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Breakfast yes or no?
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Yes for me even though I am rarely hungry for breakfast. I don't think it is necessary for losing weight though.0
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I have a banana and coffee at 4am and out the door I go.0
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I base eating breakfast on my hunger level. Most days I'm not hungry enough to eat until between 10-11 AM, which is several hours after rising.
Depending on what I ate I could end up being hungry again sooner than I want so I found the several breakfast meals that keep my going for at least 4 hours and stick with one of them for my first meal.0 -
nakedraygun wrote: »I say YES to first breakfast and YES to second breakfast.
Yes to elevensies as well?0 -
I think that breakfast helps the intake of nutrients. The fact that at the begginig of the day you are already on your way to achieving your set calories/nutrients etc. Also since it's the first meal of the day, it is (in my case) kind of a set time, unlike lunch or dinner that vary (like when you have to push lunch/dinner because of work/school/special events).UHhhhhhWHAaaTmf wrote: »Eating breakfast *Kickstarts your metabolism* (speeds up) making you feel hungry sooner than if you skipped (depending if you are substituting with coffee etc)
Would you get in your car to drive a mile or few with NO GAS? (no calories) I wouldnt.
You need fuel to function, yes you will go into your body's store reserves for energy from fat but with skipping breakfast you aren't getting aminos (protein) to maintain and prevent (catabolism)muscle breakdown.
We work hard for muscle..Why would you want to lose it?
My .02 cents
I will have to agree here without breakfast your body has no calories "fuel" to burn off. I eat 2 boiled eggs and have a protein shake every morning plus my daily vitamins. If I don't eat breakfast I feel like crap all day and feel like I havnt accomplished anything. You have to take in calories to burn off anyways just low portions at a time.0 -
UHhhhhhWHAaaTmf wrote: »Eating breakfast *Kickstarts your metabolism* (speeds up) making you feel hungry sooner than if you skipped (depending if you are substituting with coffee etc)
Would you get in your car to drive a mile or few with NO GAS? (no calories) I wouldnt.
You need fuel to function, yes you will go into your body's store reserves for energy from fat but with skipping breakfast you aren't getting aminos (protein) to maintain and prevent (catabolism)muscle breakdown.
We work hard for muscle..Why would you want to lose it?
My .02 cents
Really bad analogy. If you put gas in your car and then drive the next day without refilling your car, your still going to have fuel left-over. Your cells don't exclusively burn recently digested glucose for energy.
That said, I like to eat smaller meals throughout the day. I used to do IF and convince myself that I needed a mountain of food to be full, but then I started eating healthier and keeping busy and I found that I wasn't as hungry as I previously thought.0 -
'Eat like a King, lunch like a prince and a pauper at dinner.'
Below is a small study (50 overweight women) that suggests this-amount eaten and when-
http://boston.com/lifestyle/health/blog/nutrition/2013/08/to_lose_weight_eat_breakfast_l.html0 -
So what does your body have fat cells for? What have mine been storing for so long, crafty little things. I thought they held calories as triglycerides this whole time.bigcountry89je48 wrote: »I think that breakfast helps the intake of nutrients. The fact that at the begginig of the day you are already on your way to achieving your set calories/nutrients etc. Also since it's the first meal of the day, it is (in my case) kind of a set time, unlike lunch or dinner that vary (like when you have to push lunch/dinner because of work/school/special events).UHhhhhhWHAaaTmf wrote: »Eating breakfast *Kickstarts your metabolism* (speeds up) making you feel hungry sooner than if you skipped (depending if you are substituting with coffee etc)
Would you get in your car to drive a mile or few with NO GAS? (no calories) I wouldnt.
You need fuel to function, yes you will go into your body's store reserves for energy from fat but with skipping breakfast you aren't getting aminos (protein) to maintain and prevent (catabolism)muscle breakdown.
We work hard for muscle..Why would you want to lose it?
My .02 cents
I will have to agree here without breakfast your body has no calories "fuel" to burn off. I eat 2 boiled eggs and have a protein shake every morning plus my daily vitamins. If I don't eat breakfast I feel like crap all day and feel like I havnt accomplished anything. You have to take in calories to burn off anyways just low portions at a time.0 -
Let's provide one more example of why breakfast is personal choice.
Two people body eat dinner at 7pm. Both go to bed at 11pm. One sleeps for 8 hours and the other for 12 hours. What is going to happen if they both start their meals at noon the next day?0 -
The guy who woke up at 8 hours is obviously gonna die from malnutrition....0
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So what does your body have fat cells for? What have mine been storing for so long, crafty little things. I thought they held calories as triglycerides this whole time.bigcountry89je48 wrote: »I think that breakfast helps the intake of nutrients. The fact that at the begginig of the day you are already on your way to achieving your set calories/nutrients etc. Also since it's the first meal of the day, it is (in my case) kind of a set time, unlike lunch or dinner that vary (like when you have to push lunch/dinner because of work/school/special events).UHhhhhhWHAaaTmf wrote: »Eating breakfast *Kickstarts your metabolism* (speeds up) making you feel hungry sooner than if you skipped (depending if you are substituting with coffee etc)
Would you get in your car to drive a mile or few with NO GAS? (no calories) I wouldnt.
You need fuel to function, yes you will go into your body's store reserves for energy from fat but with skipping breakfast you aren't getting aminos (protein) to maintain and prevent (catabolism)muscle breakdown.
We work hard for muscle..Why would you want to lose it?
My .02 cents
I will have to agree here without breakfast your body has no calories "fuel" to burn off. I eat 2 boiled eggs and have a protein shake every morning plus my daily vitamins. If I don't eat breakfast I feel like crap all day and feel like I havnt accomplished anything. You have to take in calories to burn off anyways just low portions at a time.
Not to mention the glycogen stored in your muscles and the glucose circulating in your bloodstream.
And I guess maybe some people have never heard of Intermittent Fasting and/or fasted cardio.0 -
bigcountry89je48 wrote: »I think that breakfast helps the intake of nutrients. The fact that at the begginig of the day you are already on your way to achieving your set calories/nutrients etc. Also since it's the first meal of the day, it is (in my case) kind of a set time, unlike lunch or dinner that vary (like when you have to push lunch/dinner because of work/school/special events).UHhhhhhWHAaaTmf wrote: »Eating breakfast *Kickstarts your metabolism* (speeds up) making you feel hungry sooner than if you skipped (depending if you are substituting with coffee etc)
Would you get in your car to drive a mile or few with NO GAS? (no calories) I wouldnt.
You need fuel to function, yes you will go into your body's store reserves for energy from fat but with skipping breakfast you aren't getting aminos (protein) to maintain and prevent (catabolism)muscle breakdown.
We work hard for muscle..Why would you want to lose it?
My .02 cents
I will have to agree here without breakfast your body has no calories "fuel" to burn off. I eat 2 boiled eggs and have a protein shake every morning plus my daily vitamins. If I don't eat breakfast I feel like crap all day and feel like I havnt accomplished anything. You have to take in calories to burn off anyways just low portions at a time.
You presumably ate the day before, so I wouldn't assume you wake up glycogen depleted. You also probably have some excess fat to burn. Humans can easily survive for a period of time without eating, it's not hard or bad for us to skip a meal. (I eat breakfast myself because I enjoy it, but it's not necessary -- it's really just a traditional pattern of eating in many places.)0 -
No breakfast.
I wanna spike the human growth hormone (HGH) and testosterone in my body.
I love going to gym at 6am with no food in my system.0 -
DancingDarl wrote: »How do you think science gets supported.anyways you classified it as a debate now debate HunDancingDarl wrote: »Neither
Btw your post is going to be problematic on here as it is extremely controversial. So I will stick to my opinion based on my own ideas and experiences. It doesn't matter when you eat only what and how much. If you ain't hungry don't eat brekky, it will help boost your metabolism for a small period then after that it will slow it so hence the controversy on here. Both theories are correct. A one day fast us fine,skipping briskly is fine don't get too obsessed .
This is the debate section. The purpose is to discuss and debate those part of nutrition. You can have an opinion, but if its not supported by science it will be challenged, especially in this section.
The controversy here is that many people get information from blogs, newspapers and netflix "documentaries" as opposed to scientific articles.
When people talk about an increase in metabolism, they are talking about your bodies response to upregulate your metabolism to digest calories; since your body burns calories to digest foods (thermal effect of food), people feel that eating multiple times a day, they will enable this process to continuously burn calories. After its done digesting food, your metabolism will deregulate and go back to running your system. But the thing is, the TEF will be the same regardless of meal and is more dependent on total calorie intake (btw, this is a 24 hour continuous process). This is why, meal frequency does not matter.
And another issue is, people have put those labels (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and have delineated specific periods of time for those. So technically, we all eat breakfast (since it means that you break the fast). People just so happen to suggest whether we do it during the periods established for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
By scientific study.
And I am sorry, but what am I supposed to be debating with you. I already provided a lengthy response and you didn't have any other questions.0 -
DancingDarl wrote: »How do you think science gets supported.anyways you classified it as a debate now debate HunDancingDarl wrote: »Neither
Btw your post is going to be problematic on here as it is extremely controversial. So I will stick to my opinion based on my own ideas and experiences. It doesn't matter when you eat only what and how much. If you ain't hungry don't eat brekky, it will help boost your metabolism for a small period then after that it will slow it so hence the controversy on here. Both theories are correct. A one day fast us fine,skipping briskly is fine don't get too obsessed .
This is the debate section. The purpose is to discuss and debate those part of nutrition. You can have an opinion, but if its not supported by science it will be challenged, especially in this section.
The controversy here is that many people get information from blogs, newspapers and netflix "documentaries" as opposed to scientific articles.
When people talk about an increase in metabolism, they are talking about your bodies response to upregulate your metabolism to digest calories; since your body burns calories to digest foods (thermal effect of food), people feel that eating multiple times a day, they will enable this process to continuously burn calories. After its done digesting food, your metabolism will deregulate and go back to running your system. But the thing is, the TEF will be the same regardless of meal and is more dependent on total calorie intake (btw, this is a 24 hour continuous process). This is why, meal frequency does not matter.
And another issue is, people have put those labels (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and have delineated specific periods of time for those. So technically, we all eat breakfast (since it means that you break the fast). People just so happen to suggest whether we do it during the periods established for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Despite what some post-modernists want to espouse, science and the rational empirical process is not simply one form of opinion. At some point the fact that it produces efficacious results tends to act rather eloquently as an argument for it over other methods for interpreting the reality.0 -
How do artists get funded? The popular ones by following trends, and the unpopular ones by committee. Shall we tar and feather the artists for stooping to filthy lucre? They have to feed their families somehow.
I respect the conclusion of someone who first posits a question, designs an experiment to find an answer, and obtains a conclusive result. Bonus points if the conclusion is published, retested, and validated.
Over, say, a charming vlogger.0 -
I don't want to live in a world without breakfast...0
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