Wasted Ink
Full Member
An odd thing to say, I know. However, recently I have noticed that perhaps two or so days a week I will really eat very little. Not consciously, but it’s just because I’ve had a busy day, don’t feel hungry or forget to eat extra food. Today, for example I only had the following:
Breakfast - Homemade bacon toastie with tomatoes (light mayonnaise on the toastie + butter - 3 syns.)
Lunch - Small tin of mackerel in tomato sauce
Dinner - large steak, mash potatoes (taken as a healthy extra.) 2 portions of veg.
1 piece of dark chocolate - 3 syns
Two bananas
In total I only had six syns. This tends to happen 2-3 times a week as I mentioned. However, there are days when I eat loads and easily have ten to fifteen syns, so I feel that it balances it out. I did calorie count for an entire year, so I still subconsciously count calories to some extent. I have found that on my really low days I sometimes eat 1200 or fewer. On the high days, I can eat up to 1800 though. I know 1200/5 syns is very low and not very healthy - but there are days where I’m genuinely not very hungry. On such days I’ve sometimes forced myself to eat more in the evenings - but I do not really like to eat a few hours before bed (unless it’s a light snack.)
What should I do? Make myself eat more when I’m not particularly hungry or just leave it.
Breakfast - Homemade bacon toastie with tomatoes (light mayonnaise on the toastie + butter - 3 syns.)
Lunch - Small tin of mackerel in tomato sauce
Dinner - large steak, mash potatoes (taken as a healthy extra.) 2 portions of veg.
1 piece of dark chocolate - 3 syns
Two bananas
In total I only had six syns. This tends to happen 2-3 times a week as I mentioned. However, there are days when I eat loads and easily have ten to fifteen syns, so I feel that it balances it out. I did calorie count for an entire year, so I still subconsciously count calories to some extent. I have found that on my really low days I sometimes eat 1200 or fewer. On the high days, I can eat up to 1800 though. I know 1200/5 syns is very low and not very healthy - but there are days where I’m genuinely not very hungry. On such days I’ve sometimes forced myself to eat more in the evenings - but I do not really like to eat a few hours before bed (unless it’s a light snack.)
What should I do? Make myself eat more when I’m not particularly hungry or just leave it.
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