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Importance of a routine
I try to eat several small meals 6X a day. Knowing this in advance
means I never feel starved knowing my next meal is only a couple of hours away. I also don't eat if it isn't my scheduled meal. Basically, I have my entire eating day planned out, and since I eat pretty much the same things everyday, there is not a lot of thought or time involved in planning (anymore), but there certainly was in decided what foods initially to include. Like people who wear uniforms each day, or go to school or work at the same time, you don't even have to think about it, since you always do the same thing as the same time. Exercise should probably be another routine thing. In fact, if you don't make it part of your routine, but do it on a hit or miss schedule, it tends to just get left out. Eating 6 smaller meals a day might also help because you tend to get less ravenous and control your blood sugar better, with less of a crash after the meals. There is also the classic animal study where mice that were fed the same amounts of food, but some gorged once a day and others were feed their quota in several small meals, resulted in the gorgers putting on weight. I don't know if it works that way for humans, but it might. dkw |
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Importance of a routine
wrote in message ... I try to eat several small meals 6X a day. Knowing this in advance means I never feel starved knowing my next meal is only a couple of hours away. I also don't eat if it isn't my scheduled meal. Basically, I have my entire eating day planned out, and since I eat pretty much the same things everyday, there is not a lot of thought or time involved in planning (anymore), but there certainly was in decided what foods initially to include. Like people who wear uniforms each day, or go to school or work at the same time, you don't even have to think about it, since you always do the same thing as the same time. Exercise should probably be another routine thing. In fact, if you don't make it part of your routine, but do it on a hit or miss schedule, it tends to just get left out. Eating 6 smaller meals a day might also help because you tend to get less ravenous and control your blood sugar better, with less of a crash after the meals. There is also the classic animal study where mice that were fed the same amounts of food, but some gorged once a day and others were feed their quota in several small meals, resulted in the gorgers putting on weight. I don't know if it works that way for humans, but it might. dkw OMG, we agree on something. |
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