Hola!

I plan my meals/snacks out for each day for a week at a time to keep my calories in check. I schedule everything about 3 hours apart. Its know 330, my lunch time and I'm not quite that hungry. I am just sitting here doing schoolwork. Soup is on my lunch menu today, should I go ahead and just start sipping on it so I'm not twice as hungry come my next snack time? Or should I skip it since I'm not hungry?

ps. this happens a few times a week.

Thanks in advance for advice

Hi there! I know if I can really help you, but these are my thoughts. You should eat something, especially if you are prone to binging, or otherwise you could end up making bad choices later today because you are hungry.
Or maybe this evening yoou will feel like you can have something because you didn't eat all your food today.

I don't know, it is all willpower isn't it? And I personally don't have much.

After I posted that I decided to eat. After I started on my soup, my body started getting hungry, ha. So I may have just avoided a binge or something from happening.
Thanks for your reply =]

Same here! It would be a half hour past my designated "eating time" and I would be like.."woah, I was supposed to eat!".. then surprised that I'm not starving, I go ahead and enjoy the snack =]
Whats screwy is, is it isn't like this everyday! Some days, I'll be impatiently waiting for the next time to eat and other days I just forget.

I just had Subway for dinner. I am completely satisfied.

I think it depends on if I'm REALLY not hungry or if I'm just busy and suppressing my hunger signals. Sometimes when I am working and concentrating, I don't feel hungry, but the minute I stop working and concentrating on something else, I become RAVENOUS and I eat everything in sight.

I'd say 90% of the time I will begin to nibble on my lunch or snack anyway ... just because I know how my body works and I know that it's better to eat than to not eat.

The other 10% I can think about it and decide I'm *really* not hungry and then either push off my meal 30 or 40 mins and see how I feel then, or skip it entirely (I tend to skip snacks rather than meals) and treat myself to a dessert or something after dinner.

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I think a lot of people have that experience--"not hungry" to "ravenous" in 10 minutes! Of course, we don't always get hungry just because the clock says it's meal time. It helps to have a little leeway there--half hour either way.

Jay

Mmmm... Subway... That sounds really good, right now. It's nearing dinner time.

I do the same thing. Watch the clock, some days, don't even think about it, others. I do like that the days I don't think about are starting to come around a little more often than they used to.

I try to be flexible and not time my meals out to the minute. Although it does help me to cope on rough days, I also have to remember that life can't and shouldn't be lived to an exact routine by the clock. I often push my meals a little later, just to see if I can handle it. Some days I can, others... Not so much.

As a general rule, I don't skip meals, but if I'm not hungry at snack time, then I will sometimes skip one of my snacks. If it's meal time and I'm not hungry, I will sometimes delay eating until I get hungry.

It also depends on my schedule for the day. For example, let's say it gets to be 12:00 PM, which is when I normally eat lunch, and I'm not hungry. Now let's say that I have meetings planned until 3:00 PM and then have to immediately head over to the for my workout session with my trainer. And the last time I ate was breakfast at 9:00 AM. I know myself well enough to know that there is no way I'm going to make it from 9:00 AM through my workout without eating. At some point I'm going to get really hungry; I'm simply not eating enough calories to go that long without refueling. So in that case, I would eat my lunch at noon, even though I'm not hungry. But if I didn't have anything planned for the afternoon and could eat lunch at any time up until say 2:00 PM, I'd probably wait until I got hungry to eat.