Odd eating schedule. Anyone else?

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Registered: 04-02-2003
Odd eating schedule. Anyone else?
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Thu, 04-15-2004 - 6:26pm

So, here's what happens to me. I ALWAYS wake up ready for breakfast (I've always been a breakfast eater) so I eat my scrambled eggs, or quiche and canadian bacon with my first cup of coffee before work.


Get to work. Get going on water. Am usually ready for mid-morn snack by ten or ten thirty am. But here's where my day gets weird.


After snack, only takes about an hour at most for me to be hungry for lunch. I don't end up holding off and go ahead and eat. Literally an hour later (hour and a half at most) I am ready for NEXT snack! (I am comfortably filled and not unsatisfied after lunch at all) and so I eat it. Then suddenly after that second snack, for the first time all day I don't think about when I am going to eat again. Now I have to make myself eat dinner, and I next to never have an evening sweet. I just never want to eat again after the onslaught of snacks and lunch.


Today's Meal example (so you all can see something I am not)


Breakfast. Two quiche cups (reg muffin tin size) and 2 slices of Canadian Bacon and coffee.


Snack was at 11:30 because I was busy and couldn't get to it. But I wasn't starving. just ready for it. Celery sticks and hummus. Felt content. Lunch an hour later (feeling v. hungry) and had left over porkloin (maybe 6 oz total) with tomato sauce and green beans. Felt filled. Snack another hour later. My 15 almonds and a good size chunk of cheese. I stopped when I felt full. Now? Doubt I'll want to eat again today. I finally feel content. Not hungry and not wanting anything.


I know this sounds silly, but I can't figure out why I can get on a "normal" eating schedule and why I have to force myself to eat dinner. And usually not much of it. (in fact, last night I was a bad girl and skipped dinner altogether. i was a little hungry when I went to bed, but didn't feel like eating. Already brushed teeth.)


 

Becky


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Registered: 04-07-2003
Sun, 04-18-2004 - 12:01pm
Becky,

I go through the same cycle. In fact, this is something I've done my entire life :-) My mom tells me that from the time I was a baby, I really only ate every other day. On some days, I would eat all my meals and snacks when she gave them to me, and then the next day I would take a few bites and be done if she could get me to eat at all. As an adult, I've noticed that I still follow the same pattern to an extent...one day I'll eat breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, and dinner and still be ready for dessert. The next I'll eat breakfast and not be hungry for anything again until dinner (if even then). Before SBD, I used to go with it...in college, there were days that I ate one meal because I figured if I wasn't hungry I didn't need to eat and then there would be fewer calories to work off later (at that point I was about ten to fifteen pounds smaller than I am today). At the time, it worked for me. Afterwards, when I started working in an office, the food got more processed, the exercise became less frequent, and the pounds started piling on. I'm learning to work with my body now instead of fighting it, which helps. On my not hungry days, I still try to eat all my meals and snacks, I just might make them a little smaller and I don't force myself to finish my portions. On the days when I am hungry, SBD helps me make the right choices about what to eat.

If you're not hungry by dinner time, have a "snacky supper" instead of a heavy meal. My favorite since being in P2 is a fruit and cheese plate, or a veggies and cheese plate depending on what I have in the house. Usually, lunch is a bigger meal for me than dinner, that's where I make an effort to include meat and vegetables. Dinner is more often than not something quick, just a salad or one of the platters I mentioned.

So you're not alone, and SBD will help you listen to your body and set the best eating schedule for YOU...always remember that you're not locked into any particular menu for any meal, and you're free to make the choices that appeal most to you and your situation!

Shan

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