October 25, 2011
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Is eating first meal at 11:30 considered skipping breakfast? And other ponderings…
When I get up in the morning (at the crack of 9) the first thing I do is take my thyroid meds. I have to wait to eat so I will do what I need to do to get ready for the day then go sit at my computer and log into work. (I work from home 10am to 6pm.) Next thing I know, it’s 11:30. So if I eat, is it a late breakfast or an early lunch? Do I skip Breakfast and just wait another half an hour and eat lunch?
I know skipping meals isn’t a good thing to do. Maybe I should really just adjust the timing so that breakfast is at 11, lunch is at 3, dinner is at 7. Being diabetic, I’m supposed to eat every 4-5 hours and this is 4 hours apart.
Someone suggested getting my breakfast ready and putting it on my desk so I don’t forget. But I normally eat cereal for breakfast, so that’s not really feasible.
I wonder what other people do who tend to be busy right through a mealtime without thinking about it.
I have an appointment with a diabetes dietician next week. I may ask her if it’s possible to shake things up a bit. Snack, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack instead of snack between meals (I’m rarely, if ever, hungry between meals.)
I wish I could just get up earlier, take a walk while waiting for my thyroid meds to work, but right now, while I’m trying to get everything regulated, my sleep is so broken up at night that going to bed at 10pm and getting up at 9am usually nets me about 6-7 hours of good sleep.
Maybe I’m just making excuses.
Comments (4)
I wish I could arrange things so that I didn’t have to get up at 5:30 three days per week to get ready and catch my ride to client’s office. Too damn early.
@Dippity - Totally agree. The days I have to go to Chicago (5 hours by car) I am up at that time and feel like a zombie for the next three hours. Those are definitely the days I need lots of coffee. Fortunately, it’s not three days a week. Usually only once or twice a month.
It will be good when you get the sleep problem resolved. Going to bed at 10, and getting about 7 hrs sleep should get you up 5. So staying in bed till about 6 or 7, should maybe result in 8 hrs sleep. Getting up earlier will help with the getting some breakfast in.
I like the idea of going for a walk while morning meds are kicking in. Especially up that Aberdeen hill. LOL!
@ItsSuze - I used the “map your route” thing at SparkPeople and that route was .91 mile. If I add in a couple of the cul-de-sacs it is a full mile. Then I mapped out another route that was 2 miles in my neighborhood (as small as it is, seems kind of impossible, doesn’t it? LOL)