To not understand the point of 'snacking'

[Phillipaaa]

I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. I have never aten between or after meals. The reason for this is because I wasn't brought up with it.

I'm not hungry inbetween meals but then I do have decent sized portions for each meal.

I'd never be someone to sit down after evening meal with a packet of crisps.

Is this really unusual? when I go to my friends houses they seem to be constantly eating.

What's the point of a lot of things other than that they give pleasure?

Music, to, sex (when not ttc).

You seem to have little imagination .

I like to go to bed a little bit hungry.

Couldn't eat at 8pm I'd feel horribly full for bed.

Everyone is different.

I just thinks snacking has become a culture thing in the uk. And it's often not healthy snacks.

I will eat an ice cream on the beach or eat outside of meals sometimes but generally speaking and the vast majority of the time I do not eat inbetween meals.

Pretty unusual, yes, OP.

Doesn't it make life interesting, how we're all different?

Groundbreaking OP. Groundbreaking stuff.

When are your mealtimes op?

I've always felt rather odd for not snacking! In many office environs I have worked in people graze virtually all day on top of their proper breakfasts and lunches.

Of course, I don't have any particular feelings on what other people do with their diets, I just can't imagine how you would ever want to eat meals when you never stop eating in between!

My dad was in the navy and hates snacking, likes three square meals and an early dinner.

My mum had to deal with two children who lost significant amounts of weight as children due to undiagnosed allergies. Advised not to give us food complexes there was ALWAYS food to snack on. Fruit in the fruit bowl and toast and snacky things were around for us to have and we didn't have to ask for permission.

I do snack around 3 pm to keep me going until dinner but have cut down snacks massively since starting an office job. It is a habit. you can snap out of it.

Eating supper at 17.30 is an anethema to me.

I eat what I want, when I want; having said that eating at such an early hour would not suit me at all.

Contradictory, moi?

OP some people are just greedy bastards and like eating; others have eating disorders and can't control it. HTH.

Well bully for you.

This thread is making me want to snacks.
Delicious snacks.

I eat at breakfast at 7am, snack at 9.30ish, snack again at 11.30ish, then at lunch at 1pm, small snack at 4pm, eat dinner at 6pm, or have a small snack and eat at 8pm, have a snack later if ate at 6pm.

I've spent most of my adult life having a BMI between 17and 18 which has now crept up to 19 post baby. I'm in no danger of becoming obese through snacking.

I have breakfast at 6am, lunch between 1 and 2pm, 3pm if I am busy, diner around 9pm. So yes, I get hungry and I do snack, a lot. If I don't, I over eat at my main meals anyway. It depends what people snack with though.

I do agree the constant snacking of junk food is a big reason for the obesity problem. For many people, snacking seems to mean: pack of crisps, biscuits, chocolate and all sort of rubbish. They simply eat too many calories.

I had an eating disorder because my bastard exh kept calling me fat so I starved myself.
Been in recovery for a while now and if I want a snack I'll have one and to hell what anyone else thinks.
Ive been to hell and back wondering what others think

I don't get why some people eat their evening meal at 5.30. It would feel totally alien to me to sit down for a big dinner at what is for me, the middle of the afternoon.

Because many people have children who go to bed at 6.30 - 7pm.

Mine are teenagers now but we still eat as a family at 5.30pm, because that's the time that suits us.

Do you have a job, OP?

Congratulations .. you have managed to go through life without developing any emotional issues tied to food.

You appear to be in the eat to live not live to eat category ... not all of us are

Jeremy, is that you?

PortiaCastisGood for you being in recovery, I hope it's going well!
I was in a ED recovery in house around 8 years ago, and we had three meals and two snacks a day, so I wouldn't feel bad about snacking at all - it's encouraged for a healthy diet!

Try this OP

It's healthy to eat every 3-4h to balance your sugar levels, feel better and have less body fat. Personally, if I don't eat for 5h, I get headachy, dizzy and nauseous... Also, I was brought up on 4 meals a day and that's what I do these days: breakfast 8.00, lunch 12.00, snack 4.00, dinner 8.00.

And the other part of the question about people having less healthy food, i.e. Crisps and chocolate frequently... well, the UK is the fatest nation in Europe and a lot of people have pretty poor habits.

Nice comment about Jayden and Chelsea you bore.

I notice you didn't pick up the 'nice' comment about Joshua and Sebastian earlier up thread.

The word 'snack' grips my shit. I still do it though!

Have some OP

I'm a healthy weight. I hate feeling full, so eat small main meals with healthy snacks in between. Dinner is 8pm.
Nothing to 'get' about that, is there?

I have breakfast between 5-6am and it I didn't snack I'd want my lunch by 10am. I don't snack unhealthily though - usually have boiled eggs, or nuts etc.