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iRuleThisForum Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:35 pm	Post subject: Ideal lunch It is said that lunch should be a modest meal. But exactly what should you eat for breakfast?


Scolls Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:55 pm	Post subject: But do you always need breakfast? And do you always need lunch? I listen to my body rather than listen to culture... Sometimes I feel like eggs for breakfast, sometimes cereal. I never bother with both at the same time. Lunch can be a bit, or it can be a meal, though if I choose a sizeable meal, then I'll only feel like a snack later the evening. I suspect that the human body really requires a lot less than we think!

iRuleThisForum Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:27 pm	Post subject: If you work at the office, you can work ok without having breakfast. If your work is physically demanding, having good breakfast is a must. With regard to recent trend of putting emphasis on breakfast, if you have light breakfast and heavy dinner, you are more likely to gain weight. This depends on a lot of things though. As you know, so many Americans have severe weight problem(s), and this is probably a reflection of that in part.

Scolls Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:13 pm	Post subject: Funny you should say that. The years I worked hands-on in the building industry I skipped breakfast, and would often have a huge lunch, followed by a half-hour nap, and then a moderate supper (even if going to work a double/triple) I suppose in the morning I was running on the previous night's carbo's, and topped up with various "fuels" lunchtime, etc... Never gained weight though. I suppose it came down to how strenuous the work was coupled with the total amount eaten for the day. Perhaps I automatically had the balance right without even realizing it?

iRuleThisForum Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:28 pm	Post subject: Scolls wrote: Never gained weight though. I suppose it came down to how strenuous the work was coupled with the total amount eaten for the day. Perhaps I automatically had the balance right without even realizing it? It is often said that construction workers acquire healthy eating habits.

Scolls Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:43 am	Post subject: Probably just vary the diet with how the days' work have been going. Perhaps.

Trulyana Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:08 pm	Post subject: Scolls wrote: But do you always need breakfast? And do you always need lunch? I listen to my body rather than listen to culture... Sometimes I feel like eggs for breakfast, sometimes cereal. I never bother with both at the same time. Lunch can be a bit, or it can be a meal, though if I choose a sizeable meal, then I'll only feel like a snack later the evening. I suspect that the human body really requires a lot less than we think! I'm the same, and never let my mental processes affect that. (Although they have been known to)

TVDinner Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 2:22 am	Post subject: our culture has it reversed and everyone eats a huge dinner, when in reality the bigger meals should be breakfast and then lunch, with a sensibly but small dinner.

Trulyana Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:33 am	Post subject: TVDinner wrote: our culture has it reversed and everyone eats a huge dinner, when in reality the bigger meals should be breakfast and then lunch, with a sensibly but small dinner. Yup, that's the best option. In Portugal, they just eat and eat. They start dinner late, around 10pm and have a really heavy meal. They drink a lot too, but then they have a lot of fun. I'm not much of a heavy eater myself, although as a teen I did eat a lot, but never put on weight. I've always been slim, and tall and the opposite looking to a supposedly 'typical' portuguese person.

TVDinner Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:02 am	Post subject: yo uare lucky to be slim and tall. Very nice.

cassandra_rni Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:16 pm	Post subject: re:Ideal lunch my Ideal lunch a good fruit salad and sandwich,light eating. www.acidrefluxatoz.com

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iRuleThisForum

Joined: 23 Jul 2004

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:35 pm

Post subject: Ideal lunch

It is said that lunch should be a modest meal. But exactly what should you eat for breakfast?

Scolls

Joined: 05 Aug 2005

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:55 pm

Post subject:

But do you always need breakfast? And do you always need lunch?
I listen to my body rather than listen to culture... Wink Sometimes I feel like eggs for breakfast, sometimes cereal. I never bother with both at the same time.
Lunch can be a bit, or it can be a meal, though if I choose a sizeable meal, then I'll only feel like a snack later the evening.

I suspect that the human body really requires a lot less than we think!

iRuleThisForum

Joined: 23 Jul 2004

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:27 pm

Post subject:

If you work at the office, you can work ok without having breakfast. If your work is physically demanding, having good breakfast is a must.

With regard to recent trend of putting emphasis on breakfast, if you have light breakfast and heavy dinner, you are more likely to gain weight. This depends on a lot of things though. As you know, so many Americans have severe weight problem(s), and this is probably a reflection of that in part.

Scolls

Joined: 05 Aug 2005

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:13 pm

Post subject:

Funny you should say that. The years I worked hands-on in the building industry I skipped breakfast, and would often have a huge lunch, followed by a half-hour nap, and then a moderate supper (even if going to work a double/triple)

I suppose in the morning I was running on the previous night's carbo's, and topped up with various "fuels" lunchtime, etc...

Never gained weight though. I suppose it came down to how strenuous the work was coupled with the total amount eaten for the day. Perhaps I automatically had the balance right without even realizing it?

iRuleThisForum

Joined: 23 Jul 2004

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:28 pm

Post subject:

Scolls wrote:

Never gained weight though. I suppose it came down to how strenuous the work was coupled with the total amount eaten for the day. Perhaps I automatically had the balance right without even realizing it?

It is often said that construction workers acquire healthy eating habits.

Scolls

Joined: 05 Aug 2005

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:43 am

Post subject:

Probably just vary the diet with how the days' work have been going. Perhaps.

Trulyana

Joined: 11 Mar 2008

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:08 pm

Post subject:

Scolls wrote:

But do you always need breakfast? And do you always need lunch?
I listen to my body rather than listen to culture... Wink

Sometimes I feel like eggs for breakfast, sometimes cereal. I never bother with both at the same time.
Lunch can be a bit, or it can be a meal, though if I choose a sizeable meal, then I'll only feel like a snack later the evening.

I suspect that the human body really requires a lot less than we think!

I'm the same, and never let my mental processes affect that. (Although they have been known to)

TVDinner

Joined: 21 Jun 2007

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 2:22 am

Post subject:

our culture has it reversed and everyone eats a huge dinner, when in reality the bigger meals should be breakfast and then lunch, with a sensibly but small dinner.

Trulyana

Joined: 11 Mar 2008

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:33 am

Post subject:

TVDinner wrote:

our culture has it reversed and everyone eats a huge dinner, when in reality the bigger meals should be breakfast and then lunch, with a sensibly but small dinner.

Yup, that's the best option.

In Portugal, they just eat and eat. They start dinner late, around 10pm and have a really heavy meal. They drink a lot too, but then they have a lot of fun. I'm not much of a heavy eater myself, although as a teen I did eat a lot, but never put on weight. I've always been slim, and tall and the opposite looking to a supposedly 'typical' portuguese person.

TVDinner

Joined: 21 Jun 2007

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:02 am

Post subject:

yo uare lucky to be slim and tall. Very nice.

cassandra_rni

Joined: 18 Aug 2007

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:16 pm

Post subject: re:Ideal lunch

my Ideal lunch a good fruit salad and sandwich,light eating.

www.acidrefluxatoz.com

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