My plan to just follow my skinny co-workers didn't work as well as I'd hoped. They were all in vacation mode. One thing that I notice a lot in naturally skinny people, is that they all think that they eat a lot and occasionally they really do. Because they all thought they would eat a lot, they all brought snacks for the 4.5 hour drive--and not just little snacks. Huge bags of trail mix was the preferred choice. But the skinniest one also bought a big bag of Doritos at a rest stop. Then they all ate what they wanted, and because they had plenty more they were fine. This is intuitive eating at its finest.
But there are other differences. They all seemed to think they had really overdone it, when I think we pretty much ate normally. The first day---we had snacks in the car (very light), lunch at a Mexican restaurant (The Merry Piglets--super cute place)--this was a fairly large but not crazy huge meal. This lunch was late, and none of us really wanted or needed a proper dinner--including me. So we just went to the conference reception where they had fruit and cheese. After that we walked back down into the town and had ice-cream (just single scoops) at Moos. To my mind, I can see this isn't a day where I'm going to lose weight--everything was much too high calorie, but it wasn't a particuarly heavy eating day. There are definitely differences in out thinking.
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