Guest guest Posted August 20, 2011 Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 > ... was wondering what folks have to say about eating at work. > > ... > I've been doing very well (and feeling great) eating when I'm hungry and stopping when I'm no longer hungry when my time has been my own, but now that I'm back in school, I'm having a hard time finding the balance again. Theresa, It's important to plan when you know that your intake will be restricted by outside forces. For me, a nutritional breakfast that is high in complex carbohydrates and low on refined foods is excellent. A plate of wholewheat muesli (with soya milk, not cow's milk), a fruit, and a glass of fruit juice tend to satisfy my appetite and provide long-lasting energy, while being easy to eat when not particularly hungry. I have this almost every morning and love it. Alternatives could include oat porridge or wholegrain toast. If protein is important to you, a boiled egg makes an easy yet light addition. Paddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2011 Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 > ... was wondering what folks have to say about eating at work. > > ... > I've been doing very well (and feeling great) eating when I'm hungry and stopping when I'm no longer hungry when my time has been my own, but now that I'm back in school, I'm having a hard time finding the balance again. Theresa, It's important to plan when you know that your intake will be restricted by outside forces. For me, a nutritional breakfast that is high in complex carbohydrates and low on refined foods is excellent. A plate of wholewheat muesli (with soya milk, not cow's milk), a fruit, and a glass of fruit juice tend to satisfy my appetite and provide long-lasting energy, while being easy to eat when not particularly hungry. I have this almost every morning and love it. Alternatives could include oat porridge or wholegrain toast. If protein is important to you, a boiled egg makes an easy yet light addition. Paddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 Hi Paddy-- I sure do appreciate your suggestions, but eating even a nutritional breakfast when I'm not hungry doesn't feel like honoring my body, which I'm really trying to do, especially since I'd be doing that 5 days a week. . I've spent years eating when I wasn't really hungry, and here I am where I am now. Maybe I could TAKE a hard-boiled egg to eat later in the morning... Last year I was getting up at 5:30 am to go running before I had to take my son to school, and then I WAS hungry by 7:00, and I did eat a good breakfast, but my son is in college now, and I'm enjoying an extra hour of sleep. But I'm not hungry before 7:00, which is when I start biking to work. I'll work on this, because it seems really important. Tilley > > > > ... was wondering what folks have to say about eating at work. > > > > > > ... > > > I've been doing very well (and feeling great) eating when I'm > > hungry and stopping when I'm no longer hungry when my time has > > been my own, but now that I'm back in school, I'm having a hard > > time finding the balance again. > > Theresa, > > It's important to plan when you know that your intake will be > restricted by outside forces. > > For me, a nutritional breakfast that is high in complex > carbohydrates and low on refined foods is excellent. > > A plate of wholewheat muesli (with soya milk, not cow's milk), a > fruit, and a glass of fruit juice tend to satisfy my appetite and > provide long-lasting energy, while being easy to eat when not > particularly hungry. I have this almost every morning and love it. > > Alternatives could include oat porridge or wholegrain toast. If > protein is important to you, a boiled egg makes an easy yet light > addition. > > Paddy > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 What a good idea, Judy--thanks! " There are bags now that keep cold stuff safe for much longer than before, so you could have, for example a boiled egg, some cheese, a hard roll in your purse. " GL, Judy T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 What a good idea, Judy--thanks! " There are bags now that keep cold stuff safe for much longer than before, so you could have, for example a boiled egg, some cheese, a hard roll in your purse. " GL, Judy T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 This summer I had a class that began @ 9am and lasted 4 hrs. I was never hungry until after class started (how wonderful!). Still, I NEVER ate breakfast when I was not hungry. That's called " preventative eating " and it's dishonoring your body by giving it food it's not asking for in fear of future hunger. Hunger comes and goes in waves. It takes quite a while to reach a point where you're so hungry you could eat a horse - --dead or alive. My advice? Wait until the 25 min lunch. You won't die. My favorite quote from Seven secrets of naturally slim people: as humans, we're never truly more than 5 min from food yet we act like we'll never get to eat again! If you're stomach is absolutely screaming for food, then IA with the others about a small snack to carry around to tide you over. Not hungry? Skip breakfast and don't stress about it. Good luck! > > Hi-- > > I've really enjoyed reading everyone's posts, and was wondering what folks have to say about eating at work. I'm a public school teacher who has just gone back to work after a summer off, and I've found this week that I'm not hungry before I go to school in the morning. If it were still vacation, I'd wait until I was hungry to eat breakfast, but if I don't eat before I go, then I have a grueling four hours until our 25 minute lunch period. I do have five minutes between classes, but that's not enough time to sit down and relax and savor my food. So what do I do? > > In the past, I've tried to eat a big breakfast to hold me through, snarfed " snacks " between class periods, tried to have a decent lunch, and then been ravenously hungry after school, eating what could essentially be called dinner, then sampled while making dinner with my family and then eaten another full dinner that I wasn't the slightest bit hungry for. > > I've been doing very well (and feeling great) eating when I'm hungry and stopping when I'm no longer hungry when my time has been my own, but now that I'm back in school, I'm having a hard time finding the balance again. > > Any suggestions? > > Theresa > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 This summer I had a class that began @ 9am and lasted 4 hrs. I was never hungry until after class started (how wonderful!). Still, I NEVER ate breakfast when I was not hungry. That's called " preventative eating " and it's dishonoring your body by giving it food it's not asking for in fear of future hunger. Hunger comes and goes in waves. It takes quite a while to reach a point where you're so hungry you could eat a horse - --dead or alive. My advice? Wait until the 25 min lunch. You won't die. My favorite quote from Seven secrets of naturally slim people: as humans, we're never truly more than 5 min from food yet we act like we'll never get to eat again! If you're stomach is absolutely screaming for food, then IA with the others about a small snack to carry around to tide you over. Not hungry? Skip breakfast and don't stress about it. Good luck! > > Hi-- > > I've really enjoyed reading everyone's posts, and was wondering what folks have to say about eating at work. I'm a public school teacher who has just gone back to work after a summer off, and I've found this week that I'm not hungry before I go to school in the morning. If it were still vacation, I'd wait until I was hungry to eat breakfast, but if I don't eat before I go, then I have a grueling four hours until our 25 minute lunch period. I do have five minutes between classes, but that's not enough time to sit down and relax and savor my food. So what do I do? > > In the past, I've tried to eat a big breakfast to hold me through, snarfed " snacks " between class periods, tried to have a decent lunch, and then been ravenously hungry after school, eating what could essentially be called dinner, then sampled while making dinner with my family and then eaten another full dinner that I wasn't the slightest bit hungry for. > > I've been doing very well (and feeling great) eating when I'm hungry and stopping when I'm no longer hungry when my time has been my own, but now that I'm back in school, I'm having a hard time finding the balance again. > > Any suggestions? > > Theresa > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 This summer I had a class that began @ 9am and lasted 4 hrs. I was never hungry until after class started (how wonderful!). Still, I NEVER ate breakfast when I was not hungry. That's called " preventative eating " and it's dishonoring your body by giving it food it's not asking for in fear of future hunger. Hunger comes and goes in waves. It takes quite a while to reach a point where you're so hungry you could eat a horse - --dead or alive. My advice? Wait until the 25 min lunch. You won't die. My favorite quote from Seven secrets of naturally slim people: as humans, we're never truly more than 5 min from food yet we act like we'll never get to eat again! If you're stomach is absolutely screaming for food, then IA with the others about a small snack to carry around to tide you over. Not hungry? Skip breakfast and don't stress about it. Good luck! > > Hi-- > > I've really enjoyed reading everyone's posts, and was wondering what folks have to say about eating at work. I'm a public school teacher who has just gone back to work after a summer off, and I've found this week that I'm not hungry before I go to school in the morning. If it were still vacation, I'd wait until I was hungry to eat breakfast, but if I don't eat before I go, then I have a grueling four hours until our 25 minute lunch period. I do have five minutes between classes, but that's not enough time to sit down and relax and savor my food. So what do I do? > > In the past, I've tried to eat a big breakfast to hold me through, snarfed " snacks " between class periods, tried to have a decent lunch, and then been ravenously hungry after school, eating what could essentially be called dinner, then sampled while making dinner with my family and then eaten another full dinner that I wasn't the slightest bit hungry for. > > I've been doing very well (and feeling great) eating when I'm hungry and stopping when I'm no longer hungry when my time has been my own, but now that I'm back in school, I'm having a hard time finding the balance again. > > Any suggestions? > > Theresa > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 No more " preventative eating. " Whaaaa hooooo! > > > > Hi-- > > > > I've really enjoyed reading everyone's posts, and was wondering what folks have to say about eating at work. I'm a public school teacher who has just gone back to work after a summer off, and I've found this week that I'm not hungry before I go to school in the morning. If it were still vacation, I'd wait until I was hungry to eat breakfast, but if I don't eat before I go, then I have a grueling four hours until our 25 minute lunch period. I do have five minutes between classes, but that's not enough time to sit down and relax and savor my food. So what do I do? > > > > In the past, I've tried to eat a big breakfast to hold me through, snarfed " snacks " between class periods, tried to have a decent lunch, and then been ravenously hungry after school, eating what could essentially be called dinner, then sampled while making dinner with my family and then eaten another full dinner that I wasn't the slightest bit hungry for. > > > > I've been doing very well (and feeling great) eating when I'm hungry and stopping when I'm no longer hungry when my time has been my own, but now that I'm back in school, I'm having a hard time finding the balance again. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Theresa > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 No more " preventative eating. " Whaaaa hooooo! > > > > Hi-- > > > > I've really enjoyed reading everyone's posts, and was wondering what folks have to say about eating at work. I'm a public school teacher who has just gone back to work after a summer off, and I've found this week that I'm not hungry before I go to school in the morning. If it were still vacation, I'd wait until I was hungry to eat breakfast, but if I don't eat before I go, then I have a grueling four hours until our 25 minute lunch period. I do have five minutes between classes, but that's not enough time to sit down and relax and savor my food. So what do I do? > > > > In the past, I've tried to eat a big breakfast to hold me through, snarfed " snacks " between class periods, tried to have a decent lunch, and then been ravenously hungry after school, eating what could essentially be called dinner, then sampled while making dinner with my family and then eaten another full dinner that I wasn't the slightest bit hungry for. > > > > I've been doing very well (and feeling great) eating when I'm hungry and stopping when I'm no longer hungry when my time has been my own, but now that I'm back in school, I'm having a hard time finding the balance again. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Theresa > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 THANK YOU! I really appreciate your comment about hunger coming in waves. I think I've been doing " preventative eating " for a long long time, and this past week I've been rather enjoying watching my hunger levels. Once I start feeling hungry (usually about 8:30 am this past week--right in the middle of first period), I expected to immediately plunge into " ravenous " , but it hasn't been that way at all. Sometimes I'll stay at a " moderately hungry " level for hours. But I've been packing LOTS of food (enough so that my mom, who watched me pack " lunch " one evening was horrified), so that should I NEED to eat it, I will have it. Today I took some homemade granola bars, a peanut butter and raisin sandwich, a turkey sandwich, some left-over whole wheat pasta with chicken and broccoli and peanut sauce, a banana, and some clementines, and what I ended up eating was the half of apple I'd left on my desk from the day before, between first and second periods, and a little of the granola, the turkey sandwich in a little break I get around 10:00, the noodles and peanut sauce for lunch, the rest of the granola bars and the clementines right after school, and it was all okay. I felt actively hungry most of the day, but I wasn't panicking. I even swam laps after school, picked tomatoes in my community garden plot and then biked home, and still wasn't ravenously hungry, which I usually am, which allowed me to actually make dinner for my family without eating while I'm cooking. I feel pretty darned good now--a little hungry, but not enough to need to do anything about before I go to bed. I think if I keep doing this, that my body will learn that I'm not going to be starved at school, and I can relax a whole lot more. Tilley > > This summer I had a class that began @ 9am and lasted 4 hrs. I was never hungry until after class started (how wonderful!). Still, I NEVER ate breakfast when I was not hungry. That's called " preventative eating " and it's dishonoring your body by giving it food it's not asking for in fear of future hunger. Hunger comes and goes in waves. It takes quite a while to reach a point where you're so hungry you could eat a horse - --dead or alive. > > My advice? Wait until the 25 min lunch. You won't die. My favorite quote from Seven secrets of naturally slim people: as humans, we're never truly more than 5 min from food yet we act like we'll never get to eat again! > > If you're stomach is absolutely screaming for food, then IA with the others about a small snack to carry around to tide you over. > > Not hungry? Skip breakfast and don't stress about it. Good luck! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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