TikToker Shares What Skinny People Eat In A Day: "It's Actually More Interesting"

Losing weight can be difficult, and social media frequently gives conflicting advice on dieting. Fit influencers on TikTok aren’t always helpful either, especially when they’re focused on uploading curated content that overrides honesty. Most of them care way too much about aesthetics, only showing off the pretty foods they eat instead of the messy dinner meals that don't always turn out picture-perfect. 

That’s why one TikToker, @the.gal.rafael (Gal Rafael), shared with her audience what skinny Reddit users typically eat. "Want to know what skinny people really eat in a day? I'm gonna read what Reddit users say they eat in a day as slim people. And I think it's actually more interesting than those curated YouTube videos, because there's no reason to make it aesthetic," she explains. "And from everything I've seen in all my years on this earth, this is more representative of the truth, you know?"

"I get it, like, no hate to the YouTubers, but you have to make the almond toast and all that look cute. Nobody wants to see your soggy granola,” she quips. “But seeing it, it's like, you'll see it's often a lot of basic, regular food. It's repetitive. It's nothing fancy but keeps them in that deficit, keeps their body lean, they're happy."

So, let’s look at some of the comments Rafael shared with us.

Reddit User #1

The first comment Rafael reads is from someone observing their slim roommate and her meals. "I live with my naturally skinny roommate and noticed a few things," she reads. "Yes, she ate freely as I did, but she didn't eat much. She didn't eat breakfast all that often. Depends on if she was hungry in the morning, but she'll indulge at Dunkin' Donuts every now and then. Two, she ate slowly and usually never a full plate."

She continues, "She'll always take a doggy bag home. We would go out and get something, and she'd get something delivered, and she ate one-quarter of the plate before she was full. By the time she ate her one-quarter, I finished my full plate and feel overly stuffed. But then, the next day, she would compensate by eating a bit more. She would have two chocolate chip cookies at night, just two, never more."

"I can't just have two cookies, but she never wanted more than that. Again, it was the portion control. And the worst thing about it as a fatty was that it was instinctive. She didn't try to eat like this. That's just how she ate. It was effortless," she says.

Reddit User #2:

Okay, this second commenter didn’t exactly share what they ate in a day, but they did offer a good explanation as to why slim people don’t overeat. "This might be unpopular, but I think the main difference is the acceptance of the feeling of hunger,” the post reads. “It's perfectly fine, even healthy, to sometimes feel hungry. Once you accept a little bit of hunger, you'll notice a change. Thin people frequently miss meals, avoid snacking, and then when they finally eat, that food is made all the better by that hunger."

"I think what happens with naturally skinny people is that they don't feel deprived because they've never restricted food or thought about dieting. When you live like that your whole life and no food is off the table, food kind of loses its pull," Rafael reads out loud. "You're never telling yourself that you can't control yourself around certain foods, that you need to eat healthy. You just eat what sounds good and feels good. So what ends up happening is that there's hardly any drive to overeat. If you know that you can have a pizza or cookie dough and it's no big deal, why would you overeat? Naturally thin people who never dieted don't believe those things are off limits, there's no drive to tell them to eat that all at once."

Skinny Man with High Metabolism Shares What He Eats

Rafael has an effortlessly thin and tall male friend who shared what he ate daily. She asked him to tell her what he consumed in 24 hours, and he followed through with some pictures.

I promise his food choices aren't what you'd expect. Rafael's friend starts the day off with 6 hot dogs, ketchup, and no bun. "He'll eat around 1 o'clock, he gets up at 9, so he does, kind of, [fast] unintentionally." These hot dogs keep him full until his second feast at 8 p.m.; that's seven hours between the two meals. Rafael reveals her friend's dinner was a plate of poutine. "He has this full plate of poutine, and I'm like, 'Did you finish the whole thing?' He says yes, he did." Her friend then finishes off his meal with a dessert: a piece of cake.

All three people have one thing in common: They're not "dieting" or overconsuming. They eat only when they're hungry, and you could say they're practicing intuitive eating. Rafael's findings aren't surprising, and research shows that intuitive eating positively affects mental health and can even help people maintain a healthy weight.

One of the benefits this practice brings is awareness – rather than having an unhealthy relationship with food, you allow yourself to regain control of your mind and body, eating only when you're hungry and when stopping when you're full. It's a healthy weight-loss approach and a potential antidote to the toxic dieting culture.

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