I gave up snacking or grazing, don't think it's healthy.
But yeah I see people doing this too, though fewer than I used to.
Idk about other people, but I just built snacks into my schedule. Breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, dessert. I’ve been told that spreading out your food intake like that is better. It all still adds up to the same calories each day and I’ve been slowly but steadily losing weight, so it’s been working for me and I don’t feel hungry much.
I've worked hospitality for decades, where breaks are sporadic and the hours are long. I only started smoking tabs just to get a break. Smokers always get more breaks.
Just got by from grazing - steal a few chips from the pass, or eat some food from the (untouched) returned meal. Yes, I've also eaten off returned plates when I've been KP.
Aye, when I was growing up it was 4 square meals a day - brekkie, dinner, tea and supper
Once I moved out and started working in pubs that soon changed
Grazers have existed forever. No need for big meals when you just always eat lots of little things all day long.
there's really no "right" way to eat other than daily / weekly balances of carbs / fat / protein / vitamins / minerals / water.
3 square meals is more like a pre-osha workplace safety thing for people doing manual labor since the meals need to be packed into a neat little meal break so they can get back to work, but the calorie requirements are so extreme that they need to get packed in thiiic during that meal break. Basically if you were a self respecting foreman of an old timey construction site you made sure the workers were eating "three square meals a day" to make sure they'd be working at peak productivity.
if you're not building a railroad or stonework or skyscraper or carrying a roof up a ladder then grazing or intermittent fasting are fine as long as you're getting the right balance of micros and macros. and when it comes to weight loss, gain, and maintenance, different people have different relationships with food that are often managed better with one strategy vs another, in ways that vary a lot from person to person.
Intermittent fasting? Grazing?
Please elaborate.
Grazing is like snacking throughout the day or many smaller meals
Intermittent fasting is better explained here, but it comes down to "fasting for part(s)" of the day
I tend to eat the way you do; 3 meals a day with limited snacking. I eat this way because it helps me manage my migraine issues and snacking too much will cause weight gain, which (for me) causes bad back and knee pain. I used to snack more when I had a very physically demanding job. I’m a healthy weight.
My partner naturally fasts between 9pm-12pm every day. He eats a good size lunch, big dinner, and a good amount of usually healthier snacks. It works for him, I could never eat that way because I wouldn’t be able to afford the migraine medication that would go with it, but he does not have that problem. He’s a healthy weight.
I have a couple of friends who are more 1 meal a day with healthy snacking throughout the rest of the day. They are healthy weights and it seems to work for them.
Everyone is different and if it works for someone, I say have at it!
I eat just like your partner! It's hard for me to stomach breakfast, so I do two bigger meals at lunch and dinner and healthy snacks in between.
It's so fascinating how different people are!
lol I’d go crazy eating the way two eat. It would be constant migraines all day every day. He doesn’t eat much by way of breakfast either for the same reason, his stomach gets upset. Once in a while, he suggests going out to breakfast on the weekend and I always jump at that chance lol
Folks are all kinds of different!
Hasn't this been a thing for a long time? Personally I don't eat more than one "proper" meal a day unless I'm being physically active.
I think it's fine. I don't like cooking that much and it's less effort.
It's about stopping and making a proper break from the whatever we might be doing. Stop to read a book, when at work, talk a bit with my family. Just stop to exist, I think.
We often overlook this when tinkering with our own lives. I work from home and I still take three meals, mostly for the comfort and peace. I have had trouble shedding the last couple stone of fat left on me though. I could never imagine getting rid of family dinner, but I could probably stand to skip a few lunches and just take a reading break instead.
I eat a pizza or sandwich at noon and that's it... I have horrible nutrition :(
I think it already did with the invention of the vending machine, at least the snacks are better today, people are replacing their chips and candy bars with what appear at least to be healthier options in a lot of cases, although who knows about those protein snacks, that is still ultra processed food
dehydrated fruit bits, protein this or that, fiber supplemented cookies
You're describing people who do sports at work during lunch. Are you sure it's not restricted to this type of people? I have seen them for a very long time.
Mid morning, mid afternoon... I resembles pica or just boredom eating.
Pica is really something completely different. If they are eating food = not pica (and not even close).
I abused the word there. Pica, in my language, is often used colloquially to address someone that is constantly eating, not out of need but by impulse.
There's been a snack culture for a while in some places. For a while the generalized "healthy eating" suggestion was to snack throughout the day so you don't consume 1,000 calories at once in a single meal before bed. Not sure if that's really the case still, or what.
At least here in Finland, officials recommend a snack between breakfast and lunch, and between lunch and dinner. We also have an "evening-snack" which is like breakfast but eaten an hour or two before going to sleep. Some officials, mostly dental-related, do think snacking is bad for your teeth or something, but we Finns do use xylitol quite often so I don't think that consern is too important. When it comes to snack, its often fruit, maybe coffee and a bun. But definitely not chips or candy bars
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