(March 7, 2023 at 10:38 am)Angrboda Wrote:(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.
If I don't implement some kind of structure on such things, I go all to hell. I stayed up an hour past my bedtime on Friday and Saturday, and by Sunday I was paying the price. I was tired all day. As someone who has been retired by disability for 30 years and has few obligations externally imposed upon me, structural is crucial to me staying functional. I don't have a scheduled time for lunch, but if I don't eat my overnight oats by 8:30 am, and start dinner at 9 pm, I'll just put things off and let them slide and pretty soon I'm simply not doing the things that keep me healthy. You're right that it's not for everyone and that everyone is different, but the utility of using structure to achieve specific goals, including eating right, can't be overlooked.
And then there's me, I just snack all day long one day, or hardly eat anything another day, no real structure to it, or some times more than others, so yeah, if there's anything we're learning from this thread, it's that no one size fits all.
