Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Other people
July 25th.
Living with other people or having guests in one's house leads to much more eating than normal; bigger and more frequent meals. One doesn't like to offend others by not at least offering food at conventional meal times even though one isn't hungry. Equally likely, the guests don't want to offend by refusing food. Conventional meal times are also a bit of an oddity. Primitive man didn't sit down to breakfast, have a mid-morning snack, eat lunch, have tea and later dinner or supper; he ate when food was available. I can almost hear some people saying that he didn't live very long either but that is not an argument in favour of many meals each day. There were plenty of reasons why he didn't live very long.
I have never understood either why people frequently state that they are unable to function without eating breakfast. Why? We all have an in-built mechanism to regulate our blood sugar. Some people, especially women and children get very bad tempered and irritable if they are hungry. Are they really hungry or just creatures of habit? I don't suppose that many of us in Britain who have access to a computer really know what real hunger is like. How many of us have even gone a whole day without food?
So one of the ways of cutting down one's intake is to eat fewer meals. This is especially pertinent to those on diets since each meal provides a further opportunity to cheat.
One medium potato baked in its jacket with cheese, ham, smoked salmon, salad, a yogurt and a couple of large glasses of red wine provided the bulk of yesterday's meal. Very healthy but will it be compatible with weght loss? Weigh day is tomorrow.
Living with other people or having guests in one's house leads to much more eating than normal; bigger and more frequent meals. One doesn't like to offend others by not at least offering food at conventional meal times even though one isn't hungry. Equally likely, the guests don't want to offend by refusing food. Conventional meal times are also a bit of an oddity. Primitive man didn't sit down to breakfast, have a mid-morning snack, eat lunch, have tea and later dinner or supper; he ate when food was available. I can almost hear some people saying that he didn't live very long either but that is not an argument in favour of many meals each day. There were plenty of reasons why he didn't live very long.
I have never understood either why people frequently state that they are unable to function without eating breakfast. Why? We all have an in-built mechanism to regulate our blood sugar. Some people, especially women and children get very bad tempered and irritable if they are hungry. Are they really hungry or just creatures of habit? I don't suppose that many of us in Britain who have access to a computer really know what real hunger is like. How many of us have even gone a whole day without food?
So one of the ways of cutting down one's intake is to eat fewer meals. This is especially pertinent to those on diets since each meal provides a further opportunity to cheat.
One medium potato baked in its jacket with cheese, ham, smoked salmon, salad, a yogurt and a couple of large glasses of red wine provided the bulk of yesterday's meal. Very healthy but will it be compatible with weght loss? Weigh day is tomorrow.
# posted by Bob @ 9:01 am 
