Eat when hungry or at meal times
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Hermie123451982
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Very curious to hear your responses. On keto I find I never get hungry and could easily go most of the day with just one meal so would you suggest to just carry on like that or eat at least 3 times a day at breakfast lunch and dinner as I read about metabolism slowing down if not eating regularly.
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Eat when hungry or not at all. I'd rather have one really satisfying meal per day that force myself to eat for the sake of eating. Part of the reason I got fat in the first place was because I felt I "should" eat.0
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Eat when youre hungry, for sure. Some days I'll must have a shake, other days I'll practically eat my fridge. Listen to your body, once you get past carb-cravings, it certainly knows what's best.0
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Eat when hungry but ....
I like breakfast so I almost always eat it - unless I feel full
I eat after doing an hour of weight/equipment workouts - even if not hungry. But I don't eat after doing a long walk unless I'm really hungry.
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I eat when hungry, unless it looks REALLY good.
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I am working towards eating when hungry. Think that feels more natural than forced schedule of meal times0
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Thank you for all your replies it makes sense as I always used to eat becUse it was a meal time even if I wasn't hungry. Will start taking my multi vit to help get all my nutrients.0
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Hermie123451982 wrote: »Thank you for all your replies it makes sense as I always used to eat becUse it was a meal time even if I wasn't hungry.
Me too.. I don't eat breakfast anymore, but when lunch time rolls around it is deeply ingrained in me to just eat! And once I start eating, it unleashes the hunger monster lol
It's a habit i'm going to break
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I wait until hungry, now. The unhungry days even out with the hungry days. Is different to get used to, but becomes the norm.0
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I usually just eat when hungry. I have coffee with heavy cream for breakfast as I'm normally not hungry in the morning. I eat lunch around 2 or 3 and dinner about 6. I usually have a snack before bed. Somedays I'm just naturally hungrier so I eat more snacks or tea with cream. Others I'm not and I'll skip lunch.0
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I eat when I am hungry. I typically ignore the "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" stuff. All that breakfast is, is breaking a fast. Sometimes I don't eat until after lunch. Sometimes I wake up and am hungry right away so I do break my fast then. I am learning more and more to listen to my body, instead of shoving food into it a XX hr because someone says/thinks I have to. I still manage to get all my calories in for the day without any problems. I do have a BPC on my work days because I don't know when I will actually get to sit and eat. That depends on our call volume. That keeps me full throughout the morning and I know if I don't get to eat til later I will be ok.0
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I eat on a schedule. I get hungry at the same times everyday.0
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I eat somewhat on a schedule +/- a couple of hours. And some days I am more hungry than others so I might eat more often and more quantity on those days. A day I am less hungry, I might eat a meal an hour later and it will be less quantity or more of a snack than a meal.0
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So, my conflict is that I am trying to get enough protein, so I've been eating 3 meals. Hard to get my protein in otherwise. I'm feeling full, so I'm not going to eat. Conflicted.0
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If I don't eat within a few hours of waking up it can occasionally cause some bathroom issues (or maybe I should say that eating something in the morning is part of keeping things running smoothly for me). Outside of that exception, I only eat when I'm hungry.0
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I ate when hungry today and snacked on nuts. Turns out I had 600 cals by dinner time but I could not think straight. I was only a little bit hungry but ate a stack of prawns, olive oil, coconut cream etc trying to intake fat n protein. Brain back again.. Silly that I need to learn proper hungry. With carbs I get fatigued as a warning. With running low on fuel using a high fat diet, apparently I just get stupid!0
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SamandaIndia wrote: »I ate when hungry today and snacked on nuts. Turns out I had 600 cals by dinner time but I could not think straight. I was only a little bit hungry but ate a stack of prawns, olive oil, coconut cream etc trying to intake fat n protein. Brain back again.. Silly that I need to learn proper hungry. With carbs I get fatigued as a warning. With running low on fuel using a high fat diet, apparently I just get stupid!
Not silly at all I don't think. I am working on this really hard and learning to listen to my body to feed it when it is hungry and not just when my brain is bored. If I think I am hungry I will get up, move around, drink some water and wait 1 hr the reassess the situation. If I still feel I am hungry, I will then eat. So far it is working and I am never starving hungry, nor do I feel overly stuffed or like I should have waited to eat. Thankfully it has been working for me and I haven't had any crazy blood sugar drops or brain fogs or just being plain "hangry" like I would have on a high carb diet when I waited too long to eat.0 -
I eat before I get hungry, cause if I wait til I feel hungry I eat too much. I usually eat about 5 times per day about 3 hours in between smaller meals or so, depending on exercise.0
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I eat before I get "hangry", so just after I get hungry...lol!0
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I try to just eat when hungry. I've found that by eating a large breakfast I no longer am hungry at lunch so I just skip it. I will eat about 140 Cals of nuts around 2 or 3pm just to stave off hunger. When I get home I immediately eat some shrimp and that keeps me from being too hungry at dinner.0
