Poll: Thinking Thin

1) age: 25
2) approximate weight: 145
3) location: Central Illinois
4) Activity level: Moderate
5) How often do you exercise? About 4 days/week
6) Do you eat breakfast? Yes
6) what is your largest meal of the day? Dinner
7) how many times a day do you eat? 5
8) how much water do you drink? 6-8 cups
9) how do you deal with food temptations? Depends on the day. Sometimes I've just given in, other times I made something healthy that I crave too.
10) what is your typical restaurant meal? Depends where I go, but I rarely watch what I eat when I go out. When I'm dieting hard, I just avoid going out much.

1) 26
2) 133
3) Germany
4) Lightly active
5) 3 times/week
6) Breakfast
7) 3
8) 100+ oz
9) I eat it if I want it
10) Cheeseburgerrrr

1) I'm 35
2) I weight 162.7
3) I live in Ontario, Canada
4) I was sedentary, but since I've been out of work, and got over my sickness. I've been trying to stay moving during most of the day.
5) I exercise 5-7 days per week
6) I eat breakfast most days
6) My largest meal is often supper
7) I eat 3 times per day, but have some snacks at night
8) I drink 8-16 cups of water depending on the day
9) I don't deal with food temptations very well. I've been pretty good during the week lately, but on the weekend I'm really bad. :-(
10) Depends on the restaurant. I love pasta, so I'll usually treat myself with that if I can.

1. 50's
2. 98 lbs
3. IL
4. steady exerciser
5. at least 4 days/week
6. yes
7. 3 meals, occasionally 1-2 snacks
8. 5-6 cups/day
9. If it doesn't fit in my calorie allowance I either don't have it or modify the portion to fit.
10. Depends on calorie allotment. If I know I will be eating out I exercise and/or plan meals accordingly. Usually I will immediately cut a restaurant portion in half and eat only that, bringing the rest home.

1) 40's
2) 190
3) California
4) advanced exerciser,
5) 4-5 times/week
6) yes
6) dinner (evening meal)
7) 5
8)8-10 cups
9) Usually tempted by chocolate or ice cream. I will have it if I want it but control my portion size.
10)For lunch it would be sushi + salad + chicken teriyaki (no rice) . Dinner would be a cheeseburger + fries but I rarely eat dinner out.

1) Age: 30's
2) Weight: 127
3) Location: Alabama
4) Activity Level: sedentary, desk job
5) Exercise: 60-75 mins M-F
6) Breakfast: M-F always have breakfast.
7) Largest Meal: M-F dinner.
8) Meal Frequency: M-F 3 'meals' with 2-3 'snacks' in between
9) Water: M-F 8+ cups water without issue, weekends its often just some tea
10) Temptations: If I'm tempted early in the day (and its not something I can reasonably do in moderation), I try to go for it and do the best I can with whatever calories I have left. Otherwise I'm working hard on having small portions of my favorites or subbing in items that are easier to fit into my daily limits.
11) I don't eat out often, but I try to find something that isn't too scary calories-wise: fish, grilled chicken, lots of veggies. If its a special occasion... I'll just eat what dish I want and move on with life the next day.

1) age: 30s
2) approximate weight: 100 lbs. (I am very short and small-framed, FYI)
3) physical location: near Seattle, WA
4) activity level: moderate
5) How often do you exercise? 6-7 days per week, for 30 minutes- 180 minutes
6) Do you eat breakfast? Yes
6) what is your largest meal of the day? Lunch
7) how many times a day do you eat? a lot. I graze. (I usually log all of my morning grazing as just one meal, and all my afternoon grazing as one meal, etc. My food log makes it look like just 3 meals, but it's spread out all day in actual truth)
8) how much water do you drink? Not enough. I don't measure, but I doubt I'm hitting 64oz. I'm just not that thirsty most days, unless it's hot out. But I drink lots of tea (0 calorie, so I usually don't bother to log it), so I think I'm probably getting a lot of my water from there.
9) how do you deal with food temptations? I don't have food temptations per se. When I'm hungry, I eat, and when I'm full, I'm full, and that's it. I am also not an opportunistic eater. Just because my favorite snack is out on the counter doesn't mean I am interested in having any if I am already full. If a food "tempts" me, I eat it (though I don't go and eat the entire cheesecake, my fave snack, I have small, reasonable portions of whatever it is I crave, and it doesn't "break the bank" so to speak). I do not fetishize snack foods or put them on some holy forbidden pedestal. No food is inherently good or bad, everything in moderation.
10) what is your typical restaurant meal? I dine out only a few times per year, and being Asian, I tend to stick to Asian food (the authentic kind, not the horrible fried crap that people eat at Panda Express or PF Chang's), and that stuff is generally heavy on the vegetables and pretty healthy. I tend to order soups with lots of seafood in it, or things like spring rolls, seaweed salad, kimchee, etc.

1) age: 20's
2) 215
3) Alberta, Canada
4) Sedentary/Moderate
5) 3-4x/week
6) Occassionally
6) Lunch and dinner
7) 4-6
8) Not enough (approx. 24 oz)
9) I don't.
10) Salad. Something with chicken.

1) age: 19
2) approximate weight: 130 lbs
3) physical location: Austria (Europe)
4) activity level: advanced exerciser
5) How often do you exercise? light exercise every day; "real" exercise 4-5 times a week
6) Do you eat breakfast? no
6) what is your largest meal of the day? lunch and dinner are equally large
7) how many times a day do you eat? 2
8) how much water do you drink? 3 - 4 litres
9) how do you deal with food temptations? resist or eat in moderation
10) what is your typical restaurant meal? i'm vegan, so it's usually a plain salad or, if in a pizzeria, pizza without cheese but lots of veggies

1) age: 23
2) 129 lbs
3) physical location. Philadelphia
4) activity level: aside from my workouts, I work a desk job so it's basically sedentary.
5) How often do you exercise? 60 mins, 5 days per week
6) Do you eat breakfast? yes, usually oatmeal
6) what is your largest meal of the day? usually dinner.
7) how many times a day do you eat? I eat breakfast, a snack for lunch (usually greek yogurt and a piece of fruit), and dinner, plus snacks in the evening.
8) how much water do you drink? water is 99% of my fluid intake (give or take a beer a few nights a week), so probably a lot.
9) how do you deal with food temptations? I usually eat a small amount of whatever it is that I want, or save up some calories throughout the week to eat a lot of calorie-dense foods on the weekend.
10) what is your typical restaurant meal? I don't have one. sometimes salad, sometimes chicken, sometimes steak, sometimes a cheesesteak or other sandwich. When I go out, I usually plan my day around it so I can eat what I want.