The friday five ponders my lifestyle

[jesse_the_k]

1. Do you think you have a healthy lifestyle?

Yes, I do. My friends are amazed at what I eat and I do 2 hours of health-maintenance work every day.

1. What could you do to improve it?

I can’t imagine it now, but I’m sure it will come up.

1. Are you tempted to eat every time you are hungry or do you wait for the next meal?

Snack-snack-snack-snack. I have to eat at least five smaller meals anyway, and then I snack between them.

1. When are you most tempted to snack?

When my computer software (Rest) enforces a ten-minute pause.

1. Do you agree with the saying: “Eat your breakfast, share your lunch with a friend and give your dinner to your enemy” or do you think it matters?

I have no idea what that means.

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Comments

[sovay]

“Eat your breakfast, share your lunch with a friend and give your dinner to your enemy”

I've never even heard this saying.

[isis]

Me neither. But it echoes one I have heard, which is: eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Apparently this is a quote from Adelle Davis, who was a popular writer and lecturer on food and health, and wrote four books about healthy eating between the 1940s-60s.

[adrian_turtle]

The version from Adelle Davis implies that breakfast should be a large meal of rich foods and dinner should be a small meal of cheap foods. (She was probably thinking of a world where paupers ate cabbage and barley, rather than boxed macaroni & cheese, or bread that was part sawdust.)

The version Jesse quoted goes farther. It's not about whether it's bad for you to eat too much late in the day. (I know that can be a problem for some people and some definitions of "too much.") It's not about whether it's bad for you to eat rich food late in the day. (That can also be a problem for some people, whether we define rich food as high fat, or spicy, or large amounts of fruit.) The version Jesse quoted says it's bad for a person to eat anything in the evening. So bad for you that you should give it to your enemy. You should not save it to eat in the morning when it would do you good! Better to give it to your enemy, who will eat it and be harmed. Ick.

[sasha_feather]

This is my reading too.

[shehasathree]

Love this. :D
I have also never heard of that saying.

[monanotlisa]

That saying is...wtf? Whoever created it leans towards a very particular type human body, human work schedule, etc. It's so niche it's useless.

As for your first question, haha. I would have answered the same, only my physical maintenance work is much less -- 30 min. a day (or, 1 hour every other day).

[moem]

If I took that saying seriously, and followed it, I'd eat practically no vegetables ever.

[spikesgirl58]

It means to eat your biggest meal in the morning (or when you first get up) and not keep it until just before bed. Eating at night is not really the best thing for most people.

You obviously have a very healthy lifestyle and my hat is off to you. I hope that you are able to maintain it for a good long time. It will serve you well as you age.

Thanks for participating.

[jesse_the_k]

Ahh! Thanks for the explanation—the metaphor is based on the amount of time one would spend with the meal companion!

[spikesgirl58]

It's talking more about the size of the meal. Another way of saying it - You should eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper. Perhaps I should have used that saying instead... looking back, it does make a bit more sense.