Last night when I was talking with my mother she mentioned a tasty nut snack, and how it helped her “make it until dinner”. I was speechless for a moment and did a poor job of hiding my surprise. The idea of being unable to get from lunch to dinner without eating a small amount of something… I suspect this is actually pretty normal but it’s so extreme I find it hard to wrap my mind around it.
I also discovered that her fasting glucose is above 200, and despite cutting back on some of the worst excesses of sugar and pasta I can’t seem to get through to her because she’s a firm believer in moderation and not doing anything that smacks of extremism. That instinct for a middle path is reinforced when there are people giving directly contradictory health advice on any point.
Unrelated but since tomorrow is my birthday I was trying to find a way to celebrate that isn’t unhealthy AF. Brazilian steakhouse FTW :)
She had a snack between lunch and dinner. Is that any more “extreme” than someone doing 16:8 and having something in the middle of their feed window?
It’s not like she made a tray of lasagna to hold her over. Sounds like she is doing well for herself by cutting sugar and pasta, not everyone has to do IF.
Yeah, I think it’s pretty common (I almost said “normal” but no, it isn’t that). It’s so completely the opposite of how my body works, though. I don’t eat breakfast or lunch, and if I ate a tasty nut snack in the middle of the afternoon, it would just make me hungry.