Originally Posted by trupeach
Laparshall............you are doing womdeful, keep up the good work you are an inspiration. It seem's you eat every 2 hours but then do eat a regular lunch and dinner or do you just snack all day on healthy foods??????????
I eat a normal breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday, and pretty consistenly at the same time of the day. I eat something every two hours to keep myself from getting too hungry and I like to eat something just before lunch and dinner so that I am not starving when I sit down to each of those meals. This prevents me from over eating. Also I never go back for seconds. Sometimes I really want to, but it isn't because I am hungry, it is because I love the food, so I stop myself. Getting in touch with true hunger feelings is a very good tool. And learning that you really do get a full feeling by eating a cheese stick and an apple. And they are both very low in calorie, hold you over, taste good. As soon as I get the true hunger feeling again, I eat a little something. Soon your body adjusts to this type of eating and I have figured out that the only time I really eat much between meals is between breakfast and lunch. I am also staying within my Weight Watchers points, so that is why planning for those 1-2 pt snacks is very important.
As an aside, I have always gotten up at 5:00, but I never used to eat anything until 8:30 or 9:00 am. Now I get up at 5:00 and usually am working out by 5:30 and most days I eat before 6:30.