What are your daily meal times and how often do you eat?

[Cookie1989]

I’ve been wondering this for a while now as sometimes I get so hungry I get a headache and start shaking, especially my hands.. i will start by listing my daily food diary and it would be interesting to see other people’s routines 😊

5.30am wake up

7am get to work and have one coffee - sometimes have a toast or I wait until my 10am break

10am have a breakfast snack such as toast

1pm have some lunch

4pm get home - usually hungry and end up snacking so badly

6pm is meant to be dinner time but sometimes I don’t bother because I snacked so much at 4pm and am not hungry anymore

Is my routine off? Maybe I need to eat more lunch or something to fill me up until dinner time..

6.45am get up
7am -breakfast
12.30/1pm - lunch
5.30/6.30pm - evening meal

Sometimes a mid-morning snack

I have breakfast 7.30, 11am snack, 1pm lunch, 6pm biscuit and dinner at 8 although I realise I need to add something mid afternoon as often I end up reaching for biscuits as I get a bit of an energy lull

@TheSquitz @ClientQueen

Fair enough-I don’t gave that sort of restriction at work, I manage my own time.

Breakfast.. Normally Porridge at 9

Lunch Sandwich and coffee at 1

Evening meal. Something substantial and hot at 6

Snack around 9. Cheese & biscuits perhaps

It’s like military precision in our house since having children.

Breakfast 6am
Lunch 12am
Dinner 5pm

I used to try and eat later sometimes with my husband but got fed up of preparing tea separately so now we always eat together.

@Winkywoop I like this idea of eating every 3 hours I will try to do this that should stop the hunger

I still get hungry between I am just always ravenous so have to aim for 3 meals and 3 snacks.

For healthy snacks to keep you full, try-
Babybel light
Protein cereal bars
Handful of nuts
Trail mix
Greek yoghurt/skyr (high in protein)
Banana
Peanut butter on rice cakes or apple slices
Homemade savoury egg muffins with veg

But definitely start having a proper breakfast!

Based on your schedule, try

5.30am - protein cereal bar (depending on if you can stomach eating early)
7am- coffee, toast and banana
10am- low fat cheese, a couple of crackers/peanut butter on rice cakes or apple slices
1pm- lunch (what are you eating for lunch generally?)
4pm- another small snack
6pm- dinner

That should then hold you over so you snack less when you get home. But make sure you have a substantial lunch too

I used to get shaky with hunger and did the snacking so much at 4pm that I wasn’t hungry for dinner. Now, I’ve changed my routine and really cut down carbs. If I had a piece of toast or bowl of cereal for breakfast I would be shaking with hunger a couple of hours later.

So, at 8.30ish I have full fat Greek yoghurt with berries, seeds and Cinammon. Or a bowl of porridge with apple. Or scrambled eggs with mushrooms. Something like that - with fat and protein - will keep me full til lunch.

I have lunch around 12 or 12.30 usually - salad with cheese or an omelette and salad or a tuna/chicken salad perhaps. Often a Greek salad with olives and feta.

Dinner at 5pm with the kids. Bolognese with fried courgettes or a chicken curry with green beans or salmon with lentils and salsa - again it’s mainly fat and protein with plenty of vegetables.

I’ll have a couple of black coffees in the morning and loads of water and herbal tea throughout the day and evening.

I haven’t had the shaky hunger since I started eating this way and I never get the 4pm insatiable need for snacks! It’s about avoiding the blood sugar crashes.

Don't eat toast or cereal if you want to feel full

Similar timings to you
Up @5:30 coffee and fruit
At desk for 8 more coffee and bannana or youghurt, berries and granola
12-1pm lunch salad with some protien, soup or left overs
5pm home try to limit snacks often have crackers and cheese/nuts with fruit eg apple or carrot sticks
7-7:30 dinner.
If DH is out I will skip the 5pm snacks and eat with Dcs around 6.

I am 165cm weigh 58kg BMI 21
I am hungrey for every meal.

Up 6:45 ish, cup of tea (with milk)
7-ish porridge; coffee (unadulterated)
9-ish poached egg on toast (after the gym)
10:30ish coffee
12-ish bowl of salad (literally just salad: lettuce, tomato, cucumber, celery, pickled onion; I prefer to eat between 1 and 2 but husband gets ratty); cup of tea
mid-afternoon coffee, fruit
hot meal somewhere between 5:15 and 7:00 depending on activities - default is 6:15; cup of tea afterwards
early-mid evening: fruit, vanilla milk coffee, possibly handful of mixed nuts (I have finally finished my Christmas sweeties so don't need to report those )