You don’t eat three meals a day because you have no money.
I don’t eat three meals a day because I want to lose weight.
We’re not the same.
You don’t eat three meals a day because you want to lose weight
I don’t eat three meals a day because shit is it already 5 pm? Why did my hunger response not say anything? Time to eat my entire daily caloric allowance in one sitting
We’re not the same
I don’t eat three meals a day because I take my work drugs for that sweet temp upgrade from ADHD to AD4K instead.
On any given day I can eat 1-4 meals.
It depends if I’m hungry. Mostly it’s 2 meals and I stop when I’m full.
I think it helps that I treat food like fuel rather than something I actively enjoy doing. On the days I’m more active I’m more hungry and so eat more.
There is no point to this comment other than to put out my odd relationship with food I guess.
That’s okay, we all have our quirks.
When in really into the zone (whatever zone that might be) I tend to not have any appetite and “forget” to eat. But that doesn’t happen all this often. Also, I just like good, or basically yummy food. Makes it kind of hard to change your habits and eat junk only about once weekly.
Its actually contra productive to skip one meal for that, just eat but less.
Why is it contra productive? If their daily calorie intake goes down than it is effective. That’s all that matters. Doesn’t matter if they achieve that trough intermittent fasting or calorie restriction.
Not the person you replied to but one reason not to eat all your calories in one or two meals a day would be that your blood sugar levels can spike higher that way, putting you at more risk of adverse health effects from that. Of course it also depends on what you eat and how much in general.
because your metabolism consumes the most calories - and if you don’t eat anything, it’ll just slow the process of consuming calories.
So, to keep it running, you have to give it at least SOMETHING to work with.
I haven’t eaten three times a day in almost 20 years. Nothing to do with money - I just like black coffee in the morning and nothing else.
Okay once again very slowly for the people in the back:
“Kids’ metabolism != adults’ metabolism”
The actual statistic of the headline is that people surveyed reported that over the last two years they “sometimes” or “regularly” no longer ate three meals a day because of inflation and the fall in their purchasing power.
But, but… Neoliberalism is for your good and anything socialist is bad.
It’s time to end neoliberalism.
Unless those meals are teeny tiny, 3 meals a day reliably means weight gain for me
