first, let's note that my eating schedule only calls for one meal per day, although it's sort of like eating a big brunch everyday. so, i'll eat a bowl of fruit as an appetizer (or, you could call it breakfast.) and then eat one of the following:
1) half of a large plate of pasta, which i may double up on if i skipped the previous day or if i'm just extra hungry. like the day i got back from 120 km of biking. i ate an entire plate, that day. usually, i will eat half the plate.
2) eggs, which is four eggs on rye bread, with cheese and salami.
these are not small meals, and if you didn't understand what i was doing you'd miss the point. while they are not small meals, they are roughly the size of what a lot of people eat just for supper. if you want to interpret the fruit as breakfast and the pasta as lunch, then i don't eat supper at all; if you want to interpret the fruit as breakfast and the pasta as supper, then i don't eat lunch - and it's actually half of what most people eat for supper.
so is that clear?
after having three bowls of fruit and half the eggs i normally would this morning, i'm now four days behind on the fruit (that includes today). i've also had some nachos over the period being examined, which i used to substitute for some skipped meals.
the legend then is as follows:
f = fruit skipped
m = meal (that is, eggs or pasta) skipped
june:
july:
03 -
04 -
07 -
08 -
10 -
11 -
12 -
13 -
21 -
22 -
23 -
24 - f m
25 - f m
26 - f m
27 - f m
29 - f m
30 - f m
31 - f m
the red dates are what i've eaten over the last few 48 hours, and given that i've got three days to get through 7 bowls of fruit, it's not likely that i'll be eating anything else for the rest of the month.
in those 44 days, then, i've only had 14 meals - and skipped 30, although i caught up to eight of them with nachos. so, i've skipped 22 meals this summer. that's about $50 in the bank, and i assure you my health is better off for it.
that is normal for me, in the summer - the heat keeps my appetite way down, allowing me to lose weight without even trying. it's the best part of the summer - you don't get hungry, and therefore don't have to eat.
but, i want to post this to demonstrate what a healthy person's diet actually looks like. i'm going to end up eating a grand total of two actual meals and a shitload of fruit over the last two weeks of july, and when i get tested they're going to tell me my stats are those of an olympic athlete, that i'm the healthiest person they've ever met. so, that's something to strive for, even if it seems impossible to accomplish right now.
you shouldn't be craving food two or three times a day, that's just going to make you obese, and you should take it as a sign that you need to change your lifestyle if you find yourself constantly hungry like that. whatever the intelligent design people want to tell you about genetics and hunger, the reality is that hunger is a feedback that happens when your stomach reaches a specific point of acidity, and not something that is genetically predetermined, so if you're hungry a lot it's because your stomach is physically too big. it may be uncomfortable for you to do so, but you basically need to starve yourself until it shrinks - and then you won't be hungry when you shouldn't be anymore.