WudiShould we ditch the idea of three meals a day?
I’m always surprised when people say they eat breakfast before work. How do they have time for that? I usually have something around 10 or 11, then an apple or cheese stick or cookie or whatever i can find when i get home around 5, then dinner around 7 or 8. I guess that counts as 3.
I eat breakfast, same thing, every day, for 20 years.
It’s no harder than anything else, just get up early enough to do it.
Takes 30 minutes from start to cleaning my plates.
only you know for sure what timing works for you
I don’t. I just eat when hungry.
Apparently a lot of people don’t eat breakfast when they first wake up. I don’t, because my body isn’t hungry when I first wake up; it takes an hour or two before I can actually feel like I’m ready to eat something. And I don’t like forcing myself to eat when I’m not hungry because I just feel like shit.
Also I’ve been working on eating slower so I’m not just wolfing everything down and taking massive bites. It can take me upwards of 30 minutes to eat a bowl of cereal.
Yep, I used to be that way (I’m hypoglycemic, meaning blood sugar is stable then drops very suddenly, so I’m not hungry and then I’m starving).
I found just getting into a morning routine of making breakfast helps - but not immediately after getting up. Water, then coffee - takes me about an hour to be ready for food. So I just get up earlier.
It’s that it be starving later, which isn’t going to work for me.
Figuring out what works for you is key.
Montagge
schnurritoJust get up early enough? You can eat breakfast during a train or bus ride if you choose food suitable for that…
In fact I generally eat breakfast only on workdays, not usually weekends, because I don’t need any energy in the morning yet when I’m not working.
Before work, my meals consist of ready to eat options that don’t require preparation. Including eating and dicking around on the computer, I am usually finished within ten minutes.
Unless you’re walking up, immediately getting dressed, then going to work/school, you should have time for something like that.
How do they have time for that?
I get up at 5:45, bathroom, get dressed until about 6:15, eat breakfast until 6:40, commute 20 minutes, start work at 7.
gandalf_der_12tegrab a banana on your way out, it doesn’t take time as you can eat it in the public transport, is better than not eating anything at all. oh and also a portable coffee makes the day.
Just as any proper hobbit should.
Exactly.
I haven’t eaten three meals a day since I was in middle school. And not because I couldn’t afford to.
most people in the states actually think they’re going to die immediately if they skip a meal, let alone two.
the “never don’t eat, for any reason, ever–or you will DIE” mindset is one of the things we’re most force-fed from birth onwards.
it’s becase if you skip a meal, that’s money that wasn’t spent. if everyone skipped a meal, that’s a lot of money that wasn’t spent. we can’t have that in capitalism. therefore, eat abundantly and often. it doesn’t matter what, as long as it’s something you bought
I’ve found the opposite. I find that a lot of the traditions regarding food don’t stem from capitalism, but from vestiges of poverty and food insecurity no matter the economic system that poverty came from.
Grandma is a lot more likely to use food as a way to communicate love if she went through food insecurity as a child.
true, grandma would be absolutely horrified to hear anyone ate just one meal yesterday, on purpose, and plans to do it every day this week. it’s almost blasphemy
but also the corporations selling everyone quick easy cheap (and disgustingly unhealthy) food-like substances at the drive thru and breakfast aisle certainly don’t want anyone skipping any meals either. in fact they want you to be eating all day every day
the difference is grandma doesn’t want anyone to feel like they felt in the depression, not knowing when they’ll eat again, and corporations just want your money
Capitalism will sell what people buy. Capitalism will sell high calorie food. Capitalism will also still weight loss systems and drugs.
SwedneckIt just seems unnecessary to bring it up in every barely-related thread. We’re all aware of serious problems but not every discussion has to be taken over by the doomer mindset. I subscribe to the fun little communities to get a break from the serious shit, we don’t all need to be talking about the bad stuff all the time!
Shit, I just eat when I’m hungry, which is usually just once a day sometime in the evening. Occasionally I’ll also eat midday around lunchtime too, but not often. To hell with that 3 meals a day shit though, I think my belly would explode if I ate that much.
yeah same. usually my midday food is just a liter of milk. which btw has 500 kcal = 2000 kJ
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 I’m lucky if I get 1 a day.
I’m not reading the article because I’m lazy.
Who is ‘we’ exactly? Did I need someone’s permission?
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Meatball ManI’m already on a 1 meal a day over the course of the entire day diet due to poverty. Like not even a big meal. Today my entire days supply of food is going to be a sandwich. I don’t think I need to skip my only meal for the day.
:'-( hard for me to understand that most don’t see food as a right. Most especially in Canada / USA / Europe will never understand true hunger and poverty. I see this as good and bad. Would be best if no one ever had to know.
I was homeless for just shy of five years a little over a decade ago before I got help and eventually got where I am now. It’s not much, it’s not a good situation, but it’s better than where I was and there’s hope of it improving. I’m doing a lot better than the vast majority of the people I knew back then.
I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
CatoblepasHave you applied to SNAP and checked out local food pantries? If you’re down to a sandwich a day I promise that’s what they’re there for! I know availability for services is locally dependent, but I hope you can find something.
Yeah I’m on Medicare but I only get like 37 a month or something on ebt. I’m making too much money for most public assistance as I’ve been on disability for something for decades, but I managed to find a job with decent pay I can actually hold and have been trying to get fully independent. It hasn’t been going well. I’m making too much money for help, but not enough to live.
Still a hell of a lot better where I was like a decade ago. I used to be entirely homeless before I got help. I’m barely surviving but at least I’m doing it with a roof over my head. My situation sucks but I’m one of the lucky ones. Most people like me just fall through the cracks and never get back out.
There’s a food bank in my town (we donate to it) where you can walk in and take food, no questions asked. I have to think there’s something like that near you?
There is but it’s not a walk in affair. It has too many people depending on it and not enough food. I’m not exaggerating when I say unless you show up 4 to 5 hours early, there’s a solid chance you won’t be getting anything. It only runs every first and third Wednesday of a. Month, and you need proof of residency, a utility bill, a photo ID, and proof you’re on ebt to get signed up. It’s not a reliable source of food. Once or twice a year If there is simply no other way I’ll take the gamble and wait and hope I get there early enough to get something good, but I usually try to fend for myself.
I live in a very rual area and they have very limited resources for people who need help. We don’t have any public transportation whatsoever. It’s not an easily surviveable place for people in poverty, I’m extremely lucky to have a job out here. I just don’t have the resources to leave. No family, no real friends, no money or savings. It’s a bad situation. I’ve been in it for years.
I appreciate the help and advice, but I’m not a good target for it.
Are there churches that do stuff? Or a Sikh community? My church has a free meal after the last Sunday service and they have a fridge sitting outside their hall where you can leave and take meals.
I don’t want to talk too much about what’s around me just out of data privacy reasons but I appreciate the help. I’ll figure it out. I’ve been living like this for years and I’m fine.
Well that sucks, I’m sorry to hear that. If only we lived in a country that bothers to take care of its people.
I grew up in childhood on one meal a day (or one meal every two days often as not) due to poverty, and I guess it set up a pattern - I very rarely eat three meals a day in adulthood. I used to always skip breakfast (nowadays I tend to just have a yoghurt with my coffee mostly because I tell myself it’ll be healthy, not because I’m hungry), and then I usually have lunch OR dinner, but very rarely both.
Of course, when I was young I was horribly thin (6’3" and 110lbs when I left home at 18), now I eat considerably more, so that changed - but the meal habits didn’t.
I’ve found that I’m actually less hungry throughout the day, if I skip breakfast. So, even when I then have lunch, I’m satiated much quicker.
My working theory is that my stomach shrinks when empty, in particular throughout the night. So, if I don’t shove down breakfast in the morning:
- My stomach can shrink even smaller until lunch.
- There is less empty space in the non-stretched stomach, so less hunger.
- When I do eat lunch, the smaller stomach fills up quicker, meaning I shove down less food for lunch, too, and therefore my stomach doesn’t get particularly stretched until dinner either.
i think that actually it’s not so much about physiological changes happening to your body when you don’t eat; it’s more about signaling
your body is put into this “efficiency” mode when you skip breakfast. it means, you should get up and gather for food, instead of having it already provided. so your body uses food more efficiently.
Did not rtfa but unless you are suggesting more than 3, no.
SuiXi3DIs this a bunch of bots or does nobody else have blood sugar.
You don’t get sugar crashes if you don’t eat copious amounts of sugar
I get them at around 11 in the morning. I eat wholemeal bread with no sugar crunchy peanut butter for breakfast.
Depends on exactly what peanut butter you buy, but the popular ones do have a lot of sugar
In the context of blood sugar, carbohydrates is the sugar being discussed, not cane sugar, and bread in almost all forms is just pure simple carbs. Peanut butter is at least a bit more complex, but would still cause blood sugar problems. If you’re trying to avoid diabetes, daily peanut butter bread is probably a bad call.
Maybe your trouble is the bread. Wholemeal are carbs and carbs are sugar. The sugarless peanut butter should not be causing any sugar crashes.
Caveat. Not a trained specialist here. Just someone who has been trying to sort my issues out and wanting to share.
complex carbs are not comparable to simpler sugars, the body has to do a significant amount of processing to turn the carbs into readily usable sugar.
You also need carbs in your diet, it’s the main fuel source for the body and it’s difficult to avoid anyways (all vegetables have loads of carbs, even peanuts are 17% carbs.
You also need carbs in your diet, it’s the main fuel source for the body and it’s difficult to avoid anyways (all vegetables have loads of carbs, even peanuts are 17% carbs.
Your body starts producing sugar for you to eat if you fast too long. That’s why they tell diabetics to eat or snack every 2ish hours. To keep your glucose level
It doesn’t produce a huge amount of glucose, mainly a baseline to keep your brain fed. The rest of your body just starts using different sources for food because it generally doesn’t need glucose.
Your body prefers to consume glycogen, which your liver produces from glucose. Most people’s livers store enough to go about a day if they aren’t participating in strenuous activities.
Also, diabetics are told to eat snacks throughout the day because it can be dangerous for them to eat large meals. Large meals often mean a lot of sugar, and since they either can’t produce insulin or are resistant to it, they can’t easily signal to their fat cells to store the excess energy
Type 1 diabetes is a thing.