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.

No idea why hidden!

I was just pointing out that you must spend so much time in the kitchen grazing like this?!

and also wondering if you’d could counted 4 gummies and whether you even chew a “few roasted” seeds?

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No. I eat meals. Breakfast is my favourite (but never ever cereal) then coffee & cake at mid-morning. Light lunch, then mid-afternoon tea with fruit or a biscuit, then mainly veg-based dinner. BMI 19.

Not usually no. I don’t enjoy the feeling of “being full”, I prefer to get hungry and then eat something and then stop.

I also graze. Today I’ve eaten a bowl of cereal, a piece of toast with 2 poached eggs, a wispa and 2 plain tortilla wraps. Later I won’t want tea and if I didn’t have kids I’d prob just have soup or something and then maybe an apple and then a biscuit but will prob end up having a small portion of whatever I make for tea tonight instead

Yes, I tend to get up and pace around when I'm working on something that requires me to synthesise a lot of information to put it together, which is what I was doing yesterday, and I kept finding myself in the pantry or with my head in the fridge. That was sort of the point of this thread. But if you look at the list, the only thing that took any time was heating the soup, everything else was just there.

Re the seeds, I roast a pan of them with olive oil and salt and a little cayenne and leave them in a bowl, so will grab a few periodically. It's not like I'm pecking at one seed at a time. And I added up what I ate for this thread, so, yeah, 4 Haribos.

@Ooogle Nice to see another fellow grazer.

I don’t follow meal times, or the clock. I eat when I’m properly hungry, like stomach rumbling. So some days, if I’ve been really busy (am a dog walker so sometimes walk for two or three hours a day) I will eat more, on less active days less. I think it balances out over a few days. The only time I’ve eaten my emotions was when I was bereaved, and it resulted in weight gain quite quickly. When I was a teacher I had three meals a day, and no snacks. About the same weight now as I was then.

One egg and half a chicken thigh isn't much protein. Your snacks are all really healthy though. So it's not that much calories at all.

Are you slim/healthy weight?

On the back of this thread, I weighed myself this morning. I'm 5'4" and was 54 kilos, which is pretty much my set point, so I'd say a fairly healthy weight.

I also had some nut butter and barley, both of which had protein. And then fish and spinach and a cup of whole milk in hot chocolate later, so I'd think that's a decent amount of protein in the course of a day?

I was told the same thing when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There's concerns regarding metastasis. My oncologist told me to avoid especially as I have a gene mutation.

A good portion of your life must be spent with your head in the fridge!

Even if I actively wanted to eat like this, I think I’d adjust it because it seems to make the day so food focussed and whilst I enjoy food - I don’t really fancy spending a good proportion of the day fiddling around with bits and pieces here and there. I just like to eat a good lunch., clear away bits and then next time i think about food is.. dinner

What time do you stop eating in the evening? If you don't start eating until 12 and stop eating at say 8pm you are getting a 16 hour fast each day which will help to mitigate a lot if the negatives of constant eating between 12 and 8. Just make sure you are eating enough healthy calories to maintain good bone density and muscle mass.

How old are you?

When you go on holiday, how does your stomach adapt to eating meals with family every day consecutively?

presuming you don’t graze throughout the day on holiday?!

Must be a serious meal or are you very slender Co I need 2000+ calories a day. That would be a big plate of food.

Feeling I might be alone in eating 3 meals a day of average size. Am and pm biscuit but no other snacks.

It seems to work ok for me, but almost no one seems to eat that way.

who? Your friends? Family?

or mumsnetters responding to “what do you eat in a day” threads?

I'd say I generally have stopped eating by 9 during the week - we tend to eat pretty late now that we're (mostly) empty nesters, it's often later on weekends if we're out or entertaining. I have a cup of warm milk with collagen and cocoa powder almost every weeknight and don't tend to have that until 10 or 11, so my fast is shorter than that.

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

does your DH usually go to that kind of effort of Monday dinner when he’s largely feeding himself?

is that ancient and brave? Recommend?

How old are you?
When you go on holiday, how does your stomach adapt to eating meals with family every day consecutively?
presuming you don’t graze throughout the day on holiday?!

I'm 59.

No, I don't graze through the day on holiday. I adapt fine, but still fill up quickly so often come back having lost a couple of pounds, particularly if it's a very active holiday.

who? Your friends? Family?
or mumsnetters responding to “what do you eat in a day” threads?

I think it's a combination of the 'what do you eat in a day' and fasting threads and lots of friends having done Zoe and talking about their glucose monitors and what foods make them spike, etc. It had never really occurred to me before all of this that the way I eat might be unhealthy. My mum is a bit of a grazer too (funnily enough, she's a doctor) and one of my DCs is. My husband and the other two DCs tend to eat bigger meals and not really eat in between.

Well, he's feeding both of us. It's just that mine tends to be a small portion.

I'm cooking tonight and I'm making pasta alla norma, Italian sausage on the side and a chickpea, red pepper and rocket salad. I'd say that's pretty typical. We both enjoy cooking and hanging out together while one of us is making dinner.

Collagen - I mix marine and ancient and brave bovine as I understand one is good for skin/nails and one for joints. Probably all hype, but I don't think it's harming me.

Yep, I'm a grazer too. It started when I was home with small children. I think it just relieved the boredom and then became a habit.

And now 20+ years later I'm desperately trying to lose it.

I kinda wish I did just graze. I'm a binge eater and always have been since the age of about 13. Stuff happened in my life then, and I used food as a coping mechanism. But I'm now a chunky monkey. 5ft 6 and 14 stone.

I don't eat breakfast or lunch ..... then I get home and binge. On occasion I've been forced to take lunch to work and I'll eat it at 9am because its there.

I've noticed that every time I'm in between, I've got my head in the fridge (or cupboard).

Don’t you get…. A bit bored of this?

Nicky Tebay

Ooh sorry no idea where that name came from!

No, not really.