my husband pretty much makes me eat breakfast now
― just1n3, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
xp Woh thanks - you just reminded me to take my medication :)
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Breakfast is, to this day, sacrosanct for me. Like, if I absolutely *had* to skip a meal, I'd skip dinner, but that'd be more likely because I was going out and didn't have time. Skipping breakfast means that COUNTDOWN TO CRANKY is on its way and is a surefire way for me to be scatterbrained and pissed off the rest of the day.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
oh just1n3 - that sounds awful! my mother was never concerned about my weight (she is also fairly large, but pretty healthy and content) - she would regularly call me in college and neurotically ask if i was pregnant. That really smarted when I was depressed because i didn't date/have boyfriend.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Karen otm. I have to eat breakfast or I get moody and sick to my stomach. This morning I only had a little yogurt left and was all scowly until after lunch.
― peacocks, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i find if i eat when i first wake up im hungry for the rest of the day but if i dont eat first thing then i can happily go all day without eating
― dolphins will lolphin all over the ills (sunny successor), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
scowly on the inside. you know, the hammer thing. xpost
― peacocks, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i usually don't get hungry at all until after i've been awake for at least 5 hours.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
but then i start the day with a large cup of coffee and a half dozen cigarettes so ...
I need to be up for at least an hour or so before I get hungry (and I've tried to make myself eat breakfast when I'm not, like if I know I won't have a chance to eat all morning, and it makes me feel sick). But I also am incapable of getting up in the morning until the last possible second. When I was at work I used to eat cereal when I got in which was ideal but now I don't bother eating until midday so find I've "skipped" breakfast because I'm a lazy arse. OTOH if I can't eat dinner for some reason - usually going out straight after work or something, unable to leave to get food - I get grouchy as hell and can't focus on anything else for more than 5 seconds other than 'when can I eat dinner'.
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
My friend is going to this holistic medicine person because she has some intense nutritional problems and this person told her that different types of people need to focus on food for different parts of the day. She said she's a fire personality so she needs to make lunch her biggest meal of the day.
― peacocks, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
good luck staying awake in afternoon meetings then :) (this used to be a HUGE problem for me)
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
My mother was nagging me about my weight when I was 125-130, but I just tuned it out--it was just another one of the many, many things that she was neurotic about.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha ha, peacocks, I totally know about the scowly on the inside! Hammer time!
Bowl of mueslix with some fruit and some nuts for protein, slow release, keep me going until mid afternoon.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
what are "intense nutritional problems" - like she's pathologically afraid of food that isn't white or yellow?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
also I think I'm a kind of food snob and cereal holds no interest for me, so I like to wait until lunch when I can legitimately eat a sandwich (which holds much interest for me).
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i used to go days without eating, when i was in my early 20s (just out of laziness, really), but in the last couple of years i just can't do that anymore: i've really gotten used to eating breakfast, and i start feeling sick if i don't eat it. in fact, i've gotten used to eating 3 regular meals a day, and feel sick if i skip one.
xp to sarahel: i have told some awful stories about my mother on ilx - i 'love' her i guess, but she is/was extremely ignorant, lacking in compassion, somewhat spiteful/malicious, jealous... she's gotten a lot 'nicer' in the last few years but there are still things that tempt me on a regular basis to cut all contact with her.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
My friend is going to this holistic medicine person because she wants to acquire some intense nutritional problems
Fixed.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
125-130? Saying you're over weight? How tall are you?
Sarahel- it's more intense digestion problems that intensely affect her nutritional intake.
― peacocks, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
cereal can be good - i like putting fruit on it - just plain cereal is not very exciting, except in the wee hours
― sarahel, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh god I don't know re breakfast. When I was little, breakfast was liable to be like pancakes and bacon and eggs and orange juice and glasses of milk. Not every day of course but sometimes it was, like, how you might imagine FARMHANDS would eat. You might benefit from those calories at age 5 in the winter during a growth spurt but you prob don't need that anymore at age 20 when you're sitting in class/a heated dorm room?
Was thinking of the "mom" type in this book of stories I used to have -- they were like "stories to live by" for teen girls, published in the '50s or something. So ymmv x infinity.
― Q: What's small, clumsy, and slow? A: A toddler. (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
My dad was always the one harping about my weight as a kid. Being 12 and ordering a choloate shake AT STAKE AND SHAKE and he would say "are you sure you want to eat that?"
― peacocks, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Muselix with fruit and nuts is lush. And I hate cereal.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
5'5".
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
xp - aw that sucks, my dad would be sad if i didn't want a milkshake - when mom worked late, we'd sometimes go to Foster's Freeze and get burgers and shakes, because they had like 15 different flavors of shakes. I think my dad was/is still kinda like a kid in many ways.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I have been so into starting my day by eating oatmeal then going & lifting weights. I've done it for over a week & it feels great. I just want to eat oatmeal for every meal, it's the only food I like lately.
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Jees, Christine. That is totally a slender healthy weight for that height.
― peacocks, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm really into having smoothies that are vanilla yogurt + banana + strawberries + rose water
― sarahel, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
oatmeal rules! I'm way into yogurt and granola right now. rose water smoothies holy wow that sounds good.
― peacocks, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i eat oatmeal for breakfast everyday and for lunch at work like 4x a week! but there is exactly one brand of instant oatmeal that i like, although i have tried approx. 7 different types and they all seem repulsive. i am extremely lazy about food, hate cooking but unfortunately am also super fussy and have low tolerance for eating the same thing all the time.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i also blame this on my mother, since she was the worst and least inventive cook in the world and fed me strictly microwaved food from 3-18yrs of age.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
which brand is that? what is your fav flavor, if any?
just1n3! we are child diet twins!
― peacocks, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
uhoh thats what beats gets
― Dude you HAVE no quran! (sunny successor), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
my mom gave me an inferiority complex because when i was growing up, she probably worked like 70 hours a week, cooked a lot (she is a really good cook), and kept the house pretty tidy - i have never been capable of doing all of those things.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
it is one particular type from trader joe's, maple syrup flavour but they have two kinds so it's easy to get the wrong one by accident! xp to peacocks
― just1n3, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
but my mom did try to make food sometimes, we were just really busy. She got really into cooking after I moved away to college and even more so after she retired. She makes excellent food now.
― peacocks, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
sunny!!!!!!!
i don't think my mom will ever really retire.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
well, my mum was a stay at home mum from when i was 7-13, so i don't what her excuse was. but this is also the same person who would regularly give me a double helping of frozen corn bc she knew i hated it so much i couldn't even stand the smell.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
when she went back to work, i had to take over about 75% of cooking duties, but since i had no one to learn from and we didn't own pots/pans, and she bought things like mince/sausages/carrots/cabbage/potatoes every week, i didn't have much choice but to follow in her footsteps.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
the frozen corn thing - wtf? my mom would occasionally play little games to see whether she could sneak certain ingredients she liked but knew me and my dad weren't fond of into meals to see if we could detect them.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, I need to get back into eating oatmeal for breakfast again. It will be nice now that the weather is cold again. Yay.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
omg i had to sit at the table and eat everything on my plate. even if it took hours. i developed a cool trick of swallowing things whole with gulps of water, like pills, so i wouldn't have to taste it.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
that sounds kind of horrid. I don't think I've ever had mince. I ate in a rush or fast food in the car a lot.
― peacocks, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
xp Haha totally did that. Had to sit at table for hours even into HIGH SCHOOL because I've hated peas all my life and there was no forgiveness for not cleaning your plate. Therefore, down the hatch with several glasses of water.
― Q: What's small, clumsy, and slow? A: A toddler. (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the closest i ever came to having an eating disorder was the summer before 7th grade when it was really hot and i was depressed and i pretty much just ate sourdough toast and popsicles
― sarahel, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Oatmeal kicks ass. I can't stand instant, actually. I stayed at my mom-in-law's house recently, who said she'd buy me oatmeal, and she got instant. And my husband said, "Oh, that's not the kind she likes," so every day she & I had some stupid conversation about how I was a horrible, insufferable snob.
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i tried a few different types of 'real' oatmeal but it was too... rich? and too nutty and too chunky. the stuff i like is really bland and soft and mushy, with the merest hint of sweetness. it's nothing-food, which i love bc i don't have to think about it while i eat it.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
what? even my dad can make regular oatmeal (which he does when my mom isn't around to cook him breakfast). I don't think i've ever had instant oatmeal.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
That's a very, very bad idea, because sometimes the reason why a kid doesn't like a food is that they are allergic to it.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link