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How much do you normally eat a day?

several of my friends are going on 1000 calories a day diets,surely it can't be healthy? i thought 2000cals a day is what you should roughly be eating.

i think i usually eat about 3000 a day but i do exercise quite a lot, but anyway i was wondering if people's metabolism really vary that much that some people can survive on so much less, or some people on diets jsut staring themselves?

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Reply 1

bader

If your female then 2000 should be fine; males 2500

And me... drum role please... 7000ish :biggrin:

Reply 2

anjurdsg

no man

40,000 is the minimum limit

ok fatty

I used to eat quite a scrict diet of 1200 (the very minimum you should) but sice going to uni I have got soooo much more active. At first I tried to maintain my diet, and so stupidly skinny, and all my family got worried etc, then my bf came to stay and forced me to realised that I had to eat more to be healthy, so plyed me full of carbs :smile:

, now I have no idea how many calories, but I will quite happily eat a 150g bar of galaxy as a mid morning snack :smile:

(and not gain weight)

Reply 6

Cortez

I'm not sad enough to calorie count.

Reply 7

ice_cube

It doesnt really matter how many calories you are eating, its what the actual food is. You could eat 1000 calories a day of Rocky bars which have something like 100 calories each. You would probably survive, if be a little peckish. However, if you ate 1000 calories worth of fruit and veg (just to be simple, obviously not a balanced diet yadda yadda) you would be far less hungry and much better nutritionally. The important thing is to eat healthily than to worry about the number of calories.

Reply 8

Michelle12

Cortez

I'm not sad enough to calorie count.

Either am I. :p:

I think it's pretty unhealthy and obssesive to be constantly watching your calories, it just leads to obsessive behaviour. I have no idea how much I consume on a daily basis but I'm within the healthy weight range so I can't be doing badly. :p:

Reply 9

tiger_vio

Ditto above!
In terms of food not calories... I dont have breakfast (bad, I know) then in school ill have a chocolate bar, crisps, and a burger or something (nice and healthy) and for tea i normally have lasagne or something, and snack on cheese/grapes etc in the night.

Reply 10

michaelnicholson88

I don't really count calories, but I have three big meals everyday and try to avoid snacking. Breakfast is normally Porridge or Cereal and a yoghurt, lunch a sandwich or beans on toast, and dinner is normally Pasta or meat, veg and tatties. Probably around 1500-1800 calories a day, but that's because I am trying to lose weight.

Reply 11

supernova2

I don't know but yesterday I had a chinese, a subway and a chicken and vegetable pasty from the cornish pasty company. But no breakfast! :smile:

Reply 12

xChellex

I eat too much a day. Cereal, eggs on toast, chocolate, cheese and ham sandwiches, chicken pie and yorkshire pudding dinners... :frown:

I *need* to eat less, and eat healthily.
But the thing is, ASDA price chocolate, pies, ready meals, eggs and bread are just so cheap. I'm on a very tight budget, so if I was to buy healthy ingredients for a healthy meal, I would spend the same amount of cash as I do for the *whole* weeks shop. :frown:

Reply 13