Well, that’s my lunch all eaten at 1030…

Some days I’m not fussed about breakfast, and eat lunch ata  ‘normal’ time..

Today I had some brekkie, and now have just polished off my lunch.. FFS… at work till 1830 today, with ne’re a snack to sustain me….

DrP

The culprit is breakfast imo. I don’t eat breakfast, not even if I go on a bike ride. Once I have had my first food of the day that kicks everything off and hunger becomes a reoccurring thing. Just before bedtime is the worse time for me….. the constant need to find something to eat!

Otherwise I can easily wait until 4pm before having my first food of the day.

I made some home made chicken soup last night – I had soup for breakfast!

It’s lovely!!

The culprit is breakfast imo

I think you’re right and def ‘carby’ breakfasts.  When i don’t have breakfast I sometimes don’t have anything, other than coffee, until tea time.

The culprit is breakfast imo

Yep.  Usually cheese and biscuits [facepalm emoji]

I always eat breakfast in the mornings and I can go through ’till lunchtime without eating anything. Lunch then keeps me going with sometimes a fruit snack mid afternoon until 7-8pm when I eat in the evenings. Eating enough in the evenings is key for me, I guess we’re all different.

This happens a lot. When I visit the office in ‘town, I’m up way earlier than normal, have breakfast way earlier than normal and then eat lunch at about 11. This is actually quite normal in Sweden, so the restaurant opens up then and is normally packed out.

At home means a normal time for lunch is “whenever I can find time between 11 an 13”. Some people assume I have no life and so will see that free time in my diary as, well, free time and just book meetings.

Breakfast every morning, porride with a banana and a large coffee….. then regular as clockwork I make room for lunch same time everyday! As soon as I’ve dropped the kids off at the pool I’m hungry again!

Saving up for some new “toys” for myself, so I’m just getting by on Pot Noodle type of things…not the best but they see me through an early evening gym session until 8pm when I have dinner.

Used to have cereal first thing at ~0520 and have “lunch” at work somewhere in the 1100-1200 window. Now I struggle to get up before 1100 and rarely eat anything until gone 1300, yet cannot stop raiding the fridge and cupboards in the evening!

We’ve been trying to fast for 14 hours which means breakfast at 10am.
I’m not hungry going to bed , waking up or after my 3 mile walk to the shop.
At 10 we have oats and fruit which keeps me going easily til lunch.
When we were away for trade fairs we were having a full English at around 8 and by 10 I was starving.
Eating makes you hungry

My experience: I eat when I’m bored or looking for a distraction.

I regularly look to food to fill a moment and those moments occur most frequently when I’m bored OR doing something I don’t want to do. That could be when I’m very busy with work, but don’t want to do the task I’m doing, or when there’s a lull in the days proceedings and I’m bored.

I try to eat at regular intervals and I always eat enough food/calories – so I don’t think I’ve felt ‘proper’ hunger for many years.

Managing my food intake has become a matter of control & discipline.

Which makes me sound like a lunatic – but I don’t normally tell people what’s going on in my head so please be tolerant :o)

I stopped taking sandwiches to work as I just nommed then before 11 and then had to get lunch anyway.

I regularly look to food to fill a moment and those moments occur most frequently when I’m bored OR doing something I don’t want to do. That could be when I’m very busy with work, but don’t want to do the task I’m doing, or when there’s a lull in the days proceedings and I’m bored.

This is completely normal. It’s why a lot of people eat too much, because of boredom eating. Because most peoples working lives are boring. I’m hungry now, but I’m not eating until it’s my lunchtime. I’ve only eaten my breakfast 4hrs ago so can’t possibly be really hungry, but my brain is telling me I am because I’m sat here doing stupid stuff on a stupid spreadsheet, and it bores me to death. If I was climbing Cadir Idris I wouldn’t be hungry or could happily press on without thinking about it until I’d found a suitable place to stop for a while. I can be hungry before going for a bike ride if I was bored working beforehand, but soon as I get on the bike and start burning energy I’m no longer hungry, that’s because I’m no longer bored. So I embrace the hunger knowing full well my body is usually lying to me, unless of course I really haven’t eaten for an expended period of time.

at work till 1830 today, with ne’re a snack to sustain me….

It’s why Greggs exists.

I stopped taking sandwiches to work as I just nommed then before 11 and then had to get lunch anyway.

Came here to say this.

10:00am – “I’ll just have one…”

10:30am – lunchbox emptied.

1pm – “chip shop, then?”

It’s a matter of adjusting your paradigm, it’s not lunch, it’s second breakfast.

Think it’s habit and boredom.

I need to eat less

I work 6 – 6 shifts days/nights

Days.

Breakfast at home, cereal

10am.  Porridge pot

2pm.    Pack lunch

6.30pm.  Dinner at home

Nights

4pm Proper meal

10pm. Packed lunch

2pm.  Left over Pasta /chilli or ping ping meal

6.30am.  Cereal before bed

I do resist the vending machine at work (it’s old and takes cash only) I don’t take any coins to work!

@JAG

You’re not alone. My job is a mix of desk work and field work. If I’m out in the field, I can go all day and not think about food. Tie me to a desk, at home or in the office and I’m constantly browsing for food. Everything from toast and butter to finishing off a half jar of olives.

To prove a point to myself, I once managed to fast for over 90 hours with no ill effect so it’s certainly not hungry.

I find avoiding breakfast works for me. Often eating makes me think I’m hungry

My experience: I eat when I’m bored or looking for a distraction.

I regularly look to food to fill a moment and those moments occur most frequently when I’m bored OR doing something I don’t want to do. That could be when I’m very busy with work, but don’t want to do the task I’m doing, or when there’s a lull in the days proceedings and I’m bored.

I try to eat at regular intervals and I always eat enough food/calories – so I don’t think I’ve felt ‘proper’ hunger for many years.

That’s perfectly normal. Or we’re both weird. Either way,  you are not alone.

My normal weekday:

Up at 7:30, then dog walk

Start work at 8:30 with a cup of tea then a decaf coffee

Sometime around 10:30-11 have breakfast

14:00 Lunch. Sometimes later if I squeeze in a quick run at lunchtime.

20:30-21:00 Dinner

I try to avoid snacking in between, but it does sometimes happen 🙂

I regularly look to food to fill a moment and those moments occur most frequently when I’m bored OR doing something I don’t want to do. That could be when I’m very busy with work, but don’t want to do the task I’m doing, or when there’s a lull in the days proceedings and I’m bored

I use STW for the same reasons in place of food