Anyone Else Not Eat At Set Times?

[Lee]

So today i realized that Gary and I typically dont have set times for our meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner, instead we tend to eat whenever we feel like it throughout the day, but not 'meals' per se more 'snacks'.

I actually kept track of what we ate and when we ate today and i gotta say, its actually kinda worrying the amount of pure crap we both had.

As webmasters how do you folks find your time keeping when it comes to things like meals, do you try to stick to specific times of the day to eat or, like us, do you snack throughout the day a lot?

Im really trying to think of a way that we can both stick to set times for meals from today onwards although i think its going to be hard to do, i think the advantages in the end will be worth it.

Regards,

Lee

[SPACE GLIDER]

I know i don't.

[MyLifeUncut]

I don't really have set times, but I generally end up eating around the normal times, simply 'cause that's when I start getting hungry.

For a while, though, I was eating lunch at 3-4 and supper at like 10 or so...Is that bad?

As a side note, I love to eat and I eat way too much junk just snacking through the day too. So you're not alone Lee.

[deanb]

I never eat at set times. I eat when I am hungry... depending on some factors that I don't know ()... sometimes that is a million times a day... here the last couple of weeks, I have only been eating one meal a day though...

[LavenderLounge]

I eat at very regular times and eat mostly at home. If you wait till you're really hungry you'll crave sweets and crap, especially if you go out and see all the temptations on the menu.

I always have healthy food readily available at home so I don't get too hungry. I only rarely allow junk food in the house, and only a couple servings at a time. If I want it bad enough, I have to force myself to go OUT to get ice cream or cookies.

Living alone and working at home, I could easily be 500 pounds if I didn't put up some restrictions.

[TropixxxStudios]

Lee,
I used to eat just like that and if you had met me in Phoenix you would have seen how destructive that can be on your body. I used to only "eat when I was hungry" and then it was snacks and Taco Bell while sitting in front of my computer or Television. I was totally "out of control".

I instituted a "no food after 7pm" policy, with the exception of some veggies to snack on while watching tv at night...and that, alone with cutting our soda, made me drop 30 lbs. (I was at 366).

I now have a set dinner time, and lunch time, 11:30am and 6:00pm accordingly. Both are healthy. Breakfast is still a crap shoot, but I am working on it.

I havent lost much weight, as I kind of slacked off on working out...(again)...but having set times to eat has made me eat better, and I have more energy.

I would suggest setting times and trying to stick too them...unless you want to wind up like me and have to work really hard to lose the weight. ;o)

- Michael

[Lee]

Michael,

Thats exactly what we were doing, only eating when hungry and reaching for whatever alledged food product was available at the time.. Cookies, chips, pop tarts, etc.

Today we actually tried to stop 'snacking' and have a set meal time, we got through lunch okay at 1pm but after that, it was pretty much a crap shoot, Gary was hungry when i wasnt, i was hungry when he wasnt etc.

We'll get it sorted, its gonna take a few days most likely but we'll get there LOL

Regards,

Lee

[SPACE GLIDER]

LI used to only "eat when I was hungry" and then it was snacks and Taco Bell while sitting in front of my computer or Television. I was totally "out of control".

But ... but ... that sounds like heaven

[Bec]

I pretty much forget to eat when working ... then realize I'm starving! Looking around the computer I see I do have a box of Junior Mints, but that's more to satisfy the mint craving as I'm trying to quit smoking (again) and I smoked menthol cigs.

When I realize I'm hungry, I do make a sandwich or zap up a small entree type meal in the microwave. Dinner does tend to be more regular, even though late in the evening, as we'll have our evening meal after I pick up Che from work. :drumstick:

[TropixxxStudios]

But ... but ... that sounds like heaven

Oh, and it was...for all those years. Now I am in hell because I can barely make it to the thid floor of my house without having to stop on the second to catch my breath.

[nickbaer]

I feed at 8:30AM, 12NOON, 5PM and 10:30PM.

If you wait until you are hungry, or until you are thirsty, when your body tells you to eat, it is already too late, and your recovery time is longer.

[A_DeAngelo]

I feed all day long - Cam joins in from time to time

food is my thing and as bodybuilders, we depend upon a regular (if not constant) intake of high protein and low (bad) carbs to keep us pumping....

I consume close to 4,000 calories a day!

that's one of the reasons I own stock in one of the toilet paper companies....

[chubbs]

Got hungry while working last night and fired up the grill. Noticed there was not too many people walking down the alley (my alley is the main walkway from my neighborhood to the bars at the beach) for a thursday night. Looked at the clock and it was 3:30am.

Said fuck it and grilled up a FAT porterhouse/bacon sandwich on french. MMMM.

My sleep schedule is so random it makes it hard to eat at "normal" times.

--Chubbs

[basschick]

i also wake and sleep at radically different times of day, so there would be no way for me to eat at the same times. i set an alarm to let me know when i should eat next, however, so although i don't eat at set times, i do eat at the same intervals apart.

[SPACE GLIDER]

Got hungry while working last night and fired up the grill. Noticed there was not too many people walking down the alley (my alley is the main walkway from my neighborhood to the bars at the beach) for a thursday night. Looked at the clock and it was 3:30am.

Said fuck it and grilled up a FAT porterhouse/bacon sandwich on french. MMMM.

My sleep schedule is so random it makes it hard to eat at "normal" times.

--Chubbs

Now I'm grilling