Food

[cjsmith]

Man, it's tough to eat six meals a day. I come home at night and Rob will ask me how many times I ate. If I count every separate snack as a meal, I can usually say four. I'll add one more around nine or ten in the evening, for a total of five ... and all the odd-numbered ones really are just snacks.

I'm working on today's number three right now. It's a pasta and veggie salad. I've eaten about half of a side-dish-sized serving and I'm just not motivated to eat the rest. It's not even that I'm not hungry. I am hungry. I am just incredibly tired of shoveling food in my mouth.

I guess the change takes some getting used to.

It's expensive to eat often, too, unless I'm careful. There's no discount for small portions at lunch, and snacks aren't cheap. I may have to cook again. Ack. Why don't I have kids by now? When my mom was my age, she had three elves to do chores. She can probably count the times she's cooked since then.

I think it's pretty ironic that I can try to double the number of times I eat in a day, and I bet I'm losing weight. I am so, tired, of, eating.

Comments

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

It's expensive to eat often, too, unless I'm careful. There's no discount for small portions at lunch, and snacks aren't cheap. I may have to cook again.

Do you have a fridge at work where you could stash leftovers until it's time to eat again? I know most restaurants 'round here have ridiculously huge servings at lunch ~ enough to feed two to three people! alternately, can you stash your desk with somewhat-healthy nonperishable snacks? i'm partial to nuts (peanuts, almonds or soynuts) or graham crackers at the moment. you will adjust. it just takes some time.

and you don't need kids to cook for you. what you need is a single friend who loves to cook but has no one to feed! and as luck would have it, i happen to know such a person! ;-)

[busysuzy.livejournal.com]

Oh, it IS hard! I'm trying to do that too (for weight loss and body building reasons). It is hard to change old, old habits. I was raised with the "3 solid meals, no snacks" mentality. Ack. Like CrazyLady says...it can be done, just takes time. And, yes, you probably are losing weight. Kooky, huh?