Too good to be true?

bii14
bii14 Posts: 192
in Health and Weight Loss
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9069276/Chocolate-cake-breakfast-could-help-you-lose-weight.html

ANyone has any opinions on this article/research? i just found it tooooo good to be true

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  • Arexxx
    Arexxx Posts: 486 Member
    Yeah, it could work. Have chocolate cake for breakfast and eat no junk the rest of the day. If you remain at a deficit you'll lose weight, even if you have cake for breakfast :P
  • 126siany
    126siany Posts: 1,386 Member
    Skimming the article, it seems that the group eating the larger breakfast (600 calories vs 300) lost more weight. They also postulate that having a controlled serving of dessert helped people regulate cravings.

    In other words, it's not necessarily the chocolate that made the difference.
  • Allyice
    Allyice Posts: 122 Member
    If I ate chocolate cake for breakfast I wouldn't be able to stick to my diet for the rest of the day. Plus I would crash and not feel like doing any exercise afterwards. Love the theory though, and wish it would work for me, lol.
  • Barberini
    Barberini Posts: 140 Member
    1. If you eat a bigger breakfast, you are going to stay fuller longer and therefore be less likely to go over your calories with snacking
    2. If you are going to eat cake at some time during the day, it would do you better to eat it in the morning for the above mentioned reasons.

    Doesn't have to be cake. It is just helping people to stay under their calorie allowance.
  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    load of *kitten*.
  • pkw58
    pkw58 Posts: 2,038 Member
    Ok, confession time. In my 20's I belonged to WW and I would not drink my daily skim milk (this is back when the WW program TOLD you what to eat and how much ) and have my calories in Coors Light on the weekends. I actually became a lifetime member... but guess what? I have gone back up each decade since. I adopted a new healthy lifestyle and commitment to myself to "eat incredible to be incredible". I haven't wanted to go off the nutrition plan once since December 2011.

    I love chocolate cake. I'll eat it once a year on my birthday.
  • Koldnomore
    Koldnomore Posts: 1,613 Member
    Doesn't have to be cake. It is just helping people to stay under their calorie allowance.

    I have desert regularly, last night was blueberry pie and ice cream. I still lost 3 lbs last week. If you think you are on a 'diet' you are already sabotaging yourself. Deprivation leads to binges. Have your cake if you have the room in your daily calories :)
  • bulbadoof
    bulbadoof Posts: 1,058 Member
    Huh. Breakfast is usually my lowest-calorie meal and I'm very vulnerable to snack attacks. Maybe I'll have that evening bowl of ice cream in the morning tomorrow and see how it makes me feel.
  • LilacDaffodil
    LilacDaffodil Posts: 148 Member
    This looks like a variation on the old adage 'Breakfast like a King, Lunch like a Prince, Dine like a Pauper'

    http://therunningbug.co.uk/training/food-and-weight-loss/b/weblog/archive/2011/01/05/breakfast-like-a-king-lunch-like-a-prince-dine-like-a-pauper.aspx
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    I tend not to want lunch if I have a significant breakfast. I don't think the success of the dieters here is about chocolate cake per se, though.
  • bii14
    bii14 Posts: 192
    I agree that it does not have to be chocolate, the fact to my understanding is to have a fulfilling breakfast that is gonna keep you from getting hungry for longer, and that is the case with me as well.. I'm not really a breakfast person and hardly have any, but when i do i seem to not get hungry at lunch time
  • courtneyprudhomme
    courtneyprudhomme Posts: 39
    i try to have treats earlier in the day.. but honestly I have become a sherbet addict.. gotta have it after dinner, but I plan my day ahead so I know it's factored in to my daily calorie allowance..

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