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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]It’s really not. You’re just used to people eating nonstop.[/quote]

I eat something every couple of hours - as long as I'm eating real food and not processed crap, I don't gain weight.  I'm not skinny but hardly fat at 115 pounds and average height.  My appetite wouldn't be different if I lived in Europe. Maybe I would look fat next to the Europeans but whatever.

My kids appreciated snacks in school because they were not hungry for more than a few bites of breakfast early in the morning. - that's not the time of day they were hungry.  [b]Was I supposed to force feed them a huge breakfast?[/b]

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I actually think this is part of the problem. We beat intuitive eating out of our kids with rules about finishing their plate, taking no thank you bites, and not allowing them to eat when they’re hungry and stop when they’re full.  Gorging yourself on breakfast because you know you won’t eat again until 1:30, isn’t exactly promoting healthy eating habits. [/quote]

Intuitive anything comes only after building discipline. Training your kids that to eat only 3 times a day will make them intuitive with their future eating habits. Everything else is teaching them to eat (whenever!) they're hungry. Which means non-stop, especially when food is everywhere, it's cheap and everyone around you eats the minute they get hungry, because their intuition told them so.
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