Lunch...What Do I Do About Lunch?

Ok, so I missed yesterday. I realized I missed yesterday at about 10:30 last night, by which point it was a little late to write. Bad Kitty! Monday was a pretty average day though, other than frustration about the weigh-in and feeling like utter crap in the morning (by the way, I think I've nailed that down to a reaction to missing my medication on Sunday). Yesterday was also pretty average, including having an issue that's become fairly common over the last couple of weeks. I'm not eating lunch. Why am I not eating lunch? Because I'm not hungry at lunchtime. At first I thought it was just a result of learning to change my eating schedule...really, learning to create an eating schedule, since I really didn't have one before I started the program. I ate when I felt like eating...not necessarily when I felt hungry, because I ate at times I wasn't hungry, and didn't eat at times I was...but when I felt like it.

Now I'm trying to eat on a reasonable schedule, and to eat multiple smaller meals rather than a couple of large ones to keep my stomach happy and my blood sugar stable. My schedule is intended to be breakfast around 8:30, lunch at noon, snack around 3, dinner about 6, and possibly a dessert at 9 or so. Basically, I'm supposed to eat every three hours. From the reading I've done and the advice I've gotten from you guys, that's a good way to do it. The problem? I'm just not hungry at noon. I'm frequently not hungry, even after skipping lunch, at 3 for my snack. Then, of course, by dinnertime my blood sugar is low, I'm starving and crabby, and I have no energy and no desire to cook. I'm certainly not stuffing myself at breakfast, although I'm not hungry when I'm done either. Breakfast is almost always the same, scrambled eggs and either bacon or sausage. It's mostly been bacon lately, because it's lower in carbs than sausage. I'm wondering if maybe I should cut my breakfast back somewhat, even though I don't feel overfull after eating it, in order to hopefully feel hungrier at lunchtime. I don't want to leave myself feeling hungry, but I've got to get into a good eating routine. The more I have to think about what and when I'm eating, the more likely I am to start thinking about the foods that I can't have, and I most definitely think about and crave those foods when it's 8 at night and I haven't eaten for almost 12 hours. Anyway, unless I hear otherwise from you, my faithful readers, I'm going to try a little experiment tomorrow and have one scrambled egg instead of two, and three pieces of bacon instead of five. We'll see how that goes. For now, intake from the last two days...

Monday
Breakfast: 2 eggs, scrambled, 5 pieces bacon - 3.25g
Lunch: 4 oz deli ham, string cheese - 2.58g
Snack: None
Dinner: Bacon, mushroom, and cheese omelette - 7.37g
Dessert: None
Total: 13.2g

Tuesday
Breakfast: 2 eggs, scrambled, 5 pieces bacon - 3.25g
Lunch: None
Snack: None
Dinner: 9 oz ham steak, 1 1/3 cup frozen green beans - 15g
Dessert: None
Total: 18.25g

I also have a good thing to report from yesterday! I actually went out and exercised! If you'd asked me while I was in the middle of it whether it was a good thing or not, I probably would have said something rude, being in agony at the time. However, I do know it's necessary and I'm going to do it again today. I can't do much yet, but I set a timer for 5 minutes and just walked back and forth in the yard...I know it probably doesn't sound like much to most of you, but I was out of breath, shaky-legged, and definitely had my heart rate up by the time I was done. For now, I'm going to stay in my own yard, because I'm terrified of trying to go for a walk down the block and running out of energy and not being able to get home. It was a bit depressing when I entered my exercise in my diet tracker app and discovered I only burned 31 calories, though. Oh well, at least I did something, I guess.