04-30-2015, 04:44 AM
My normal routine is to eat twice a day (or even once a day). I dropped the whole 3 meals/day thing quite a few years ago.
Even with eating twice a day (or even once a day), I've found myself eating out of routine or habit sometimes; not genuine hunger. It's not that I have to force myself to eat, it's just that I find myself eating (at times) out of habit/routine.
anyone else do this?
for eg, just now, I felt compelled to eat because it had been 24 hours since I last ate. I was still alert, vital, and not ravenous; I had spent the day indoors, and not done any sort of physical work. Not a whole lot of expenditure of energy, even though it's getting into the cooler season of the year.
but I still felt the need to eat, well, because something might go wrong with my body if I didn't eat. I'm not trying to fast, and I'm not trying to abstain from food. My stomach was empty, but it wasn't growling at me; I was perfectly fine. And yet I still chose to eat a meal. The meal was great! nothing wrong with it; tasted good, and I wasn't forcing myself to eat. It was a welcome addition of food - on the part of my body. But I could have easily gone another half day, I think, without feeling hunger pangs.
Last week, I went 2 days without even realising/trying before I had another meal. Again, no real urge to eat, and yet I still did after a couple of days.
My body weight is perfectly fine; I'm not feeling down or depressed, and it's not a deliberate attempt at fasting. And yet the necessity for food seems to falling away quite easily.
Definitely an interesting physical phase I'm in right now
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this post was triggered, in part, by something that outerheaven posted a little while ago. I realised I was experiencing something similiar to what he related.
Even with eating twice a day (or even once a day), I've found myself eating out of routine or habit sometimes; not genuine hunger. It's not that I have to force myself to eat, it's just that I find myself eating (at times) out of habit/routine.
anyone else do this?
for eg, just now, I felt compelled to eat because it had been 24 hours since I last ate. I was still alert, vital, and not ravenous; I had spent the day indoors, and not done any sort of physical work. Not a whole lot of expenditure of energy, even though it's getting into the cooler season of the year.
but I still felt the need to eat, well, because something might go wrong with my body if I didn't eat. I'm not trying to fast, and I'm not trying to abstain from food. My stomach was empty, but it wasn't growling at me; I was perfectly fine. And yet I still chose to eat a meal. The meal was great! nothing wrong with it; tasted good, and I wasn't forcing myself to eat. It was a welcome addition of food - on the part of my body. But I could have easily gone another half day, I think, without feeling hunger pangs.
Last week, I went 2 days without even realising/trying before I had another meal. Again, no real urge to eat, and yet I still did after a couple of days.
My body weight is perfectly fine; I'm not feeling down or depressed, and it's not a deliberate attempt at fasting. And yet the necessity for food seems to falling away quite easily.
Definitely an interesting physical phase I'm in right now
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this post was triggered, in part, by something that outerheaven posted a little while ago. I realised I was experiencing something similiar to what he related.