RE: Eating only when hungry

[Guest guest]

**On 12/10/06, bill4cr <bill4cr@...> wrote:

**I feel as though I have to eat even when NOT hungry just to reach the theoretical RDA's**for the day. As a result I'm consuming more food than I probably would than if I let hunger drive my meal **frequency. <snip> Recently the notion has occurred to me to wait until I actually FEEL

**genuine hunger, ever so slightly, to begin the next meal. <snip>

I don't have the experience with this lifestyle to offer any advice, rather, I am responding because I have a similar issue.

Like you, I eat more now than I did prior to instituting CRON, but I also get full very quickly. This means that I have to eat about every 1 1/2 hours to get in all of my calories and nutrients. I have found myself wondering if I should eat past that fullness and thusly stretch my stomach so that more food will fit in it at one time. If I could just eat three, or even four times a day, that would make my life so much easier and would, also, certainly free up a few hours of my day for activities other than eating.

heather

[Guest guest]

Hi there,

I eat on a scheudle to control Lupus, but I'm usually not hungry. But if I

don't follow the scheudle, I could suddenly binge and eat all the wrong

things. So the calories get measured and consumed, hunger or no hunger. It's

like oliling a car for me.

A. Murner

>From: " bill4cr " <bill4cr@...>

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>Subject: [ ] Eating only when hungry

>Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:08:21 -0000

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>I understand that the other side of the " CR " equation is " ON " -Optimum

>nutrition. It's the " ON " in CRON that keeps me eating at regular

>intervals during the day. But here is the kicker .. I feel as though I

>have to eat even when NOT hungry just to reach the theoretical RDA's

>for the day. As a result I'm consuming more food than I probably would

>than if I let hunger drive my meal frequency.

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>Recently the notion has occurred to me to wait until I actually FEEL

>genuine hunger, ever so slightly, to begin the next meal. Not

>referring to serious hunger or anorexia or anything like that extreme

>which is very unhealthy, but simply slight hunger " pangs " .

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>I want to get the list's opinion. So haven't tried this yet but I

>think this would lead me to eating less food on the whole, sometimes

>going an entire day without eating or eating only one meal, but

>probably not reach the RDA's for the day. But pretty certain I would

>eat less than I do now.

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>Often in past I would miss a meal inadvertently but feel pretty darn

>good anyway, even " energized " , and not feel least bit hungry or very

>slightly.

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>Most ad libbers eat for entertainment rather than genuine hunger or

>need and most haven't experienced genuine hunger pangs for many years.

> We've all eaten for pleasure purposes at one time or another. But

>what does the list think about using the sensation of SLIGHT hunger to

>drive meal frequency? Eat when hungry, in simple terms?

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>bill

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