Indulgence-eating in between meals-do you do this?

I am a kind of attuned to a strict regimen of diet daily. Breakfast I take three idlies or two dosas or two chappathis. The OR here is vital 11 am I take a couple of salt biscuits with coffee. Lunch will be with measured amount of rice alone.And vegetable salad or a bowl of carrot pieces after lunch. Evening coffee with one dosa or two biscuits if I feel the pang. And dinner at 8.45PM with a couple of chappathis and some fruit to follow. Friday evenings we order for pizzas or burgers for my daughter and some other Chinese or Thai for us. I am happy with my intake as I have mentioned above. Now it is up to you to deduce whether I have self control or not.

I try very hard not to snack inbetween meals. Unfortunately, I seem to like all the things that are bad for us like chocolate and sweets. Next week I shall have a blood test to see if I'm a diabetic (amongst other ailments) as these sugary cravings are detramental to my health. I used to be way more healthier than I am at present so - depending on the results of the blood test I will be able to make more informed decisions as to what to do next. May I ask what tiffin is?

I am quite systematic that I have snacks in between meals. Seriously though, I dont have a fixed time for my meals. I dont eat breakfast too. I would just grab a piece of bread or some biscuit, or maybe drink something warm and call it breakfast. I sometimes skip it because I would wake up in time for lunch. Lunch is also another story since I have classes at 12noon so I would either have a late lunch or just skip that and have a light snack. But when I didnt have something substantial for lunch I would get hungry early in the evening which would make me eat an early dinner, and then have a snack an hour or two before going to bed. Snacking does help in alleviating the hunger when I skip meals because of time. There are also times that I eat well at the right times but still have the urge or cravings for snacking. Sometimes I just eat because I want to.LOL I know that not eating properly is not good for my health and I am trying to find time for some eating balance in my schedule but sometimes it's just not possible.

If by these in between meals you mean snacks then yes, i do eat snacks. I have snack in the morning about 9:30 and 10:00 am then an afternoon snack at 3:00 or 3:30pm. I also get to eat snacks in the evening while watching tv because i stay up late. These snacks are just light often just biscuit, juice or fruits or a bar of chocolate. I usually stay until 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning.

Hi kala......I am back in action after a few months of hibernation.... Regarding your discussion I must admit I ahve this bad habit of munching chocolates and biscuits and what ever I can lay hands on,in between meals.....I know thi sis a bad habit,and try to refrain from doing this all the time......Its usually when I am very bored that I do this....he..he.... Wishing you a HAPPY and PROSPEROUIS 2010...

It is important to try to snack healthy between meals. It helps to make sure you eat correctly and not overindulge in mealtimes. So it is good to do so. The thing that many forget is the healthy part. A lot of people don't snack healthy. They do snack with the chocolate or chips. I try to only do those things in moderation. I guess it doesn't matters as long as you consume your required about of calories a day.

I love the in between meals. :D A lot of the time I crave for chips or chocolate. It's always either. :D I guess that's why I'm fat. XD

Hi kala! Normally, on working days, I take meals three times only i.e. breakfast, lunch and dinner and in the winter it could be 'evening tea'. I do not feel like anything in between, if I feel like munching a chocolate bar, I will do the same immediately after the meals. I think unnecessary eating in between the meals help us gain more weight and does not do any good to our health.

Yes. In my house, all of us have the habit of eating something in between meals. It will be either chips or mixture, chocolate, plantain (banana) or some sweet or cake. Mostly it will be in the evenings.

Hey kalav! I would say that it depends on what I am doing! If If I go out to appointments and errands then I get hungrier! I need to have something to eat so I either have a snack or lunch! When I am home alone all day and not on any regular schedule I only eat dinner and sometimes it is very late, too late for most people! And then on occasion I "night eat", meaning I get up during the night for "snacks"! I have screwed up my system really badly! Lately I am trying to "fix" the damage so I am eating dinner earlier, sometimes actually having a sandwich for lunch and not eating during the night! It will take me some time to straighten out my system! When I was a kid our family used to eat late at night because me and my mother worked and it would take time for her to prepare dinner when we got home from work. So this schedule stuck with me when I got home from work late too!

Hi kala, I guess we all do that at some time or the other. In my case if there is something at home like sweets or some snacks I go on munching, so now I hardly ever buy any. I have absolutely no self control over it lol...But again sometimes I dont touch it at all, esp if I am busy with some work or if the children are around, i dont get a chance, they finish everything. I know that one needs to have some self imposed control over this and like the actresses and models keep saying in interviews ' when I feel like , I munch a carrot or an apple or a stick of celery and drink 3 liters of water....blah blah - whether they actually do it or not, it is healthy to do so instead of all those sweets, chips,murukku and stuff...All the best kala

Hi kala, I do this all the time.I like to munch something or the other while I am browsing. just to get out of this habit, I try my best not to keep any such snacks at home. I love stuff like nuts, ladoos esp the ones made with til and jaggery,and stuff like murukku ....I also like fruits which is not too bad.However I am a little more disciplined now and dont indulge often, but sometimes I do and I dont mind....have a nice day kala

Hi kala, Yes I have this bad habit of eating and munching in-between meals specially while watching tv and have nothing to do in particular. Yes I am tempted to eat a packet of chips, chocolate any short-eats most of the time, and it is high time I should control it which I am not able to do at all. But when I am fasting for the sake of some ritual or function I have a good self control, other days I am totally out of control.

Hi kala, recently I read somewhere that it is better to eat piecemeal. I guess, we evolved like that. :) God didn't really design us for eating mechanically the three meals. Still we can restrict healthy food to those meals, and munch in between some proteins I suppose. I am trying to lose some weight, so I have stopped sugar completely. My source of sugar now are rice and chapatis. So I am hoping by year end, I can give Aishwarya Rai a run for her money. LOL. Seriously, we do have a lot in our food that our systems are not designed for. So I have taken a serious step this year, especially because I fear both diabetes and Alzhiemers. :)

We eat three meals a day - breakfast, lunch and dinner - with dinner the main meal of the day. We usually have a cup of coffee mid morning and sometimes a biscuit or savoury biscuit with the coffee. Apart from these, we do not "snack" although I often have a handful of nuts mid afternoon and several drinks of water throughout the day.

I have a fairly neat diet habits except I take snacks whenever I feel like taking them. I eat snacks mostly at nights which is not at all good for my health. This is the only I am going to control in the coming days.

hi Kala, whenever I am at home, I do indulge in munching inbetween the meals..but the eatables have definitely changed with age...Few years back, it would be some biscuit, chocolate, coke and so on, but now with age its either some raw vegetable or fruit, biscuit with less sugar, lime water etc..

Uhm...Well...I can be well disciplined when I want to…It is a touchy subject at the moment kalav because both my husband and I have stacked, and I mean, ‘stacked’ on the weight during the holidays. He has been home for a month on leave since the middle of December and not only have we overspent his holiday pay we have definitely overindulged in junk food and snacks! Bad, bad me! He is going back to work on Monday and it will be a lot easier for my daughter and I to return to healthier habits. My weakness are still Kit Kat Giant Chunky Fingers...Yum!

I could never stick to just three meals a day. i am always snacking. Chocolate is definitely one of my downfalls.

I normally skip my dinner and so I do have a snack in the evening. If I feel hungry in between I do get the urge to munch something but this does not happen every day.