Comments on: The Supper/Dinner Distinction http://www.hollandodiet.com/2004/08/19/the-supperdinner-distinction.html The Internet's Best Diet Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:32:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Rebecca http://www.hollandodiet.com/2004/08/19/the-supperdinner-distinction.html#comment-5 Rebecca Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.hollandodiet.com/2004/08/19/the-supperdinner-distinction.html#comment-5 Hi guys! Congrats on the diet, although I remember all of you as skinny people. I wonder if women's body image issues are spreading to men? I'll link to you whenever I get around to updating my own blog. Hi guys! Congrats on the diet, although I remember all of you as skinny people. I wonder if women’s body image issues are spreading to men? I’ll link to you whenever I get around to updating my own blog.

]]> By: William http://www.hollandodiet.com/2004/08/19/the-supperdinner-distinction.html#comment-6 William Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.hollandodiet.com/2004/08/19/the-supperdinner-distinction.html#comment-6 Lunch was my main meal of the day for years, largely because I always tended to value an extra twenty minutes of sleep every morning over eating something for breakfast. The predictable result was that I ended up very hungry by lunch time, and would eat a large meal (whether at a restaurant near work, a college dining hall, or wherever was appropriate at the time). <br /><br />The problem with that, I know now, is the effort involved in digestion. A lunch of a thousand calories or more takes effort to digest, and as a result it's easy to slip into that sophorific mid-afternoon state -- the one that usually shows up midway through the afternoon on Thanksgiving, when all of a sudden nobody in the family has the energy to do anything but watch football on TV. <br /><br />So recently I've been trying to avoid the main meal entirely. I had a small breakfast this morning and eat something else around 11, around 1, and around 3. Not big meals - a few hundred calories each at most. Then a relatively early, although not huge, dinner, and a final snack later in the evening. Not only is my energy level higher, I don't hit the 2pm slump and it's easier to keep the total calorie intake down. Lunch was my main meal of the day for years, largely because I always tended to value an extra twenty minutes of sleep every morning over eating something for breakfast. The predictable result was that I ended up very hungry by lunch time, and would eat a large meal (whether at a restaurant near work, a college dining hall, or wherever was appropriate at the time).

The problem with that, I know now, is the effort involved in digestion. A lunch of a thousand calories or more takes effort to digest, and as a result it’s easy to slip into that sophorific mid-afternoon state — the one that usually shows up midway through the afternoon on Thanksgiving, when all of a sudden nobody in the family has the energy to do anything but watch football on TV.

So recently I’ve been trying to avoid the main meal entirely. I had a small breakfast this morning and eat something else around 11, around 1, and around 3. Not big meals - a few hundred calories each at most. Then a relatively early, although not huge, dinner, and a final snack later in the evening. Not only is my energy level higher, I don’t hit the 2pm slump and it’s easier to keep the total calorie intake down.

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