Mealtimes!
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Mealtimes!
Hi all!
Do you guys plan mealtimes (eg the example of 7am, 1pm and 7pm)? Or do eat your three meals when you're hungry?
I'm experimenting, but I think for me - at least at the beginning - I need to schedule my mealtimes, as I'm a habitual snacker and I'll end up eating my three meals too close together. I want to develop a good appetite for my meals, not be used to filling up as soon as I'm hungry. It's a little tricky, though, as during the week I usually go straight from work to the gym for a few hours, so those days I either need to eat a really early or a really late dinner. I also am not generally hungry for breakfast until around 9am.
What about you all?
Do you guys plan mealtimes (eg the example of 7am, 1pm and 7pm)? Or do eat your three meals when you're hungry?
I'm experimenting, but I think for me - at least at the beginning - I need to schedule my mealtimes, as I'm a habitual snacker and I'll end up eating my three meals too close together. I want to develop a good appetite for my meals, not be used to filling up as soon as I'm hungry. It's a little tricky, though, as during the week I usually go straight from work to the gym for a few hours, so those days I either need to eat a really early or a really late dinner. I also am not generally hungry for breakfast until around 9am.
What about you all?
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My meals are generally at about the same time every day. If I eat breakfast it's between 7 and 8; lunch is between 12 and 1; dinner is usually about 8.
I would plan to eat after the gym.
I would plan to eat after the gym.
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I have mealtime windows on weekdays, about a 90-minute window for breakfast, lunch at same time because of work schedule, about a 2-hour window for dinner.
I know of no slim cultures who have their members eat just when hungry. They don't leave it up to chance.
I know of no slim cultures who have their members eat just when hungry. They don't leave it up to chance.
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That's an excellent point oolala - I think leaving it up to chance makes it much more likely for me to make a silly last minute decision. My meals tend to be better when I plan them ahead of time, and that includes timing as well!
For the next two weeks I'm off training, but I usually train from around 6pm - 10 or 10:30pm (I train martial arts, if I take multiple classes - which I usually do - then I have long training days!). I think I'd prefer to try to stagger my meals farther apart, eating breakfast if I have the appetite at 7:30 or so, then lunch at 1, then dinner at 7 if possible. But on gym days, I've found that eating before I go to the gym is better for me, as I have the energy to get through my workouts, especially if I eat a carb-heavy dinner, and I'm usually not hungry afterwards (thirsty, though, that's another story!). Otherwise I end up starving halfway through class and can't focus!
Thanks for all the input and ideas
For the next two weeks I'm off training, but I usually train from around 6pm - 10 or 10:30pm (I train martial arts, if I take multiple classes - which I usually do - then I have long training days!). I think I'd prefer to try to stagger my meals farther apart, eating breakfast if I have the appetite at 7:30 or so, then lunch at 1, then dinner at 7 if possible. But on gym days, I've found that eating before I go to the gym is better for me, as I have the energy to get through my workouts, especially if I eat a carb-heavy dinner, and I'm usually not hungry afterwards (thirsty, though, that's another story!). Otherwise I end up starving halfway through class and can't focus!
Thanks for all the input and ideas
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I'm not very good at working out when I'm hungry - but also I'm constrained by work, etc. So I have set mealtimes during the week, and am a bit more flexible at weekends (although I don't like to change it too much). It ends up being approximately 5 1/2 hours between each meal.
I actually quite like having routimes. I go to bed at the same time almost every night and get up at the same time every morning (even at weekends). I think I'm turning into my grandmother (which isn't such a bad thing )!
I actually quite like having routimes. I go to bed at the same time almost every night and get up at the same time every morning (even at weekends). I think I'm turning into my grandmother (which isn't such a bad thing )!
In my experience not having mealtimes works best for people who used to always have mealtimes and therefore a trained hunger. So for example my friend doesn't have set mealtime but as she grew up with 3 times a day mealtimes and never was on a diet in her life she naturally gravitates there anyways.
For people like me who grew up with/trained themselves to have disordered eating:
As Reinhard says: it's way easier to answer "Is it mealtime" than to answer "Am I truly hungry" At lease for me!
For people like me who grew up with/trained themselves to have disordered eating:
As Reinhard says: it's way easier to answer "Is it mealtime" than to answer "Am I truly hungry" At lease for me!
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