MEALS TIME

MEALS TIME::

The best way to avoid feeling deprived is to ensure you eat all your scheduled meals and snacks. This is essential, because allowing yourself to become famished can lead to disaster in the form of overeating and bingeing, often on the wrong food. Learn to listen to your body.  

What is your stomach telling you right now?. 

That it’s feeling satisfied, or maybe just a little peckish, or that it’s ready to eat right now?. Don’t ignore the warning sigln that you are becoming really hungry, and try not to miss a meal. If you do want to omit a meal, target dinner or supper.

While you will feel hungry for the first few weeks as your body adjusts to controlling the size of your portions, you are less likely to lose control if you know there is another meal soon. Your six daily meals and snacks add up to food every three hours; that’s not too long to hod out. Don’t keep yourself waiting. However busy you are, avoid the temptation to postpone eating until a more convenient moment, because you are likely to be ravenous when that moment finally arrives. Voracious hunger results in gobbling food and overeating, often on bad choices because that is the only food available.

Regular and predictable meal times – 

for example, 

breakfast at 7 am. 

Lunch at 1 pm. 

Dinner at 7 pm. 

And supper at 10 pm. 

Help keep those hunger pangs under control. Try and stick to the same times each day. If for example, you eat breakfast too early, you will push all your meals forward, which might sabotage your plans later in the evening.

So whatever you are doing, you must have breakfast, morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. The only meal you could occasionally skip is dinner, because if you’ve had all your other meals throughout the day you might not be hungry by then and you are less likely to binge if you miss out now. If you have a big lunch, skip dinner or eat very little. Do not eat just because it is dinnertime. Two large meals result in too much food being consumed. Most of this eating is because we are accustomed to a large dinner and the avail ability of food. There is nothing stopping you from sitting with your family and chatting while they enjoy dinner, if you are not hungry.