Time of Meals

Hi,

I have read the When to Eat essay, but having seen some posts now regarding blood sugar levels has made me wonder if my times of when I have my meals are right.

This is how my typical day looks:
8.30 to 9am: Getting up
12 noon: Lunch
3pm: Afternoon Snack (usually just some sweet stuff and a cranberry juice)
6 to 7pm (at the latest): Dinner

Nothing in between these, after dinner all I do is drink. I know I am going a lot of hours between dinner and lunch the next day, but is that enough as the time between lunch, snack and dinner is not very long. :think:

Any help would be much appreciated.

Ugh. I HATE that you get to sleep so late. That would help me a ton. I'm up at 6:30 am and waiting until noon is killer. I'd say I'd elminate the snack and just divide those calories b/t lunch and dinner to keep the blood sugars in the girl zone. Although, I'm new to all this, so I'd like to see everyone else responses. I'm having MAJOR issues with snacking...

I think it's absolutely fine. I used to have lunch at 11.30/12, dinner at 4ish and a snack during the evening.

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Originally Posted by KnockYourBallsOff

I'd say I'd elminate the snack and just divide those calories b/t lunch and dinner to keep the blood sugars in the girl zone. Although, I'm new to all this, so I'd like to see everyone else responses. I'm having MAJOR issues with snacking...

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I am eating only twice a day. I make myself wait until at least noon for lunch and at least 6 p.m. for dinner. Nothing in the mornings, afternoons or evenings except for caffeine-free Diet Coke or peppermint tea (I use only a single bag with two packets of Equal, and I try to pick the soda more often than the tea now that I'm taking Saw Palmetto ... but sometimes I'm both cold and hungry, so the hot tea helps).

I find that by not "spending" any of my calories on a snack, I feel like I get more food during the meals, so I'm not feeling as deprived.

Unless you have a lot of weight to lose I would stick to what you have. That is a lot of hours to go without eating of you don't have something at the 3pm time. Looks good to me!

Ladies I have a strange question!! Do you think it's okay if I just ate cheese all day?? I could totally live on 5 slices of swiss cheese all day..and I know that cheese has protein and sodium..but if that's all that I will eat all day? is it ok?

So, 1 slice has

70 calories
4.5g total fat
15mg cholesterol
90mg sodium
1 g carb
1g sugar
6g protein
20% calcium

Not sure about Vitamin D..do cheese have VIT. D? it must...right?

I weigh, 110 and I am 5'3". I will just be drinking sprite O and CL all day with cheese ( the ONLY thing that fills me up)

my usual daily diet

No breakfast
11:30--plain non fat yoghurt, heaps of equal and strawberries
3pm--some plain rice, a little more yoghurt
5pm dinner, some pasta with green beans
snack something sweet (skittles)

Drink lots of Sprite O and CL all day..

I always sooo dang hungryyy...but when I eat cheese! it fills me up for longer period!!

what do you think of this?

I wouldn't eat only cheese, none of the nutrients listed would exceed your totals with 5 slices, but its not healthy to eat only one food group and the idea of the LE diet is to be able to keep this diet up for longer by being healthier and more varied. It is low everything, so low nutrients not no nutrients

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I agree with rainbow. With what you listed, you have room in your day too ADD cheese though. You can even get lite swiss or lite jarlsburg which has about 2.5 g fat and 100g sodium and 50 cal per slice. If you only had 5 slices of cheese per day that would be no calories!

No, that's just fine!

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Originally Posted by KnockYourBallsOff

Ugh. I HATE that you get to sleep so late. That would help me a ton. I'm up at 6:30 am and waiting until noon is killer. I'd say I'd elminate the snack and just divide those calories b/t lunch and dinner to keep the blood sugars in the girl zone. Although, I'm new to all this, so I'd like to see everyone else responses. I'm having MAJOR issues with snacking...

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But 3 meals a day when you have skipped breakfast is STILL keeping blood sugar on the low side. People overthink the blood sugar thing but it's FINE to eat 2 meals and a snack, jsut as long as most of the day, you're not keeping your BS levels

No snacking means, no eating every 30 minutes thru the whole entire day. Eating 3 meals is FINE.

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Originally Posted by dramabird

I am eating only twice a day. I make myself wait until at least noon for lunch and at least 6 p.m. for dinner. Nothing in the mornings, afternoons or evenings except for caffeine-free Diet Coke or peppermint tea (I use only a single bag with two packets of Equal, and I try to pick the soda more often than the tea now that I'm taking Saw Palmetto ... but sometimes I'm both cold and hungry, so the hot tea helps).

I find that by not "spending" any of my calories on a snack, I feel like I get more food during the meals, so I'm not feeling as deprived.

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I think that's fine too. It's all about what works for YOU. I find it easier when I lose weight, to eat larger meals less often because when I eat, there is always the risk that I go out of control and eat too much and I feel more satisfied with larger meals - I ahve no willpower to stop eating halfway thru a meal, yet I can easily resist eating between meals. But I know others do better with 3 meals rather than 2. Either way works.

Re eating just cheese - you can certainly INCLUDE cheese in your day's diet (and I often eat all-cheese meals just because I love the stuff - I did conceive boys while doing so tho) but I do not think it is safe for you to eat NOTHING else. You will not get enough potassium that way - cheese does have potassium but I don't think you could eat enough before going over on protein and sodium.

You are not getting enough potassium anyway with your diet as you describe it, you need to be getting 2500-3500 mg of potassium a day or you can get really sick or even die (this is the same level as on IG and FGD, it is for your health and does not sway at this level - blue swayers get 5000-6000 mg potassium). Even if you have to eat a banana to get there, you need more potassium.

Weirdly, cheese does NOT always have Vit. D. Vit D is added to milk but some cheesemakers use milk straight from their cows that has not had the Vit. D added yet.

AH man! I just am always sooo friggin hungry! lol...Thanks everybody!

I was thinking, if the purpose of skipping breakfast is to keep blood sugar low, would it not work if you ate only breakfast and dinner and skipped LUNCH? Thereby having two long periods of no eating ...one overnight and one during the day. I am just frustrated by the skipping breakfast thing because right now I am on antibiotics and I am supposed to have one in the morning and one at night, and to take them with food.

Yes, there is nothing magic whatsoever about skipping breakfast, you could also skip dinner or lunch if that works better for you. It's just that most people find skipping breakfast the easiest option.