On Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 7:45:22 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> On 5/22/2017 6:09 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> > On 5/22/2017 1:49 PM, Gary wrote:
> >> My work only lunches are fresh every day and so easy to prepare each
> >> morning. Always a 10-oz cup of generic V-8 juice. That's all. If I'm not
> >> working, I'll cook a real lunch mid afternoon but just V8 for work.
> >>
> >>
> > You tend to make fun of the small quantities I eat, yet you subsist on
> > only 10 oz. of vegetable juice for lunch?!
>
> Not really making fun of your small meals - just an observation that you
> do seem to eat small portions. Just a comment, not a put down. I see
> your meal pics and think....I would need more. :-)
>
> Anyway, yeah.....I don't like to stop in the middle of the work day and
> eat lunch. Eating makes me tired and eating at lunch for work makes the
> 2nd half of the day drag on forever. Just the V8 nutrition doesn't do
> that to me.
>
> When daughter was young, I started up my own business just to give me a
> more flexible schedule. For many years, I didn't need a babysitter
> except during the summer months.
>
> During most of her school years, I could stay home until she got on the
> bus. Then I would go to work at 9am and work straight through until
> 3:30. I was always home when she got home from school.
>
> Since that gave 6 1/2 hours to work, I never stopped for lunch. I worked
> those hours straight with no lunch and I always got home 15 minutes
> before she did. No babysitter and no latch-key daughter.
>
> That became a habit that I still do. No interest in taking lunch at
> work. I'll take a 10 minute lunch break and go back to work and I still
> can come home early with full hours. Drinking the V8 gives me nutrition
> to carry on. :-D

Everybody's different. I work 7:30 to 5. I definitely
couldn't get through it on 70 calories of V8 juice at
midday.

I like to take an hour at lunch, get away from my desk,
and rest my brain.

Cindy Hamilton