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03-23-2019, 03:56 PM
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#61
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 336
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Originally Posted by ponyboy
I never eat lunch when I work. On weekends, I will typically eat lunch.
I never understood how people find it so difficult to not eat during the day. My wife makes the excuse that she may pass out if she doesnt eat. #firstworldproblems
The other thing I love to hear is when people say they get sleepy around 2pm or so. I always ask, "what did you eat?" Their responds is always some sort of carbs. Hmmm...I wonder why you're tired now. Sugar crash much?
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That's because you probably don't have hypoglycemia... I do, and I don't consider it a "first world problem".
Fortunately for me it's just borderline, but I still have to semi-monitor what (and when) I eat.
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03-23-2019, 04:04 PM
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#62
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 9,417
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When I worked I didn't and if I did I brought some carrots. Then I retired and had time to eat a lunch and I loved to eat lunch. So I eat a breakfast, lunch and dinner and I put on some weight so now I try not to eat but a small portion of something for lunch. We have our big meal about meal about 5 pm.
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Just like my wife & her family
03-26-2019, 04:19 PM
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#63
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: San Diego
Posts: 1
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Just like my wife & her family
Quote:
Originally Posted by ponyboy
I never eat lunch when I work. On weekends, I will typically eat lunch.
I never understood how people find it so difficult to not eat during the day. My wife makes the excuse that she may pass out if she doesnt eat. #firstworldproblems
The other thing I love to hear is when people say they get sleepy around 2pm or so. I always ask, "what did you eat?" Their responds is always some sort of carbs. Hmmm...I wonder why you're tired now. Sugar crash much?
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Just like my wife. I was sold when I learned about a concept behind intermittent fasting.
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03-26-2019, 04:29 PM
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#64
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 7,002
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If I go too long without eating I get a headache, feel shaky and eventually will throw up. By that point I am not pleasant any longer.
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03-26-2019, 04:42 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
Posts: 18,645
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Today we did!
DW and I went for Chinese! Lemon Chicken special - $6.95 each!
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03-26-2019, 05:22 PM
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#66
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Madison/Knoxville
Posts: 190
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I'm Type 2, so naturally I hate my diet. I also don't usually like to spend time so here's me:
Breakfast: 1/3 cup All Bran Buds w/ fresh blueberries (every friggin day)
Lunch: 1/2 ham/salami/Swiss sandwich (low carb bread, eat other half tomorrow), cole slaw, cottage cheese and some strawberries or melon
Dinner: Fish on the George Foreman, salad, sugar free pudding about three time a week. The rest of the week I'm either slow-cooking something awesome, or cheating with a burger and fries.
I never hit my A1C goal. Naturally.
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03-26-2019, 06:49 PM
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#67
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 1,234
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For years I always ate a turkey sandwich with mustard on whole wheat, a diet soda and an apple.
Then I switched and for years always ate a salad everyday
Weekends I might have a tuna sandwich with chips and pickles or nachos and cheese with salsa.
I could just have cheese and crackers or something like that. Maybe some nuts. A banana. I don't know...
Every day I do have a cup of low fat Greek yogurt for a snack.
I even tried eliminating lunch but I was so hungry I found I had to get dinner made and eat by like 3:30/4pm. Then I was very hungry over night. Not because I had dinner early but because I skipped a meal- lunch.
No matter what I have tried I am still fat.
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03-27-2019, 11:40 AM
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#68
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Central Coast, California
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I find that a whole-foods lunch keeps me fueled through the day. I usually have homemade soup and some sliced veggies/ fruit (in winter) or a salad with cooked beans or lean protein (seasoned tofu, chicken or salmon) in summer.
Each week I make a big pot of soup and roast a couple of baking sheets of vegetables. We eat the soup for dinner one night. Ditto with the veggies. Leftover soup / veggies get portioned into pint Mason jars with lids. We also wash & prep salad greens for the week. Everything goes into containers in the fridge so it's easy to assemble lunches every day.
Eating out takes too long, and I never feel as good as I do when I bring food from home.
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03-27-2019, 12:34 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Berkeley, Denver, CO, USA
Posts: 1,406
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Leftovers (I sometimes mix two together (which my wife finds bizarre) to make a large enough meal) or a sandwich.
Every day.
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03-28-2019, 02:34 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 5,861
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Fruit and sometimes either a small piece of cheese or if we have it a slice of cold chicken.
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03-29-2019, 08:19 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 1,016
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Occasionally skip breakfast, and occasionally make a big one, omelette etc, then light lunch. I have found however in 2+ years of FIRE that I have to "try" to make a good lunch else it becomes boring. I usually cook for DW and make good dinners so there are often leftovers. And usually, early in the week, I make my "big salad" with 12-15 ingredients, all kinds of veggies, cheese, egg, a bit of bacon, sometimes some fruit. Only eat it with flavored balsamic vinegar's and a teaspoon of oil.
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04-07-2019, 03:00 PM
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#72
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: St. Augustine
Posts: 51
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I have a rotating menu:
Bowl of Campbells Chunky soup OR
Vienna Sausage w/mustard and some fritos OR
Roll up some lunch meat and a piece of cheese.
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04-07-2019, 04:22 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: NW Ohio
Posts: 1,156
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Two eggs with Muster cheese on a tortilla for breakfast (9:00 am), and some crackers-N-cheese, with a few pcs of sushi around 3:00 pm, having meatloaf in a about an hour.
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04-08-2019, 08:17 PM
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#74
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: the prairies
Posts: 5,027
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The default is a light to medium lunch, depending on my schedule. I like to eat three times a day but can get by with twice if I plan ahead. I'm the person who wakes up and is eating 5 minutes later.
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04-09-2019, 06:30 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Michigan
Posts: 4,962
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Every, single, day. I virtually never miss a meal or I get low blood sugar. A good lunch for me is dinner leftovers, but cheese and crackers with fruit will do.
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04-09-2019, 12:53 PM
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#76
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Oct 2017
Posts: 717
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Do you eat lunch?
Usually some sort of sandwich or maybe only something like carrot sticks and hummus. It really depends on the day and what is in my to do list...
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04-09-2019, 02:10 PM
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#77
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gone traveling
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Washington, DC
Posts: 575
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Murph
I'm Type 2, so naturally I hate my diet. I also don't usually like to spend time so here's me:
Breakfast: 1/3 cup All Bran Buds w/ fresh blueberries (every friggin day)
Lunch: 1/2 ham/salami/Swiss sandwich (low carb bread, eat other half tomorrow), cole slaw, cottage cheese and some strawberries or melon
Dinner: Fish on the George Foreman, salad, sugar free pudding about three time a week. The rest of the week I'm either slow-cooking something awesome, or cheating with a burger and fries.
I never hit my A1C goal. Naturally.
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My AIC for 2 tests were 6.x and then 7.x. Doc said it was time for Metformin. I told him no more medicine, I was going to research and come back to him. a little over a year later, and 40 lbs less wwight (through LCHF diet/lifestyle), not only is my A1C below 5.5, but I am no longer on cholestrol meds. Will see if I can stick to it and what will be going on in another year, but so far so good.
Not for everyone, but maybe give it a try. Did 20 grams carbs/day or less for about 9 months, now holding weight at about 50 grams/day.
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06-24-2019, 09:04 AM
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#78
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Dryer sheet wannabe
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 24
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Usually, no. I have a late breakfast (tea, either sesame tofu squares or yogurt & leftover pilaf, whatever looks to be tasty and around 200 cal). DH has cornflakes, maybe 2 eggs a couple times a week. No formal lunch but I keep cut up red bell peppers, cauliflower, cucumbers, etc. in the fridge, he snacks on an apple or grapes, around 3:00 he eats a few slices of sliced curry-roasted chicken. Our big meal (I know this goes against current wisdom) is around 6-7: lean meat, salad, steamed veggies, small serving of rice or potatoes, one slice of rustic bread. It's more carbs that I used to eat...if our weight or "bad" numbers go up, I'd cut back to either a starch OR slice of bread. So far so good, though.
We mostly look at mid-day eating as "if hungry, eat something small, if not, don't." Once in a blue moon I meet a friend for lunch and it feels like SO MUCH FOOD even if it's a salad. Nice socialization but that means dinner is probably a no-go for me.
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06-24-2019, 09:14 AM
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#79
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
Posts: 16,543
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I eat lunch about half of the time. I always do when I skip breakfast.
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06-24-2019, 09:26 AM
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#80
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 10,863
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Anyone that knows me would not say I miss many meals. Not overweight (according to my doctor) at 6'1" and 225 but I'm not thin either.
For me, lunch is usually the biggest meal for the day unless I'm on the road, then it's usually dinner. Love the bigger lunch and then the hour or two nap that follows.
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