To ask if anyone else eats all day?

[user112256479]

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.

Yes, I do think there's a genetic component to it as my Mum is similar and one of my DC is too, and we're all of normal weight and healthy too.

just potential diabetes or some other health problem linked to diet!

Do you mean because of the food choices or from frequency?

Yes, I think it's partially everyone seeming to monitor their blood sugar and talking about the benefits of fasting that's got me thinking about this.

The only days I have like this are when I have a bit of a “nothing day” and I’m bored, thankfully very rarely!

do you have a daughter?

Yes

I don't actually bring snacks out with me. I'm perfectly capable of going without, but then still fill up quickly at meals.

It's my preferred way to eat, but I can cope on the frequent occasions life doesn't lend itself to that.

And have you told her as many times as you’ve mentioned on this thread how you quickly you get full up and can only handle small portions?

Presumably you’re at home…. A lot

I guess I’m a faster, although I don’t label it as such, it’s just the way I eat. I never, ever graze.

I don’t have breakfast and typically, won’t eat anything until 2pm at the earliest. Yesterday that comprised of two rice cakes with houmous. I then have dinner at about 8. I didn’t bother with dinner yesterday as my husband is away and he’s the cook. But normally it would be something like salmon with lentils or baked vegetables.

I’m thin, but I really have to watch what I eat as I put weight on very easily. So yesterday, I ate sod all, but most days I aim to stick to 1000 calories or fewer.

Until university, she'd been living with me since birth, and she's not unobservant, so it's not like it's happening in secret. It's a bit of a family joke that someone else will always finish my meal in a restaurant, and sometimes they tell me (jokingly) to order something they like. But she's more of a meal eater than I am, so if you're hoping I've created an eating disorder in my DD I think you'll be disappointed.

Presumably you’re at home…. A lot

I work mostly from home, so tend to be home about 2 or 3 days a week, although that varies depending on what projects I'm doing, and in and out on weekends. I assume you're making some kind of unpleasant, unhelpful implication here, but it's going over my head. Would you like to spell it out?

And have you told her as many times as you’ve mentioned on this thread how you quickly you get full up and can only handle small portions?

This thread is literally about that. It's the point of it. I suppose everything that everyone posts about is assumed to be a constant topic of constant conversation irl?

That's not a lot of food. Just frequent eating mayb, try eating full meals should help you go 3 to 4 hours between eating.

similar story here, so I made myself some simple granola and a simple blueberry compote (going to try strawberry then cherry next) to freeze and add Greek yog to a jar the night before, top with a cube of frozen compote so it defrosts and in the morning I mix it with flaxseeds add some granola and its a very fast breakfast. Breakfast was always a chore. I have it with water and tea. Lunch is always the issue unless I have left overs.

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

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?

If you have something to add that's pertinent to my question, I'm happy to engage in good faith. If you're just coming on because you think it's an opportunity to be rude to someone, maybe at least read all my posts first? It's not difficult.

I've answered that question at least once.

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.

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!

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?

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

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 😢)

Yes, it's pretty much exactly this for me!

@Mangoduck

I don't know. I don't have any real plans to retire as I love what I'm doing an only take on projects that I'm interested in. And, as I've said several times, it tends to be when I'm trying to really synthesise a lot of information into a coherent whole and I tend to get up and pace around, look out at the garden, etc. while I'm thinking. Out of curiosity, what does 'get on with living' mean? I'm curious what you think I'm missing out on.

I've never mixed kimchi and smoked salmon, might have to try that!

@Thatmoves

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?

As I've said, it tends to be while I'm working, so neither bored nor at a loose end, just fidgety and hungry (I think). I don't know. We live in London so I tend to do quite a bit of walking - 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 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

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

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 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!!