@k8richly Glute Guy is Bret Contreras Just sending that along quickly while I have a minute!

@k8richly yep. It’s Bret. And I just finished one of his 12 week programs. They don’t call me Banging Bootay for nothing now! 😵‍💫☹️. A bit too bangin for me altho as I posted earlier everyone loves my body before. Wish I could!

SherryRueter wrote: »

@jbanx256 Does the body really change after 50yr? Is my overwhelming need for sugar really just a mental thing? What can I do to motivate/discipline myself to eat lunch and then not eat until 6pm?
I'm SOOOO feeling like i'm struggling with sugar and I eat a balanced lunch, and I just want another snack 30mins later. and then I want another hit an hour later and.... well by the time I get to 5pm I'm not hungry for dinner but, I have to have something with the family. and I keep trying to break out of the cycle. I get out of it a day or 2 but, then wham..... back in it. I've really been trying to figure it out on my own but I just ain't making the progress.
How can I get out of this repeated pattern? I knwo a LOT of ladies and men struggle with this time of day.

Yes, absolutely! Building muscle/strength is going to be more difficult, but not impossible. As far as losing fat goes, there was a HYOUGE study by Pontzer in 2021 that proved human metabolism is remarkably stable from ages ~20 until 60. All the, "well I was basically a professional athlete in high school but the minute I turned 30 (or 40, or 50),I just started gaining weight," is total *clears throat* MALARKY.
Daily energy expenditure through the human life course
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34385400/

As far as going from lunch until dinner...that's really a personal thing. Other than zzzzzz-time, it's very rare for me to go 6 hours without food. I mean sometimes it happens cause that's just how life goes, but if I'm going that long without food, I'm probably starting to get pretty hangry! Do you not have time to grab a snack or...? Not sure of your workplace time constraints, but would it be possible to push your lunch back a little bit later?

If it's a calorie thing, can you trim a few calories from other meals and get a bit of wiggle room so you can have a small snack (fat free cottage cheese or Greek yogurt? jerky? protein shake (IF - and that's an IF - a liquid snack would help?), I mean nip 50-75 calories from 2 other meals during the day and you've got 100-150 calories (Quest and One protein bars are right at ~200 cal with ~20g protein, or Misfits makes vegan protein bars that are I want to say ~180 cal with 15g protein)?

I know some people just don't do well with smaller, more frequent meals because they never feel FULL, but personally - ESPECIALLY when I'm at work - I'd rather do it that way. Like most of the guys on my shift eat one big meal, but I normally have a sorta snacky-type thing early in the shift and then try to break my main meal into halves (or close to it) and eat it in 2 go's. Of course with my job I get interrupted a lot and sometimes it's 3 or 4 attempts just to eat half of my meal but still LOL. I really don't like being FULL at work because sometimes that makes me feel sorta sluggish and just...if something goes sideways & I have to sprint or fight or whatever, a full belly probably ain't the best, yano?

Generally though if I'm hungry and not actually gonna eat for awhile, chew gum/mints, drink flavored water (Skittles makes those little flavoring packets! and yes they taste just like the candy!!!) or diet soda (a bit of caffeine can also help with hunger sometimes too).

Happy New Year!

@k8richly. I bought his book Strong Curves and followed two of the 4 12 week lprograms in there.

SherryRueter wrote: »

@jbanx256 Does the body really change after 50yr? Is my overwhelming need for sugar really just a mental thing? What can I do to motivate/discipline myself to eat lunch and then not eat until 6pm?
I'm SOOOO feeling like i'm struggling with sugar and I eat a balanced lunch, and I just want another snack 30mins later. and then I want another hit an hour later and.... well by the time I get to 5pm I'm not hungry for dinner but, I have to have something with the family. and I keep trying to break out of the cycle. I get out of it a day or 2 but, then wham..... back in it. I've really been trying to figure it out on my own but I just ain't making the progress.
How can I get out of this repeated pattern? I knwo a LOT of ladies and men struggle with this time of day.

@SherryRueter :


I think there are two things to think about:

1. if you get completely off the processed sugar, it will get much easier after a few weeks not to give in. It doesn't mean you shouldn't have fruit or other natural sugars, just say no to sweets in all their processed forms. Difficult at first, after some weeks it will become a second nature. Go for fruit, of some filling veggies (cherry tomatoes, sticks of cucumber, soup in winter, frozen grapes in the summer, apples, berries,...)
2. Have you thought about drinking a large cup of tea in the afternoon? Not the herbal or fruity kind, but the strong black one, steeped for as long as possible? I know it helps me (earl grey please). Not only is it some kind form of appetite suppressant, it will also hydrate you.