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[Ion Cannon!]

People always say I eat to much, and I do, but I always think most other people don't eat enough. I reckon only one of my friends actually gets the 2k calories a day for example.

So I thought I would do a little experiment, lets see just how much I am overeating/or not - compared to you guys. Make a list of the general stuff you would have in a day.

I'll use yesterday as thats probably about average for me.

Breakfast : 2 Bowls of cereal, 1 Yoghurt
Ellevenses : 2 scones with butter and jam
Lunch: 4 Cheese and ham toasties, followed by 1 kitkat chunky, 1 nutri grain bar, another yoghurt and half a bunch of grapes.
Mid afternoon snack : Packet of Sainsburys chocolate cookies. Sometimes have an apple as well.
Dinner : 4 BBQ chicken fajitas with salsa, peppers ect. Followed by about half a tub of ice-cream.

I usually snack throughout the evening and from the rubbish on my desk I had

2 packets of mini cheddars, 3 penguin bars, finished off the bunch of grapes, a further nutri-grain bar, another yoghurt. I also had alot of mini daim bars, call it 1/3rd of a 300g bag.

- Sometimes I'll also have a late night larger snack, like a small pizza or pasta dish, but thats rare.
- I probably only get breakfast half the time as well.
- Eating a packet of biscuits a day happens about once every 2-3 days.

I have alot of drinks throughout the day as well, usually a mix of squash, fruit juice and innocent fruit smoothies.

Oh and just for your information, yes I am trying to gain weight. I'm currently 10st, 2lbs - I'm 5'10"

Edited by Ion Cannon!, 15 May 2011 - 10:48.

[Chyros]

Wow. That's pure gluttony . Yet you weigh almost nothing . That is, if I get the stupid Imperial measurements right (something like 65 kg?).

I'm pretty much the exact opposite. I'm more like this:

Breakfast: 1/3 of a bottle of fruit drink breakfast (i.e. 0,25 L), or nothing at all (if I forget the fruit drink)
Lunch: nothing or nothing
Dinner: usually chicken and rice, pasta with meat or just meat. Yesterday I had two 0.125 kg lean beef mince medallions sagniant smothered with 1 onion in soy sauce. I almost never eat desserts.
During the day I will usually have one snack, on average the size of one third of a packet of crisps or one third of a pack of cookies.

I usually am not very motivated to eat and as such it's generally the last thing I do before I got to bed; as such, I eat around or after midnight. Because I never buy prefab food and always cook myself, I regularly can't be bothered and so skip dinner altogether. I also sometimes forget to eat. This boils down to about one missed dinner per week on average. Sometimes I forget or can't be bothered two days in a row - even in those cases I'm never hungry. I also keep up this diet when doing intensive physical stuff like survivalling or outdooring.

I'm 1,85 m and weigh 75 kg, so I'm neither skinny nor fat but a very average weight (BMI ~~22).

[Alias]

I never eat breakfast, except for a coffee.
Lunch is usually some form of incredibly unhealthy food, if I'm at uni it's usually around 200-300 grams of crisps. At home it's usually just boring old sandwiches.
Dinner is usually my only mainly healthy meal and varies a lot. Always includes meat of some sort and a large serving of starch (usually rice, pasta or cous cous).

I have about 3 or 4 smaller 'meals' during the day which is usually just straight pasta or something of the sort.

[Ion Cannon!]

I'm 178cm, 64.4kg, BMI is 20.37.

[Destiny]

Breakfast - N/A
9.30-10AM - Chicken steak w/ 2 eggs (Meat, mashed potato, fries, baked beans)
12.00pm-1pm - N/A, occasionally fries/cheese sausage
3.30pm-4pm - Chicken rice
6pm-12am - Depends if mum cooked, but definitely will eat once or twice or thrice at this time.

Occasionally I buy snacks and water. I want to eat all those nice foods from other countries :(

[Wizard]

Breakfast: If I do, usually 1 bowl of museli (75-100g quantity)
Lunch: 1 sandwich, selection of fruit (when not at business lunch, obviously)
Dinner: Approximately 100g of meat with 100-200g of rice or pasta or veg (200g being the veg).

I don't snack at all during the day, but will partake of something in the evenings, if I am watching a film or the TV. And I only drink _diet_ non alcoholic substances, no full fat anything.

^ And ironcially I have a 26 bmi !?!!?

[Chyros]

Ion Cannon!, on 15 May 2011, 13:33, said:

I'm 178cm, 64.4kg, BMI is 20.37.

Oh, that's not so bad. I used to have under that BMI about a year ago.

@ Alias: how tall are you and how much do you weigh?

[Alias]

Chyros, on 15 May 2011, 21:37, said:

Ion Cannon!, on 15 May 2011, 13:33, said:

I'm 178cm, 64.4kg, BMI is 20.37.

Oh, that's not so bad. I used to have under that BMI about a year ago.

@ Alias: how tall are you and how much do you weigh?

~175cm, ~65kg

Getting a bit of a beer belly these recent couple of years though.

[Ion Cannon!]

Chyros, on 15 May 2011, 12:37, said:

Ion Cannon!, on 15 May 2011, 13:33, said:

I'm 178cm, 64.4kg, BMI is 20.37.

Oh, that's not so bad. I used to have under that BMI about a year ago.

About a year ago I was about 18.3 - Very slightly underweight. I've always eaten alot though, but I am also quite active and my metabolism is a tad ridiculous. Which is a blessing and a curse.

[Destiny]

Hah, I'm with you on the metabolism one. I'm a lazy as fuck person and don't exercise AT ALL, and I'm still not fat or heavy weight. I don't know my height and weight though, no height measuring things and weighing scales in my house. Not sure of my BMI, maybe in the 20s. Somewhere around Alias's height and weight, I guess.

[Ion Cannon!]

Destiny, on 15 May 2011, 12:47, said:

Hah, I'm with you on the metabolism one. I'm a lazy as fuck person and don't exercise AT ALL, and I'm still not fat or heavy weight. I don't know my height and weight though, no height measuring things and weighing scales in my house. Not sure of my BMI, maybe in the 20s. Somewhere around Alias's height and weight, I guess.

In some ways I'm lazy - like getting up, though thats a bit more complicated. In others I'm the opposite, I'm a keen walker, I cycle everywhere and do rock climbing and running, I also tend to do some situps / pressups before I go to bed every other night.

[CJ]

Cry me a river, I eat far more than you Ion, and yet I weigh ~60kg for 1m84
No matter how much I eat, it seems like it's all going in the height :|

[Destiny]

Don't be sad, tall people are cool (cept when they build houses for a country's shorter average height). I feel all the (little) food I eat is wasted instead of going the height and weight.

[Ion Cannon!]

CJ, on 15 May 2011, 13:11, said:

Cry me a river, I eat far more than you Ion, and yet I weigh ~60kg for 1m84
No matter how much I eat, it seems like it's all going in the height :|

You'll stop growing upwards about 20-21. Then you should broaden out. Details of what you eat? I'm intrigued.

[CJ]

Ion Cannon!, on 15 May 2011, 13:16, said:

CJ, on 15 May 2011, 13:11, said:

Cry me a river, I eat far more than you Ion, and yet I weigh ~60kg for 1m84
No matter how much I eat, it seems like it's all going in the height :|

You'll stop growing upwards about 20-21. Then you should broaden out. Details of what you eat? I'm intrigued.

I don't have a particular schedule, really
Always eat a bowl of cereals in the morning, with some biscuits.
My meals tend to be Italian food, meat with French fries, or some fine Tunisian food which is so well known for being full of fats and oil
And when I say meat, I'm talking about eating at least 200g of meat if I'm eating anything with it, but when it comes to fried chicken, I easily devour an entire 1kg chicken by myself D:

EDIT: Did I mention that I do not practice any physical activity whatsoever, too?

Edited by CJ, 15 May 2011 - 12:34.

[Destiny]

Damn it CJ, I gotta live near your house.

[CJ]

Destiny, on 15 May 2011, 13:36, said:

Damn it CJ, I gotta live near your house.

No way I'm letting that happen, any male who isn't attracted by females isn't allowed in the vicinity

[Destiny]

I still think the lack of eating proper food is restricting my growth, besides being a lazy ass. I'm eating smoked BBQ flavored Doritos now even

CJ, on 15 May 2011, 20:38, said:

Destiny, on 15 May 2011, 13:36, said:

Damn it CJ, I gotta live near your house.

No way I'm letting that happen, any male who isn't attracted by females isn't allowed in the vicinity

You can't imagine how many images of non-3D girls in precarious situation I have sitting in my HDD, but that's for another topic.

[Camille]

Ion Cannon!, on 15 May 2011, 11:33, said:

I'm 178cm, 64.4kg, BMI is 20.37.

as far as i know, that is an almost perfect balance between height and weight...

i pretty much have the same "issues" - eating tons and tons of food but gaining little to no weight (losing, in fact).

[Ion Cannon!]

Camille, on 15 May 2011, 13:52, said:

Ion Cannon!, on 15 May 2011, 11:33, said:

I'm 178cm, 64.4kg, BMI is 20.37.

as far as i know, that is an almost perfect balance between height and weight...

i pretty much have the same "issues" - eating tons and tons of food but gaining little to no weight (losing, in fact).

I still appear to be a little bit slim though, I don't have much fat at all on my body. I have put on quite a bit of muscle in the past 2 years though, thats probably why my weight has gone up.

Anything between 18.5-25 is healthy weight, but to me, I still appear a bit to skinny.

If I eat below 3000 calories a day I lose weight. I tend to keep a mental check of what I'm eating as I go through the day. I average about 3500-4000.

@CJ, an entire 1KG chicken? jesus... My friend is similar in that he has massive meals, however he doesn't eat that much outside of those. I eat little but often, though I do eat alot of meat - generally double whatever they say I should eat.

Edited by Ion Cannon!, 15 May 2011 - 12:58.

[Alias]

My BMI used to be down about 16.8 or so. I never reached over 50kg until about 3 years ago. I've put on about 10kg in the last two years.

Metabolism is slowing. :(

In terms of large meals, I have done three whole large pizzas before, along with a 1kg steak (note, unlike the chicken you actually eat all of the steak ).

Edited by Alias, 15 May 2011 - 12:59.

[Ion Cannon!]

I only started caring about it once I went to university, before that I had a "I don't fucking care what anyone thinks of me attitude" - As such I was extremely skinny. I imagine my BMI was about 15 back then.

Edited by Ion Cannon!, 15 May 2011 - 13:02.

[CJ]

Alias, on 15 May 2011, 13:58, said:

My BMI used to be down about 16.8 or so. I never reached over 50kg until about 3 years ago. I've put on about 10kg in the last two years.

Metabolism is slowing. :(

In terms of large meals, I have done three whole large pizzas before, along with a 1kg steak (note, unlike the chicken you actually eat all of the steak ).

Fatso

My point was just that I eat much more than other people and yet it seems like all of it is going into nothingness D;

[Alias]

Same was the case with me until a couple of years ago.

I still weigh a lot less than I should considering how unhealthy my diet is.

[Brad]

My GOD.
That's.. That's quite something.

I generally eat a fluctuating amount of food. If I'm in college, or up before 9 (which only happens when I'm in college. Jobless isn't as great as it sounds.) I have a lunch around 12, which is usually nothing more than a sandwich, packet of crisps and a biscuit or two. If not in college, I skip lunch and breakfast completely.

For tea, it really depends - I've eaten more than my fair share of take-outs (can't get enough of those curries/kebabs). And Sundays I have a large roast dinner.

I weigh around 10St, can't remember my height though.