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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 at 19:52:21, Dally wrote:
Did you lose your weight by changing just one thing? Yes, ten years ago I lost 50 lbs by giving up butter. -- Annabel Smyth http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/index.html Website updated 7 August 2004 - for a limited time, be bored by my holiday snaps! |
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Annabel Smyth wrote:
in carbohydrate and saturated fats, and very good for you. I'd rather eat olives than nuts because you can't eat so many olives! I've been known to polish off a great quantity of Greek Kalamata olives. In fact, one day, I bought a gallon jar of them from the European grocery.... well, the fact that I found out that I was pregnant the next day kind of explained the craving :-) (That was more than 3 years ago, and my child loves olives hehe) Nuts, when eaten slowly, I find make me full rather quickly, they tend to sit heavily on my gut. |
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Annabel Smyth wrote:
in carbohydrate and saturated fats, and very good for you. I'd rather eat olives than nuts because you can't eat so many olives! I've been known to polish off a great quantity of Greek Kalamata olives. In fact, one day, I bought a gallon jar of them from the European grocery.... well, the fact that I found out that I was pregnant the next day kind of explained the craving :-) (That was more than 3 years ago, and my child loves olives hehe) Nuts, when eaten slowly, I find make me full rather quickly, they tend to sit heavily on my gut. |
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Annabel Smyth wrote:
But I don't find it easy to eat "small" meals, this is the problem. Trust me, I know what works for me. I agree with you. As a former bulimic/binge eater that just doesn't work for me. My metabolism may well be "kicking in", but my drive to eat too much overrides that, bigtime ;-) I find it easier to space out my meals, then when I am hungry, to eat a "regular sized" meal (400 calories or so), and savour it, and then I am sated for a nice long while. And don't feel the urge to binge. YMMV of course, I know several people who fare better on the "think about a snack every 2 hours" model, but I can't... I just like to not have my day revolve around food. |
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Annabel Smyth wrote:
But I don't find it easy to eat "small" meals, this is the problem. Trust me, I know what works for me. I agree with you. As a former bulimic/binge eater that just doesn't work for me. My metabolism may well be "kicking in", but my drive to eat too much overrides that, bigtime ;-) I find it easier to space out my meals, then when I am hungry, to eat a "regular sized" meal (400 calories or so), and savour it, and then I am sated for a nice long while. And don't feel the urge to binge. YMMV of course, I know several people who fare better on the "think about a snack every 2 hours" model, but I can't... I just like to not have my day revolve around food. |
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 at 10:06:07, Crafting Mom
wrote: YMMV of course, I know several people who fare better on the "think about a snack every 2 hours" model, but I can't... I just like to not have my day revolve around food. Also, I find, if I do snack, I don't know whether I am truly hungry, or whether I just want to eat. If I'm seriously hungry and there's an hour or more to go until supper then yes, I will have something, but if I go and do something else, or have a drink of water, the sensation goes away and I realise it was only appetite, after all, not hunger. Think how hungry you can get walking round a supermarket, but if you give in and buy a sandwich or pork pie or something, very often once you are out in the fresh air again, you don't really want it..... at least, that's what I find! -- Annabel - "Mrs Redboots" 90/70/89 kg |
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 at 10:06:07, Crafting Mom
wrote: YMMV of course, I know several people who fare better on the "think about a snack every 2 hours" model, but I can't... I just like to not have my day revolve around food. Also, I find, if I do snack, I don't know whether I am truly hungry, or whether I just want to eat. If I'm seriously hungry and there's an hour or more to go until supper then yes, I will have something, but if I go and do something else, or have a drink of water, the sensation goes away and I realise it was only appetite, after all, not hunger. Think how hungry you can get walking round a supermarket, but if you give in and buy a sandwich or pork pie or something, very often once you are out in the fresh air again, you don't really want it..... at least, that's what I find! -- Annabel - "Mrs Redboots" 90/70/89 kg |
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"Crafting Mom" wrote in message
news I've been known to polish off a great quantity of Greek Kalamata olives. Yup, you *can* eat so many olives... It's not that they are unhealthy anyway... Actually, my grandfather eats them as his *daily* veggie for lunch. I don't mean a few of them, I mean a whole plate of them, in place of the regular veggies, once a day. Though given his current age (75) and his health (no known disease, whole hair stock, slim, walks without problems, normal blood presure), I don't think I could blame him for his diet. I would not eat them that often, it would get boring, but I could certainly lunch on olives once in a while. High quality olives just taste so good Mmm... Might be an idea for one of my "substitution meals"... |
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"Crafting Mom" wrote in message ... Annabel Smyth wrote: But I don't find it easy to eat "small" meals, this is the problem. Trust me, I know what works for me. I agree with you. As a former bulimic/binge eater that just doesn't work for me. My metabolism may well be "kicking in", but my drive to eat too much overrides that, bigtime ;-) I used to think that too, but my treatment program for my bulimia & binge eating *required* eating 6 times a day - 3 meals and 3 snacks. It's been very helpful for me but of course YMMV. Jenn |
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"JMA" wrote in message ... "Crafting Mom" wrote in message ... Annabel Smyth wrote: But I don't find it easy to eat "small" meals, this is the problem. Trust me, I know what works for me. I agree with you. As a former bulimic/binge eater that just doesn't work for me. My metabolism may well be "kicking in", but my drive to eat too much overrides that, bigtime ;-) I used to think that too, but my treatment program for my bulimia & binge eating *required* eating 6 times a day - 3 meals and 3 snacks. It's been very helpful for me but of course YMMV. Jenn Same here, Jenn -- I can completely relate to what Crafting Mom and Annabel are saying -- I felt exactly the same, had the same problems with controlling intake at meals -- and was very worried and skeptical when my nutritionist said the first thing that had to change was eating my one or two meals a day. I didn't want to always be thinking about food either and as it's been expressed, I was worried I wouldn't be able to stop eating at those "small meals." I didn't have much experience with small meals! :-) But what happened is that eating more often and smaller meals became a very good tool in regulating blood sugar (sure I knew that diabetics had to eat every couple of hours to help keep blood sugar on an even keel, but I never translated that to my own needs) -- and none of my fears came to fruition. I didn't have the overwhelming urges to overeat, and I credit that partly to more regulated insulin production and also the psychological knowledge that I'd be eating again in a couple of hours, so I didn't have to overeat now (all happening at a subconscious level, I think). Also, I was relieved from the psychological game of "OK, to make up for overdoing it last night, I won't eat till suppertime" -- which usually led to a repeat of the night before in uncontrolled eating and snacking (because how much damage could I do in one meal? Turns out, a lot). It also helps that with five-six "meals" a day, I'm not eating too many calories at one time, and apparently my body is using instead of storing them. Today, if I've had trouble with overeating or eating foods that I don't normally include in my food plan (junky sugarfree stuff or really going bonkers on nuts, which I can eat an amazing amount of), I can trace it to having gone too long without eating. Of course and as always YMMV but I wanted to speak specifically to this subject since I spent so much time on the other side of the fence. Mary 325-154-148 |
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