Eating disorder help - What do you guys eat?

>>17679764
Every time I try to figure out what people normally eat or try to think of a lunch, I think it's probably something like a 200-300 calorie sandwich or something, but then I see people eating pizza and like what would have been a full dinner for me (500 calories) at lunch time. Normally if I go and buy lunch in my college canteen I'll get a sandwich and some fruit with coffee but what am I supposed to eat after that if I only had a big bowl of oatmeal for breakfast?

If I try to imagine eating 500 calories for breakfast, lunch and dinner, that's me still at 1500 - which is still weight loss for a young adult male like me. There's a big movement now away from all the bullshit dieting stuff towards "eating when you're hungry" and "eating mindfully" and stuff like that, but I don't even know when I'm hungry - I don't feel it, I just get light headed and have to remind myself to eat.

What do you guys typically eat on a daily basis? Most people don't think about food 24/7, like I do, they just eat when they're hungry, but what the fuck do you actually eat that keeps you at a weight you feel comfortable with?

>>17679764
aren't you that guy who posted this back on /fit/ months ago?

>>17679766
I sometimes try to remember what I ate when I was a kid, but the problem was that my mother often overfed me with portions that were too big, and I ate calorific fatty food for breakfast and dinner because my dad did. Now all they eat are main meal salads and shit like that but if I'm cooking/preparing meals for myself, I have no idea how to even make those or how many servings they are - and because they're low calorie, I'd probably still lose weight if I ate them.

>>17679787
No, did someone post stuff like this? Maybe I did, I don't remember, that's kind of sad if I did because it shows how little I've come in the last year of struggling with this

Here is a nice calculator just to get an idea of how many calories you need to gain or maintain weight. Also try not to eat a ton at a time, balance it out between 3-5 meals a day with snacks in between.

https://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/calories-to-gain-weight

>>17679799
Ok, so apparently I need to eat around 2062 calories to stay the weight I am (147lb at 5"10) and 2500-3000 to gain weight. That's pretty cool considering they always say you should shoot for 2000 calories or so each day re: diet, so surely most 2000 calorie plans will fit me. I know today I ate around 1800-1900.

>>17679820
Np bro. Also you really aren't that underweight to be honest. About 150 is good for someone 5'10". I am trying to gain weight myself (which for 1 lb a week is 2800 calories a day for me) but I struggle to get just up to 2000.

>>17679836
Good luck man, I feel like I'm quite comfortable at this weight and I'd like to maintain it (at least my clothes will still fit) but I can't imagine how hard it would be to intentionally eat that much and gain - even when you need to. I'd be worried I wouldn't be able to eat "normally" after the weight gain phase was over.

When you're used to restricting yourself, it's really hard to actually get up to 2000 without feeling like you're overeating. If I eat with other people or in a restaurant or something, a voice in the back of my head tells me "you're eating way too much, this is big enough to feed two" which makes eating a really unpleasant experience and then if it's really big (for me), I get really sleepy and almost need to take a nap.

>>17679764
I was like that. Caring about calories, not eating too much, etc.
It was just a phase(mom), now I just want to have muscles and be strongk, of course, I don't eat junk, and try to eat healthy.
Just aim for the balance, for everything in life, really.

>>17679926
As for what was I eating at that moment, just yogurt and cereal, lots of vegetables and fruits, 0 meat.