DSD wrote:
this made me queasy just reading this. Waaayy too much and esp too heavy of food for me in the am
I used to have a very difficult time eating breakfast. I got out of the habit somewhere around junior high school when I discovered I valued another 15 minutes of sleep more than I did the food, and eventually it just got so that I wasn't hungry in the morning at all. About that same time, my family had made it so that my allowance was also my lunch money, with whatever was left over at the end of the week being my spending money--so I had much more money if I didn't eat lunch. I also discovered that if I DID eat breakfast, I was much more likely to be hungry around lunchtime, whereas if I skipped breakfast, I wouldn't usually feel hungry until 2-3pm or so.
Fast forward 20 years and you basically had someone who habitually starved herself for 16-20 hours or more at a stretch and had pretty much NO energy at any point during the day and whose body was pretty much constantly in conservation mode. I just wasn't healthy. In an effort to make my routine something stable enough that bring a child into it won't be completely disasterous for that child (after all, when you have a kid, eating once a day really isn't an option, and I really wanted to be able to impart GOOD eating behaviors and routines to the child.
By this point, however, the chronic need to refuse to eat until I was feeling absolutely famished had reached the compulsive extreme where the doctor was like, "yeah, this is what's known as an eating disorder." So I've basically been in treatment for an eating disorder for the last six months or so, and one of the very first things we began to work on was implementing breakfast into the day, because once we did that, the hunger signals which are supposed to be there and WEREN'T seemed to kick in automatically at intervals. I've only missed breakfast a couple times and I've found that when I do miss breakfast, I'm much more apt to miss the other meals and snacks of the day until late afternoon or early evening, when I'm feeling absolutely famished.
The point of this ramble is that now whenever I see anyone whose like, "Well, I just don't eat breakfast" I'm all, "gah! nooo! danger! danger!"
Last week I posted my recipe for crockpot oatmeal. This has been a HUGE help in getting a morning routine established, because I am SO not a morning person and the idea of troubling myself to cook in the morning is absolutely absurd. Usually it's a serving of oatmeal with a couple tablespoons of slivered almonds for protein, a teaspoon of sugar and about 1/3 cup milk, and a cup of orange juice on the side. I added the almonds because if I don't get some protein and a little bit of fat, I get a really nasty crash where my energy completely bottoms out about an hour and a half after breakfast.
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