How often do you eat? - Health & Medicine

heather6773 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007, 04:07 PM

Like as in each day whats an average daily menu for you?
Me:
Breakfast: coffee(2-3 cups) and toast
lunch: whats that

dinner: whatever I fix (usually I try to fix something healthy)

Csara · #2 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007, 04:37 PM

Most of the time, I eat small meals throughout the day.

Sexy Strawberry · #3 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007, 04:45 PM

Traditionally this is how my meals look like:

Breakfast: cup of coffee, toast
Lunch: usually meat (with rice/vegetables/french-fries and salad) but sometimes pasta or something else
Dinner: usually fish (with vegetables/salad/potatoes) but sometimes eggs

But in the last few months I've been a mess, fortunately that will change (I think) in March

Deana · #4 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007, 08:09 PM

I am really trying to watch portion sizes these days. Here's what most days look like for me:

bfast: toast, a ton of water and coffee

lunch: SOMETHING with some substance: a lean cuisine or cheese and crackers, or half a sandwich, or a few forkfulls of leftovers -- something like that. I usually eat whatever leftover fruit N didn't eat with her lunch. Not b/c I love it, but b/c I know it will fill me up.

snack: this is what kills me -- usually around 3pm I am starving so I have some string cheese and crackers or something like that. Some days I just snack way too much at this point so I am trying to be very mindful here!!

dinner: I mealplan every night, and I have a normal portion of whatever we have - usually a protein/starch/veggie. Tonight it was mahi mahi, rice and steamed veggies.

I try extraordinarily hard not to snack after dinner at all (except for maybe a few times a year a dessert or some popcorn with a movie). I also drink a ton of water through the day - my goal is 48 oz/day. Trying to limit diet soda to 2 cans a day.

meliz · #5 (**permalink**) 12-19-2007, 03:52 AM

Breakfast: Cereal and coffee

Lunch: when I pack one, a granola bar and an apple; sometimes carrots and hummus. If I am home or buy lunch, it's usually soup.

Afternoon snack: This IS my downfall. When I get home around 4-4:30 I am starvin. A fistful of crackers (or ten)... anything I can get my paws on. God help me if there are chips or candy in the house. The 4-6 pm slot is really a killer.

Dinner: Usually a pasta/starch and veggie/salad combo and sometimes meat/fish.

I am pretty good in the evening.... usually a tea satisfies. But if Cor opens chips, I am a lost cause.

I KNOW I do not get enough veggies a day... and probably not enough protien either...

heather6773 · #6 (**permalink**) 12-19-2007, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Deana

I am really trying to watch portion sizes these days. Here's what most days look like for me:

bfast: toast, a ton of water and coffee

lunch: SOMETHING with some substance: a lean cuisine or cheese and crackers, or half a sandwich, or a few forkfulls of leftovers -- something like that. I usually eat whatever leftover fruit N didn't eat with her lunch. Not b/c I love it, but b/c I know it will fill me up.

snack: this is what kills me -- usually around 3pm I am starving so I have some string cheese and crackers or something like that. Some days I just snack way too much at this point so I am trying to be very mindful here!!

dinner: I mealplan every night, and I have a normal portion of whatever we have - usually a protein/starch/veggie. Tonight it was mahi mahi, rice and steamed veggies.

I try extraordinarily hard not to snack after dinner at all (except for maybe a few times a year a dessert or some popcorn with a movie). I also drink a ton of water through the day - my goal is 48 oz/day. Trying to limit diet soda to 2 cans a day.

If I could follow your lead D I woould feel better I think...

Csara · #7 (**permalink**) 12-19-2007, 07:27 AM

I wonder what it is about that late afternoon time that makes us all starving?

CC21 · #8 (**permalink**) 12-19-2007, 09:24 AM

During the week:

I typically don't eat breakfast which I know is a big no-no.

Sometimes, I'll have pb and crackers, chips or something snacky around 10:00.

Lunch - I always eat lunch. It's usually leftovers or fast food.

I don't really snack in the afternoon or evening. Once in a while I may have chips or something around 3:00.

Dinner - we have meat, some sort of side dish - always seems like it's a carb of some kind, veggies and fruit. We try to have vegetables and fruit every night.

On the weekends - I fix breakfast one day and the other we eat cereal. This is almost always between 9 and 10. Then we have a big "nice" meal at some point in the day. So on the weekends we really only eat twice a day. The kids get snacks, but for the most part it's only two meals.

heather6773 · #9 (**permalink**) 12-20-2007, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Csara

I wonder what it is about that late afternoon time that makes us all starving?

Probably because none of of eat much for breakfast or lunch to fill us up!!Lets EAT

IUgrad02 · #10 (**permalink**) 01-07-2008, 10:30 PM

My typical day goes like this:

Bfast: nearly every day I have a bagel and juice, and if I am still hungry, I also have a yogurt or fruit. I am starving when i wake up, every single day.

Lunch: I sit down w/ DS and eat lunch each day, unless we drive in to meet DH on his lunch break, which happens about 1-2x a week. If we do that, we generally have sandwiches at a local sandwich shop,mmm. DH loves their soup, and I love their sandwiches and brownies.

At home, I almost ALWAYS eat fruit and / or yogurt (probably not if I had one for bfast), and a sandwich or lean pocket or lean cuisine. I share raisins, pretzels, or apples and peanut butter w/ DS sometimes... and on occasion I have a diet drink with my lunch.

I don't snack a ton, but I don't hesitate to grab a bite of something if I'm starving. it's all about controlling the amount.

I try to drink water, but I am NOT as good as Deana!!!!!!!!! I wish!!!!

Dinner: when DH gets home, we all sit down together and have whatever the dish of the evening is... he cooks just as much as I do, so I'm lucky to not have to plan so hardcore. He is so helpful!! Tonight we had Taco Chicken Wraps, I guess you could call them. We weren't THAT hungry tonight, so we didn't have anything with those... just each had two wraps and called it quits.

Snack: I shared an apple w/ DH around 9pm, and then we popped some light popcorn. I'm terrible about needing a snack after dinner to keep me going til morning.

shan · #11 (**permalink**) 01-23-2008, 09:31 PM

I am so horrible, I barely ever eat except supper. I will normally get up drink a glass of OJ or milk. Maybe share some fruit with K during her midday snack time but that is it till supper time.

I need to get back on my good eating schedule I had prepreggers. I have been trying to start eating at least three times a day, or little meals multiple times a day so I can get back on a healthy cycle for when I get pregnant but it is hard to break bad habits.

IUgrad02 · #12 (**permalink**) 02-17-2008, 10:37 PM

Shan, is it just b/c you are so busy, or are you really not hungry, or what? I can't imagine... I would be so hungry that I would be sick. If I don't have breakfast, the entire world might as well close down b/c I feel like I'm going to die!!!!! lol