To ask if anyone else eats all day?

I recognise this OP @user112256479 from a thread in the ED forum and the basis of that… I suspect the purpose of this thread is for the OP to get reassurance that in fact she’s not eating much at all.

I wonder if this is the OP that the OP the other day started a thread about her DM and her “tiny” portions 😆 .

I laugh but actually… must be pretty awful having this repeatedly rammed down your throat that your mum can only manage small portions

What a weird thread.

The OP needs to be signposted to the Eating Disorders chat. One minute the OP says she eats a lot, one minute a little, one minute a grazer, then next only rarely grazes. and YES WE KNOW you like small portions!!

Look after yourself

The only time ive ever eaten 3 meals a day is when im oregnant other than that I have nothing but drinks until tea time mostly with the occasional snack

A grazer to me is someone that eats all day . Not 3 square meals ,

Just asking OP, have you got a history of eating disorders or body image anxiety? You seem to want some kind of validation that you're eating a small amount on your post or you wouldn't have posted this?

Because of your insulin levels.

Greetings, I've only just seen your post this evening
God Bless You
I'm wondering about the effects of grazing too
On Friday I was informed conflicting advice as my Blood Sugar thumb prick reading was 6.9
Nurse said it was ok ish but most surely, didn't seem convincing 😔
Since some have said I'm prediabetic, someone even said they thought this meant full blown diabetes
So I empathise with your concerns too
Wishing you all the utmost very best
💚🙏💚

I have a hot drink about noon,my main meal at about 3/4 then some berries about 5ish when I cook for my girls,that's all I eat everyday

I don't focus on my food. I just try to eat a freshly cooked meal once a day. I'll have a small breakfast sometimes and if I fancy anything in between, I'll have it. I don't beat myself up if I indulge in a croissant or treat. I focus more on being outside, walking, exercising, gardening. Life's too short to worry about whether I eat more/less or better/worse than others. As long as my clothes still fit, that's fine.

Why hidden?

1 Hard boiled egg, 1 organic rye cracker with butter
left over steamed tender stem broccoli dipped in yuzu mayo
1/2 mug of left over vegetable barley soup (homemade)
1 apple dipped in kefir yoghurt
a few roasted pumpkin and sunflower seeds
4 Haribo gummies
1/2 leftover chicken thigh (with skin) and a few forkfuls of kimchi
1/4 of a mango
1 cup matcha
1 cup tea with milk, organic rye cracker with nut butter and thin smear of raspberry jam

and this is all in separate trips to the kitchen 😳

I can’t make head nor tail whether @user112256479 eats all day and spends her time peering into the kitchen cupboards for food to graze on…. Or she doesn’t because she lives a very full life meeting friends, doing yoga and on charity meetings!!

A mixture (I admit that I like chocolate, and there is sugar in everything these days!), plus a genetic test suggested possibly being more prone to diabetes.

I already walk the highly energetic dog, walk to shops, the gym, yoga, coffee, friends' houses, meetings for the charity I'm involved with. I'm not sure I need more.

so why start a thread about how you spend the day with your “head in the fridge or cupboard” and “eat all day”?

but then go to pains to tell us how actually.,, you don’t!

Baffling

So you don’t generally eat all day as per your thread title? Only when you are WFH, so 2-3 days a week, and only when you have a lot of information to synthesise

Ok

We’re complete opposites. I LOVE food and love eating lots of different things through the day rather than just three big meals. I’m quite small and struggle to eat a lot in one go so grazing allows me to eat all the different things I would like to eat in a day without feeling stuffed or overfull. I’m not saying this is the right way, but it has always worked for me (until the menopause hit and now I’m having to accept that I can’t eat all the things I want to it a day without getting fatter 😢)

Although if you’re happy with spending so much of your life in the kitchen with your head in the fridge or cupboard, which you appear to be, crack on

My great aunt is like this whenever I pop in to see her. Nibble nibble nibble. You can only eat like this if you’re at home most of the day and surely quite bored or at a loose end.

Next time you find yourself wandering to the kitchen, divert course to front door and go out for a walk, return home and make a sandwich?

Oooh massive kimchi lover here!

but not just a tablespoon and then depart kitchen!

I have it with two poached eggs on sourdough and either avocado or smoked salmon. In fact… that’ll be dinner tomorrow! Deeeeeelicious!

How far off retirement are you? Looks like you’ll spend it in the kitchen grazing!

all the back and forth back and forth…. Sounds so tedious to me to spend a day like this. The total food consumed though seems healthy and adequate by the end of the day but I honestly don’t have the time or inclination to be spending 2/3 days a week eating like this.

I’m definitely a 3 meals, done, dusted and get on with living type.

Fine if WFH and no especially preoccupied

But what about the 2/3 days you’re in the office? Do you pack a suitcase of little snacks?

I’m not clear whether the op thinks it’s a lot or a little? 😵‍💫