Chocolate cake for breakfast helps you lose weight

whmscll
whmscll Posts: 2,255 Member
edited November 18 in Food and Nutrition
At least according to this one study! It sounds too good to be true to me.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9069276/Chocolate-cake-breakfast-could-help-you-lose-weight.html

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  • Phoenix_Down
    Phoenix_Down Posts: 530 Member
    It should say, "Incorporating foods you enjoy into your diet leads to better long term success than trying to cut out foods for weight loss." Because sometimes I have chocolate cake for breakfast. But I also stayed in a deficit for weight loss. Like everyone else ;)
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    Hey, if cake for breakfast helps you get to a deficit, then have at it. I rarely eat breakfast myself, but when I do, it's usually cake - pancakes, but still. Though I prefer peanut butter to chocolate.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    Study conducted by Bill Cosby...Himself.



    (hoping someone gets the reference)
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    Phoenix_Down wrote: »
    It should say, "Incorporating foods you enjoy into your diet leads to better long term success than trying to cut out foods for weight loss." Because sometimes I have chocolate cake for breakfast. But I also stayed in a deficit for weight loss. Like everyone else ;)

    It wasn't about eating things you enjoy. I remember reading about this study when it first came out. It's about eating sweets in the morning causing less craving for sweets throughout the day.
  • jnv7594
    jnv7594 Posts: 983 Member
    edited May 2015
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    Study conducted by Bill Cosby...Himself.



    (hoping someone gets the reference)

    I get it. Chocolate cake has eggs...and milk. "Dad is great...ba dum ba dum bum bum...give us the chocolate cake." That used to be one of my favorite stand up routines, lol.
  • Phoenix_Down
    Phoenix_Down Posts: 530 Member
    Need2Exerc1se wrote: »
    Phoenix_Down wrote: »
    It should say, "Incorporating foods you enjoy into your diet leads to better long term success than trying to cut out foods for weight loss." Because sometimes I have chocolate cake for breakfast. But I also stayed in a deficit for weight loss. Like everyone else ;)

    It wasn't about eating things you enjoy. I remember reading about this study when it first came out. It's about eating sweets in the morning causing less craving for sweets throughout the day.

    Okay.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    jnv7594 wrote: »
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    Study conducted by Bill Cosby...Himself.



    (hoping someone gets the reference)

    I get it. Chocolate cake has eggs...and milk. "Dad is great...ba dum ba dum bum bum...give us the chocolate cake." That used to be one of my favorite stand up routines, lol.

    Whew...thank God...
  • nikkib0103
    nikkib0103 Posts: 969 Member
    They do enjoy thrilling the ladies over at the Telegraph. Like most papers it plays up the most sensational part of the study and makes it sound like what they are saying is "Let them eat chocolate cake and their thighs will melt away." The basic premise is let yourself eat some pleasurable foods, in reasonable amounts. It will prevent bingeing and discouragement, etc. The study does not suggest we cram ourselves full of a box of Entenmann's Devils Food Cake with Chocolate Icing every day and more is the pity This study reveals, in fact, absolutely nothing new. But the headline certainly is tantalizing and lets one dream a bit.
  • Emily3907
    Emily3907 Posts: 1,461 Member
    Let them eat cake. I know I will be. I can't live without my cake. <3
  • disasterman
    disasterman Posts: 746 Member
    I don't like cake so I'll have to find another way. Maybe just the chocolate?
  • AlisonH729
    AlisonH729 Posts: 558 Member
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  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    jnv7594 wrote: »
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    Study conducted by Bill Cosby...Himself.



    (hoping someone gets the reference)

    I get it. Chocolate cake has eggs...and milk. "Dad is great...ba dum ba dum bum bum...give us the chocolate cake." That used to be one of my favorite stand up routines, lol.

    Whew...thank God...
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    "Eating cookies or chocolate as part of breakfast that includes proteins and carbs also helps stem the craving for sweets later.

    Researchers split 193 clinically obese, non-diabetic adults into two groups who consumed either a low-carb diet that included a 300-calorie breakfast or a balanced 600-calorie breakfast that included a chocolate cake dessert."

    So it's not just eating chocolate cake for breakfast, it's adding a chocolate cake "dessert" to a "balanced" breakfast. For me, I've had sweets with breakfast and it didn't stop me from wanting sweets later. Article also talks about how eating breakfast will keep weight off and goes into "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" (what I would call) claptrap.

    "A meal in the morning provides energy for the day's tasks, aids in brain functioning and kick-starts the body's metabolism, making it crucial for weight loss and maintenance."
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    jnv7594 wrote: »
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    Study conducted by Bill Cosby...Himself.



    (hoping someone gets the reference)

    I get it. Chocolate cake has eggs...and milk. "Dad is great...ba dum ba dum bum bum...give us the chocolate cake." That used to be one of my favorite stand up routines, lol.

    Loved this routine!
  • scottacular
    scottacular Posts: 597 Member
    nikkib0103 wrote: »
    They do enjoy thrilling the ladies over at the Telegraph. Like most papers it plays up the most sensational part of the study and makes it sound like what they are saying is "Let them eat chocolate cake and their thighs will melt away." The basic premise is let yourself eat some pleasurable foods, in reasonable amounts. It will prevent bingeing and discouragement, etc. The study does not suggest we cram ourselves full of a box of Entenmann's Devils Food Cake with Chocolate Icing every day and more is the pity This study reveals, in fact, absolutely nothing new. But the headline certainly is tantalizing and lets one dream a bit.

    I believe this is basically the general French diet, eating something sweet for breakfast, a pastry of some sort.
  • FitForL1fe
    FitForL1fe Posts: 1,872 Member
    lol
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    edited May 2015
    I'm highly skeptical that the study was properly designed.

    However, I also love chocolate chip pancakes (or waffles) for breakfast with eggs and sausage or bacon. I find that particular breakfast easily holds me until dinner. So, for me it's a great dietary strategy, but I'm pretty sure this is going to be another of those YMMV tricks.
  • FitForL1fe
    FitForL1fe Posts: 1,872 Member
    TREAT YO SELF
  • mwyvr
    mwyvr Posts: 1,883 Member
    Need2Exerc1se wrote: »
    It wasn't about eating things you enjoy. I remember reading about this study when it first came out. It's about eating sweets in the morning causing less craving for sweets throughout the day.

    A more meaningful study would have been to include a third group - one that got a balanced, low carb, 600 calorie breakfast - and see how they faired. A higher protein and fat breakfast should leave a longer lasting feeling of satiation and that, not consuming large amounts of refined carbs/sweets, should tame cravings later in the day.

    Certainly does for me.



  • fr3smyl
    fr3smyl Posts: 1,418 Member
    Okay. I tried the chocolate for breakfast this morning. It didn't really work for me. My appetite for sweets want curbed. In fact I blew my entire days worth of calories before 10am.

    I am now in the process of working out more throughout the day so that I can eat dinner, and maybe a snack.

    I guess it might have helped if read the whole article instead of stopping at the chocolate for breakfast can help you lose weight bit. ;)
  • sscott79
    sscott79 Posts: 13 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    Study conducted by Bill Cosby...Himself.



    (hoping someone gets the reference)

    I got it! Lol.
  • spoonyspork
    spoonyspork Posts: 238 Member
    edited May 2015
    <--- in! (though my sweet in the morning is coffee which I've started adding honey to. OMG where have you been all my life, coffee with honey? My day ends with cake if it's in the house though!)

    *edit* LOL at the study: "they both ate the same number of calories" followed by "the cravings caused the other group to cheat" ... so then they were NOT eating the same number of calories. Derp. XD
  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    OBVIOUSLY!!! :+1:

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  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    The cake in the picture looked yummy.

    I'm totally team moderation, but breakfast and I? We're not friends. I'm an 18:6 IF'er who doesn't eat until noon. The stuff about hormones and breakfast that were stated in the article were all a YMMV thing. Eating breakfast--cake or no cake, just sets me up to want food all day. Delaying breakfast? My appetite hormones are in check.

    Sort of a tangent from where this thread has gone, but it did bring up the breakfast/hunger hormone issue.
  • FitForL1fe
    FitForL1fe Posts: 1,872 Member
    Lasmartchika wrote: »
    OBVIOUSLY!!! :+1:

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  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    My perception is that I don't do well with sweeter breakfasts and most easily moderate sweet consumption when I have them at night (immediately after dinner), but I do enjoy the occasional pancakes, eggs, and bacon weekend breakfast. Rarely have it because of the calorie bomb (usually would eat in lieu of lunch as well as for breakfast), but perhaps this is an excuse to experiment with it on the the holiday weekend!
  • aloranger7708
    aloranger7708 Posts: 422 Member
    I've done this before, but not with chocolate cake :p I had a few cookies with my morning coffee (fitting into my daily calories, obviously) and felt like my cravings lessened especially at night.
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