>My breakfast would involve stuffing myself with as much food as I could fit in my morning stomach. I followed that with a light lunch around 2-3pm, and then almost no dinner (or a low-calorie snack if I was hungry – examples in the appendix
In college I lost a fair amount of weight by eschewing snacks altogether and eating three large meals every day, meals filled with whole grains that take a while to eat and a while to digest too.
I found that this made the willpower thing a lot easier to deal with. Once you're in the habit of eating well three times a day, and not at all at other times, it becomes easier to cut down on overall food intake. You just don't even consider snacking if you're used to not snacking.
In college I lost a fair amount of weight by eschewing snacks altogether and eating three large meals every day, meals filled with whole grains that take a while to eat and a while to digest too.
I found that this made the willpower thing a lot easier to deal with. Once you're in the habit of eating well three times a day, and not at all at other times, it becomes easier to cut down on overall food intake. You just don't even consider snacking if you're used to not snacking.