CynthiaWVirginia
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My mother is in her 70's and read somewhere that if you eat after 5 p.m., you'll get fat. She won't eat after 5 p.m., and also says that if she does it gives her reflux. She also goes to bed by 9 or 10 p.m. at the latest. She has her own apartment nearby and our eating schedules only conflict when we wish to eat out, so I always try to bend to accommodate her...she's old and I love her. Siince her last meal before bed is a light one, it fits in with my lunch just fine. If we're out late and I'm HUNGRY for dinner, mom won't eat with us, lol. She watches and talks instead.
We eat whenever we're hungry. It's 6:26 p.m. right now and I'm having my first meal of the day, a homemade smoothie of milk, strawberry yogurt, cherry juice, frozen blueberries and frozen bananas. I woke up at 3 p.m. My next meal is around 9 or 10 p.m., and my last around 4 a.m. I go to bed around dawn or by 9 a.m.
When I force myself into having more "normal" hours, which for my body clock it is anything but, I'm up between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m., eat between an hour or two after waking up to prevent getting a shaky feeling. If I have carbs as breakfast, I need to have something else within 3-4 hours, if I have eggs or something with protein, I can wait until 4 p.m. for a lunch like...homemade broccoli cheese soup, or a sandwitch. Dinner is between 8 or 9 p.m. and I go to bed somewhere between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m.
A friend of mine who visits won't eat after about 7 p.m., as he gets reflux (heartburn). As for myself, I don't get heartburn if I severely limit my coffee and soda pop drinking. I love coffee and A&W Rootbeer <sighs>, but only drink some of either maybe 2 days per week.
When mom had to move in with me until she got her own apartment some years back, she woke up at 5 a.m. and was in bed by 8 or 9 p.m., I went to my 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. schedule, and we shared two meals...her lunch time was my breakfast time, and my lunch was her dinnertime. We enjoyed sharing two meals together, so it didn't matter that we weren't exactly the same sleep schedule-wise. It's all about tolerance and love.
When I was a teenager and lived with my mother, I did all the cooking at dinnertime for the family. Her hours changed daily during the week, and she had to get off work one day at 4, the next day at 5, then 6, then 7, then 8. Dinner had to be served within the hour for the 4 and 5 o'clock days, and immediately upon her coming home on the 6, 7, and 8 o'clock days. My stepfather picked her up from work. After I moved back home to help out when I was 25 and had a baby, as her husband could no longer drive, we had a problem, lol. I had to pick her up from work...however...picking her up would often take 40 minutes round trip and she wanted dinner ready when she got home. I refused to leave the stove top on when I wasn't in the house. It was a very old house, and my stepfather was in his 80's. I compromised sometimes by using the oven or crockpot two nights per week, you know, something like lasagne for the oven and chicken with potatoes and carrots, etc., in the crock pot. She'd get so teed off when I wouldn't make cornbread, lol, I couldn't risk burning it up in the oven if she made me late getting home by ducking out the other door of her job to pick up "just one thing" in the store next door.
I had fun remembering this, so thanks for asking about dinnertimes and the lateness thereof. Doesn't 7:30 p.m. seem so disgustingly normal after hearing all this?
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