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user112256479 · 2025-10-06T15:43:15+00:00

I've always been a grazer, most days the only real meal I eat is dinner. I'm not a big breakfast person, so am up by around 6:30 and mostly don't eat before noon. Not fasting, though, as I have a tea with a splash of milk first thing and then a coffee with a spoonful of creatine and some cream after I walk the dog. It seems to work ok for me, but almost no one seems to eat that way.

SleepQuest33 · 07/10/2025 06:46

I don’t know if you enjoy listen to podcasts but there was recently a good episode on Dr Chatterjee’s (one of my favourites!) with a man called Dr Ben Bikman.

if you can give it a listen but a key message is that from an evolutionary perspective us humans were never meant to eat all day or graze, by doing so you are keeping your insulin levels constantly elevated, not giving your body a chance to stabilise glucose..

I’m going to listen to that episode again as found it very interesting.

Aberdgiibeh · 07/10/2025 06:45

I eat all day but I also eat meals.
If I don’t eat breakfast within 2 hours of getting up I start retching and feel really ill.

I’m trying to reduce the amount I eat a little bit as I have piled on a bit of weight this year and I’m worried about continuing to pile it on. This is easier in the afternoon than the morning, in the mornings I am hungry!

Some of it is definitely boredom or wanting to eat stuff because I like it rather than because I’m hungry and that’s what I’m trying to reduce.

Flooody · 07/10/2025 06:19

Side note
roasted sea bass
creamed spinach
mushroom risotto
salad

bloody hell. He must have used every utensil in the kitchen, spent a small fortune, and been cooking for ages!

added to which… mushroom risotto and roast sea bass - an interesting combo!

Flooody · 07/10/2025 06:17

If you want any practical tips… feel free to dm

Flooody · 07/10/2025 06:16

a few roasted pumpkin and sunflower seeds

you just have had to moisten the tip of your finger to get them up! The fact you have included a few seeds is… odd.

OP I was anorexic for 16 years. 4 years recovered (well as much as a hard core anorexic can ever be, but yes - I think “recovered” is fair within reason), my spidey senses tell me there is more to this.

You wanted people to say how little.
and any response saying otherwise… you banged on about going for a run.

What have me my lightbulb moment was I was 44 and also doing shit like this… and I just thought… life is too short.

Today make a change. Sit down at midday with your husband and eat a proper satisfying decent lunch. And then enjoy a couple of hours without endless pick pick pick.

good luck.

ApplesCrumbleButtons · 06/10/2025 22:37

I just cannot eat like that. I have to eat breakfast and it has to be the same one every day or I don't feel right! It's oats, nuts, Greek yogurt, almond milk, grated apple and blueberries. Usually cold sometimes hot. Sometimes with protein powder. Usually about 8am.

Then have eggs mid morning in some format.

I get a migraine without fail if I don't have breakfast.

Meadowlands · 06/10/2025 22:15

Although I'm not really hungry at breakfast, I make myself eat some - usually a bowl of porridge with mixed seeds and banana.
I find that if I don't, I am so hungry by about 10 that I eat the contents of the kitchen !!

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user112256479 · 06/10/2025 22:08

Glad to see there are a few others who eat like this.

@Anonomoso I could not be trusted with a bag of mini kit kats!

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user112256479 · 06/10/2025 22:06

Rooit14 · 06/10/2025 18:05

Key information..,. BMI?!

any history of an eating disorder in the last op?

And I don't know my BMI. I'm 5'4" and weigh around 55 kilos. I just plugged that in to a calculator which put it at 20.8, which seems pretty middle of the road fine.

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Redpeach · 06/10/2025 21:59

It looks ok to me

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user112256479 · 06/10/2025 21:51

Trentdarkmore · 06/10/2025 18:05

It looks like very little to me.

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It does to me too, but I've subsequently had sea bass roasted with olive oil, butter and white wine, creamed spinach, salad and risotto. Now being followed up with a cup of cocoa made with full fat milk, so I suspect it adds up to someone else's 3 meals.

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user112256479 · 06/10/2025 21:48

@Rooit14 No eating disorder and, no, I don't ordinarily keep a list, just did it for this thread and was actually surprised by how relatively little food it added up to as I felt like I was munching away all day.

When the kids were younger we were obviously doing 3 meals a day plus snacks. We've always done sit down family dinner with candles and conversation. I actually love food and cooking and don't have any foods I don't eat, but do fill up quickly and get tired of what I'm eating and then struggle to eat more. I ate with them when we were home, but have always been more of a grazer than someone who wants a big meal. We did used to bake quite a lot when the DCs were home, but now I only do when they're coming home or we're having guests or entertaining.

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Rooit14 · 06/10/2025 18:07

Did you usually keep a list of
Every mouthful you consume and quantity?

Or did you just sit remember every last bite you’d eaten for this thread and don’t usually tally it up in such detail?

Trentdarkmore · 06/10/2025 18:05

user112256479 · 06/10/2025 17:46

I've just tallied up what I've consumed today since noon. Each line is for a different foray.

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

I honestly have no idea what the calorie count of this would be. Going to try to add it up later. It seems like a lot more food than most people on here eat in a day.

@AmusedMember Just about to go for my run now!

DH is making dinner. It's going to be roasted sea bass, creamed spinach, salad and mushroom risotto (apparently). I'm a small portion dinner eater.

It looks like very little to me.

cupfinalchaos · 06/10/2025 18:05

I eat your way. Nothing till 12ish and then the floodgates open..

Rooit14 · 06/10/2025 18:05

Key information..,. BMI?!

any history of an eating disorder in the last op?

Rooit14 · 06/10/2025 18:02

was this how you ate when you had the children at home?

so only like this when WFH?

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user112256479 · 06/10/2025 17:56

Rooit14 · 06/10/2025 17:52

I'm a small portion dinner eater.

im not surprised. You don’t give yourself the chance to ever feel properly peckish

Yes, that's true. But why is that a bad thing?

Ok, off for my run, but I am interested.

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user112256479 · 06/10/2025 17:55

Rooit14 · 06/10/2025 17:51

because there’s no mention of sitting down with anyone and eating with someone

children?

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Children are university aged. I eat with my husband almost every night, unless one of us has work or an event, and regularly eat at restaurants and with friends and host dinner parties. It's just when left to my own devices, wfh, I graze all day.

On Saturdays, I do pretty much the same during the day, although I'll hang out with DH while he's having lunch, and we tend to be out most Friday and Saturday nights, either socialising or at a restaurant. Sundays we usually cook something together for brunch and dinner, but I definitely eat small amounts.

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Rooit14 · 06/10/2025 17:52

I'm a small portion dinner eater.

im not surprised. You don’t give yourself the chance to ever feel properly peckish

Rooit14 · 06/10/2025 17:51

What happens on holidays?

Rooit14 · 06/10/2025 17:51

because there’s no mention of sitting down with anyone and eating with someone

children?

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user112256479 · 06/10/2025 17:49

@Driftingawaynow Thank you. That's worth keeping in mind.

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user112256479 · 06/10/2025 17:46

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user112256479 · 06/10/2025 17:46

I've just tallied up what I've consumed today since noon. Each line is for a different foray.

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

I honestly have no idea what the calorie count of this would be. Going to try to add it up later. It seems like a lot more food than most people on here eat in a day.

@AmusedMember Just about to go for my run now!

DH is making dinner. It's going to be roasted sea bass, creamed spinach, salad and mushroom risotto (apparently). I'm a small portion dinner eater.

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