I tend to graze throughout the day when I’m at work and have a few lunches instead of a larger lunch which I have at the weekends. If someone offers me food I pretty much always take it, so probably option B.
For the record, I weigh 148lbs, I don’t think I’ve changed more than 2lbs either side of that for the past 6 years.
I don’t know…I eat until I’m not hungry. However, cafeteria food isn’t all that appetising so sometimes I’m not hungry before I start eating!
If I have food lying around, I’ll snack while doing homework (hard work, that, need to keep my energy up). I generally only eat two meals a day since that’s my meal plan and I rarely get up for breakfast anyway. There is that whole college thing of getting a pizza in the middle of the night, but that doesn’t happen too often. Generally the only time I overeat is when I go out to dinner and the food is good, but that doesn’t happen too often while I’m in school. I inevitably lose weight during the semester, then gain it back during break after eating real, actual food that hasn’t been prepared for a thousand people at a time.
Of course, during finals I buy a massive amount of junk food and eat it continuously. It’s definitely a comfort eating sort of habit.
I used to overeat every day. I was never ever full, or I’d be full for 20 minutes and then hungry again, stomach rumbling, gonna starve hungry.
Changing my diet to healthier foods (33 pounds down since May) changed a lot of that for me. I overindulge sometimes (I had way too much cheese last night) but I don’t overeat on a regular basis anymore. Now that I’m eating better, I’m eating less. It’s been a real eye opener for me, because I’m not hungry 24 hours a day like I used to be, and my stomach no longer wakes me up in the middle of the night.
I do miss really huge plates of pasta though.
A large amount occasionally. Whenever I go to AYCE buffets I always try to overeat.
Thanks for all your responses. I think I’ll bookmark this thread for the next round of fat threads.
Both B and C. According to my very skinny and overly zealous doctor, I should lose 20 pounds. I am trying to lose 10-15.
Well, since earning very little money and no longer being able to afford to go out to eat all the time, I have appreciated a ‘free lunch’ much more. So if my best friend takes me out to eat, or my family goes out to eat at a nice restaurant, since the food is A. Free and B. Yummy I have a bad tendency to gorge myself. I also overeat at buffets (because I’d feel guilty if someone shelled out $15 for me only to wind up eating a little salad).
The other condition for me is when I have to be at work for a long time. I mistakenly eat a big meal, thinking it will ‘tide me over’. Usually all this does is make me very lethargic (overloading my digestive system) through the whole day. I keep forgetting this happens :smack: I really really REALLY need to remind myself to bring healthy snacks with me to much on if I get hungry, so I don’t eat sporadic huge meals.
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That would be an uncool ambush tactic, IMO.
I think your doctor’s crazy. Unless you’ve gained 20 since I last saw you, you haven’t got any to lose.
That’s what I thought when I read it, too.
featherlou, can you explain what you meant?
I eat too much probably every day. I never really tracked it, but that empty box of apple spice cupcakes I bought two days ago tells me I should. :o
When I was on Atkins (don’t give me grief) I never craved sugar, never ate too much and generally felt better about myself healthwise.
Then I got pregnant!
:eats the last cupcake:
I do think she’s wrong about the 20 pounds, but I could stand to lose a few. Mostly, though, I’d just like to firm up a bit and be in better shape.
Well, what do you mean by overeat?
I probably eat about 1,000 to 2,000 calories a day extra than would be recommened for someone my size (6’1", 195 pounds), but I burn them off with very intensive exercise almost every day. (That would be or or two hours of ice hockey, or a 7 mile run, or a strenuous uphill hike). In terms if calories in compared to calories burned, I’m about even since I’m not gaining or losing weight in spite of my 3,500 to 4,000 daily calories.
Reminds me of the history channel show about loggers. Back in the day, when it was all done with human muscle, those guys ate about 8000 calories a day, and were typically around 5’7" and maybe a buck fifty.
Neither they nor you were/are overeaters.
Are you going to eat those potatoes?
I used to overeat all the time. But after my Dr told me how high my cholesterol was, I decided to take action. I’ve started eating better, and after the first few days, I got past the over-eating hunger pangs. Plus I’m feeling better and sleeping better. Why the heck was I overindulging before??
Oddly enough, we went out for breakfast this morning, and I left about a third of my meal on my plate - I just didn’t want any more. I’m no longer a member of the clean plate club! Go ME!! 
The results of this totally non-scientific sampling shows, in my opinion, that over-eating is common in North America. I see no reason to not link to this thread next time we go-round on the fat issue. What makes that an ambush tactic? Having bothered to do some research?
Take into account the fact that several contributers to this thread, including myself, aren’t from North America.
Also, that the “overeating” is completely subjective.
One person’s huge meal is another person’s light snack.
Some people may be eating more calories than they should be every day but in small portions of calorie heavy food, while others are eating huge plates of brown rice and steamed vegetables, and stuffing themselves to the gills with food that still contains less calories than they need for the day.
Good point.
Dang it, irishgirl, why’d you have to ruin my perfectly good plan with facts?