When is eating too little too little?

i have two small meals in a day and that includes breakfast, my parents dont really feed me, how do i know that too little is too little?

 

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By your weight and overall health. If you are far below your weight for your height then you need to eat more. If your health is poor all the time you also could need a better diet.

 

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There are many missing variables to this, for instance you might be age 16+ where a parent might assume that you can perhaps fend for yourself by getting a job of some sort to pay your own way.

You might be the type of person that just lounges about and idles rather than chasing up a job, or finding some way forward which they might disagree with.

Funnily enough Food happens to be the oldest currency in the world, as people would either have the choice to work or starve.

As for how much you are eating, well there is usually the dietitianary information on food sources that identifies how many calories are recommended per day. (This varies between men and women and of course children)

If you are having fainting spells or find it hard to concentrate on things then the absence of food can be to blame.

 

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having a busy life doesnt give me much time to remember when to eat and kinda find myself starving at the end of the day. I was thinking whether 2 meals is average on a daily basis or if I should be eating more

 

If you go to a site like http://thecaloriecounter.com and add up the number of calories you consume in a day, what do you get?

What's your bodyweight? Sex? Level of physical activity on an average day? These factors will all determine what your body's caloric need is.

 

People can still be a normal-seeming weight and be malnourished. More definitive testing would be to draw blood and look at your albumin, prealbumin, total protein, transferrin, RBC count, hemoglobin, and hematocrit.

 

If you have to ask...you probably aren't eating enough...makes me sad a fellow member is going hungry. If you're ever in Texas..come by my house..I'll feed the fuck out of you...and send you home with a care package.

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Not necessarily. I'm technically underweight but only because I'm built like a baby bird.

 

when you're too hungry.

when you're feeling fatigue without the aid of stimulants like caffeine.

hunger is only good for telling you when you need to eat. eat something nutritious, not convenience foods (which are generally more expensive than healthy food). and eat until you're not hungry anymore.

snack on nuts, like almonds. they're a great protein source, and a good source of healthy fat. they're easy to carry around if you're on the go, and you can buy them just about anywhere.

 

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haha...very funny.

well, i'd rather be a nut than a dead cow, or some "special sauce", or a sugary treat.

 

I was joking Lori...It's just that you sounded like an infomercial for nuts.

I'm not even gonna ask what special sauce is...I'm sure I don't wanna know.

 

well i do like nuts, and infomercials.

the special sauce is on the big mac. don't you remember the commercial? you don't know the big mac song?

that is a little out-dated. today's problem is with the ranch dressing. i don't know what in the hell hidden valley is hiding, but it's definitely something mind-numbing and addictive. and it needs to stop.

 

Whats hidden, is most likely all the preservatives they use in that stuff..

Yes, I remember the Big Mac song...I think every body sang that song as a kid.

I guess I have a dirty mind..When you put special sauce in quotation marks, it just made me think of something else. Never mind..

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Southwest or sometimes called Chipotle is the best. I have only eaten McD's burger king etc. maybe a few times in the past ten years. I olve beef though.

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I prefer Carls Jr. over McD's or BK..Just tastes better...Though McD's has great fries.

 

Never had Carls Jr.

One thing i liked was the mcDLT but that hasn't been made since i was around 12 years old and they actuallty stopped making it because the packaging was not environmentally friendly. The fries are good but i love fries wtih a lot of salt and supposedly with the combination of the oil and salt is not good...but it does taste good. In some ways i overcompensate for certain things for the mere fact that i am a smoker. Though now i roll my own cigarettes and cut down significantly. ...sigh, but it has been a tough road to hoe.

 

i see. my "special sauce" is free of any preservatives or unnatural ingredients, but may be addictive, because of it's purity, and natural mood enhancers.

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BUT THE RANCH DRESSING!...there's got to be crack in that shit. i know. i used to be a waitress in a place very much like shennanigan's (from the movie "waiting"). i swear to you, that people will eat that shit, drink that shit, on anything and everything. they don't even care what the hell they're eating it on, as long as whatever it is, is drenched in ranch.

i spent soooooooo much of my time running for "extra ranch", that i wanted to add a button to my "flair" that read "i got your extra ranch right here", but my boss wouldn't let me.

i had enough of it one night, and decided to be a smart ass and make fun of some guy who asked for extra extra extra ranch dressing, so i brought him a soup bowl of ranch dressing with a soup spoon in it. i was fully prepared to lose my job that night for insulting a customer, and to my surprise and dismay, the guy looked at me like i was mother theresa, and thanked me whole-heartedly. i thought he was going to cry he was so pleased.

people would drink that shit through a straw. it's fucking disgusting. i can't even look at it now.

 

Lori, honestly, i never ate Ranch dressing. But i think they put it on my sandwhich from time to time.

 

Is it like Southwest\Chipotle?