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Breakfast.

  • 23-07-2009 10:43PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 250 ✭✭


    Ok, So I know skipping brekkie is bad in general, but after keeping a food diary for a month I've discovered I have better days when I skip brekkie.

    However my usual prefered diet involves healthy small meals throughout the day. So I have an problem I don't like the idea of prolonging my non-eating time, as I'm trying to lose weight and I know this will hinder my weight loss, however I find the days I "breakfast" I am hungrier and snack on unhealthy food.

    For brekkie I always eat porridge made with water, 40g portion.

    So any way to have breakfast without causing myself to crave crap food?


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Actually, there's no proof that you must eat breakfast. Yes, they've observed that people who are normal weight are more likely to eat breakfast, but it's quite possible that the breakfast skippers are already fat and are doing so to save calories, rather than being fat because they skip breakfast.

    In fact, there is a method of eating called Intermittent Fasting, which involves only eating for a certain number of hours, usually in the early evening, the way the cavemen would have done, and people are more likely to lose than gain weight doing this. Of course, the catch is that you can't spend those hours eating chinese takeaway, it has to be quality food.

    Have you tried eggs for breakfast? There were a couple of studies which found that people who ate eggs for breakfast ate fewer calories during the rest of the day than the control group that ate the same number of calories worth of bagels. And their cholesterol stayed normal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I'm not normally very hungry when I get up, but when I am, it's usually fried eggs & bread, a tonne of coffee & some pudding. Sets me up nicely.

    Failing that, a nice pastry & a tonne of coffee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,114 ✭✭✭corkcomp


    EileenG wrote: »
    Actually, there's no proof that you must eat breakfast. Yes, they've observed that people who are normal weight are more likely to eat breakfast, but it's quite possible that the breakfast skippers are already fat and are doing so to save calories, rather than being fat because they skip breakfast.

    In fact, there is a method of eating called Intermittent Fasting, which involves only eating for a certain number of hours, usually in the early evening, the way the cavemen would have done, and people are more likely to lose than gain weight doing this. Of course, the catch is that you can't spend those hours eating chinese takeaway, it has to be quality food.

    Have you tried eggs for breakfast? There were a couple of studies which found that people who ate eggs for breakfast ate fewer calories during the rest of the day than the control group that ate the same number of calories worth of bagels. And their cholesterol stayed normal.

    id agree - there is no point eatting if your (really) not hungry ... If skipping breakfast makes you over eat later in the day dont do it though ... Also if you have your last meal a few hours before bed it might mean you would wake up with an appetite for breakfast ... If your going to try I.F. it might be better to do it from say 6 pm. until 8 or 9 next morning?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17 cathead


    I suppose each to their own, but the way it was explained to me at least makes me think that some kind of a breakfast is essential, for me at least!

    I never ate breakfast, ever. When I joined my local women's gym, they explained it to me this way.

    When you don't have breakfast, and your next meal isn't for several hours, you are starving your body (at least that's what your body thinks!). Because your body believes you are starving it, the next meal you have, no matter how healthy it is, will be stored mostly as fat because your body doesn't know when the next time it's going to be starved. Your body doesn't trust you essentially so creates fat stores!

    That probably makes no sense but it got me into eating breakfast. I still wouldnt necessarily have a huge meal but I'd always make sure I's have something, however small!

    As I said, I find it works for me, but each to their own. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    It's a lovely theory, but the whole point of having fat stores is so that your body won't panic if there is a bit of a gap between meals. It actually takes about three days for the starvation mode thing to kick in.

    There are lots of reasons for eating breakfast, and being hungry is the best one.

    Don't forget, it wasn't that long ago that humans always had to put in a couple of hours work before breakfast. I grew up on a farm, and it was the rule that you fed the animals before you fed yourself.


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