How much do you eat?

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I eat very little. I don't always remember to eat, don't always correctly identify the stomach sensation as "hunger," and am specific about foods. Who knows what would happen if my special interest wasn't food-related.
Due to not enough exercise, this seems to keep me at a middling weight. Not hugely fat or very thin, just a bit average.
But man, some people can just eat and eat and eat. Just one bowl after another after another. I observe some others and they can be eating, solid non-stop, for over half an hour. I could never do that. Very little food seems to be enough.
How much do you eat? Does it relate to how much activity you do? Does autism come into it?

I didn't eat much as a kid & teen because I was/am extremely picky eater & cant cook. I couldn't get the food I wanted available more than 1ce a day usually so I'd pig out on one meal & not eat anything except maybe a few snacks the rest of the day/night. I was pretty skinny because of that. Nowadays I eat 3 meals a day partly because I'm on meds & supplements & because I have food I want to eat. I usually pig out when my girlfriend cooks & I binge eat on snacks too. My doc wants me to lose weight because I'm overweight & my blood sugar & cholesterol are kinda high. I have a hard time reducing my binging but I'm starting to exercise more.

I eat least as possible, while maintaining eating as many kinds of the healthy food possible and meat.

i eat the relative amount of calories required for current healthy weight maintenance/continued ED recovery. i eat the same healthy foodthings i always have just in greater quantities, but some "unnecessary pleasure" foods i enjoy in moderation now are bagels, beer, and cheese.

I can't disclose how much I eat but I have a friend who eats six big meals a day and snacks. He's almost 300 pounds. Whenever we hangout (which isn't much anymore) he orders a whole bunch of food and eats all of it. Nice guy but our consumption habits are completely opposite.

too much!

Enough to keep myself from starving.

Less than I used to. I'm on a diet. Before, I only would eat two meals a day, but my snacking and portion sizes were out-of-control. I try to eat a small breakfast now too and only one small snack a day. When it comes to what I eat, I only eat a few things (mostly macaroni and cheese and Ramen noodles), but I eat less of those things now.

As little as possible, that amount being how little I can get away with without causing people to worry/interfere.
I love to cook and make all sorts of things for my family, I just never eat any of it.

Today I made them tuna and beetroot burgers with salad, and a chocolate and coconut cake for dessert.
It all looks (and apparently tastes) good, but at this point I'm not tempted at all.
Instead I stuck to my own limited food groups: 554 calories for today, which is decent, and 55% of that was protein.

I think about food and the avoidance of food more than anything else.
I have an eating disorder but I think autism super-charges it. I never eat in public or outside the house, having to eat something off-schedule sends me into meltdown, and I see all items of food as strings of numbers, calories and macronutrients.

It makes me sad, drives me to despair at times, but the illusion of control it provides is soothing enough to stop me fighting it. Fighting would be hell, and I don't think I could win at this point.

I'm the opposite, I keep eating and eating.

Currently I'm eating next to nothing due to IBD.
Typically I overeat. I don't ever feel full and I have an oral sensory need to chew and gnaw. I think I may have one for flavor too.

I'm perpetually hungry and always eat more than I should to stave off the sensations

On days that I work (M-F), I typically eat two meals, a small one in the morning and a larger one in the late afternoon to early evening. Weekends are much more unpredictable, and sometimes I don't eat until 2PM or later then. I started taking Adderall a few weeks ago and it has really reduced my appetite.