Musings ....

For years I have read that in order to lose weight, you should not eat after 7pm in the evening, as your body needs to digest the food before you retire to bed.

I've always wondered how on earth in reality people really, really manage to do this .... until I came across another article yesterday, which said, it was assuming that people go to bed at 10pm, and therefore 3hrs before going to bed was the critical time .... not the 7pm !

Well, I barely manage to sit down, let alone eat by 7pm, unless of course, we eat with DD, at 5pm, which means I am always hungry late evening, and when I say late evening, I mean 11pm, as up until now, my average bedtime is between midnight and 1am.

No, flipping wonder, that eating nothing past 7pm wouldn't work for me, LOL ....

Nothing like only being given part of the puzzle is there!

My eating patterns, since I was a teen, have always incorporated me having "supper" late evening. As a teen, it always involved a bowl of cereal.

There are 2 things (I say "2", but in reality I have no idea how many things, "2" just sounded good to start with!)

1. Work backwards with the my timetable for eating

2. Choose wisely

So, if I go to bed at 00:00, then the latest I ought to eat is 21:00.

Which is why we're trying to play with our schedules. For example - gym day:

08:00 get up
11:00 brunch (or breakfast)

15:00 - is therefore the logical gap, for either a snack, or lunch

18:00 - 20:00 - gym (yes, that includes to'ing and fro'ing of an hour)
20:00 dinner

Oh, I don't know .... what do other people do, who actually, y'know - work / live / have children / have spouses / go to the gym ....

It was so much simpler when I was single ..... eat what I want / when I wanted ...