Living The Lifestyle 7/10/25
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Each weekday, a new topic is offered up for discussion.
Monday - crewahl (Charlie)
Tuesday – Wildcard
Wednesday-misterhub (Greg)
Thursday -imastar2 (Derrick)
Friday - Wildcard
Today's Topic: Appetite control. How do you control your daily Appetite. Does a snack between meals help? We won't go there if it's a healthy snack. Do you eat more at one meal over another? Do you even have a plan to stave off a raging appetite?
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”Appetite” is an interesting choice of words, Derrick. It’s somewhere on the continuum between hunger and craving, but it can probably slide either way as needed. For now, I’m going to define it for myself as something between a desire to eat and a craving. In other words, for purposes of this question I’m excluding the concept of hunger because I suspect we all agree it’s reasonable to eat when you’re hungry.
So, with all that bulls*** dealt with . . . . . 😉
I largely try to avoid getting into situation where I’m overtaken with an urge to eat something. Part of that I deal with by having regular meals with protein, which keeps my appetite from being roused by mere hunger. My meals are fairly consistent in size, although my routine breakfast is three points and my routine lunch is two points (out of an allocation of thirty). My evening meal is similar in size, but generally more points - generally between ten and fifteen points. That leaves me with ten or so points for snacking.
So part of my strategy to avoid the fallout from a raging appetite is that I don’t keep things in the house that cause me problems. All of my snacks are low-impact but pleasing to me. When I’m in the house I’m fairly safe from myself.
When I’m out and about, I’m exposed to things that aren’t in the house - Dunkin Donuts, candy bars from Shaws Supermarket, etc. The sight and smell of food can cause me to crave it, so I try to avoid those situations. My two ways of dealing with those urges when exposed? The purist approach is to tell myself that eating that isn’t consistent with who I prefer to think I am, and sometimes that works sometimes I’ll negotiate a lower impact, less triggering choice - for example, onion rings for ten points rather than a candy bar (or two) at twenty pints apiece, The practical approach is to try to put off the decision to acquiesce until the temptation from been removed from practical availability.
Not sure if any of that makes sense to anyone else . . . . 🤷🏻♂️
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If I'm really honest with myself, I don't actually get hungry when I have my regular meals at regular times. I never need a snack between meals. The only challenge has been after dinner, where my snacking is really just habitual at this point—I feel like I "need" something sweet in the evening. It's a habit I know I can break, but it requires real commitment, and I haven't been very committed lately.
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Always havean evening snack. If I wake up through the night I will get hunger pangs. Only time I don't is when I need to fast. Evening snacking if I am stressed really can go of track from my plan as it has been for 2 weeks and the scale shows it.
Morning snack if I have one is a yougurt or banana. Usually no afternoon snack as I eat after 1pm so I can go till dinner around 6pm.
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