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Breakfast yes or no?
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Don't know how this fits, but I was never a morning person until my mid-30s, and for some reason now I really am -- I love getting up by 5 am and always wake up before my alarm. I switched from someone who had never liked breakfast (since I stopped eating it as a teenager) to someone who always eats breakfast around the same time I began transitioning into a morning person.
No correlation with my weight. I've been overweight twice in my life, once in my late 20s/early 30s (when I did not eat breakfast) and regained (and subsequently lost again) when I was around 40 (and ate breakfast).0 -
Did humans always have instant access to food at all times? No. We use to have to hunt when we were hungry. The body needs times without food to go into a process called autophagy. Extending your fasting period without food will only lengthen the time you're in autophagy and help your body. Not eating breakfast is fine if you are not hungry.
Skipping breakfast to avoid the calories... That's fine too. If you don't have the time or patience, don't eat.
That's not to say we should never eat. I just don't want people to feel breakfast is some sort of biological necessity.
Great nutrition means good health, but sometimes your body needs that break. And if you arent into breakfast, that is ok!0 -
I never used to eat breakfast ,but I started daily walks and think it is better if I eat at least 300 calories or so before I leave.0
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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
Huhh?0 -
I had heard of a study saying that being a morning person or a night owl was linked to genetics. I was wonder if that applied to an appetite for breakfast as well. This is what I found after a brief google search.
"What determines our desire to wake with the sun or, conversely, burn the midnight oil, is influenced by the same system that regulates the cycling of many bodily functions. Our internal biological clock resides in the brain and regulates the timing of functions such as appetite, hormone release, and metabolism. Of all the cycles controlled by the circadian system, perhaps the most obvious is the sleep-wake cycle—when we go to sleep and when we wake up."
http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/science/variations/individual-variation-genetics
I'm not a morning person and I also do not care for breakfast. Is that correlation true for other folks?
That is how my wife is.. and I am the opposite. She can't eat for several hours after she wakes up and I can eat immediately.0 -
Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day! I wake up roaringly hungry and the appetite decreases as the day rolls on.0
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If I'm going to the gym in the AM, I'll eat breakfast. Since I work on my feet all day and don't get a break until 2pm or so, I try to get 200 cals in first thing, but sometimes I'm just not hungry. Until I recently got my new job, I was a breakfast-free person.
I studied nutrition in university so for me to adopt a screw-"the-most-important-meal-a-day" philosophy was a really big thing... but I can tell you, it helps for weight loss. I'm currently helping a friend lose weight and with her 800-900 calorie meals, it's the easiest way for her to cut calories and only have 2 meals a day. And really, you get used to it.
As a side, I have to say that this thread has re-instilled some faith in the intelligence of humanity. It's nice to see the uneducated posts being questioned for their lack of reasoning and science. I also appreciate that the people that have their personal opinions are addressing them as such. The most important thing about any lifestyle adaptation is to choose things that work for you.0 -
As stated, I'm totally a breakfast eater. However, after eat over goal (and maintenence) yesterday, I wasn't hungry like normal in the morning today. So, I had a cup of coffee and some mini snickers in the morning, ate lunch like normal, and here I am, not dead, at almost dinner time. Perhaps more importantly, though, i also didn't get hangry. It could easily be a weight loss strategy since I'm way lower on calories than normal by this time of the day because I didn't eat breakfast.
I'm normally very hungry in the morning, though, so not a thing I'd choose everyday, but it makes sense and my metabolism definitely didn't stop
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snickerscharlie wrote: »
I love breakfast because bacon.
Psssttt..I have a secret.
Bacon..it's not just for breakfast anymore0 -
Ever since I was little, I remember hating food first thing in the morning and I forced it down due to family pressure based on old wives tales. Then as an adult I felt I should have breakfast, due to the then pervading research on how not eating breakfast was correlated with obesity. Eventually I started doing what felt right to me personally, and that is to start eating when I feel my body wants it's first food, and that's normally not before 11am. My other half needs food within half an hour of getting up. I can't face food when I've just woken up. We also have quite different circadian rhythms. I'm a night owl, he falls asleep by 9:30pm.
What I did notice when I had early breakfast though is that I wanted to eat again very soon after, whereas when I wait until I'm truly hungry I remain hunger free for much longer. I have always wondered I that's just a personal experience or if there is something in that...0 -
it really depends on how I'm feeling on the day- sometimes I'm just not that hungry in the morning
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Breakfast is my favorite meal. I don't care what others do or think. However the research shows that people who eat breakfast are more successful at maintaining a weight loss.0
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DancingDarl 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.0 -
Breakfast enthusiast here. Because:
- early riser
- Two decades of diabetic training
- Breakfast foods
- Pancakes0 -
I don't "eat" breakfast, but I have lots of cups of tea with Almond milk for only 85 calories which fills me up. I don't see the point of eating if you're not hungry or don't feel like eating. I would much rather save my calories for Dinner and dessert. If I do eat breakfast it unleashes the hunger monster and I get more hungry than usual.0
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Eat most of ur calories in the morning then taper off0
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Doesn't matter one way or the other. During the week because of time I usually have a glass of soy milk in the morning, and a mid morning snack of a piece of fruit and a handful of nuts or some cheese. That holds me nicely until lunch. On the weekend I may do the same, or have some steel cut oatmeal or eggs and bacon with my soy milk. Doesn't seem to affect cravings at all in my case. I have by the way lost 60+ pounds, so I think I'm doing something right.0
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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
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