Eating early

Teaching table manners.

Also because they are growing so I like to make sure his energy levels are kept up at an equal rate throughout the day.... and not by snacking all day....

Also, because I believe for kids, in general, kids need and like routines. I know that doesn't work for everyone but Cason loves his morning routine, bedtime routine, just...routines throughout the day. Him and a lot of other kids (though not all) like to know what's next... And I am talking more younger kids.

 

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But the thought of leaving the 30something club is terrifying :hide:


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Ah, I see. It's different for every child, I would think. mine have impeccable table manners, but the only time they eat a full meal at the table is nightly family dinner. They like to graze instead of eat meals, so that's what I let them do. They eat about every 2 hours, and I rotate fruits, vegetables, and proteins.

 

My mom is in her mid 50's now and really hasn't gained any weight. She eats pretty healthy... not all the time, but most. She walks every day. She doesn't do other exercise much (other then, just keeping active and always DOING something... oh and she cleans houses, which is exercise), but yea, as long as I can remember, she walks miles every day, in rain or snow....and she looks super good and hasn't gained anything.

 

That's cool.
Oh and I do try to have Case eat at the table at some meals... but I didn't mean I make him have a sit-down meal at the table for 3 meals every day. Just that I give him 3 actual meals at same times every day (round 8 am, noon and 5)... you know, a protein, veggie, fruit, mostly water w a lil juice, some other thing like a half sweet potato, yogurt, etc.

It's more about him having the routine, "this is breakfast time", "this is lunch", etc... even if he does sometimes eat on his picnic table in living room.

 

Mama, same goes for me...I am not on any schedule with eating...or not eating. I eat when and if I want to.

I just have to keep my pets on constant eating schedules....

 

I guess it is okay to eat whenever. I just get scared because I had lost a lot of weight and still losing, and I just kind of have a fear of gaining it back. I like the suggestion of eating small healthy things in between to hold me over. But I am still trying to change my relationship with food. It is the hardest part for me.

 

YOU? I saw your photos....You are THIN! What are you talking about Drawinblank????

 

Well I have worked really hard to get where I am at, I am just saying I have a bit of a fear of gaining anything back. And I don't really want to fear it all the time, but it's in the back of my mind. But thank you.

 

Fear can be a killer....it gets to me sometimes....as I try to give things the benefit of the doubt...but then I have to come to my senses, and take the damn bull by the horns and look it squarely in the eyes.....

 

That is terribly true. It is hard to enjoy things you love in live when you are in fear.

 

I havent had a set eating time in probably 8 years. I just eat when I'm hungry. I do drink one glass of water every hour on the hour.

 

FDR said..."Nothing to fear but fear itself"

The other killer of humans is guilt......

 

I will never understand the conventional wisdom of six small meals a day. People never ate that frequently in hunter-gatherer times.

 

Maybe you have a bigger stomach than I do....PR....I cannot handle too much food at one time....

 

you gain more weight eating smaller meals more frequently, correct?

 

Do you?

 

seem to be going around and aorund the same merry go round....LOL

 

was thinking the same haha

 

I kinda think they sometimes ate even more frequently, whenever they found food. Depending on the environment, early man was likely more gatherer than hunter, wandering and gathering. Find a grub, eat it. Find some bird eggs, eat 'em.... and when they did hunt they went after small game more often. Birds, rabbits, etc... The idea that they all hunted big game like wolly mammoth and giant bison is romantic and it certainly did happen in certain parts of the world but I think most gatherer hunters went for what was easiest to procure. Roots, berrys, fruits, nuts and whatever insects they happened across.

I think a lot of people in modern America suffer from a kind of food neurosis, possibly a result of attitudes handed down from the great depression where for many people the possibility of starvation was a reality. My grand parents were children during the depression and knew what it was like to have to take nothing but a lard sandwich and an apple to school for lunch.