The Friday Five for June 15, 2018

[spikesgirl58]

1. Do you think you have a health lifestyle?
2. What could you do to improve it?
3. Are you tempted to eat every time you are hungry or do you wait for the next meal?
4. When are you most tempted to snack?
5. Do you agree with the saying: "Eat your breakfast, share your lunch with a friend and give your dinner to your enemy" or do you think it matters?


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Comments

[katiedid717]

1. Do you think you have a health lifestyle?
Not at the moment, but I have plans to make it better!

2. What could you do to improve it?
Eat better meals, snack/binge less, and be more active.

3. Are you tempted to eat every time you are hungry or do you wait for the next meal?
I've tempted to eat constantly; I can be full to the point of feeling sick and I'll still think "Some ice cream would be really good right now." I still do a pretty good job of waiting until my next meal/snack time though.

4. When are you most tempted to snack?
Constantly (see above)

5. Do you agree with the saying: "Eat your breakfast, share your lunch with a friend and give your dinner to your enemy" or do you think it matters?
I've never heard this saying before.

[spikesgirl58]

Good for you! The desire to want to change is often the first (and the hardest) step!

I have heard many different versions of it, but it makes sense to eat you biggest meal early in the day when you have the most chance of working it off and not having a ton of food before bed.

Thanks for participating!

[magnetic_pole]

I'm tempted to eat constantly, too. :( I'm impressed that you manage to wait until the next meal! Any tips? M.

[katiedid717]

I keep some single-serving snacks in my desk at work - granola bars, trail mix packets, etc - but I don't keep a lot of snacks and I keep an eye on the time. So when I start getting hungry at 11, I tell myself "Hmm, you go on lunch in half an hour, may as well wait." If I get hungry at 2:30 pm, I allow myself one snack. This only really works during the work week though.

At home, I just don't keep a lot of snacks and I try to just cook one meal's worth of food at a time. If I have food ready to microwave in the fridge or if I have snacks lying around, I will graze constantly.

[spikesgirl58]

That would be me, as well. I just don't have things around, except for vegetables and fruit. They save me from a world of hurt.

[spikesgirl58]

Not really. I just never snacked as a kid. We didn't have money for such things and if I wanted something to it, it usually entailed a trip to the garden or the orchard. Even today, I'm more inclined towards fruits and vegetables instead of salty snack foods, but I will snack if it's available, so I just don't.

My advice, don't buy junk food and keep it in the house or at your desk.