➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[ShrekDawg]

Oh and also usually I make myself eggs in the morning, or at least lately since this health kick (before I would often just skip breakfast ), but I can’t eat any of my eggs atm

 

[room onthebroom]

Yeah I probably could. Never made soup before I don’t think but want to start making it. Thinking maybe veggie or chicken broth or something. Or maybe chicken noodle or something. I just was starving/sick atm and wanted something really quick and simple and then this morning I wanted something quick before I had to go to work, although technically I guess I could have just waited and eaten something a little more substantial since I was only there a half hour, 40 minutes. But then I didn’t eat when I got home. Idk why.

And do you mean like a raw salad instead of cooking the greens down? Cause I am having a bunch of cooked greens with it. Are the raw ones more filling? I guess they are bigger?

I mean salad in addition to the cooked greens. The cooked greens are great for you but not super filling. A salad with the greens & chicken is good for you & fills up the empty space without adding a lot of unwanted stuff. Canned soup is super easy. It sounds like you're avoiding dairy so don't buy anything 'creamed'. Amys brand has soups that are pretty clean & good for you.

 

[debid]

Yeah I probably could. Never made soup before I don’t think but want to start making it. Thinking maybe veggie or chicken broth or something. Or maybe chicken noodle or something. I just was starving/sick atm and wanted something really quick and simple and then this morning I wanted something quick before I had to go to work, although technically I guess I could have just waited and eaten something a little more substantial since I was only there a half hour, 40 minutes. But then I didn’t eat when I got home. Idk why.

And do you mean like a raw salad instead of cooking the greens down? Cause I am having a bunch of cooked greens with it. Are the raw ones more filling? I guess they are bigger?

I'd put a scoop of cooked quinoa on the greens. Are you avoiding grains for some reason? They are filling and quinoa is good stuff. It takes about 5-10 minutes to cook and I usually make 4 servings at a time (it reheats quickly in the pan and tastes good cold in a salad!)

 

[Sara L]

Try getting yourself on a schedule. Stop staying up late. Wake up on time in the morning. Eat meals at mealtimes. If you keep moving your schedule around and skipping meals your body is going to keep changing when it says it's hungry and it's going to work against your goals of being healthier.

Just because you drank some water a bit ago doesn't mean your body isn't still thirsty, most people aren't able to accurately determine between feelings of hunger or thirst. That being said, if you don't have a filling meal you will get hungry again before the next meal.

 

[Molpet]

Try getting yourself on a schedule. Stop staying up late. Wake up on time in the morning. Eat meals at mealtimes. If you keep moving your schedule around and skipping meals your body is going to keep changing when it says it's hungry and it's going to work against your goals of being healthier.

Just because you drank some water a bit ago doesn't mean your body isn't still thirsty, most people aren't able to accurately determine between feelings of hunger or thirst. That being said, if you don't have a filling meal you will get hungry again before the next meal.

4 hrs before bed quit eating, then you will be hungry in the morning for breakfast
some protien with everymeal

Oh and also usually I make myself eggs in the morning, or at least lately since this health kick (before I would often just skip breakfast ), but I can’t eat any of my eggs atm

eggs are a complete protien, why can't you eat them?

 

[ShrekDawg]

I mean salad in addition to the cooked greens. The cooked greens are great for you but not super filling. A salad with the greens & chicken is good for you & fills up the empty space without adding a lot of unwanted stuff. Canned soup is super easy. It sounds like you're avoiding dairy so don't buy anything 'creamed'. Amys brand has soups that are pretty clean & good for you.

Thanks, that’s a good point and you’re definitely right cause I do find when I eat the same amount of greens raw versus cooked, I actually usually can’t even finish huge salads, yet with the greens I can wolf them down in like 2 seconds. Not that I do that but it’s just much easier and does seem less filling. But I never really thought of that before. I just figured since it was the same amount of greens it would work the same. But I think I need to start having regular salads too. Or maybe chicken on top of a regular salad instead. Thanks.

And yeah, canned is a good idea. I was thinking you meant make it. Canned soup or the boxed broth and adding stuff to it is probably easier. I just usually don’t really like the canned soups, even the healthy ones, cause they usually add so much salt being in a can. But I guess I could maybe water it down a little bit or something. We actually have a lot of soup in the cabinet atm but I never eat any of it. I need to start. Although I don’t think it’s the healthy kind. I need to go through it and get rid of some of it.

I'd put a scoop of cooked quinoa on the greens. Are you avoiding grains for some reason? They are filling and quinoa is good stuff. It takes about 5-10 minutes to cook and I usually make 4 servings at a time (it reheats quickly in the pan and tastes good cold in a salad!)

Thanks, that’s a great idea. Nah, I’m not avoiding grains (well, am trying to eat much bread and pasta and that sort of thing but not avoiding regular, whole grains or anything), we just don’t have any atm. Well, actually, we might. Idk. Really need to clean out the cabinets. we do have some farro that I was thinking of possibly making tonight but idk.

Try getting yourself on a schedule. Stop staying up late. Wake up on time in the morning. Eat meals at mealtimes. If you keep moving your schedule around and skipping meals your body is going to keep changing when it says it's hungry and it's going to work against your goals of being healthier.

Just because you drank some water a bit ago doesn't mean your body isn't still thirsty, most people aren't able to accurately determine between feelings of hunger or thirst. That being said, if you don't have a filling meal you will get hungry again before the next meal.

Thanks, I definitely need to get on a schedule!! I think that probably affects a lot of different stuff not just meals. And yeah, I could probably go to bed earlier, but idk, I’ve just always been a night owl. Going to bed early is just so boring and weird to me and I don’t really want to but probably should. But my other problem is it also takes me forever to get moving in the morning and stuff and even afternoon so I don’t even usually get moving and really doing stuff until late afternoon or evening anyway so then it’s like by the time I just start doing stuff, it’s already pretty late, and then I want time to relax/chill so it ends up being pretty late. I suppose if I just go up and got moving and did what I had to do or wanted to do earlier, then that would solve that whole problem and I wouldn’t need to stay up as late... hmm... idk. Some of that is the phone, I sit on it instead of getting moving, but some of that is also just physical. I just take a long time to wake up and want to do anything. But I guess drinking some water might help. I do drink water when I wake up usually but sometimes I don’t drink for hours because I’m on the phone or otherwise busy and then I get really dehydrated and chug water. I bet if I drank water more regularly I wouldn’t be as lethargic either. Not that I’m lethargic now, eating healthier has definitely been helping with that, but I just mean sometimes when I get stuck in one spot on the phone with no water for hours, then I get kind of zombie like and don’t want to move and stay there longer which makes it worse and on and on. I suppose that’s not really normal...

Anyway, should probably definitely work on that.

And I actually do wake up on time in the morning, usually with more than enough time to spare, lately I’ve even been waking up early, today it was about 10-15 mins before the alarm and yesterday it was like an hour and a half, though I stayed in bed a while, and my alarm is set an hour before I have to work, and I only work like a few minutes down the street, and usually don’t even shower or anything before work (mostly cause I don’t have time) so I technically have plenty of time to eat but my issue is not with getting up on time. It is with the management of that time once I am up. I usually just sit on my phone or tablet and then it’s almost time to leave and I start cooking and stuff. When really I should have started way before I have to leave. So that is the problem.

And yeah, I definitely eat when I’m not hungry sometimes, like when I snack on popcorn, pretzels, crackers, chips, etc, (which I haven’t done at all lately), and am kind of unaware of what I’m eating, and sometimes, like now I feel like I am “hungry” again and even feel kind of sick/weak a tiny bit/some sort of pain there that feels like hunger pain not the gut kind but realistically I know I am probably just thirsty or something. Or maybe didn’t eat enough. Idk. I don’t see how I could possibly be hungry already. Although I guess it is 6:30 already and I probably ate that at 3:30 or 4. Although I’m definitely thirsty too. My mouth is kinda dry.

But anyway.

Long story short, even though sometimes I definitely eat when I am not hungry, I am actually usually pretty good about telling when I’m actually hungry or thirsty. If only because I frequently neglect to do both and wait until I am physically sick to do either whether that’s dry mouth and a bit of a headache/weird feeling for thirst or feeling physically weak and sick from not eating or whatever. It is usually quite clear, at least for me, whether I am hungry or thirsty.

But sometimes I do eat or drink when I am not thirsty or hungry.

But I had literally just had the water like a half hour before so surely I wouldn’t still be thirsty?

4 hrs before bed quit eating, then you will be hungry in the morning for breakfast
some protien with everymeal

eggs are a complete protien, why can't you eat them?

4 hours seems like such a long time and I’m always normally hungry with breakfast but I usually don’t have time to eat breakfast because I sit on my phone until it’s almost time to go. Working on that.

And yeah I try to eat protein every time but sometimes I forget.

And I was trying to save them because we recently found out we have someone who wanted to buy a dozen eggs when they were available and we literally had none as I had just eaten them so I was saving them. But I finally have a dozen so I think I can start eating them again although I think I might still save them so we have some stockpiled in the fridge because we literally have none right now and we’ve all been eating eggs lately. We’ve been getting 5 eggs a day most days and we only got 2 eggs yesterday so it’s taken me 3 days to save them up. But now I finally have a dozen so I should be able to start eating them soon. I can’t wait until my 5 new chicks start laying LOL

 

[sdm111]

You need to get a legit job and start supporting yourself and get some responsibility. Not saying it in a mean way but it seems to me you want to do something as long as it does not take effort

 

[R2elk]

I had a new visitor this morning.

Western Tanager

 

[dpenning]

I had a new visitor this morning.

Western Tanager

Beautiful !

 

[R2elk]

Beautiful !

Thank you. He made the snow and rain tolerable today.