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To be hungry (and grumpy) 5 hours from eating kui?

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WhatGoesHere · 17/03/2025 20:59

I eat breakfast at 7:15/30am, lunch at 12:30, so 5 ish hours between, no issues. But... If I'm not eating dinner by 5:30, 6pm at the absolute latest... I'm such a grumpy cow. Is this normal?

I can't work out what the difference is? It's the same time between meals?

Maybe I should just have a biscuit or banana or something at 4 to tide me over?

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WhatGoesHere · 18/03/2025 10:20

ErrolTheDragon · 18/03/2025 08:01

Maybe a different eating pattern would suit you better. Are you hungry in the morning? I find I’m not, so I don’t eat till lunchtime just teas and a milky coffee mid morning suit me. And then I can have lunch, a mid afternoon snack of something like blueberries, Greek yogurt and nuts and then dinner.
That sort of pattern may or may not suit you, and of course as others have said what you eat matters as well as when you eat it.

Not a Kui or anything related to dragons though. Dragon

I'm hungry at all meals (mostly because I don't eat between meals I think)

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ErrolTheDragon · 18/03/2025 08:01

Maybe a different eating pattern would suit you better. Are you hungry in the morning? I find I’m not, so I don’t eat till lunchtime just teas and a milky coffee mid morning suit me. And then I can have lunch, a mid afternoon snack of something like blueberries, Greek yogurt and nuts and then dinner.
That sort of pattern may or may not suit you, and of course as others have said what you eat matters as well as when you eat it.

Not a Kui or anything related to dragons though. Dragon

GoldenJay · 18/03/2025 07:37

Hahah apart from the kui 🤣, try to get more protein and fibre in your meals - it will keep you full for ages.
I usually have breakfast around 9ish, at least 30-50 grams of protein, that keeps me full until 3ish, sometimes even longer, and then lunch again at least 40g protein in the meal and then usually I have a very small dinner around 8ish, well more like a snack dinner. Sometimes I don’t even feel hungry so just have some yoghurt/cheese with grapes or sometime.
but yes protein and fibre is your answer.

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WhatGoesHere · 18/03/2025 07:16

I tend to have eggs for breakfast. Maybe pasta Bolognese and salad for lunch. All similar portions.

Maybe I'll try a bit more protein and have a snack.

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Jshrbt · 18/03/2025 07:10

I eat dinner late and have to eat something between lunch and dinner as too long between meals makes me grumpy and my energy lapse

Therehastobemoretolife · 18/03/2025 07:08

#FREETHEKUI

mindutopia · 18/03/2025 06:58

I think it’s quite normal for blood sugar drop mid afternoon. In the first few hours after waking, you probably don’t need much energy and you have been resting all night. But 8 hours after waking, you’re tired, kui or no kui. Energy levels are not just about food intake and calories. 5:30/6pm is an early dinner. It sounds like you need to have a snack in the afternoon.

Hobbitfeet32 · 18/03/2025 06:48

Try adding some celery with the kui. That should make you feel stuffed.

Footle · 18/03/2025 06:48

Be glad the kui didn’t eat you. Or your knephew.

Fatloss · 18/03/2025 06:31

Thank you for this thread it’s just what I needed. I often feel hungry again quite soon after a Chinese meal. What was the hunt like? 🤣

real answer - yes maybe a banana and are you drinking enough?

AutumnNymph · 18/03/2025 06:21

It's not you that's hungry for dinner OP, it's the kui. The poor thing must be tired ans starving.

Ps kui also wants chocolate and dessert as snacks.

Eachpeachpearprune · 18/03/2025 06:19

This is hilarious 😆
But to answer your intended question…

I eat at 7.30, 12.30 and 5 (mainly due to kids but I’m always hungry at these times now!)
What are you having for breakfast and lunch?

Serpentstooth · 18/03/2025 06:16

Get a couple of Unicorn Snax OP and keep them in your bag. Very filling.

haveyouopenedyourbowelstoday · 18/03/2025 06:12

As Kui would be I suppose very high in protein I’m surprised you are hungry after eating. It depends on how much you actually ate. Or is it like the famous MN chicken?

Londonrach1 · 18/03/2025 06:06

Where did you find the kui op?

CharlotteBakewell · 18/03/2025 06:04

Release the Kui…

Deerrobin · 18/03/2025 05:58

Depends on what you’re having for breakfast / lunch but adding a bit more protein and/or a protein based snack mid-afternoon snack might be a good shout.

iseenyouwithkefir · 18/03/2025 04:32

If you've eaten an ox-dragon, then I think that there is some kind of stark, bleak, Greek Mythology-style justice in your having been turned into a cow.

BoxOfCats · 18/03/2025 04:23

I'd be grumpy if all I'd eaten was kui too.

coffy11 · 18/03/2025 03:40

Try having snacks in between your meals. I can't go more than a few hours before eating.

LunaNorth · 18/03/2025 03:36

If’s probably the kui-hunting process that’s using more energy, thus making you hungrier before dinner.

Try taking a couple of bananas - one for energy, one to lure the kui with.

SiobhanSharpe · 18/03/2025 02:37

WhatGoesHere · 17/03/2025 21:31

Oh god... It's supposed to say Lunch 🤣🤣

Err -- thank you. That's a relief, kui certainly sounds a tad filling.

KayDog · 17/03/2025 21:45

OMG I see a classic coming on! #savethekui

UnctuousUnicorns · 17/03/2025 21:34

Notonyourjelly · 17/03/2025 21:07

@SiobhanSharpe I googled kui -

"Kui is a half-ox, half-dragon being that can create melodious sounds and bring peace and tranquility"

So quite a substantial meal.

A kui is for life, not just for lunch.
#savethekui

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WhatGoesHere · 17/03/2025 21:31

Oh god... It's supposed to say Lunch 🤣🤣

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