By the way, how you structure how you eat can massively change your relationship with food and can help you if you struggle with managing how you intake food, or even with motivation to eat.
The general 'rules' we have around eating and how we structure eating often fail to take into account how each person is different and has different needs and preferences when eating, and even different availability to eat throughout the day.
Some people, like me, are graze eaters. We prefer to eat little but often. Smaller meals broken up over the course of the day, and snacks that make up what we need nutritionally throughout the day. This type of eating can help if you don't have the type of day structure to set aside time for specific meals, or can't eat bigger, set meals.
If you're someone who needs bulk and density to feel full, and fuller for longer, all those 'miracle soups' on TikTok aren't going to satisfy you. You'll feel hungry after an hour and find yourself mooching around the cupboards for something to fill the void. You're better off researching volume eating, and how you can eat the most food within your intake range.
If you're someone that fills up quickly without much of an appetite throughout the day, look into what foods hold the most nutritional and calorific bulk for the least amount of volume and work around that. For example, things like rolled oat peanut butter bites and dates and avocados. There are lots of snack bars and bowls you can make or buy that feel lighter in your stomach and don't take much 'effort' to eat, but will still help you meet your nutritional needs.
Trying to force ourselves to conform to set rules around eating is often what trip starts a declining relationship with food and how we eat. Likewise, trying to fit these rules in around our daily lives and schedules can add additional stress we just don't need.
Find out what works for you. Tailor how you eat to match your needs and preferences.
