i haven't had 3 meals in a day in years
i eat when i feel like it, which is more like 1 meal plus a few snacks per day
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Do what you need for your body to function properly. If that's the 3 meals a day deal then fine. If you eat small items throughout the day to maintain energy levels for health reasons or because that's how your body operates best is fine as well. We are seriously hitched up on this stupid concept of "normality" in society.
What about a second breakfast?
My worker eats 4 to 5 small meals over the course of a 12hr work day. One of these is second breakfast which he sings as he brings it to the microwave.
3 meals a day are fine. So are two meals a day or five. That was precisely MFK Fisher's point, paraphrased in the article's introduction. What you eat and how much are far the more important concerns.
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We? 3 meals a day is warranted for manual labor-heavy jobs (like farmer, construction). I, in IT&tech, eat breakfast, maybe a snack if it's long inbetween and cook something at evening.
I often do heavy work and still usually skip breakfast, sometimes lunch too, eating just dinner then second dinner in the evening.
This is the way.
Same here, I eat when I need to. Breakfast often doesn't agree with me.
Is this a bunch of bots or does nobody else have blood sugar.
People that are fit don't have to worry about blood sugar.
Type 1 diabetes is a thing.
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You don't get sugar crashes if you don't eat copious amounts of sugar
Your body starts producing sugar for you to eat if you fast too long. That's why they tell diabetics to eat or snack every 2ish hours. To keep your glucose level
It doesn't produce a huge amount of glucose, mainly a baseline to keep your brain fed. The rest of your body just starts using different sources for food because it generally doesn't need glucose.
Your body prefers to consume glycogen, which your liver produces from glucose. Most people's livers store enough to go about a day if they aren't participating in strenuous activities.
Also, diabetics are told to eat snacks throughout the day because it can be dangerous for them to eat large meals. Large meals often mean a lot of sugar, and since they either can't produce insulin or are resistant to it, they can't easily signal to their fat cells to store the excess energy
I get them at around 11 in the morning. I eat wholemeal bread with no sugar crunchy peanut butter for breakfast.
Bread and peanut butter are both relatively large sources of sugar…
Depends on exactly what peanut butter you buy, but the popular ones do have a lot of sugar
Maybe your trouble is the bread. Wholemeal are carbs and carbs are sugar. The sugarless peanut butter should not be causing any sugar crashes.
Caveat. Not a trained specialist here. Just someone who has been trying to sort my issues out and wanting to share.
I just eat whenever I feel hungry on no particular schedule. It is 6:43 PM where I am at and I only ate two hard-boiled eggs ten minutes ago all day. Lololol.
Now try feeding an entire family a healthy diet.
Easy. Pot of seasoned beans.
Bowls of Rae-Juusto with tomatoes in vinegar on the side.
Caprese Salad.
1.5kg of blueberries.
Bunch of boiled eggs with some seasoned broccoli.
(These are all separate meals btw)
Spinach, tomato, feta, olive salad with a bit of olive oil.
A wok of stir fried Bok Choy with garlic and shiitake mushrooms.
Stir fried portabello Mushrooms, bellpeppers and onions with oyster sauce.
Baked potato that's mashed into with chuncks of sausage.
Chickpeas with fried eggs and curry.
Lentil, potato, and carrot paste boiled with chicken stock and mashed together with a touch of butter and eaten as a sandwich with some fried eggplant slices.
And on weekends, for something fancier, maybe a kilo of smoked salmon with bread, or some whole pork neck I cut from a bulk package and marinaded earlier in the week with broccolinni on the side, or some grilled pork chops with grilled spring onions and steamed sugarsnaps 🫛
I don't have kids but I do have 2 (maybe 3 soon?) partners to feed, and adults eat more than kids 😅
So I can say these feeds 3-4 adults
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Brave of you to assume we all eat 3 a day.
I haven't eaten three meals a day in probably 20 years.
I'm always surprised when people say they eat breakfast before work. How do they have time for that? I usually have something around 10 or 11, then an apple or cheese stick or cookie or whatever i can find when i get home around 5, then dinner around 7 or 8. I guess that counts as 3.
How do they have time for that?
I get up at 5:45, bathroom, get dressed until about 6:15, eat breakfast (sandwich and coffee) until 6:40, commute 20 minutes, start work at 7.
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I'm already on a 1 meal a day over the course of the entire day diet due to poverty. Like not even a big meal. Today my entire days supply of food is going to be a sandwich. I don't think I need to skip my only meal for the day.
I actually am very lucky to do a lot of foraging that when it's a good year, supplement what little foods I can buy so it's not all bad, but I am not eating well. I don't think many people in America are right now.
I grew up in childhood on one meal a day (or one meal every two days often as not) due to poverty, and I guess it set up a pattern - I very rarely eat three meals a day in adulthood. I used to always skip breakfast (nowadays I tend to just have a yoghurt with my coffee mostly because I tell myself it'll be healthy, not because I'm hungry), and then I usually have lunch OR dinner, but very rarely both.
Of course, when I was young I was horribly thin (6'3" and 110lbs when I left home at 18), now I eat considerably more, so that changed - but the meal habits didn't.
Have you applied to SNAP and checked out local food pantries? If you’re down to a sandwich a day I promise that’s what they’re there for! I know availability for services is locally dependent, but I hope you can find something.
Yeah I'm on Medicare but I only get like 37 a month or something on ebt. I'm making too much money for most public assistance as I've been on disability for something for decades, but I managed to find a job with decent pay I can actually hold and have been trying to get fully independent. It hasn't been going well. I'm making too much money for help, but not enough to live.
Still a hell of a lot better where I was like a decade ago. I used to be entirely homeless before I got help. I'm barely surviving but at least I'm doing it with a roof over my head. My situation sucks but I'm one of the lucky ones. Most people like me just fall through the cracks and never get back out.
There’s a food bank in my town (we donate to it) where you can walk in and take food, no questions asked. I have to think there’s something like that near you?
There is but it's not a walk in affair. It has too many people depending on it and not enough food. I'm not exaggerating when I say unless you show up 4 to 5 hours early, there's a solid chance you won't be getting anything. It only runs every first and third Wednesday of a. Month, and you need proof of residency, a utility bill, a photo ID, and proof you're on ebt to get signed up. It's not a reliable source of food. Once or twice a year If there is simply no other way I'll take the gamble and wait and hope I get there early enough to get something good, but I usually try to fend for myself.
I live in a very rual area and they have very limited resources for people who need help. We don't have any public transportation whatsoever. It's not an easily surviveable place for people in poverty, I'm extremely lucky to have a job out here. I just don't have the resources to leave. No family, no real friends, no money or savings. It's a bad situation. I've been in it for years.
I appreciate the help and advice, but I'm not a good target for it.
Well that sucks, I’m sorry to hear that. If only we lived in a country that bothers to take care of its people.
Are there churches that do stuff? Or a Sikh community? My church has a free meal after the last Sunday service and they have a fridge sitting outside their hall where you can leave and take meals.
I don't want to talk too much about what's around me just out of data privacy reasons but I appreciate the help. I'll figure it out. I've been living like this for years and I'm fine.
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ADHD, I usually eat when i get the shakes.
It's like a built in alarm!
Who is 'we' exactly? Did I need someone's permission?
I'm not reading the article because I'm lazy.
My mother. We had a strict 3 meals a day and were always hungry.
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