To ask if anyone else eats all day?

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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.

I graze, like you no breakfast.

But I'm a serial...not cereal, grazer.

I start eating about midday then graze through until I realise it's a hour or so until it's time to start prepping dinner by which time, for me, I could do without as I'm full from the continuous grazing.

I've never been one for eating breakfast but really need to lose weight so the grazing has to go.
This week was supposed to be the 'Monday', the one where you make a conscious effort, the fridge is adequately stocked with Greek yogurt and fresh fruit, freezer stocked with frozen berries and cupboard with an array of nuts, all bought in the hope of being eaten and full of protein/fiber to keep me fuller until lunchtime.

But I popped out to do the rounds of chores that needed doing, somehow ended up on a shopping complex and just grabbed easy to open packets once home at 2 o'clock, when really hungry... ham, crisps, toasted some (decent) bread, bar of chocolate I'd bought to use in some baking.
I've stopped buying snack bars as in kitkat type bars as I'd eat 3 or 4 straight, so that's one good point.

It's definitely emotional eating with me...boredom most of the time.
Fine when out and about and occupied but once indoors, no matter what work needs doing it's a different story.

If i didn't have kids I'd just graze and often do in the evening instead of eating dinner.

I do eat breakfast though as I want the first thing I eat each day to be healthy.

Off topic slightly but I think creatine is supposed to be mixed with cold drinks for greater effectiveness.

Im the same, just graze, but What is creatine

I know, and mixing it into coffee isn't the best method either, I think because coffee is a mild diuretic, but it means I get it down pretty much every day, which I assume is better than nothing. Which is about as close to living on the edge as I get 😊

@Redpeach It's an amino acid that is supposed to be good for endurance and brain function. I read something a while ago saying it's good for cognitive function for women who don't get quite enough sleep. I don't know if that's true, but I figure it can't hurt.

Creatine is an organic compound not an amino acid.

Its amazing for women, we should all be on it.

When I started working from home I started grazing because the kitchen is open 24/7. 7kg later and I’m looking for a hybrid job because my waist line is suffering.

I'm glad to see there are a few others who do this.

I'm working on something today that's involved a lot of waiting for bits of information from several that I then need to synthesise and I've noticed that every time I'm in between, I've got my head in the fridge (or cupboard).

It's a compound of three amino acids

https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-creatine/art-20347591

@user112256479 yes exactly. It’s made of 3 amino acids but it is an organic compound not an amino acid. There is a big difference.

Me. I only tend to eat dinner.

I must admit tho, I've recently taken up running, now managing 5k at a time, so I've tried to eat some small protein based meals. Still can't do breakfast tho!

If I wasn't running I wouldn't be trying eat during the day!

Skip breakfast, might snack on something during the day and just eat dinner early, otherwise don’t really eat these days

Creatine not always ideal if you have cancer, just saying

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

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

children?

What happens on holidays?

I'm a small portion dinner eater.

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

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.

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

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

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

so only like this when WFH?

Key information..,. BMI?!

any history of an eating disorder in the last op?

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

It looks like very little to me.

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?