(March 7, 2023 at 10:24 am)arewethereyet Wrote: I think that it's the idea that a person eats at this time and that time and then again at this time doesn't work for everyone. I am not hungry when I wake up in the morning so breakfast hasn't been a thing for me since it was forced on me by my parents. Work and school give you a time for lunch, it doesn't matter if you are hungry or not. You eat then or go without. Then there is the evening meal. When I was a kid, supper was at 6 pm, period. When I worked till 6 as a senior in high school, I got home about 6:15. Supper wasn't delayed, it was done by the time I got home. I could eat some leftovers before doing the dishes.
I am much happier now that I can eat when I am hungry and not because it's noon. We have been made to believe that the scheduled eating is what we do. Yeah, that doesn't work for me.
Now, if I were diabetic and needed to eat a certain amount in certain amounts of time, I would have to adjust to that. I sometimes need to eat something in order to take certain medications. But I can't work with a strict schedule of morning, noon, and night. My desire for food doesn't follow a clock.
Yeah, I can definitely get behind that sort of thinking now, now that you and this have made it conscious and explicit as it were. Ie I'd never really thought about it till now, but now it looks like a bell that can't be unrung; that there's no damn reason for eating so many meals or at specific times, other than our conditioning and habits. So whether I end up doing this diet or not doesn't really matter, because there is still that takeaway from this, that you can just eat when you need to, and no more.
