Spreading in the calories?

In news:[email hidden],
Martha Gallagher <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

Hey ASDLCers,

I'm back on the fitday wagon (it's just better that way). One thing I
noticed was that my usual calorie intake is like an inverted pyramid -
lowest number of calories for breakfast, more for lunch, most for
dinner.

So, just as an experiment I've decided to try putting my meal
calories on a budget. I chose 500 calories per meal because it's
enough that I'm not going to be hungry at any meal and if I eat the
full 500 at all meals I'm still w/in an ok range for the day. I'm not
going out of my way to up my breakfast calories, because I'm happy w/
what I have for breakfast and it keeps me satisfied until lunch time.
Besides, keeping that low gives me room for a snack if I want one.

Anyone else have a tendency to eat more at night and did you find that
spreading the calories out more made it easier for you to
lose/maintain your weight?

It is much better so spread your calories more or less even rather than
getting a big dump of food at one meal, no matter which meal that may be.
Also, being hungry before a meal is a good thing for weight loss. Why not
try 5 300 kcal meals? And if you're not hungry before bed, skip the last
one.

You are on the right track. Try 12 meals of 80 calories each. Eat *before*
you get hungry.

"Martha Gallagher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hey ASDLCers,

I'm back on the fitday wagon (it's just better that way). One thing I
noticed was that my usual calorie intake is like an inverted pyramid -
lowest number of calories for breakfast, more for lunch, most for dinner.

So, just as an experiment I've decided to try putting my meal calories on
a budget. I chose 500 calories per meal because it's enough that I'm not
going to be hungry at any meal and if I eat the full 500 at all meals I'm
still w/in an ok range for the day. I'm not going out of my way to up my
breakfast calories, because I'm happy w/ what I have for breakfast and it
keeps me satisfied until lunch time. Besides, keeping that low gives me
room for a snack if I want one.

Anyone else have a tendency to eat more at night and did you find that
spreading the calories out more made it easier for you to lose/maintain
your weight?

Martha

--
"ALPO is 99 cents a can. That's over SEVEN dog dollars!!"
Revek - ASDLC

In news:[email hidden],
Cubit <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

You are on the right track. Try 12 meals of 80 calories each. Eat
*before* you get hungry.

Getting feisty, huh?

Quoted message said:

"Martha Gallagher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hey ASDLCers,

I'm back on the fitday wagon (it's just better that way). One thing I
noticed was that my usual calorie intake is like an inverted pyramid
- lowest number of calories for breakfast, more for lunch, most for
dinner.

So, just as an experiment I've decided to try putting my meal
calories on a budget. I chose 500 calories per meal because it's
enough that I'm not going to be hungry at any meal and if I eat the
full 500 at all meals I'm still w/in an ok range for the day. I'm
not going out of my way to up my breakfast calories, because I'm
happy w/ what I have for breakfast and it keeps me satisfied until
lunch time. Besides, keeping that low gives me room for a snack if I
want one.

Anyone else have a tendency to eat more at night and did you find
that spreading the calories out more made it easier for you to
lose/maintain your weight?

Martha

--
"ALPO is 99 cents a can. That's over SEVEN dog dollars!!"
Revek - ASDLC

Cubit said:

You are on the right track. Try 12 meals of 80 calories each. Eat *before*
you get hungry.

Than sound complicated

Hi,

Roger Zoul said:

In news:[email hidden],
Cubit <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

You are on the right track. Try 12 meals of 80 calories each.
Eat *before* you get hungry.

Getting feisty, huh?

If it weren't Cubit I'd suspect he was being funny. ;-)

Take care,
Carmen

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Hotmail isn't working and is being abandoned

I prefer to fast all day and then eat all my calories at once, between 6 and
7 pm.

--

Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW

--
"Martha Gallagher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Hey ASDLCers,

I'm back on the fitday wagon (it's just better that way). One thing I
noticed was that my usual calorie intake is like an inverted pyramid -
lowest number of calories for breakfast, more for lunch, most for dinner.

So, just as an experiment I've decided to try putting my meal calories on
a budget. I chose 500 calories per meal because it's enough that I'm not
going to be hungry at any meal and if I eat the full 500 at all meals I'm
still w/in an ok range for the day. I'm not going out of my way to up my
breakfast calories, because I'm happy w/ what I have for breakfast and it
keeps me satisfied until lunch time. Besides, keeping that low gives me
room for a snack if I want one.

Anyone else have a tendency to eat more at night and did you find that
spreading the calories out more made it easier for you to lose/maintain
your weight?

Martha

--
"ALPO is 99 cents a can. That's over SEVEN dog dollars!!"
Revek - ASDLC

"Roger Zoul" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]
|| In news:[email hidden],
|| Cubit <[email hidden]> typed:
||| You are on the right track. Try 12 meals of 80 calories each. Eat
||| *before* you get hungry.
|||
||
|| Getting feisty, huh?
||
|||
||| "Martha Gallagher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
||| news:[email hidden]...
|||| Hey ASDLCers,
||||
|||| I'm back on the fitday wagon (it's just better that way). One
|||| thing I noticed was that my usual calorie intake is like an
|||| inverted pyramid - lowest number of calories for breakfast, more
|||| for lunch, most for dinner.
||||
|||| So, just as an experiment I've decided to try putting my meal
|||| calories on a budget. I chose 500 calories per meal because it's
|||| enough that I'm not going to be hungry at any meal and if I eat the
|||| full 500 at all meals I'm still w/in an ok range for the day. I'm
|||| not going out of my way to up my breakfast calories, because I'm
|||| happy w/ what I have for breakfast and it keeps me satisfied until
|||| lunch time. Besides, keeping that low gives me room for a snack if
|||| I want one.
||||
|||| Anyone else have a tendency to eat more at night and did you find
|||| that spreading the calories out more made it easier for you to
|||| lose/maintain your weight?
||||
|||| Martha
||||
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| "ALPO is 99 cents a can. That's over SEVEN dog dollars!!"
|||| Revek - ASDLC

I understand that the ADA now says that 24 meals of 40 calories each are
best ....

--
Peter
270/219/180
website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo

"JC Der Koenig" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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|| I prefer to fast all day and then eat all my calories at once,
|| between 6 and 7 pm.
||

Sounds like the CAD

--
Peter
270/219/180
website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo

"marengo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"JC Der Koenig" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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|| I prefer to fast all day and then eat all my calories at once,
|| between 6 and 7 pm.
||

Sounds like the CAD

It sounds more like the Warrior Diet to me.

I've never had the self control for that. When I go all day without
eating, I am so hungry by the time I get home that I end up caring more
about being hungry in the moment than I do about losing weight in the long
term, so I am more likely to make bad food choices.

I used to do that a lot because I was trying the "only eat when you're
hungry" method, but I wouldn't get hungry until late afternoon, and it
would just hit me so hard and so suddently I'd eat everything. Made no
sense either, because only someone who's been lost in the woods for weeks
should be _that_ hungry.

In article <[email hidden]>,

JC Der Koenig said:

I prefer to fast all day and then eat all my calories at once, between 6 and
7 pm.

--

Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW

--
"Martha Gallagher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Hey ASDLCers,

I'm back on the fitday wagon (it's just better that way). One thing I
noticed was that my usual calorie intake is like an inverted pyramid -
lowest number of calories for breakfast, more for lunch, most for dinner.

So, just as an experiment I've decided to try putting my meal calories on
a budget. I chose 500 calories per meal because it's enough that I'm not
going to be hungry at any meal and if I eat the full 500 at all meals I'm
still w/in an ok range for the day. I'm not going out of my way to up my
breakfast calories, because I'm happy w/ what I have for breakfast and it
keeps me satisfied until lunch time. Besides, keeping that low gives me
room for a snack if I want one.

Anyone else have a tendency to eat more at night and did you find that
spreading the calories out more made it easier for you to lose/maintain
your weight?

Martha

Quoted message said:

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.

Eating slowly helps quite a bit.

--

Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW

--
"Luna" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I've never had the self control for that. When I go all day without
eating, I am so hungry by the time I get home that I end up caring more
about being hungry in the moment than I do about losing weight in the long
term, so I am more likely to make bad food choices.

I used to do that a lot because I was trying the "only eat when you're
hungry" method, but I wouldn't get hungry until late afternoon, and it
would just hit me so hard and so suddently I'd eat everything. Made no
sense either, because only someone who's been lost in the woods for weeks
should be _that_ hungry.

In article <[email hidden]>,

JC Der Koenig said:

I prefer to fast all day and then eat all my calories at once, between 6
and
7 pm.

--

Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW

--
"Martha Gallagher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Hey ASDLCers,

I'm back on the fitday wagon (it's just better that way). One thing I
noticed was that my usual calorie intake is like an inverted pyramid -
lowest number of calories for breakfast, more for lunch, most for
dinner.

So, just as an experiment I've decided to try putting my meal calories
on
a budget. I chose 500 calories per meal because it's enough that I'm
not
going to be hungry at any meal and if I eat the full 500 at all meals
I'm
still w/in an ok range for the day. I'm not going out of my way to up
my
breakfast calories, because I'm happy w/ what I have for breakfast and
it
keeps me satisfied until lunch time. Besides, keeping that low gives me
room for a snack if I want one.

Anyone else have a tendency to eat more at night and did you find that
spreading the calories out more made it easier for you to lose/maintain
your weight?

Martha

Quoted message said:

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.

"JC Der Koenig" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]
|| "marengo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
|| news:%5CLd.108127$Wo.68590@lakeread08...
||| "JC Der Koenig" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
||| news:[email hidden]
||||| I prefer to fast all day and then eat all my calories at once,
||||| between 6 and 7 pm.
|||||
|||
|||
||| Sounds like the CAD
|||
||
|| It sounds more like the Warrior Diet to me.

I often go all day without eating until evening also, expecially when I'm
busy at work. I don't get hungry until dinnertime; I've found that eating
during the day is habit more than hunger.

--
Peter
270/219/180
website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo

You know, actually, I've been making a concerted effort to eat more slowly,
this past week. It's a bit annoying, because by the time I'm halfway done
with my food, it's gone all cold and manky. I set out to take 20 minutes
to eat my scrambled eggs this morning, for example, but it ended being more
like 10, because there's only so much chewing you can do with scrambled
eggs really. And who wants to eat cold scrambled eggs? Not me for one.
Anyway, eating slowly in combination with eating more frequently helps me
to not overeat. It's significantly easier to not wolf down my food when
I'm moderately hungry as opposed to ravenous, and my objective in my food
choices and eating schedule is to make it easier to eat less.

In article <[email hidden]>,

JC Der Koenig said:

Eating slowly helps quite a bit.

--

Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW

--
"Luna" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I've never had the self control for that. When I go all day without
eating, I am so hungry by the time I get home that I end up caring more
about being hungry in the moment than I do about losing weight in the long
term, so I am more likely to make bad food choices.

I used to do that a lot because I was trying the "only eat when you're
hungry" method, but I wouldn't get hungry until late afternoon, and it
would just hit me so hard and so suddently I'd eat everything. Made no
sense either, because only someone who's been lost in the woods for weeks
should be _that_ hungry.

In article <[email hidden]>,

JC Der Koenig said:

I prefer to fast all day and then eat all my calories at once, between 6
and
7 pm.

--

Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW

--
"Martha Gallagher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
> Hey ASDLCers,
>
> I'm back on the fitday wagon (it's just better that way). One thing I
> noticed was that my usual calorie intake is like an inverted pyramid -
> lowest number of calories for breakfast, more for lunch, most for
> dinner.
>
> So, just as an experiment I've decided to try putting my meal calories
> on
> a budget. I chose 500 calories per meal because it's enough that I'm
> not
> going to be hungry at any meal and if I eat the full 500 at all meals
> I'm
> still w/in an ok range for the day. I'm not going out of my way to up
> my
> breakfast calories, because I'm happy w/ what I have for breakfast and
> it
> keeps me satisfied until lunch time. Besides, keeping that low gives me
> room for a snack if I want one.
>
> Anyone else have a tendency to eat more at night and did you find that
> spreading the calories out more made it easier for you to lose/maintain
> your weight?
>
> Martha
>

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.

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"JC Der Koenig" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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|| "marengo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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||| "JC Der Koenig" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
||| news:[email hidden]
||||| I prefer to fast all day and then eat all my calories at once,
||||| between 6 and 7 pm.
|||||
|||
|||
||| Sounds like the CAD
|||
||
|| It sounds more like the Warrior Diet to me.

I often go all day without eating until evening also, expecially when I'm
busy at work. I don't get hungry until dinnertime; I've found that
eating
during the day is habit more than hunger.

It could aptly be named The Workingman's Diet.

If your eggs get cold and unappealing, don't eat them. But also don't eat
anything else until you finish your eggs.

--

Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW

--
"Luna" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

You know, actually, I've been making a concerted effort to eat more
slowly,
this past week. It's a bit annoying, because by the time I'm halfway done
with my food, it's gone all cold and manky. I set out to take 20 minutes
to eat my scrambled eggs this morning, for example, but it ended being
more
like 10, because there's only so much chewing you can do with scrambled
eggs really. And who wants to eat cold scrambled eggs? Not me for one.
Anyway, eating slowly in combination with eating more frequently helps me
to not overeat. It's significantly easier to not wolf down my food when
I'm moderately hungry as opposed to ravenous, and my objective in my food
choices and eating schedule is to make it easier to eat less.

In article <[email hidden]>,

JC Der Koenig said:

Eating slowly helps quite a bit.

--

Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW

--
"Luna" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I've never had the self control for that. When I go all day without
eating, I am so hungry by the time I get home that I end up caring more
about being hungry in the moment than I do about losing weight in the
long
term, so I am more likely to make bad food choices.

I used to do that a lot because I was trying the "only eat when you're
hungry" method, but I wouldn't get hungry until late afternoon, and it
would just hit me so hard and so suddently I'd eat everything. Made no
sense either, because only someone who's been lost in the woods for
weeks
should be _that_ hungry.

In article <[email hidden]>,
"JC Der Koenig" <[email hidden]> wrote:

> I prefer to fast all day and then eat all my calories at once, between
> 6
> and
> 7 pm.
>
> --
>
> Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW
>
> --
> "Martha Gallagher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
> news:[email hidden]...
> > Hey ASDLCers,
> >
> > I'm back on the fitday wagon (it's just better that way). One thing
> > I
> > noticed was that my usual calorie intake is like an inverted
> > pyramid -
> > lowest number of calories for breakfast, more for lunch, most for
> > dinner.
> >
> > So, just as an experiment I've decided to try putting my meal
> > calories
> > on
> > a budget. I chose 500 calories per meal because it's enough that I'm
> > not
> > going to be hungry at any meal and if I eat the full 500 at all
> > meals
> > I'm
> > still w/in an ok range for the day. I'm not going out of my way to
> > up
> > my
> > breakfast calories, because I'm happy w/ what I have for breakfast
> > and
> > it
> > keeps me satisfied until lunch time. Besides, keeping that low gives
> > me
> > room for a snack if I want one.
> >
> > Anyone else have a tendency to eat more at night and did you find
> > that
> > spreading the calories out more made it easier for you to
> > lose/maintain
> > your weight?
> >
> > Martha
> >

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.

I think the 500 C per meal is good. a nice hearty breakfast before work- a
great sandwich lunch, or split it into 2 coffee break snacks, and a
controlled dinner- my carnivorous time. yes, I like my after dinner "sweet"
too.

Diane
"Luna" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

You know, actually, I've been making a concerted effort to eat more
slowly,
this past week. It's a bit annoying, because by the time I'm halfway done
with my food, it's gone all cold and manky. I set out to take 20 minutes
to eat my scrambled eggs this morning, for example, but it ended being
more
like 10, because there's only so much chewing you can do with scrambled
eggs really. And who wants to eat cold scrambled eggs? Not me for one.
Anyway, eating slowly in combination with eating more frequently helps me
to not overeat. It's significantly easier to not wolf down my food when
I'm moderately hungry as opposed to ravenous, and my objective in my food
choices and eating schedule is to make it easier to eat less.

In article <[email hidden]>,

JC Der Koenig said:

Eating slowly helps quite a bit.

--

Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW

--
"Luna" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I've never had the self control for that. When I go all day without
eating, I am so hungry by the time I get home that I end up caring more
about being hungry in the moment than I do about losing weight in the
long
term, so I am more likely to make bad food choices.

I used to do that a lot because I was trying the "only eat when you're
hungry" method, but I wouldn't get hungry until late afternoon, and it
would just hit me so hard and so suddently I'd eat everything. Made no
sense either, because only someone who's been lost in the woods for
weeks
should be _that_ hungry.

In article <[email hidden]>,
"JC Der Koenig" <[email hidden]> wrote:

> I prefer to fast all day and then eat all my calories at once, between
> 6
> and
> 7 pm.
>
> --
>
> Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW
>
> --
> "Martha Gallagher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
> news:[email hidden]...
> > Hey ASDLCers,
> >
> > I'm back on the fitday wagon (it's just better that way). One thing
> > I
> > noticed was that my usual calorie intake is like an inverted
> > pyramid -
> > lowest number of calories for breakfast, more for lunch, most for
> > dinner.
> >
> > So, just as an experiment I've decided to try putting my meal
> > calories
> > on
> > a budget. I chose 500 calories per meal because it's enough that I'm
> > not
> > going to be hungry at any meal and if I eat the full 500 at all
> > meals
> > I'm
> > still w/in an ok range for the day. I'm not going out of my way to
> > up
> > my
> > breakfast calories, because I'm happy w/ what I have for breakfast
> > and
> > it
> > keeps me satisfied until lunch time. Besides, keeping that low gives
> > me
> > room for a snack if I want one.
> >
> > Anyone else have a tendency to eat more at night and did you find
> > that
> > spreading the calories out more made it easier for you to
> > lose/maintain
> > your weight?
> >
> > Martha
> >

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.

I think eating slowly is a great idea, and I've been trying to make this a
habit, too.

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:10:06 GMT, Luna <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

You know, actually, I've been making a concerted effort to eat more
slowly,
this past week. It's a bit annoying, because by the time I'm halfway
done
with my food, it's gone all cold and manky. I set out to take 20 minutes
to eat my scrambled eggs this morning, for example, but it ended being
more
like 10, because there's only so much chewing you can do with scrambled
eggs really. And who wants to eat cold scrambled eggs? Not me for one.
Anyway, eating slowly in combination with eating more frequently helps me
to not overeat. It's significantly easier to not wolf down my food when
I'm moderately hungry as opposed to ravenous, and my objective in my food
choices and eating schedule is to make it easier to eat less.

In article <[email hidden]>,

JC Der Koenig said:

Eating slowly helps quite a bit.

--

Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW

--
"Luna" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I've never had the self control for that. When I go all day without
eating, I am so hungry by the time I get home that I end up caring

more

Quoted message said:

about being hungry in the moment than I do about losing weight in the

long

Quoted message said:

term, so I am more likely to make bad food choices.

I used to do that a lot because I was trying the "only eat when you're
hungry" method, but I wouldn't get hungry until late afternoon, and it
would just hit me so hard and so suddently I'd eat everything. Made

no

Quoted message said:

sense either, because only someone who's been lost in the woods for

weeks

Quoted message said:

should be _that_ hungry.

In article <[email hidden]>,
"JC Der Koenig" <[email hidden]> wrote:

> I prefer to fast all day and then eat all my calories at once,

between 6

Quoted message said:

> and
> 7 pm.
>
> --
>
> Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW
>
> --
> "Martha Gallagher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
> news:[email hidden]...
> > Hey ASDLCers,
> >
> > I'm back on the fitday wagon (it's just better that way). One

thing I

Quoted message said:

> > noticed was that my usual calorie intake is like an inverted

pyramid -

Quoted message said:

> > lowest number of calories for breakfast, more for lunch, most for
> > dinner.
> >
> > So, just as an experiment I've decided to try putting my meal

calories

Quoted message said:

> > on
> > a budget. I chose 500 calories per meal because it's enough that

I'm

Quoted message said:

> > not
> > going to be hungry at any meal and if I eat the full 500 at all

meals

Quoted message said:

> > I'm
> > still w/in an ok range for the day. I'm not going out of my way to

up

Quoted message said:

> > my
> > breakfast calories, because I'm happy w/ what I have for breakfast

and

Quoted message said:

> > it
> > keeps me satisfied until lunch time. Besides, keeping that low

gives me

Quoted message said:

> > room for a snack if I want one.
> >
> > Anyone else have a tendency to eat more at night and did you find

that

Quoted message said:

> > spreading the calories out more made it easier for you to

lose/maintain

Quoted message said:

> > your weight?
> >
> > Martha
> >

--
Bob in CT

Bob M wrote:
:: I think eating slowly is a great idea, and I've been trying to make
:: this a habit, too.
::

I think the better question to ask first is do you really eat too fast. If
you're putting food away as a dog would, then it is definitely better to
slow down, putting your folk down every so often and allowing your body to
get the notion that food is coming in and your hunger is being sated.

OTOH, I can't imagine myself ever eating enough eggs at once to take 20
minutes to eat them. 🙂

YMMV.

:: On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:10:06 GMT, Luna
:: <[email hidden]> wrote:
::
::: You know, actually, I've been making a concerted effort to eat more
::: slowly,
::: this past week. It's a bit annoying, because by the time I'm
::: halfway done
::: with my food, it's gone all cold and manky. I set out to take 20
::: minutes to eat my scrambled eggs this morning, for example, but it
::: ended being more
::: like 10, because there's only so much chewing you can do with
::: scrambled eggs really. And who wants to eat cold scrambled eggs?
::: Not me for one. Anyway, eating slowly in combination with eating
::: more frequently helps me to not overeat. It's significantly easier
::: to not wolf down my food when I'm moderately hungry as opposed to
::: ravenous, and my objective in my food choices and eating schedule
::: is to make it easier to eat less.
:::
::: In article <[email hidden]>,
::: "JC Der Koenig" <[email hidden]> wrote:
:::
:::: Eating slowly helps quite a bit.
::::
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::::
:::: Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW
::::
:::: --
:::: "Luna" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
:::: news:[email hidden]...
::::: I've never had the self control for that. When I go all day
::::: without eating, I am so hungry by the time I get home that I end
::::: up caring more about being hungry in the moment than I do about
::::: losing weight in the long term, so I am more likely to make bad
::::: food choices.
:::::
::::: I used to do that a lot because I was trying the "only eat when
::::: you're hungry" method, but I wouldn't get hungry until late
::::: afternoon, and it would just hit me so hard and so suddently I'd
::::: eat everything. Made no sense either, because only someone who's
::::: been lost in the woods for weeks should be _that_ hungry.
:::::
::::: In article <[email hidden]>,
::::: "JC Der Koenig" <[email hidden]> wrote:
:::::
:::::: I prefer to fast all day and then eat all my calories at once,
:::::: between 6 and
:::::: 7 pm.
::::::
:::::: --
::::::
:::::: Eat less, exercise more. -- MFW
::::::
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:::::: "Martha Gallagher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
:::::: news:[email hidden]...
::::::: Hey ASDLCers,
:::::::
::::::: I'm back on the fitday wagon (it's just better that way). One
::::::: thing I noticed was that my usual calorie intake is like an
::::::: inverted pyramid - lowest number of calories for breakfast,
::::::: more for lunch, most for dinner.
:::::::
::::::: So, just as an experiment I've decided to try putting my meal
::::::: calories on
::::::: a budget. I chose 500 calories per meal because it's enough
::::::: that I'm not
::::::: going to be hungry at any meal and if I eat the full 500 at all
::::::: meals I'm
::::::: still w/in an ok range for the day. I'm not going out of my way
::::::: to up my
::::::: breakfast calories, because I'm happy w/ what I have for
::::::: breakfast and it
::::::: keeps me satisfied until lunch time. Besides, keeping that low
::::::: gives me room for a snack if I want one.
:::::::
::::::: Anyone else have a tendency to eat more at night and did you
::::::: find that spreading the calories out more made it easier for
::::::: you to lose/maintain your weight?
:::::::
::::::: Martha
:::::::
:::
::
::
::
:: --
:: Bob in CT

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:47:34 -0500, Roger Zoul <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Bob M wrote:
:: I think eating slowly is a great idea, and I've been trying to make
:: this a habit, too.
::

I think the better question to ask first is do you really eat too fast.
If
you're putting food away as a dog would, then it is definitely better to
slow down, putting your folk down every so often and allowing your body
to
get the notion that food is coming in and your hunger is being sated.

OTOH, I can't imagine myself ever eating enough eggs at once to take 20
minutes to eat them. 🙂

YMMV.

I'm speaking mainly of dinner. For breakfast, I really have to eat
quickly, as I have to get to work. For dinner, I've found that if I eat
slower (like taking a rest between bites) and wait before taking a second
serving (and starting with a small first serving), I can eat less.

--
Bob in CT