Exploitation and no lunch hour.

catkins

ILW wrote: »

Needing a meal every four hours is nothing to do with needing to eat for ones health. It is purely habit and a relatively modern obsession with food. Human beings along with most animals can get along fine on irregular eating when available. Attitudes such as OPs are what lead indirectly to many of the "eating disorders" that we see today.

It's not just habit. Lots of people have to eat because their blood sugar drops. The healthiest eating pattern is little and often not 3 meals a day actually

dark_lady

ILW wrote: »

Surely the boss is helping his employee to lose weight by missing out on a meal. Bear in mind that the main aim of Slimming World etc, is to make money for their shareholders.

Skipping meals and erratic eating plays havoc with your metabolism and makes you gain weight because your body then goes into starvation mode and then stores ANYTHING you eat as fat (even if its something healthy) because your body thinks you are not going to eat again for ages.

Did you not see my explanation about what happened with a fellow SW member who is a theatre nurse.
Or did you only see what you wanted to see.

ILW

dark_lady wrote: »

Skipping meals and erratic eating plays havoc with your metabolism and makes you gain weight because your body then goes into starvation mode and then stores ANYTHING you eat as fat (even if its something healthy) because your body thinks you are not going to eat again for ages.

Did you not see my explanation about what happened with a fellow SW member who is a theatre nurse.
Or did you only see what you wanted to see.

Sorry, but if you consume less energy than you burn, you will lose weight. SWs main aim is to make a profit and there is none in just telling people to eat less.

HappyMJ

LadyMissA wrote: »

I haven't replied on here but in all the jobs I have had in the last 20 years I have always had 1 hour for lunch without fail. No tea break as I worked in an office but we had to eat at our desk if we didn't go out.

An hour's too long in all the jobs I've had it's usually 30 minutes. I've had 1 hour lunch breaks before and get bored by the end of it. I'd rather finish half hour earlier and go home.

LadyMissA

HappyMJ wrote: »

An hour's too long in all the jobs I've had it's usually 30 minutes. I've had 1 hour lunch breaks before and get bored by the end of it. I'd rather finish half hour earlier and go home.

well that's good if you can do flexi time I have never had it so if you are only getting paid for 7 hours why work 8

snowcat53

HIghly entertaining thread - but I do think the OP is winding everyone up.

adouglasmhor

ILW wrote: »

Sorry, but if you consume less energy than you burn, you will lose weight. SWs main aim is to make a profit and there is none in just telling people to eat less.

And you will burn less energy in starvation mode, then burn off muscle instead of fat which makes your body need less energy so store more of your calorie intake as fat. Vicious circle isn't it. A lot of people don't understand that and make over simplistic statements like yours though.

Emmzi

adouglasmhor wrote: »

And you will burn less energy in starvation mode, then burn off muscle instead of fat which makes your body need less energy so store more of your calorie intake as fat. Vicious circle isn't it. A lot of people don't understand that and make over simplistic statements like yours though.

Come on then. Where are the links to the peer reviewed scientific tests showing this? What are your "facts" based on?

Tests NOT funded by the diet industry, btw!

Here's an alternate view that is just as valid.

http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debunked.html

But the truth is that scientists don't yet fully understand everything there is to know about the body and food. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

Follow the money and you can usually find out why.

Fine if it works for you by placebo or whatever, but don't push indoctrinated non-science until you have done your research. Come back with some and I'll happily engage in debate.

t0rt0ise

dark_lady wrote: »

Skipping meals and erratic eating plays havoc with your metabolism and makes you gain weight because your body then goes into starvation mode and then stores ANYTHING you eat as fat (even if its something healthy) because your body thinks you are not going to eat again for ages.

This is often said but I have never quite believed it because it assumes that the body thinks by itself. The person has a mind, the physical body does not. I know the mind is a physico-chemical entity but our thoughts don't control metabolism. The body doesn't sit there thinking "I haven't been fed for a day, bet I'm not going to be fed for a while longer, better save my energy". Nobody has ever explained just how this works.

Sambucus_Nigra

It's a 5 hour shift, in a job that isn't paying him. If he wants a break, he can take one as nobody can sack him as he isn't employed.