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Eating at a table

mostly yes, but even if I'm eating on the sofa, I'm still eating discrete meals and avoiding snacking.
 
I think it's really important to eat at the table for various reasons. To appreciate the food, as family time, to focus on each other. To give the privilege of eating some respect. I even do it when I am on my own sometimes. I'm sure it is a very beneficial practice.

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donnellysdogs said:
Who does this for each meal?

I think that if you make a point of only eating at a table for all meals that you don't pig out in between.


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I have always eaten at a table. 3 meals a day with all the family unless someone was at work or school. I have never eaten between meals - this was the way we were brought up in my generation. Even when I was away at college in my own bedsits I sat down at a table to eat. The only snacks were in the evenings, and not often, although we did used to have a before bed supper when I lived with my parents. Youngsters these days seem to graze all day, which can't be good for them.
 
donnellysdogs said:
My other friend brought her 3 yr old round over easter... She brought with her an easter biscuit for the child. She would only eat it at the table, even asking for a plate!! She made me feel normal for a few minutes!!

I just look at other peoples eating habits and am now really at the pint of feeling odd. Even when by myself I eat at the table.. (Bit lonely talking to myself when OH on late shift for 4 weeks!!) but it does just make me wonder whether the table eating instilled in me as a kid has meant a significant part unwittingly to me not snacking in between..


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Doesn't that sound bad that a friend had to bring her own snack for her child because she knew I wouldn't have anything!!-just been reading through all the posts and got to my own and thought how mean I was!!! But even worse that my friend knew I wouldn't have any snack!! Doubly mean!!



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I ate at a table as a child but I was also a snacker (although I wasn't overweight).

At the moment I eat in front of the TV on the sofa as we don't have a table, but I definitely want one, especially when we have kids because I think the practise of sitting at a table and the social aspects, i.e. talking are really important.

I wouldn't be offended if people being snacks to your house. I'd rather that than have a child hungry and nothing to give them.


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donnellysdogs said:
Doesn't that sound bad that a friend had to bring her own snack for her child because she knew I wouldn't have anything!!-just been reading through all the posts and got to my own and thought how mean I was!!! But even worse that my friend knew I wouldn't have any snack!! Doubly mean!!



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I would counter by suggesting your friend is sensitive to your lifestyle and doesn't expect you to have snacks in stock for her child. I imagine you wouldn't expect her to have something low carb or diabetes friendly for you either? :)
 
As a family we always ate at the table with no telly on it was a good time to chat .Now all the children are all grown up and away we still eat at the table for our main meal ,we are usually on the hoof for other meals but I do snack because I need to gain weight .I do feel that families should eat together round a table it helps the family to communicate and also learn manners and respect for one another
CAROL
 
Up until recent times we would all sit at the table to eat, now it's just special occasions such as Easter, Christmas, New Year or if we have my mother-in-law round,
 
carty said:
As a family we always ate at the table with no telly on it was a good time to chat .Now all the children are all grown up and away we still eat at the table for our main meal ,we are usually on the hoof for other meals but I do snack because I need to gain weight .I do feel that families should eat together round a table it helps the family to communicate and also learn manners and respect for one another
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We are also a TV-free dining environment.
 
We eat on the sofa in front of the telly as the cat sleeps on the table ! :cat: Just the two of us so we have let standards slip :bag: We haven't got a kitchen table any more, where we used to eat, as our kitchen is too small.
 
I live alone and no room for a table but when I visit my dad or friends we eat at the table. Its a social event.
 
donnellysdogs said:
Doesn't that sound bad that a friend had to bring her own snack for her child because she knew I wouldn't have anything!!-just been reading through all the posts and got to my own and thought how mean I was!!! But even worse that my friend knew I wouldn't have any snack!! Doubly mean!!



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Not really mean DD
I men to say, how many people with diabetes have "snacks" in the house. I don't as they are far, far too tempting. Don't feel bad about it, feel positive that the child arrived with a snack, even if if it was one that you could not enjoy.



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Table in the kitchen , with radio on, love the back ground music ...that's breakfast and lunch

Main evening meal ....it is a tray on my lap.with the tv on .....:/
 
Alanp35 said:
Not really mean DD
I men to say, how many people with diabetes have "snacks" in the house. I don't as they are far, far too tempting. Don't feel bad about it, feel positive that the child arrived with a snack, even if if it was one that you could not enjoy.

I have felt so mean today.. It was Easter and I didn't have anything to give her!! I took her and two other boys to Woburn Safari Park as an Easter treat so they probably don't think I was mean. Honestly, do others not buy in snacks n treats when they have others around? I honestly had nothing to give a kid!! Even the children that are my neighbours know they have to go home for their snacks ( constant with them!!).

Should I change a little and not be so diabetic healthy?

Glad to hear that others enjoy meals at tables..... I think its important to family life and for me personally my stomach thinks (well my brain!!) that a table is food time...


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I sit down at the table for meals with the family, no telly.
AND I'm fat.

It's how many calories you put in your mouth and how active you are that influences things; not where you are whilst consuming food that makes the difference.
 
My friends never sit to a table.. And they are obese...female especially...

I still wonder whether a table eating to me when I was young ( not allowd anything except at table) did programme my brain and therefore my body size.

The only thing I ever pick up at a garage for example is a feast icecram (20 carbs) if weather is really hot and I have been working all day in it. I never change to anything else....so get this about 4 times a year!!!! Whilst at garage paying I look at people in front or behind and boy... They snack.... Is it I was a table eater and they weren't? Next time filling up I'm going to ask!!


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We don't have a dining table (unless you count the patio table). And now I think about it, I haven't lived in a house with a dining table since I left home. Lol. It really freaks my parents out when they come to stay!

I'm fat, and I do snack - to my meter. I am SIGNIFICANTLY more wary of low blood glucose than high!

Do I think the table influences excessive eating? Nope. That would be the glucose swings, carb cravings and depression - all of which are less likely if I snack conveniently when appropriate.

One more thing - my partner works highly irregular shifts, and I have a pretty variable schedule too. I have no desire to eat alone, on an uncomfortable chair, staring at the wall, when I can sit in comfort with a book, my ipad or the tv, feet up, cat close by... It makes no sense to me. Although if I had children I would probably turn into my own draconian parents, table manners, posture, conversation et al. O the horror.
 
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