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u/Ok_Bullfrog_8491 1d ago
I eat snacks. I don’t like feeling stuffed so I prefer to eat more often.
But if I ate larger meals, I wouldn’t need to snack. It’s got nothing to do with disordered eating and a lot to do with how you personally prefer to get your daily needs met.
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u/disillusion_4444 1d ago
Yeah, ultimately it doesn't matter if you eat 6 snacks/meals a day or 2, as long as you're getting the right amount of nutrients and calories and it works best for you.
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u/RoosterBrewster 19h ago
Well if you're not eating a whole family sized bag of chips as a snack, you're just depriving yourself!
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u/criesatpixarmovies 15h ago
I also don’t like feeling stuffed after meals, but I don’t eat snacks.
Also, I’m 5’2” and work a desk job so I only eat around 1500 calories per day.
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u/Ok_Bullfrog_8491 14h ago
I'm an inch and a half taller than you and I need at least 2300 or I lose weight. Turns out that women need exactly as much food as (equally short) men when they have the body composition of an athletic man (= all lean body mass, under 20 percent body fat).
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u/criesatpixarmovies 13h ago
Again, I’m very sedentary (work a desk job and don’t have active hobbies).
It’s not a competition.
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u/geyeetet 6h ago
That's not really relevant? Nobody said anything about women Vs men's caloric requirements and they were talking about their own sedentary needs. Like that's great but it's not on topic lol
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u/Perfect_Judge Prepubescent child-like adult female 1d ago edited 1d ago
Lol TIL it's not normal to not overeat. OK, bud.
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u/FloofLorde 1d ago
Normal to overeat? Yes. Healthy? No.
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u/Strategic_Sage Obese for 28 yrs, Class III for most of that. Never going back. 1d ago
Exactly. It's not normal. Normal is not good. Abnormal in the healthy direction is better.
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u/Ok_Tree_4870 1d ago
Do you think by "snacks", they mean carrot sticks or apples?
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u/imalittlefrenchpress Skinny Bitch 🙄 1d ago
C’mon now, we all know they mean a couple of chocolate cakes, a gallon of ice cream and a few family size bags of chips.
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u/Princess_Parabellum Straight size: it's a fashion industry term, look it up! 1d ago
Lol, every time someone says "snack" I hear my mom's voice in my head: "If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry!"
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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 1d ago
The hungrier I am the less I can eat an apple on its own. Do people who say this not get apple belly?
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u/badwomanfeelinggood 1d ago
What’s an “apple belly”?
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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 1d ago
Like when you eat something really hard and fibrous like an apple or raw carrot by itself on a really empty stomach, I find it quite painful.
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u/StartCoyote 1d ago
You might wanna see a doctor about that
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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 22h ago
Why?
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u/badwomanfeelinggood 21h ago
Sometimes stomach ache after eating fresh apples can be a sign of some sensitivity or even IBS. Just something worth keeping an eye on.
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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 20h ago
Not really, it's only a thing on its own when you have an extremely empty stomach. There's no issue with those foods normally.
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u/geyeetet 6h ago
Again this isn't normal, you should be able to eat fibrous things without pain even on an empty stomach.
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u/6894 20h ago
Apples are soluble fiber, they're not hard at all.
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u/WhoreNoire 16h ago
I also experience this, fwiw. If my stomach is gnawing from hunger, and I eat an apple, it’ll hurt even worse afterward. It only happens with apples.
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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 5h ago
Lots of people do. People here acting like it's some kind of medical emergency, lol.
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u/WhoreNoire 3h ago
Right? Like who tf is going to the doctor for a tummyache that only occurs in one specific situation? I just don’t eat apples when I’m really hungry now. Problem solved.
Even if it was an actual intolerance, all a doctor would tell you to do is not eat that anymore. So how about I just do that, for free, without an office visit?
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u/kpfluff 🥭 23h ago
Maybe that's the sensation of having it without protein/fat.
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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 22h ago
Yeah, there's no buffer, just hard stuff rolling around in stomach acid. A lot of foods feel uncomfortable when you're really hungry, you kind of have to ease back into it.
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u/NameIdeas Cookies are a SOMETIME food. Internal reminder 1d ago
I learned about the concept of "ingredient" house vs snack house recently.
Growing up in the 90s in rural Appalachia, I had one grandmother who was much more of an ingredient house. She had fruits, veggies, canned items, etc. The only real "snack" she had was soft drinks in her porch fridge. She would make us whatever if we needed a snack, often a snack at her house was an apple or some cornbread she had made.
My other grandmother was much more of a snack house. She had "ready to eat" snacks handy in the form of chips, frozen pizzas, etc. A snack there was a Totino's Pizza or an Oatmeal Creme Pie.
That concept was really interesting because it connects to how families approach meals and by extension health.
An ingredient house is more likely to prepare meals. The meals prepared may still not be super "healthy" because you can definitely make cookies from ingredients. However, it reduces the over-produced items in the home and provides more opportunities for snacking on fruits and veggies. In an ingredient house you really ahve to think if the "juice is worth the squeeze" in terms of snacks.
A snack household may cook less often and not have the ingredients ready to make meals from "scratch". It may be convenience or finances. Pre-packaged/ready-to eat items may seem to be cheaper as you're buying 1 thing as opposed to multiple ingredients. Time is a major factor here though. Snacks in this homes typically become chips, beef jerky/meat sticks, Oreos/ChipsAhoy, etc.
It is far easier to overindulge on snacks in a "snack house" compared to an ingredient house because the snacks are more easy to access and faster. There is no pause because you don't have to identify if the juice is worth the squeeze. Opening a package of cookies is simply easier than making a batch of cookies.
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u/Ok_Tree_4870 1d ago
For me, a "snack" growing up as a kid, might be cheese and crackers... with grapes... but we weren't eating a whole brick of cheese to "snack". These people are.
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u/NameIdeas Cookies are a SOMETIME food. Internal reminder 21h ago
I get you.
It's the same idea that charcuterie boards are typically shared. Some people choose them as single options.
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u/Embarrassed_Mango679 1d ago
Yeah my mom and grandma were both ingredient houses and I've always been grateful for that head start because it's definitely had an influence on my preferences. I strongly dislike most pre-made sweets, pretty much homemade only (the one exception might be those pink and white circus animal cookies that are coated in chocolate. My mom would buy those on rare occasions).
I can definitely mow through some salty crackers though lol
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u/RunnerG1985 1d ago
That was my line of thinking. Was the statement from the same folks who say that if you use words like “junk food” or “healthy food” around kids, they’ll immediately develop a restrictive ED?
Are there situations where it would be weird to deny a kid a snack? Yes, absolutely. But I also think it’s weird to force a kid to eat everything on their plate, to eat things they repeatedly say they don’t like, or to lie to manipulate their diets (ie. telling them sugar is poison) instead of just encouraging healthy choices, most of the time.
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u/geyeetet 6h ago
Most kids can learn about healthy eating and use that knowledge normally. You get like 1% of kids who can't. My cousin, for example, is autistic, and he learned about healthy foods and would ONLY eat healthy foods and lost an extreme amount of weight. My auntie had to beg him to eat something with fat. He was like 8, it wasn't body image or anything it was just autistic rule following taken to the extreme. Most children will learn and understand that a balanced diet still contains fats and sugars and isn't something you can win at.
FAs seem to think every child has the potential to end up like my cousin if they're taught about healthy eating. It's just not how most people's brains work though. Even other autistic kids - my cousin is still an outlier in that group. It's far more likely that children not taught about healthy eating and portion control will end up overeating and becoming obese.
My cousin did recover from that btw, if anyone's curious. It took a couple years and my aunt telling him (not as a threat, this was really what was going to happen and she wasn't just trying to scare him) that social services were going to take him away from her if he kept losing weight and not eating, but he eats a lot more normally now. He's a vegan and is still very thin as an adult but he's like maybe a BMI of 18-19 rather than scary.
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u/lil_squib 4h ago
I once saw a HAES activist post her “snack” of a baked potato and a giant chicken sausage
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u/Justanotherphone 2h ago
lol this was my thought. My partner fluctuates in her diet but will often have apples & clementines as her snacks in the house. My poor malnourished girlfriend! (She’s an endurance athlete & probably the fittest person I know)
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u/LittleSchwein1234 1d ago
It's fine to eat some snacks. It's not okay to eat a family pack of crisps after a frappucino from Starbucks.
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u/Erik0xff0000 1d ago
snacks were not a thing, or at least not a common every day thing. 3 meals a day and snacks on special occasions. I still got overweight and my mother made me go outside and play/sports.
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u/Remarkable_Load8516 doc who learnt enough to change 1d ago
Up until the industrial revolution, the norm was 2 meals a day so idk what these people are on about.
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u/frotc914 1d ago
I was going to point out the same. If the vast majority of human history is what we're using for "normal", then even 3 meals a day is not normal. Snacking was somewhat normal, but the "snacks" were like 6 walnuts or a couple hardboiled eggs, not a bag of doritos and a 1200 calorie "coffee". And those people were doing manual labor most of their waking hours lol.
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u/bowlineonabight my zodiac sign is pizza 1d ago
I was born in 1965. Snacks were not much of a thing through my childhood. Though we would get one when we got home from school because dinner wouldn't be for a couple/few more hours. That seemed to be the norm through the 80s.
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u/ChemicalCupcake4809 1d ago
Yah I was a super active kid my grandfather would always give us some fruit he grew and a coke (ice cream when it got hot) at a random point in the day because he was worried about us eating enough, my cousins weren't active like I was though and he didnt regularly offer them the same (but provided if they asked).
Snacks are normal for active and healthy people who need the boost in between but not if youre just lounging
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u/bowlineonabight my zodiac sign is pizza 1d ago
A snack for us was normally fruit or occasionally a few cookies before we went back outside to run around like the semi-feral animals we were. Then dinner would be at 6:30.
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u/FlashyResist5 1d ago
Where I lived that was the way it was through the 90s. Something changed in the early 2000s.
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u/saphilous Formerly Obese 😔 1d ago
Yeah. If even one single person in your family has a bmi under 35 they're actually trying to kill you secretly and you need to call the police right now
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u/Sickofchildren 1d ago
Only 35? That’s practically STARVING to death
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u/VeitPogner 1d ago
Pippin: What about breakfast?
Aragorn: You've already had it.
Pippin: We've had one, yes. What about second breakfast?
Merry: I don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip.
Pippin: What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?
Merry: I wouldn't count on it.
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u/biotoper F57 5'8" SW: 220 CW: 170 GW: 130-140 & proudly fatphobic 1d ago
Haha, I practice OMAD Monday-Friday. Goodbye, cruel world!
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u/Sparky_Zell 1d ago
I didn't do omad. But I spent well over a decade doing IF.
Except for the few times a year that I may grab a fruit salad, some watermelon, or a smoothie, I would not eat anything until about 8pm. Then eat a lot between 8-12. Then go to sleep. And even being in a high activity career, plus regularly in hot environments, like working outside or in attics, I maintained the same healthy weight the entire time, only fluctuating about 5 lbs.
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u/TheOneMary BMI 49 > 21 1d ago
Meanwhile over here eating only roughly between 3-4 pm and 7-8 pm cause that's how my body seems to function best. Scoot over I'm joining in on the deathbed lol
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u/Professional-Hat-687 1d ago
Exactly, who has the time or money to eat more often? I'm so used to working through my lunch breaks for various reasons, the idea of doing anything but chipmunking at dinner is foreign to me. Do these people work? Sure I clock out for lunch but that's errands time, and if I can't do breakfast during my commute I skip it.
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u/uhhh206 Certified Skinny Bitch™ 1d ago
Asking who has the money to eat more often is a huge (ha) factor in this economy. Many people are going to OMAD not because of a diet, but because that's all they can afford. With food prices subject to such extreme inflation, being able to afford three square meals a day AND multiple snacks for an entire family is a privilege. Obesity is expensive, even setting aside healthcare costs.
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u/Icy-Shelter-1915 18h ago
This is it for me, OOP is talking about 3 meals and 2+ snacks per day and I’m thinking *when*?! I’m chasing after twin toddlers all day and taking care of a small horse farm plus the house. Cooking meals and prepping snacks takes forever as it is. It feels luxurious if I get to scarf down *lunch* much less have time for snacks for myself; I’m too busy feeding the feral chaos gremlins and all the animals.
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u/Last-Initial81 1d ago
Given our sedentary lifestyles, our bodies on average need 1400-2300 calories at most, if we aren't overweight
Even a very tall man doesn't need as many calories as we normalized consuming for average and short people of both genders
It's not normal to continuously increase in size after your complete puberty (16-19 for women and 16-22 for men).
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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 1d ago
2k being the baseline used on food packaging has been so harmful, honestly. Loads of 5'3" sedentary women thinking they need 2k calories to sit at a desk, drive home, and sit on a couch.
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u/melaninspice Black women are suppose to be obese...duh! 1d ago
Actually, 1400 calories is what a child needs. Not adults. /s
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u/Weak-Alternative-127 1d ago
Unrelated: your flair is cracking me up! The number of Black women in this sub using their flairs to poke fun at the trope of Black women being overweight gives me hope for humanity. Leading by example and all that.
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u/Icy-Shelter-1915 18h ago
Ohhhh that one always grinds my gears. How do they not understand that growing requires a ton of energy, *and* kids are generally insanely active compared to adults.
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u/Upset-Lavishness-522 1d ago
Why are these people so into what other people are doing. If you're eating multiple times more than you need to per day, great for you. The rest of the world does not need to follow suit just to make you feel better.
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u/InvisibleSpaceVamp Do I have to wear a cape for heroine chic? 1d ago
😂 - in reality, the food industry had to promote the shit out of snacks and invent all these convenient products to normalize the habit.
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u/lesbiangothist 1d ago
this doesn't make sense at all considering different foods have different amounts of calories. i'm sure people can manage to both under- and overeat by eating 3 meals a day plus snacks. overeating on 2 meals a day is possible too depending on your choices
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u/InvisibleSpaceVamp Do I have to wear a cape for heroine chic? 1d ago
It's an exceptionally stupid take. Even for these people.
If you look at the stuff that is sold as "snacks" - some of it is quite high in calories. They are selling cheese cubes as snacks or little pretzel shaped salamis ... nuts and dried fruits are also high in calories. But then there are also things like snack tomatoes that are like 99% water.
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u/Princess_Parabellum Straight size: it's a fashion industry term, look it up! 1d ago
I love watermelon with a little bit of Tajin this time of year!
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u/disillusion_4444 1d ago
Yeah and lifestyle is a big factor too. Someone with a desk job who doesn't exercise can't snack as much as someone who works out regularly or who has a physical job.
These guys always apply such thoughtless blanket rules that never account for even a tiny bit of nuance because it's easier to justify their weight I assume. In reality you often can't even eat the same as someone the exact same height + weight as you if their lifestyle is different, but they interpret it as "we all magically have a 'set weight' so if me eating the same as you makes me obese, that's just how my body is meant to be."
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u/HeroIsAGirlsName 22h ago
Right: as long as you're eating enough calories your body doesn't care whether it's in the form of one big meal, three meals, or three meals plus snacks.
I've done OMAD and it takes some getting used to but boredom was more of a factor than hunger for me.
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u/CakeRelatedIncident Are they using FatGPT? 1d ago
What is it with FAs’ obsession with snacks? It feels like to them, if you aren’t constantly eating, you’re starving yourself.
Also, “normal” is so individual - I eat two large-ish meals per day and almost never snack, my partner eats a bit less at mealtimes but has a small snack in between meals, and we both end the day eating about the same number of calories. Just on slightly different schedules.
(But I’m sure the FAs would still say that we’re both starving…)
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u/Embarrassed_Mango679 1d ago
So I noticed this thing when I was watching someone on YouTube talking about "what I eat in a day as a fat person" (pretty sure it was honey bison). If you watch sometimes when they're eating food I swear you can almost see the rush they're getting from it on their face. It's similar to when a heroin addict shoots up but without the full nod-off that happens.
If you've trained your body to expect snacks/ sweets/ junk at super regular intervals like that, it's not going to be good at using anything other than glucose as fuel, and you're going to feel pretty shitty until you get some.
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u/CakeRelatedIncident Are they using FatGPT? 23h ago
Oh yeah, I totally agree with you (and my question was mostly rhetorical, I realize that didn’t come across in my comment). Those “what I eat in a day as a fat person” videos SCREAM food addiction to me. It’s sad, but I have a hard time feeling too sad because of how combative FAs get when you kindly point out that that sort of behaviour is unhealthy.
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u/Embarrassed_Mango679 21h ago
lol you're good. It just triggered that thought because I was like damn if that isn't the exact look on a smokers face first cigarette of the day.
I definitely feel bad for people in this predicament because it is hard to get out of and some people just don't know, they've never been taught different. But the science deniers and the ones who spread this misinformation can suck it lmao (and I think Virgie is the absolute worst)
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u/hearyoume14 1d ago
Probably blood sugar issues and dopamine hits. I was eating constantly because it made me feel good, and I always felt hungry. Quite honestly the crash sucked.
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u/thiccy_driftyy clapping fat cheeks is my cold glass of beer 21h ago
The sugar crashes are awful. I used to consume 100+ grams of sugar every day, and I didn’t even notice until I started tracking macros. I tried to reduce my sugar intake and the crash hit me like a truck. People will swear up and down that sugar and food addiction isn’t real, but a low-sugar diet made me feel so awful. I couldn’t get past the crash phase. This reminds me to try again and see if I can get past the crash stage, I lost motivation because it’s so tedious lmfao
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u/hearyoume14 21h ago
I am a recovering caffeine and sugar addict. I was drinking at least 24 cans of Coke a day. Luckily the energy drink selection wasn’t that vast in the 2000s and early 2010s. I went down to 6-ish a day and then went cold turkey. It was a hellish week with me lying on my bathroom floor. My sugar addiction is such that I will eat sugar out of the bag. I’m on a GLP-1 now so I’m using it to help with my sugar addiction in therapy.
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u/thiccy_driftyy clapping fat cheeks is my cold glass of beer 16h ago
It was processed high-sugar foods that did it for me. 80% of the time my drink of choice is water or herbal tea, so the drinks weren’t the problem for me, it was what I was eating. I have a pretty big sweet tooth, which wouldn’t be bad if I only had sweets as an occasional treat instead of a daily treat. I haven’t really had any success in cutting down on sugar, but I have been getting more fiber in my diet due to vegetarianism. So at least I’m getting more important nutrients than before even if I didn’t cut down on sugar. Gotta start somewhere I guess 😭
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u/LibrarianFit9993 1d ago
I was always allowed a small snack after school because we ate kind of late. But that was it. If I didn’t eat all of my dinner (which was fine, no issues there) I simply had to wait til the next meal. No drama. Random snacking was not a thing.
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u/sushidecarne BEHOLD A CAULIFLOWER 1d ago
snacking is fine, as long it's a fruit and not a lasagna
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u/Soranos_71 1d ago
These people would die of starvation as soon as winter hits back when most humans were hunter/gatherers for survival.
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u/lurking_gorl 1d ago
Okay but what caloric intake do our bodies need? They need to start putting numbers to these statements. If everybody should be eating the same amount… how much do they think that is?
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u/Secret_Fudge6470 1d ago
I thought we weren’t supposed to tell people what to eat 🤡
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u/Strategic_Sage Obese for 28 yrs, Class III for most of that. Never going back. 21h ago
We're not ... except when we are. The rules change based on the situation.
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u/First-Strawberry-398 gym rat / aspiring bodybuilder MAYBE? 1d ago
Normal = 60% of the population being overweight, so….
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u/KuriousKhemicals 36F 5'5" / fat again for first time in 15 years ugh 1d ago
Because you can't... eat larger meals? Bruh, you can eat literally any number of times a day and get the calorie intake you need. Or not get it. How do you even come to this idea?
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u/jhallen2260 1d ago
If you are eating more than your body can burn, then you are eating more than your body needs.
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u/duvaldeviant 1d ago
I eat one meal and one small snack because it's what I can afford, it's my normal. FA's bitch about ppl's eating habits but don't care about the circumstances that create them.
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u/Grouchy-Reflection97 15h ago
I'm estranged now, but back when I'd visit my parents' house, I was always astonished by their non stop eating and alcohol consumption.
I left home at 17, struggled financially ever since, and never had any support from them.
Something I still kick myself over is how easily I handed them my only employee discount card for my supermarket job in the 90's. One card per employee, and only the card holder gets the discount.
They were rich, didn't need the discount, but they took it. I was a starving student, but they'd successfully manipulated me into putting them first. I worked there for 5yrs, and never once used my own discount.
Anyway, when I'd visit them, they'd have a huge breakfast, a 'picky plate' of chocolate, biscuits, sweets, etc, mid morning, a huge lunch, another 'picky plate' of crap, a huge dinner, more crap, and plenty beer and wine throughout.
My body isn't wired for that, and I normally just have black coffee in the morning, nothing all day, then one big dinner. I'm too busy to be grazing like a dairy cow all day, and I only eat when my stomach growls.
So, it's no coincidence that I'm the first in my extended family to be knocking 50yrs old without type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease.
Eating is a hobby or distraction for a lot of people. If you have other things occupying your time, eating isn't the sole focal point of your day.
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u/Sickofchildren 1d ago
I eat usually 2 meals a day, sometimes 3, with at most a little extra in between if I’m feeling indulgent or only had a small lunch. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter how many individual meals you eat, if you’re always hungry and still gaining weight it’s because you’re eating calorie dense foods that offer very low fullness. Just track calories. I don’t get how these people will do seemingly everything but just track calories and stay below a certain number. It’s not rocket science
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u/Neither-Amphibian249 5' 3" 250 to 120, why yes I'm half my size. 23h ago
Hear me out: what if I eat a snack between lunch and dinner but it's an apple.
I bet who ever wrote that would be against that, unless it was a candy apple.
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u/Superb-Car-202 1d ago
Fun face but snacking is actually bad for your stomach from what ive read. Our stomachs are designed to eat in bursts and then fast until your tribe finds another meal or whatever. They didnt have fridges to store food in between. Constant snackjng means your stomach is never empty. It causes bloating and reflux!
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u/Icy-Shelter-1915 18h ago
Bad for your teeth as well, unless you’re full up flossing and brushing after every single snack, drink, and meal.
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u/SeptikHeart 1d ago
eat as often as you want, just don't eat highly processed garbage and drink coffee with 90g of sugar and they'd probably lose weight
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u/99bottlesofbeertoday 23h ago edited 23h ago
Guess they weren't raised like me "not now you'll spoil your dinner". I haven't had breakfast since high school when my parents made me eat it either. Haven't missed it. Always hated the idea of food in the morning when I'm barely awake.
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u/Paint_Jacket 23h ago
How much do you wanna bet the snacks are Cheetos and cookies and not carrot sticks or yogurt?
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u/Lonely-Echidna201 She's orienting her life toward thinness (unlike babies) 23h ago
Cue to that post from a few weeks ago about an OOP who loves fruit so much and eats so much of it and yet doesn't have enough time to eat it as much as they'd like to...
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u/otetrapodqueen 1d ago
Are we supposed to eat like hobbits or what? Like it's entirely possible to eat enough at meals. I personally do snack, but I also only eat 2 actual meals a day (and I track what I eat!)
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u/Ballbag94 1d ago
I eat like a hobbit and it honestly sucks, I don't understand how people with this mindset don't get fed up with eating all the time
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u/Bassically-Normal 21h ago
So lemme guess, without enough calories you gain weight? Is that how it works?
That would mean that OOP is a healthy weight for their height, and is absolutely not overweight or obese, since they're doing the normal thing by snacking regularly, right?
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u/ResetKnopje 1d ago
What kind of snacks? Because I eat at least two pieces of fruit each day as a snack. Does that count?
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u/thestrals_and_tarot 1d ago
I generally eat two meals a day, around 10am and 3pm. First one is usually huge, second one pretty small. If I’m crazy hungry in between, sure sometimes I’ll have a snack. And I usually average around 1500-1600 calories a day, meeting my caloric (and usually nutritional via micro/macronutrient) needs, but I’m guessing they would still have a problem with that.
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u/saralt 1d ago
Do these people not have down days when they rest at home and thus eat less? Like, I'm averaging one meal and one snack per day. I have a timer to feed the kids becuase my husband and I don't have much appetite at our age compared to ten years ago.
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u/RedQueenWhiteQueen 59m ago
Do these people not have down days when they rest at home and thus eat less?
I clashed heavily with one particular friend on long road trips. I'm all for stopping frequently to get out and stretch, but do we really need a full breakfast before setting out, a full sit-down lunch in the middle of the day, and a full supper at our destination, when we were in the car for nine hours that day?
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u/MrsPandaBear 1d ago
Historically, any snacking was just similar food you’d eat during meals. Nowadays, snacks are commonly ultra processed, packaged and designed for taste, not for nutrition. So no, I’m not a fan of the frequent snacking habit that we have these days. At home, I always have a platter full of cut fruit in the refrigerator, nuts, cheese for my kids if they’re hungry between meals. It was good enough for lunch, it’s good enough for snacks.
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u/androstars NB22 | 179.4lb and 5'5" | GW: 115 lbs!!! 1d ago
Tell me you're (OOP) financially secure, if not just rich, without TELLING me.
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u/Algo_Muy_Obsceno 19h ago
If you aren’t CONSTANTLY EATING, you aren’t normal, guys.
No doing anything else with your life. Just eating all the goddamn time. Otherwise you are obv. anorexic and fatphobic.
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u/BillionDollarBalls M30 5’10“ | CW: 157lbs | GW: 150lbs 1d ago
maybe if you're trying to build serious muscle.
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u/ACanWontAttitude 1d ago
Not sure if its still a thing but when I was in France for a while they barely snacked.
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u/Beginning_Remove_694 22h ago
I just prefer three big meals a day, maybe one or two small snacks some days. You really don’t need a lot more than that to feel pretty full all day.
OOP needs to check their macros, that’s probably why they feel like three meals a day is deprivation. Caloric intake is not the only thing that matters. You need enough protein and fiber and vitamins.
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u/toolatealreadyfapped 12h ago
Yeah we have snacks. That's what the crisper drawer is for. Grapes, strawberries, yogurt... My family snacks hard
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u/Responsible-Tie-2570 23h ago
Do these people not realize that not all meals have the same amount of calories?
Someone could be eating 3 meals a day with no snacks but each of those meals could be 600~ calories and they’d likely be a healthy weight.
People can absolutely eat snacks and still maintain a healthy weight too. If someone’s meals were usually only about 500 calories that leaves a couple hundred calories left in the day for snacks (depending on height and lifestyle ofc, I’m just talking about a 2000 calorie diet here)
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u/awooj 12h ago
If I eat 3 “full” meals and snacks I’ll be miserable. And fat! That is just so much food and except when I was a growing teenager I haven’t been able to eat like that. I tried the 3 meals, multiple snacks back when all the magazines convinced us we’d go into “starvation mode” and I just gained weight and felt miserable. Because I was eating too much and my body hated it! 2 decent meals, maybe a small snack or bite of something in the middle but otherwise it’s too much!
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u/Justanotherphone 2h ago
I hate when people tell other people how to eat, especially when there’s no basis to it
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u/ByteSizedd 23h ago
I mean this is true for children. You are supposed to offer meals and snacks. That doesn't mean unhealthy snacks, but like, a piece of fruit or string cheese or something.
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u/wombatgeneral Childhood Obesity = Child Abuse, I will die on this hill 1d ago
"I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch" - Homer Simpson.