Breaking "Rules" of Nutrition

JeJeTe

Happiness
I was going to run at the church while my son was in CCD tonight. Maybe the rain is Jesus' way of saying "take a rest, girl". :yay:
 

MMM_donuts

New Member
Interestingly the "must eat breakfast" or eat every 2-3 hours school of thought isn't supported fully in research. Interestingly somthing called intermittant fasting or IF has a lot of research support behind it and it iis way more in line with a later breakfast vs eat within an hour of waking up. I cant do it. I feel awful and WAY hungrier during the day if i eat beakfast. Looking at the way your body uses hormones and insulin IF actually makes a lot more sense than eating every 2 hours. ive read a few articles that explore your bodys insulin usuage in conjunction with circadian rythems nad it is pretty neat..leater breakfast makes much more sense.

:yay: yes, this. I only eat 1-2 meals a day and maybe a snack. It works well for me. My husband, however, doesn't fare well on this sort of eating cycle. He accidentally, involuntarily fell into it when his job changed. He gained weight. He's been working to lose it by using his own homemade system that's similar to Body for Life. Basically eating lots of smaller, healthy meals, less processed, cheat day, yada yada. He's had a lot of success doing it that way. But I prefer to just wait until I'm hungry, which is pretty much the same time every day. Sometimes, if I'm not hungry, I just don't eat anything. Sometimes, if I'm hungrier, I eat more. I'm glad to see that this is a thing that people are understanding more commonly.
 

migtig

aka Mrs. Giant
:yay: yes, this. I only eat 1-2 meals a day and maybe a snack. It works well for me. My husband, however, doesn't fare well on this sort of eating cycle. He accidentally, involuntarily fell into it when his job changed. He gained weight. He's been working to lose it by using his own homemade system that's similar to Body for Life. Basically eating lots of smaller, healthy meals, less processed, cheat day, yada yada. He's had a lot of success doing it that way. But I prefer to just wait until I'm hungry, which is pretty much the same time every day. Sometimes, if I'm not hungry, I just don't eat anything. Sometimes, if I'm hungrier, I eat more. I'm glad to see that this is a thing that people are understanding more commonly.

That's me. If I eat scheduled meals, which I cook for my husband, or go to a scheduled lunch with co-workers, then I tend to feel :blech:. I can't eat a big lunch and a big dinner, just impossible. If I eat when I feel like it, I feel much better. BUT, if my body's telling me I'm hungry and I ignore it, I can become a raging crazy woman.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
since I turned 18, the only time I ate 3 proper meals a day was in the Army .....


up at 5 in the office by 6

32oz cup of coffee
by 9 or 10 I am looking for my lunch ...... usually left overs from the night before .... sometimes a salad, sometimes a sandwich of meat and cheese or PB+Honey

occasionally my stomach is growling on the morning drive, in that case I hit a McDonalds on the way for a Big Breakfast
on those days I don't eat my lunch until noonish

home at 1530 - have one of these for a snack

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my wife has dinner on by 1730 .... usually a Meat, Starch and a Veggie [some what balanced there is a 9yr old involved]


on the weekends I will cook a 'big breakfast'
- Hash Browns fried crisp, Chili and cayenne powder
Bacon [cooked at 310 in the oven until it is light brown and melts in your mouth]

Scramble Eggs - the wife does these, she does a better JOB getting the fluffy



Eat Well, Stay Fit - DIE Anyway .. why be miserable chicken, pork and beef, a grilled steak once a month
 

MMM_donuts

New Member
It's funny you should bring up Magnum bars.

I was deployed to Albania for a while and for the month prior and month post, we stayed in Sigonella, Sicily. That was the first place I ever had a Magnum bar. At that time they weren't on a stick, they were like huge snickers ice cream bars and OMG delicious. That was also the only time I was deployed with the girl that would become my bestest bestie. She was the only girl in the squadron before I came along so there was a lot of territorial issues. She got stop-lossed and her husband was supposed to return from a deployment when she was sent out with us so she was miserable. We stopped for a Magnum bar each day with the crew and we all bonded for life like right out of a tv show or something.

When she became pregnant, I searched all over the internet to find a way to get a magnum bar to her to no avail.

And then one day, years later, she texted me a picture of a Magnum bar at Target.

And we made a pact right then and there to never eat one EVER EVER because we lack the kind of self control needed to not eat one everyday so I haven't had one!! :lmao:

Anyways, that's my magnum bar story. It's all sentimental and nostalgic and stuff.

I often pick up the Klondikes for our house, though :)
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
It's funny you should bring up Magnum bars.

Anyways, that's my magnum bar story. It's all sentimental and nostalgic and stuff.

I often pick up the Klondikes for our house, though :)


Awesome :yay:


the things are like crack .... even if I don't eat one every day, I must have them in the house
 
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