Why I don't eat lunch

I don't want to eat by myself. It makes me feel lonely.

But not only because of that.
I seem to have figured out what works best for my body! Hooray for that nutrition unit I had in my final semester. 😊

On Sundays when we have trainings in the afternoons, I noticed that I would crave for meaty meals. No rice, just plain meat.

On Mondays, we have leagues at night and I would crave for a late lunch loaded with rice.

On days where I have nothing to do, I will have something light and simple to just give my stomach a little something to deal with.

Some days, I would just roll around in bed until it's dinner time where my body will turn absolutely jelly and my vision takes awhile to restore.

I have low blood pressure, getting up after sitting down will result with blackout visions. That is quite a problem if I were to be out and about doing stuff, imagine sitting down for a rest and then seeing a disc coming your way, you need to get up to catch that disc but your vision is just blacked out you could no longer see where the disc is. So I guess now eating was the only way I could prevent having such problems with my sight.

Though to be fair, by not eating lunch I save heaps of money. I am not trying to lose weight, it is the last thing I would want to do. But by not eating, I am also making my blood pressure drop because of the lack of sugar moving through my body. No food, no sugar.

So the diet goes as it is and I noticed how my body responded to it. Here's what nutrition class taught me:

Instant energy: sugar
Sustainable energy: meat (protein)
Long term sustainable energy: rice (carbs)

Explanatory for my 'other day' food intake, where I don't really need the energy and I only need just enough so that my blood is circulating okay. My stomach will just absorb the sugar easily and my body will be supplied with sugar wherever that is needed.

As for my 'Sunday' routine, I needed more energy because I need to run in about an hours time after food intake. Meat is easier to break down and it contains more energy than sugar, which will give me enough energy to be running around after a short digestive period.

RICE though.. It's a food where I need most time to digest. Its a bigger protein that meat and it will require more energy to break down. I would avoid eating this if I know I need to run in the next hour or so. But it provides the most energy out of all three, which is sufficient because I not only need to burn energy to run, but I need to burn more to keep my body warm in this cold Melbourne winter. I would also prefer eating rice as the final meal of the day (dinner) because it makes me feel tired and I could just lay around and rest at night after dinner anyways. Right now, I've just finished a lunch meal with rice and boy I really can't do anything at the moment.

Oh right, and carbs are the ones that makes you feel full fastest. So if you ever go for buffets, eating meat and seafood first would be the best idea, try avoiding rice, potato, starchy based stuff. Eat as much dessert as you can! But don't forget to exercise to burn it all off, otherwise DIABETES and OBESITY...

Don't eat fat please. They do you no good.

I guess I can't say I don't eat lunch. I do eat lunch, but they are more of munchies rather than a full meal. I'd also get really disappointed if dinner is bad. Because dinner is pretty much the only meal I look forward to everyday!

So.. What's for dinner?