Eating habits have always interested me. I remember, growing up, I would never, ever be able to eat breakfast when I just woke up. The thought would just make me sick. Even now, I don’t eat breakfast until an hour after I’ve gotten to work. D, on the other hand, eats when he gets up. Then there’s the whole three meals a day that have been whittled down to two smaller meals with snacks in between and one big meal at dinnertime. They say it keeps your metabolism steady, which is a good thing. And this is what I’ve been doing for a while now: breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, big dinner. However, I’ve never been totally okay with all that food just sitting in my stomach as I wind down my night. Well, D told me about this cool “solution” which makes total sense to me. It’s not so much of a diet, in my opinion, as a way or schedule of eating. It doesn’t fit in, at all, with our way of life in America, but D and I kind of tried it on Sunday. We ate a normal breakfast of cereal, then, when we got out of church around 12pm, we ate a snack and didn’t eat our big lunch until 3pm. I made us a good-sized salad around 7pm that filled me up.
This “solution” is called The Reverse Diet Solution.
It’s not so much this specific diet and all the foods it says to eat and not to eat, that intrigues me, it’s the schedule of eating. It makes sense. I just may try this on a more regular basis…well as much as possible.
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by Anonymous , on March 13, 2007 9:58 AM
Sorry, nothing about food or dieting intrigues me. I eat not to be hungry, end of story. Whereas you and your Dad treat it like an art form! However, it does make sense to eat your biggest meal in the middle of the day and lightly at night. The problem is, we Americans go to bed too late, so with a light dinner, we are hungry again before bed because we are up way too late! Maybe there is a thing called "Reverse Sleeping"....
Love, MOm F
by Sara , on March 13, 2007 10:03 AM
Hmm, I makes sense. I used to never be a breakfast person for the same reason--I would literally get sick to my stomach. I used to joke with Tony that I was all set to get pregnant, because I already had morning sickness. When our family used to go on vacations, Mom and Dad loved to leave at some ridiculour hour like 4 am, and then they'd stop for breakfast a few hours later, but even then, I couldn't eat.
I've been trying to make a point of eating breakfast now, though, because they say that's another thing that stablilizes your metabolism and keeps you from overeating the rest of the day. I really have no eating schedule, though--at work, I eat when I feel like it, and dinner is always a crapshoot. I guess that's what having a baby will do to you--you focus so much on feeding her, that you forget to eat yourself, lol. :)
by Sara , on March 13, 2007 10:04 AM
Ugh, OK, I need to proofread my comments before I post them... that first sentence should say "it makes sense" not "I makes sense" (because I don't, lol!).
by Anonymous , on March 13, 2007 10:33 AM
I don't think I've specifically heard of that eating, but I've heard of similar ideas, like eating your bigger meal earlier in the day so that you have more hours to digest it, and then eating a lighter dinner. Yeah, Americans are used to the big dinner thing.
by Eden , on March 13, 2007 4:39 PM
Basically, the Reverse Diet is simply eating like Europeans. They eat their big meal at "lunch" time.
I think the idea is great!! Have a great week.