Having a bigger breakfast won’t actually give enough energy to last until dinner time & it’s better for the digestive system to eat smaller amounts more often. Lunch is actually extremely welcomed and pleasant. If it’s ’awful’ maybe you’re doing it wrong.
Oh yeah I can see a delivery driver pulling over setting up a table and chair to eat lunch, think about it Lewis you are better than this, sometimes this is people's only chance to grab a bite to eat and relax for a few minutes
Even if you are a non-diabetic, you are making your liver and pancreas work harder to deal with all that carbohydrate at a time when insulin resistance is high due to circadian rhythms. Thing is, some ppl are pre-type 2 and don't even know it. That's when bad advice becomes dangerous.
Isn't the point that a lunchbreak is when you chat with mates and others offline not eat a steak while staff and subordinates pretend you know it all and you're making a success of your brief time as leader?
But when I worked in the City I was within a 5 minute walk of 3 street food markets offering up to 30 options between them. The food could be the highlight of the day.
Lewis humbly suggest you stick to politics and reporting - unless of course you're starting a 'sandwiches for breakfast' campaign. Marmite perhaps. Which gets us back to Ms Badenoch...you either like her or do not - no middle way there!
Just had a brisket & red onion bread roll with a steaming pot of Earl Grey tea. If Kemi wants to tell me that's not a proper lunch I'll gladly fight her for it.
But you should stop for a break!
You’d also better eating your dinner at lunch and have lighter healthier food in the evening. Plus not everyone’s bodies are the same and small but often is the better option
Kemi is a moron. The tories have systematically destroyed infrastructure, public service, vulnerable people’s lives, the BHS, UK’s international standing & the public’s trust in Westminster.
So she attacks the lunch break…..
Deny, Deflect Deceive….
I generally don't really have an appetite in the morning, eating breakfast will often make me feel nauseous. For me, I've found that bypassing Breakfast and just eating lunch works best.
What she’s 100% wrong about is claiming both that she doesn’t eat lunch, and that what she means by that is she regards sandwiches beneath her, and demands an underling make her hot food to order.
however bragging about being "Soooo Busy & Important" you have to work through lunch is pure bullshitter behaviour - we all worked with "that" person who worked all the hours but never seemed to deliver anything useful
As usual, Kemi is wrong (unusual for you, though Lewis). My body (and brain, for that matter) couldn't handle the drop in blood sugar, I couldn't concentrate properly.
Hmm, maybe that explains Kemi poor performance in PMQs every week too? 🤔
Lunch provides an opportunity to reflect on what was achieved in the morning and what requires to be addressed in the afternoon
It needn’t take long but these breaks contribute to a positive work/life balance
When you move on you’ll be replaced and forgotten work to live never live to work
As we do in Europe where we don’t have shitty British meal deals. Also, that’s from 1987 Wall Street Gordon Gekko. She should try to do or say something original
It’s unpopular because it’s cobblers. Lunch break is a chance to reload and refresh, and eat what you like, don’t eat what you don’t like. If your lunch is ‘generally awful’ you should eat something different. Have your sit down lunch if that’s what you want.
Kevin can get fucked. Everything she says is a contradiction. Like telling kier to own up to his record over the last six months...... she never owns up to her parties record for the last 14 years. Hate her
Terrible advice Lewis. You need to eat more than twice a day. Terrible otherwise for blood glucose fluctuations and metabolism. Take it from diabetics who know.
@lewisgoodall.com if anything it's healthier (though usually impractical) to eat 5 smaller meals per day. Certainly better that than sticking to 3 (or two) and randomly snacking in between. Don't get me wrong, I'm very much guilty of this. But it's not good.
That’s not how nutrition works. If you need, say, 3,000 calories a day, you can eat everything at breakfast and be fine for the day. You have to spread your meals out. Having a bigger breakfast just won’t cut it.
Most working people don't work in politics or journalism which is a fact most politicians and journos forget, a lot. If you work in retail for example, a much larger group than the above mentioned, you stop for your lunch break & eat. Real world Vs Westminster. It's very rarely steak...
Popular take: Kemi will say just about anything to get some attention and the more it offends generally decent people, the better as far as she is concerned.
Yes!
In most of my jobs, I have cycled or walked to work. By lunchtime I am genuinely hungry and certainly need sustenance to make it home again at the end of the day.
Or how about we don't try to tell everyone else what's right or wrong and just get on with living our own lives? If you want lunch, have it. If you don't, then go about your business.
I always thought it was a class distinction but apparently it's not any more. Working class people are only marginally more likely to call it tea in both North and South. Personally I would have tea at about 330-4, and dinner at 730-8.
I found texts from 18th century British "Grand Tourists" (i.e. before the invention of lunch as a concept) in which they very earnestly write about "having a second breakfast around noon while travelling". In my mind they all immediately morphed into hobbits. 😁
The Hobbits are very English. Tolkien based the Shire off the countryside people near his home where he grew up. LOTR is based a lot on his experiences of war on the trenches. Check out “The Road to Middle Earth” by Tom Shippey.
Wouldn’t it be great if people didn’t feel the need to tell other people how to live their lives but accepted that we’re all different. If you want lunch have it and eat what you like. If you don’t then don’t.
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Yikes!
Trouble is that most people don't know what their blood sugar level are doing during the day.
My toes curl at some of the nonsense people spout about diet and nutrition.
Although non-diabetics usually have their livers release sugar to keep a balance, even that is fallible sometimes.
But when I worked in the City I was within a 5 minute walk of 3 street food markets offering up to 30 options between them. The food could be the highlight of the day.
You’d also better eating your dinner at lunch and have lighter healthier food in the evening. Plus not everyone’s bodies are the same and small but often is the better option
It’s the long-discredited notion that working for hours on end without a break is more productive. It’s not.
Seems odd to say X is the best time of day when for some that will be incredibly early or others far too late.
But most hospitals and Uni’s recommend it, however I can’t find their reasoning at first glance
Here’s an article from Northwestern Medicine
https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/nutrition/best-times-to-eat
So she attacks the lunch break…..
Deny, Deflect Deceive….
If they lose, their meal can go to someone who can't afford to pay for one.
Hmm, maybe that explains Kemi poor performance in PMQs every week too? 🤔
It needn’t take long but these breaks contribute to a positive work/life balance
When you move on you’ll be replaced and forgotten work to live never live to work
Ever since I first heard and understood that I've tried to live by it and can only suggest others do the same 👏
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/13/we-dont-do-our-best-work-just-before-lunch-and-its-not-much-better-afterwards
Supper is not a thing.
#northernmealtimes
Pickled Onion Monster Munch, a Crunchie and a can of Irn Bru.
The Lunch of Kings
KB is a twit.
I never, ever miss lunch, or dinner.
I say that as someone who 9 times out of 10 eats at his desk.
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#lunchisthebestmealoftheday
Nobody is interested in either of you sharing this information.
Time an issue? Get up 10 minutes early.
Do I do this?
No.
Separately, what happened to great custom of have Ploughman’s lunch?
What a dire state our politics is in in 2024.
In most of my jobs, I have cycled or walked to work. By lunchtime I am genuinely hungry and certainly need sustenance to make it home again at the end of the day.