I can only “afford” to eat out once in a day, or my calories are thrown off. So like, if I want a delicious breakfast sandwich from down the street, I’m making lunch and dinner to make up for it.
Of course, not every day needs to be balanced either. Eat more on the weekends and scale back on weekdays if you love food.
Gasoline
Aged 14-25 everything. Didn’t make a difference.
25+ still everything but started putting on weight. This was pretty easy to lose so not an issue. Put on a bit of weight, I’d just start eating a bit less and lose it again.
35+ I now put on weight in the blink of an eye and have to try really hard to lose it.
I was in my early 20s when I started to notice I couldn’t eat junk all the time and still say thin.
Now that I’m almost 50, I’m still pretty thin but I do have to watch how much I consume bc my weight gain is mostly all in my stomach area. So when I’m on vacation I eat whatever just less of it. For daily eating again I try to eat relatively healthy with lots of lean protein, veggies, etc. But I also generally eat whatever I want. I just avoid the worse things like soda, fast food, etc.
I also have a job that requires me to move a lot and I have a regular exercise regimen too.
Anything I want, right now I’m bulking, so coz of that I have a see food strategy,i.e., eat whatever is in front of you XD
I don’t eat much. But some skinny ppl do so it’s just genetics.
My last three days look pretty typical for me, unfortunately. I usually eat around ~2500 calories/day. I’m 6′ and currently about 170-175 lbs, I think (I don’t own a scale). I know that’s not super skinny or anything, but I was much more so for most of my life (6′ and about 120 lbs in high school, for instance). About a year ago, after I’d gotten into the habit of getting high almost every night, I realized I was around 185-190 lbs. That was a bit more than I liked. So I spent the last year frequently shooting for eating less each day, which was frequently difficult and I felt hungry often. But also I have ADHD and will fixate on something for a long time and subsequently not eat for a while because of that anyway (though I have the unusual side effect of my ADHD meds seemingly making me more hungry instead of less lol). So I was able to drop around 20 lbs in the last year or so, though I think I’m back up a bit to over 170 lbs currently. I definitely still look quite skinny though.
Today:
Yesterday:
Wednesday:
Oatmeal, fruits I happen to have, eggs and I mostly drink water.
I eat whatever I feel like, and I didn’t realize how little that was until I tried counting my calories. Most of the foods I’m drawn to are low in calories, like fruits and vegetables. I also don’t usually stop for snacks during the day because I’m focused on other things. I hate the way sugary foods make my mouth feel and taste afterwards, so I only eat candy or drink sodas occasionally. Water is my beverage of choice, but sometimes I go for milk or juice.
Today I ate a bowl of cereal with 3.25% milk, a banana, 4 lemon cookies, some chocolate covered almonds, 3 or 4 small roasted potatoes with carrots and onions, about 3/4 cup high protein yogurt with chia seeds and blueberries, two corn muffins, a few cubes of watermelon and some celery and cucumber slices with dip. This was a low activity day, and I tried to eat more than usual to gain weight.
Real answer: it’s easier to outline avoidances: eat less than full – stop at “no longer hungry”. No snacks, no candy, no soda.
I’m 36 years old, 6’1″ and have been around 165 my whole life. I fluctuate between 150-180, but tend to be 165 on average. I’m incredibly cut with 6-10% body fat. I have clothes that fit fine from when I was 16.
I eat a tremendous amount. Growing up I had an overweight friend and we ate around the same. I have food addictions, to where when I start, I can’t stop. Especially with chocolate, but you would never guess because of my weight. It throws my fiance for a loop and she doesn’t understand because she’s the only one who truly sees how much I can eat.
After years of eating like garbage, I try to keep my general health in check. I try to eat my protein and fat in the beginning of the day to help satiate me so I don’t get food cravings. For dinner I just eat what she eats (she’s vegetarian) as long as it falls under being “real food” being some vegetable recipes we make for her after work, or just fruit.
It took me a while to realize that food was designed for me to eat a lot of it, but when I stick to real foods, I’m usually fine for the most part.
I think calories are almost irrelevant to weight loss, but rather quality food is what to look for (100 calories from soda are different than 100 calories from steak for example,) I never look at the nutritional facts of things, usually just the ingredients. I don’t think red meat is bad, nor any real food for that matter, at least in comparison to everything else out there.
People have often told me they’d be happy with stopping working out if they had my body, even though I don’t work out often. It has me convinced that if I weren’t so damn ugly, I’d be a lady killer, if I knew how to communicate with them. Best compliment I ever got from a woman was that I’d be hott if my head was cut off. Oof.
Too much. Metabolism flex 💪
Whatever I want and as much as I want. 😉
I overeat and can’t seem to gain. I eat biscuits boiled in water with shredded chicken lately. I eat like no less than 10 pounds of meat in a week. The sheer amount that I consume is absolutely disgusting. You’d think “there’s no way this little fellow is going to eat all of this.” And watch in disgust as I smash it all in under 10 minutes. I also workout a lot though so 🤷♂️
Inadvertently been intermittent fasting my whole life before I ever knew it was a thing. Pretty much never eat breakfast, but then throw down for lunch or dinner. Don’t watch calories or carbs or anything like that, but do try to stay away from frozen, processed, junk types of food for health benefits not related to weight.
Cereal, leftovers, snack/sandwich, dinner. I order in a lot and don’t pick especially healthy option (pizza, fried foods, whatever). I just try to only eat if I feel like I need to. I really think the key is not snacking and the key to not snacking is to not have a bunch of snacks in the house. Or make it a healthier snack like popcorn or a meal replacement shake.
I eat anything and everything yet I hardly gain weight, unless I actually eat a crap ton of food and hit the gym. On the other hand, if I don’t eat properly for a week, I start losing a lot of weight.
Bowl of rice/pasta and a bit of protein either chicken/red meat/fish and maybe a handfull of nuts for lunch. Most of the time it’s just dinner meal and your good to go and become skinny
There’s a show from the UK called Fat vs Skinny which shows what a lot of thin people eat.
everything, I worked for a year in a bakery unfortunately I didn’t eat the wall because I didn’t have time
Stress 😂
Whatever the hell I feel like? Which seems to anger everyone in the office for some reason.
Society may drive us to always think that we have to put on weight, when if we remove that thought from our life, we actually will just maintain our weight by responding to what our body wants
I eat whatever I want whenever I want.
Whatever? I can’t get fat
About 3500 calories. High metabolism is a bitch.
Yeasterday I ate 3 boiled eggs, Greek joghurt, berries and seeds, Fanta lemon, rye bread with cheese and ham, grilled chicken leg and 4 fruits. 2 cups of tea. Usually I eat more, but yesterday I was busy.
A lot. Everything and anything really. My metabolism just gets rid of it.
I hate it, tbh. As a man, I don’t want to be skinny.
Its taken me 15 years to bulk up, but I’m still not quite there.
Honestly? What ever I want whenever I want. I don’t eat breakfast, I have a small meal for lunch, a bunch of little snacks, and then a decent sized dinner. I can’t eat if I’m not hungry, so i don’t have set meal times, just whenever by body needs it. I only work out 3 or so days a week, and never for more than an hour. Highest weight I’ve had was 130 lbs.
I start the day off with oatmeal. Then, for my second breakfast, I eat smoked salmon sandwiches, usually on freshly toasted bread. Then, dinner – vegan, because my wife is vegan. Then, for an afternoon meal, any leftovers from that dinner. Then, finally, before going to sleep, either just tea, or again salmon sandwiches.
I have a higher metabolism, which kind of sucks cause I’m constantly hungry despite being skinny and 170 seems to be my forever weight as it hasn’t changed all that much in the last 5 years. Typically I try to keep it at the very least somewhat healthy by cooking at home, but damn is fast food junk a good option sometimes. I’ll have weeks where I’m addicted to Wendy’s double stack biggie bags despite my efforts.
Basically lots of carbs protein and fats. Although being skinny won’t last for me, usually with the men in my family they have ridiculously fast metabolism that eventually slows as early as 30
Enough food to keep up our weight. It is probably quite a bit more than overweight people eat. Fast . metabolism is the reason. Read em and weep.
I’m active and eat a lot. Petite female (28). I have life threatening allergies so my diet is boring. 4 lbs potatoes, 4-5 lbs veggies and then either fish or 2-3 eggs (sometimes both). That’s one day and yes that’s how much I eat. About 2,300-2,400 calories.
I rarely eat breakfast and I eat in a small portion (not that I starve myself, I dont want to waste food, so I eat less but more often.
Rice for lunch and dinner.
I’ll eat a small breakfast sandwich for breakfast.
I’ll eat a small amount of whatever leftovers we have for lunch
For dinner I pig out and eat the most food so I can go to bed unapologetically happy and full.
It’s not really an intentional thing though I don’t eat that way to stay skinny. Dinner is just when I’m not busy and really have the time to just sit there and eat.
The biggest thing for me is that I don’t snack ever. I just eat the three meals. For me to gain weight I had to not only eat large meals at breakfast lunch and dinner. I had snacking in between. But eating like that gets expensive and time consuming so I went back to my original diet and slimmed back down.
It’s just better for me
Usually wake up not hungry at all. Force myself to drink a protein shake, or Soylent/Ensure, and maybe some fruit in the afternoon. Then, for dinner we usually make one of those meal kits (mostly vegetarian or pescatarian)). Then, starting at around 10pm, the hunger hits me hard and I wind up eating mostly sugary garbage til I collapse from exhaustion. I don’t recommend my diet.
Whatever I want. Also, I’m not naturally skinny. Also, I’m not even skinny.
When I remember?a sammich
Reading these comments, and working alongside people who are naturally super skinny all the time, I’m convinced you are either always skinny or always overweight based on what your stress response is..
My entire family? Stress eaters, all of us, and all of us are overweight. Skinny friends who I see pack down an entire plate of fries, a burger, an appetizer, and 2+ beers at a restaurant? They were too stressed to eat all day, so that’s their first meal of the day.