Lunch time

So I have been asking myself lately, why do people feel the need to go have lunch at exactly Noon. It is like we are programed to eat at a specific time. Did someone write a book about the times to eat and I just missed it? I have never really gotten the breakfast "time", dinner "time" thing. But it seems that we are designed to:

Eat breakfast at 8
Eat lunch at Noon
Eat dinner at 6

Well that doesn’t work for me, and it doesn’t work for most of the people I know. Ok sure, the breakfast thing works. I grab a banana or apple on the way out the door at 8 am and eat it on my way to work or when I get to work around 8:15. But the lunch, this has always made me ponder. I don’t know about everyone, but for me, I usually work from about 8:30-6 or around that. So for me eating lunch after I have only been at work for 3 ½ hrs doesn’t seem logical if I am going to be there for 9 ½ hrs…or am I crazy?? I just ate 3 ½ hrs ago if I eat now….then I have to go 6 hrs until I eat again. That doesn’t include the drive home and of course the never ending stops that I have to make before I get home, be it the grocery store, gas station, dry cleaners, post office, bank….I seem to never make it home before 6:30 on a good day!!! Most days it is 7 before I walk in the door!! Then of course I have to change, run (or some form of workout after sitting on my butt for 9 hrs) and then of course comes cooking dinner!! So I am not going to eat until 8:30-9 at night! Yah I know late right, but heck, how do you suppose I eat any earlier. Can’t eat before I run….that would just make me sick….can’t eat before I cook. I guess that is why a lot of people vote for fast food on the way home, they get to eat right away.

But for me, a good lunch time is between 1:30-2:30. That way, I don’t snack. It is 5-6 hrs between breakfast & Lunch and then 6-7 hrs till Dinner. If I try to eat at Noon, like some unknowns to me book said, by 5 I am so hungry that I can’t run after work or do anything because I feel like if I don’t eat I will DIE!! So I have come up with a new schedule that people who work 8-6 should follow:

Eat breakfast at 8 (see no change there)
Eat lunch at 2
Eat dinner at 7

That seems so much better to me! Take your break later in the day, get up and move later in the day. You always see these commercials promoting their snack products (like the peanut commercial) to eat at work around 3. Well if you just had lunch and you were up moving around at 2, you won’t be dragging around 3….in fact you will be just fine. AND you won’t start dragging until well it’s time to kick back and drive home!! Look at that!! I have solved the problem, to me it makes sense, so why are people still going to lunch at NOON??

Ok and some people will say...aren't you suppose to eat 5 meals a day. 3 normal and 2 small snacks, and to that I say...WHO HAS TIME!!!?? I am lucky as heck to get the 3 in! Any more and I would not make it!