eat and stay thin

 

think 'this' is the usual 'color palette' of my meals.....and, at left, a 'once a week' Food.....'broken up with a fork' pastry filled with a basic sauce, vegetables....some animal flesh, and a couple of 'chutneys'.....here, a mint/coriander chutney, over dribbles of a sweet date/fig, ginger, tamarind chutney.......a 'memory tribute' to those Swanson and Morton 'pot pies' that I had, 'after school;, to 'tide me over' until Supper.......I've always preferred 5-7 small meals to 2 or three 'big' meals.....reserving 'big meals' for extravagant Feasts of Excess......and, the inevitable 'weight gain' that ensues.....My maternal grandparents set the example....eating several....even a dozen, at times.....small meals.....My Grandfather weighed 138lbs when he first married....and 133lbs at the time of his death.......no scales, no dieting.....just a 'steady intake' of caloric content......like grazing herbivores.......I've noticed that regular 'meat eaters' tend, like other carnivores, to gorge on huge meals......then "pass out", exhausted from the largesse.....often, obtaining massive girths