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I'm also a 3 meals a day guy. It must just be habit but I struggle not to snack if I skip breakfast or lunch. I've just been eating massive salads for lunch every day. It feels like a meal but only comes to about 100 calories or something.
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The massive salad is a big winner. Once you get over the mental block of worrying it won’t be enough, you suddenly don’t miss the extra calories.
I feel like I really feel the benefit of not eating until lunch. There’s a weird sticking point around 9-10am where there’s a hunger pang, but it fades after a coffee and I feel generally so much better. Whenever I’ve managed to stick to these eating habits, I feel like I’m just so much more aware of what is actually in my body/stomach at any one time. There’s probably a slight increase in how sensitive my stomach is (which isn’t usually sensitive at all), but it honestly just feels like my body telling me when I’m putting bad stuff in.
Nef
Me and my other half are having the same struggle as yours.
Even cutting it to one bag a week between us. Still the numbers don't lie it's helping to getting back to pre Xmas levels
I hit the magic under 100kg pre Xmas and list that over Xmas with weight hovering around 101kg generally.
Dry Jan (wine +crisps) obviously starting to help but skipping breakfast and being stricter on portion size is a big piece of the puzzle for me. I would attempt intermittent fasting but I struggle to get home before 7pm so it's more like 15/9 or 14/10 than most of the plans 16/8 so it's hard to not eat later than I want. Any ideas?
My other half also struggles with the idea of not having 3 meals a day which she says works for her but it's too much for me to get into deficit but we often cook together so amending here rigid idea of what and when meals should be is part of the battle. It's tough because she generally eats very healthy (coelic vegetarian and avoiding all extra sugar) and helps me make better choices because of it