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its not when and how we eat, its what we eat
roundcoconut wrote: Eat the amount that’s calibrated to my activity levels and goals, and then collect reliable outcomes. Much better!
roundcoconut wrote:The hunger scale is a fairly elusive thing to try to calibrate!
Each day, I seem to bring home groceries assuming that it’s OK to eat today. On the hunger scale, I am probably only at a 6 or a 7 when I begin my evening meal. I am not feeling depleted or truly hungry.
In fact, I tend to begin eating in a state where, if I were to respond truthfully, I would say that I don’t truly NEED food and could get by without eating for another three hours if there were something interesting or compelling that I wanted to do instead.
In other words, if I ran into someone awesome and entertaining, who invited me to take a walk in the park and chat about life, I would go for the walk and be perfectly fine (and postpone the eating till much, much later.)
By contrast, I sometimes do get to a 4 or a 5 on the hunger scale, when it is deep into the night, around 3am or so. By that time, I feel on a physical level that I have depleted my glycogen stores. But I generally go back to bed and am fine.
The thing about trying to monitor hunger levels is that I like to eat a fairly full meal. I put a bunch of food on my plate, and then five minutes in, any hunger signals have probably disappeared, but I allow myself to finish the meal all the same. I allow myself to finish ALL the food that I have made from myself. I think I finish most meals at about a 9 on the hunger scale. Pretty full! Not like, “Halloween Overstuffed”, but full enough that I do not wish to go for a walk.
I am no Hari Hachi Bu person! I eat till I’m pretty full. And I’m not interested in changing that right now.
The tradeoff of being someone who likes to eat pretty large portions, is that you cannot eat many times a day. If you like to the bulk of your calories at one sitting, then you have to give your body a long fasting window afterwards. To achieve total equilibrium, over the long haul.
Anyways! That’s a lot of rambling for today.
bunsofaluminum wrote:But, getting good and hungry now and then, so the body has no new calories to convert into energy...it has to use some of the fat storage...I think it's a good idea. Now and then. But I also don't eat "just to satiation"...fill me up TIGHT, honey. too bad about the hunger signals hahahaha! and yeah, that means at least four hours until the next food event. Six hours between brekkie and lunch, with maybe an apple between.
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