When I published my first “What I Eat In A Day” post a few months ago, I had no idea what to expect.
So I was happily surprised when the post received such an outpouring of positive reader feedback, with many people writing in to say they loved seeing the example of how a vegan day in the life might look.
As I mention in the first post, there’s no typical day for me, but the amount of food stays pretty constant. I’ve also never been one of those people who can go even a day without dessert!
If you missed it, here’s the first post: Everything I Eat in a Day – Part 1
What I Eat In A Day
I wake up hungry and usually snack on a handful of nuts as I check emails, maybe post to @Chocolatecoveredkatie on Instagram, and make breakfast.
Today I also ate a few strawberries that needed to be used up. If I’m going running in the morning, I’ll make a cup of coffee and have a more substantial first breakfast.
That’s about 1-3 times per week, depending on whether or not I feel like running.
I’ll never again force myself to exercise if I don’t feel like it, after being an obsessive exerciser for years.
Anyways, no running or coffee today.
Breakfast
Lately, I’ve been craving savory food for breakfast.
Today was two Homemade English Muffins–one of my favorite recipes in my new cookbook–toasted in the oven with organic vegan buttery spread, kale sautéed with olive oil and garlic, and caramelized cherry tomatoes.
It looks fancy, but honestly the tomatoes took under a minute to prepare, and all I did for the kale was throw it into the cast-iron skillet the day before and let it cook as I put my groceries away.
Lunch
Lunch was even easier to prepare.
Heat up some leftover Buffalo Chickpea Chili from the freezer, dice an avocado and throw it on top, and finish the meal by breaking off a piece of extra-dark (95%) chocolate.
My blog title really is a good name for me.
Snack 1
I always get hungry in the afternoon, and—surprise—it’s usually for chocolate.
Today was homemade cashewmilk and a Chocolate Brownie Paleo Bar.
Dinner
Dinner was this Broccoli Cheesy Rice, also from the cookbook.
I added extra broccoli and served it with sautéed mushrooms on the side.
I could eat this meal every single day – it is the epitome of creamy comfort food.
Snack 2
Nighttime snack: Chocolate Peanut Butter Nice Cream
More creamy comfort food. And also more chocolate. Katies are simple creatures, and we know what we like.
That’s usually it for the day in terms of eating, but on this particular night I went out later and had a glass of red wine as well.
Daily Total: 3,003 calories
(As a vegan, I also take Vitamin B12 and Omega 3s each day.)
By Popular Request: Link to the Full Nutrition Facts
Katie,
As part of the human race I just need to apologies for all the crappy people that posted to this thread. You are not a liar, you are not “skinny” you are healthy. Your blog/recipes are stellar and you are a beautiful person!
Have a great weekend!
Jaymee
Jaymee,
I totally agree with you. You shouldn’t have to apologies, but some of the comments on here are horrendous. People giving medical advice without any reason or qualification. It’s unreal. It’s simple, everyone is different. Clearly what she is eats is healthy with very little processed foods. That makes a huge difference. You can tell by looking at her that she is healthy. Also, she isn’t giving health advice, just recipes that people can use or not.
I feel for her, but also love her page and her recipes, which is all I’m here for.
I justed discovered your blog. Like you I crave dessert every day. I am 10 months post-baeiatric surgery and have lost 80 lbs. I am enjoying learning new ways to eat and live. Thanks.
Katie, I made your black bean brownies….they are so good, almost taste like fudge. I put them in a mini muffin pan, and left them in for 20 min. I plan on sharing this recipe. I am always looking for something healthy and tasty to boot. The brownies will become a favorite.
Mini muffin pan is a great idea for portion control! Thanks!
Lucky you with that great metabolism! I LOVE chocolate and eating healthy as I am a registered dietitian. I really appreciate your recipes and have your first cookbook! Thank you!
Katie, thank you for sharing this! I am also a runner and do a similar thing – eat peanut butter and banana, something substantial- pre run. I also want you to know I relate so much- I also eat plenty, and good stuff too like nuts, veggies, grains, and I get feedback that I’m unhealthy or “not eating enough.” Simply because I am skinny. Meanwhile, I feel great. You are beautiful the way you are and I just support this blog so much. Stay strong!! Sending love.
Ladies it’s called lying. Unless she’s a marathon runner which maybe she is, she would not eat this much and be that weight. She’s lying. Same as the celebs with magically thinning noses who say it’s makeup and Kylie Jenner and her boobs growing three sizes from her period, my favorite. I’m sure she (katie) has to field tons of comments that she should eat more so why not lie. She looks in her 20s normal height. Underweight but nothing dangerous. By the way I don’t think being underweight is dangerous much as it annoys women. She eats nutritious foods according to her so that’s the way to go if you eat Spartan. My estimate is unless she’s highly intense cardio athletic she eats no more than 1200-1400 calories a day absolute max. It’s called reality. Any of you women who think anyone can just eat and not get fat never took biology. Metabolic disorders are rare. Every heavy person I know over eats every thin person eats much less very thin even less. If you see a model eating a candy bar that may be lunch. She may throw it up. People have systems. You can eat cake if you skip a meal. It’s total daily calories whether healthy or unhealthy. The only other determinants are age, amount of exercise, and muscle in your body. She doesn’t look muscular to me at all so I’m guessing she eats healthy and Spartan. She’s a gorgeous woman and I don’t care that she lies. I’m not an idiot.
Watch it. Katie is fine. You have promblems.
I was thinking the same – she probably eats about 1,500 calories a day. I have a thin friend who says she can eat anything she wants … but when I loved with her briefly I realized she never eats. LOL She even once said, “I forgot to eat today.”
*lived
Have to chime in because I don’t get what the fuss is about. I eat about the same amount daily (as does every woman on my mom’s side of the family, big appetites), and I’d say I’m around the same size as her with little to moderate exercise. Whether she has a healthy relationship with food, or doesn’t, or is somewhere in between is impossible to know by the information in this article and if you call out a behavior she doesn’t mention, you are giving away a lot about yourself and what you want/need to believe about weight and food. Please please pay attention to your own thought processes and help yourself instead of judging someone else. In the event she IS struggling with something, nothing but compassion is useful.
Well put.
But you and Katie are both blessed with beautiful metabolisms. I wish.
Take care, stay safe and be well.
I love your Katie, but no way are you eating 3,000 calories a day. Perhaps the food you displayed is what you eat, but you don’t finish the entire serving.
How do you stay so slim eating that many calories a day? Cheese chocolate and nuts all delicious and all laden with calls. Are you a naturally slim person? I have been receiving your emails for years now and recently shared some of your recipes with my weight watcher friends including a few of the coaches. Hopefully something will come of it. They are getting more into vegan items now so hopefully you’ll be called upon to help out or even sell your book on their website.
Take care
There is a LOT of bupkiss here with health. Artificial sweeteners don’t do anything, except a select few which can raise glucose, like Maltitol. Erythritol, Xylitol, Stevia and Aspartame don’t contribute to candida or weight gain.
What might happen to create the correlation is that eating artificial sweeteners might increase cravings in some people and cause them to eat more, because no-sugar things still have calories unless formulated otherwise. That’s why ice creams and baked goods made to have no sugar and be low calorie are helpful for those people, because then they can eat another cookie or another bowl of ice cream with out ruining progress.
Calories are calories. You can and will lose weight on a krispy kreme diet if you ate one-two donuts a day and nothing else. You body will have nothing to work with and you will be hungry, but it will start breaking down fat for energy after the quick burst of glucose used up. You also shouldn’t do this because you’re not getting in nutrients and will feel like crap and cause problems if you did it for two long, but it would work.
You can eat foods that also assist with revving metabolism and do patterns of food that encourage the body to burn more, IE eating a relatively clean healthy diet and having a cheat day or meal once a month or so. This is why competitive eaters are so damn fit/thin. They eat stupid healthy every other day and train to be able to take in the sheer amount of calories they do. They also tend to work out and be active.
Also at a certain level, it’s possible the sheer excess in one sitting doesn’t get digested, meaning the body doesn’t absorb the nutrients or the calories from the food. A good example of this is a Japanese competitive eater who is female who has been tested and essentially her body is really bad at absorbing nutrients. She basically almost has to eat more than one would expect because of it.
So too it might not be a stretch to assume that if your body is very good at absorption, you might use more calories than another who has normal ability to absorb. This would count for the discrepancy of people on the same diet same sex, same height losing different amounts of weight despite having the same pre-existing set up.
Starvation mode is real, it’s when you are actually starving and your body starts to break down muscle because there is nothing else to work with. You can not be fat and in starvation mode.
Your body all the time is concerned with possible starvation. Feeding it proper nutrition and enough calories can help it get into a rhythm so that breaking and having a lot less or a lot more than your average will help it understand it’s a fluke until it becomes a pattern.
Most of all, your body WANTS to maintain. It wants to be able to put some fat away, but mainly it wants to keep what it has when it can. This is why you stall when losing or gaining, it’s hitting a new equilibrium and needs a push to get out of it or just time.
I think this post has over counted how many calories are in total, but I also know that very active people, especially if they get a lot of cardio on top of having decent lean muscle mass can need a lot to maintain. If Katie works out a lot and is also generally active than 3000 might be required, but like I said, I think it’s an overestimate, but it is possible regardless depending on activity level.
Also organic and natural doesn’t mean healthy and natural is a buzzword that means nothing. You can have an organic and all natural donut, it’s still 200+ calories. Your body does not care unless you are literally getting in substances that are dangerous for you, like pesticide, arsenic etc.
The problem with packaged food is that it’s highly caloric and often high in sugar because palatable food sells, our bodies love fat and sugar because they were indicators that we weren’t going to starve and could save up for the next starvation if needed. Not that it’s artificial or premade.