zauberflote
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- Location
- VA, US
- Type of diabetes
- Prediabetes
- Treatment type
- Diet only
- Dislikes
- okra. Cigarette smoke, old, new, and permeating a room, wafting from a balcony, etc etc. That I have so many chronic diseases. That I take so very many meds. Being cold. Anything too loud, but specifically non-classical music and the television.
Interesting conversation around same meals for all. For at least 25 years due to Julie's IBS and our work we have often neither eaten together nor the same food. One or other would eat with the boys Only real exception was "set piece" meals and even then our preferences for type of meat or fish and how much or little it was cooked were widely different. In retirement I will rise up to 4 hrs earlier and want to go to sleep much earlier so when we want to eat is not usually in sync. In that respect OMAD/IF has been a blessing. On track a little I have only had tea today but Julie finds breakfast - 4 hrs+ after I was up - essential to avoiding problems.
We've done the same thing for nearly 40 years-- breakfast and lunch are what we like (and I have NEVER liked a bowl of cereal and nothing else for breakfast!), lunch MrZF packs for work and I'm on my own whether or not working. Eons ago he'd be home in time for the early supper required for me going (for the second or even third time that day) to evening work. Once he rose in the ranks some, he was on a later schedule. During kid years, I'd feed them supper and run out the door to work as he pulled in the driveway. Then there were the commuting years. Now he swims very late 3 nights a week and works moderately late the other two and Saturday. Small business owner now, it's all on him and partner. For many decades, "Sunday lunch at Granny's" was the only guaranteed together meal. Once Granny was gone, Mr&MrsYoungZF#1 have taken over Sundays. It was very important to them for many many years. Here's to generational family tradition!