Primal Blueprint offers different advice. Intermittent fasting. Which basically means that sometimes you are hungry and you should eat. Sometimes your not and you shouldn't eat. It doesn't hurt your body or your metabolism by skipping a meal every now and again. Back in the hunter-gatherer age, people got hungry, sometimes not eating for days, because they hadn't found food.
Chronic under eating is the thing that screws up your metabolism.I was on a diet once that advocated 5-6 meals a day. Each meal being about 300 to 400 calories a day, not to go over 1800 calories a day. I found I was still hungry after eating a 'meal'. It wasn't the amount of calories over the day but the number at the meal for me that matters. I always found myself wandering back into the kitchen when I sill had 2 hours until I was supposed to eat again. That was another thing. I thought about the next meal, constantly. I lost some weight, but wasn't living my life.
Day 2 food:
- cheddar cheese
- coffee with cream
- tossed salad with avocado and full fat creamy cheese dressing
- orange
- banana
- Taco salad
The Taco salad was awesome. I had some chirozo sausage from the local farmers market. It is a pork sausage with Mexican spice in it. I browned it up and chopped it up small. On a bed of Romain lettuce, I split the plate into quarters. On each quarter I places a handful of local grape tomatoes, a quarter of a sliced avocado, a large spoonful of chirozo, and some diced Cheddar. The flavors of the very fresh ingredients were great the way they were. No need to add dressing, but the husband did sprinkle some hot sauce on it.
