Disgusted

With myself. Have always found it easy, and personally-rewarding to be able to adhere to habits known beneficial to me. Could always seem to control those hunger-pangs which really aren't, when body weight and mass index are within acceptable limits.

Lately, though, seeing edibles has become more and more to difficult to simply look at them. Find myself gravitating toward food.

Is it the aging process? Loss of caring of personal well-being?
Frank

 

Missing your wife ?..is she still away?

 

@Holly Saunders

A little. And yes, for another week. may be contributory, but the trend I mention began farther in the past, maybe a year ago.
Frank

 

maybe your body needs it

 

I think it is just age.

 

I'm surprised at that Frank - usually our appetites dwindle with age, seems like a good sign for you
Enjoy yer food ……………. but don't go mad

 

My words, Patsy, but it might happen later than we think, i.e., in the second, more dependent phase of retirement. I know some retirees who enjoy eating very much. If our appetite dwindles too much, it might also be a negative sign.
Frank, if you don't overegg the pudding, you can enjoy it, I'd think.

 

I'd say you're right - I eat less than I did but still have a good appetite just smaller portions

 

In my world, eating small amounts of good foods 6-8 and even 10 times a day is deemed a healthier way to eat than eating large meals 3 times a day.

 

I don't know, Frank, what it is. In my working years i oftened missed breakfast and really only ate because
It allowed me to work, gave me fuel. In my senior years food tastes so much better. I enjoy eating, appreciate more foods I would not touch previously. I've tried eating five small meals daily, wind up eating five large meals, gainingweight so that I look like a japanese wrestler. Maybe it's not really that big a deal, huh?

 

At 81 I'm able to control sugar/carbs more than ever. I live with the damage of many years of TOO MUCH sugar and now am very obsessed with very little sugar intake...some grapes and some yogurt here and there and HAPPY with no dental appts in 10 yrs....that's a huge motivator.

 

Yes, that is the way I have eaten for 20 years. No diabetes, just control sugar rushes to prevent rapid fluid increases that lead to nerve problems.

 

I didn't realize how many people our age eat this way. I thought it was just me being weird.

 

No, you’re not only Not weird but becoming part of what I believe will be the norm.
More and more seniors (and younger people) are gravitating to the gyms or at least have some type of exercise regimen which also calls for a more explicit diet.
As for myself, I travel with either 6 or so 3-4 oz meals (including shakes) to the other extreme of having only one meal a day (OMAD) some time in the afternoon. Oh yeah, I’ll slide a little sometimes but there is a reason why I eat the way I do and everything I eat has a purpose. It’s been said that 70 or so years old men can’t build muscle but I’m doing it so whatever I’m doing I must be doing something right.

There is some merit though with @Frank Sanoica’s proposal of seniors eating just to eat because let’s face it, seniors have spent a lifetime working and once retired, have a whole lot less going on. Idle hands are the devil’s playground, or so my grandmother used to say.
Frank and others are used to being on the go and constantly doing something with breaks in between to eat so when the work part slows down, woo-hoo (!), break out the Dagwood’s because meal time is any time.