THE LAST 4 or 5 pounds The bottom line

My sheet on my eating plan takes up a whole typed page single spaced on the fridge

It's hard to remember all at once.   But these are the poles holding up the tent.


Eat every 3 hours or our body will start piling up fat for emergency

Get calm before we eat even our snacks, or our digestion may revolt

Check to see: Are we really hungry or just thirsty?

Eat every vegetable we can find

Put protein in every meal

THE LAST 4 or 5 lbs... Eat every 3 hours...sort of

While loading up her sharp tools, my phlebotomist friend gave me quite a surprise.  We'd been talking about hydrating every few hours in last month's ugly heat.  When I said I  also watch the hours on my eating, she said:  "Of course!  That's been folk wisdom for .... "

Well, I'd never heard it until this year. (My dad, determined farmer despite important job, would never schedule a snack.  Sneak one, maybe..)

Anyway, that same 103 degree day at blood lab, the car was sizzling when I got in.  Way too hot to eat the emergency secret cheese stick on the drive home. No place in the doctor's to eat after three hours...

The weather now may make a purse or briefcase cheese stick safe, if you get the privacy to eat it. Or,  a last-minute Lara bar is a possibility, but can be hard on a white shirt  And, maybe too much fructose for more than one meal a day. 

You may have some situations when three hours is just not the time to eat. 

Whatever the weather, when I wake (not early), my thyroid pill has to do whatever it does for a half hour or more while I do eye drops and other med trivia.  It's a long time between bedtime and getting all the med stuff done.  Too long?

By the time I do all those morning health chores, breakfast is on time for a mid-morning snack , and a  snack becomes lunch.  So five meals don't always happen.  BUT would I be less hungry between meals if I got breakfast on time, and so  got the other four meals on time?

In a really crowded day, one of my dishes of microwave veggies and a bite of meat may be the whole\afternoon snack meal.. You can work out a never-fail snack meal for your emergencies.s

HINT If you, like me, can't eat a lot of salt or spices, some markets have onion powder, which may be easier on my digestion than raw onion for seasoning.

Also, we have to remember Marilyn Glenville's encouragement to put protein in every meal (including the 2 snack meals.)  When I'm home, I can make a minuscule sandwich with some uncured ham. Then a small apple.

All I can do is what I can do.  (And that includes not grazing until I'm sure I'm hungry and NOT just thirsty.

I wish you health.