[drakonka]

Things that have helped me is to only eat lunch (or anything, really) if and when I'm actually hungry, and when I do eat it stick to something lower in carbs if possible.

If I want rice or pasta one day I'll eat that, but I realized most days what I really want is something that involves vegetables (fried, streamed, raw, whatever), maybe some eggs, just kind of thrown together into an edible bowl of some sort with a high fat sauce. I'll add some kind of vegetarian meat replacement if I feel like it.

This became much easier when I started working from home because suddenly I didn't see my peers leaving the office in droves to grab food, or have any pressure to follow them to socialize. I realized most of the time when I ate lunch pre-pandemic it was just out of habit, not actual hunger. And sometimes I actually really wanted to grab a snack earlier, or have lunch later instead. Eating when my body actually wants to eat and minimizing carby offerings seemed to have resolved some of the post-lunch tiredness I'd experienced occasionally in the past.