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> Yes but not on purpose. It's just the natural way of living when I don't buy snacks and my fridge is usually empty. Same--I've never set about intentionally

> Yes but not on purpose. It's just the natural way of living when I don't buy snacks and my fridge is usually empty. Same--I've never set about intentionally doing so, I just developed the habit of not eating breakfast, and as a result my body just doesn't start feeling hungry until 1-2PM anyway. I have a late-ish sizable lunch, and then usually only need something snack-size in the evening. It was different when I used to work in an office that had an endless supply of catered pastries; the temptation was too great, and it always seemed like a small amount, one at a time. It's hard to be prescriptive about this, though--other people in my family have a much more intense relationship with food, and feel weak/ravenous if they skip a meal. For whatever reason I'm lucky enough to not feel it in a very physical way.

JohnFen 4y ago
> feel weak/ravenous if they skip a meal I have a hypothesis about this. Lots of people have never experienced what it's like to actually starve, so the baseline that triggers their survival instincts is higher than it should be. So when their body is signaling "not full", they incorrectly interpret it as "hungry". And when their body is signaling "hungry", they interpret it as "starvation". We are evolved to live on subsistence diets punctuated by occasional feasting. Feeling "full" all the time is not a normal or healthy state for us. I see this most easily when I tell people about the survival "rule of threes": you can survive three minutes without air, three days without water, and three weeks without food. So if you're lost in the woods, say, finding food isn't even close to an immediate priority. People often react to this with disbelief.