How many of you eat when you are hungry vs scheduled meals whether you are hungry or not?

Glass of milk or three for breakfast
Couple or more splices of cheese or meat for snacking during the day and then protein for dinner.
Dinner is not at a set time.
I am 6’2” and weigh 188 and 60 years old. Pure love and muscle.

But you with the sugar issue probably should stick to a set schedule

With my secdual I never know when it's time to eat. I eat when I get hungry or when I rember I have not yet that day or night. Sometimes I forget all together others I eat enough for a few days in one

I can’t. Sometimes when I eat because of a schedule I’m miserable afterwards, and that’s before coming here and reading some of Marty’s posts.

LMAO best Reply in a while!

Schedule meals. That is why my wife has been a type 1 diabetic for 43 years and NO ISSUES !!! aside from 1 cataract Lunch at 11;30 supper at 5:30 Of course if possible

Having a drill Sargent Mom and everything was at a certain time, period. Left home and now my wife and I eat whenever we want, do whatever we want and have been for 63 years.

some of each

my wife wants supper between 6 and 7:30 most every night sometimes it is 8 by the time it happens

at work I have to take lunch around other peoples schedule and my own work load , some days I eat some days I go work in the garden for 30 minutes.

I found I didn't need 3 meals a day , hardly 2

coffee and a pepper with cream cheese maybe a hand full or two of nuts and a string cheese till about 1 then a salad , then supper seems to be about right most days

I am extremely low carb
if I get carb happy for the day it looks like some raw fruit or regular beer and I keep that to days when I have more activity than my day job.
on weekends I may do breakfast of eggs and supper , I am also moving more on my own time.

I eat according to my Diabetic sugar count. That determines that I keep a schedule and WHAT to eat. I do a lot of Carb Counting and try to keep a schedule especially for 8 am Breakfast and 6:30 Dinner. Lunch a lot of times just gets thrown in between!!!

I assume you use insulin ?
that definitely makes you eat similar stuff and watch that number.

I am type 2 non insulin I almost couldn't hit low blood sugar trying. or at least I haven't got there yet and I often go 8 hours on couple hand full of peanuts and coffee , lowest I have gotten so far is mid 90s

It varies with the eating ...usually 11 to 1. And at 5 to 7

I was taking my insulin at night until I woke up at 3:00 one morning with a 38 blood sugar. Ice cold sweat and couldn’t move. No rescue tablets but had some sugar and brought my reading up to over 100.
I had been trapping and running hard earlier that day. Being cold and not eating enough leaves your sugars low anyway. I changed to morning taking my shot so I can monitor while awake. Hasn’t happened again. High is safer than low. Age has a lot to do with readings I have found!

Humans were not meant to eat on a set schedule. We were hunter gatherers and of course had bad days were we didnt catch anything.

The FDA came up with the three meals a day and look what happened to our bodies and health because of it.

Fasting is normal for humans and all animals and is very good for your health to be hungry once in a while. You burn stored fat while fasting.

I eat two meals a day. My first meal is between 4-5pm. I never eat breakfast or lunch and then eat again at 10:00pm, then fast all night while sleeping so its easier. I normally go 15 -16 hrs without eating every day. My blood sugar/BP is normal. After weighing 230 lbs, I now weigh 177. I am 6'2" feel much better.

Many years ago when I was a newbie here, I had an old Native guy and his wife pull up to my beach in his 36 foot hand made wooden boat. (lumber was whipsawn from spruce trees)

This guy couldn't read or write and had no knowledge of numbers............ and he spoke a different language than his wife. They could both speak a little English but she would never do so in front of anyone else.

Anyway, one day they pulled in to my beach just about noon. I grabbed the rope and tied the boat.
I looked at my watch and asked if they wanted to eat lunch with me.

The old guy looked at me with a puzzled look and asked..............."do you have to look at your watch to know if you are hungry "?

Not only did that make complete sense but I thought it was pretty funny too.

I try to eat on a schedule if possible. Schedule is a bit relative term.

I can’t. Sometimes when I eat because of a schedule I’m miserable afterwards, and that’s before coming here and reading some of Marty’s posts.[/quote]
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No schedule what so ever

I eat when I am hungry but I eat all clean foods...no soda pop, just water. I take my meals with me so I can eat good food if I want to eat.