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There are two aspects to this. First, I am with you that starting to eat starts the hunger. If I skip breakfast I have no problems until noon. There are no energy shortages – my gym work outs are in the morning and I have no problems. If I eat breakfast it does start the food need and I’ll be looking for an early lunch.
Second, if you research your gut biome you will find that reducing the time window in which you ingest food to about eight hours, for me that means lunch and an early evening meal, means that some of the really beneficial gut bugs will prosper.
I find that if I skip breakfast I feel okay, especially if I’m busy. If I have breakfast I am ravenous for the whole day and just can’t stop nibbling on anything I can find.
I would like to know the evidence behind the saying that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I just don’t believe it as I’m sure that it is just a saying to justify those who cannot do without it.
If you excercise in the morning, there is proof that you burn body fat for the energy needed as opposed to burning breakfast that you have eaten first.
Good luck in your fat busting journey.
DG: The issue may be what you have been eating at your first meal, as well as when you are eating your first meal.
At your first meal of the day/ when breaking the nightly fast focus on protein, healthy fats, fibre and water over starchy carbohydrates because together these nutrients fill us up and keep blood glucose stable. Think of the traditional (primarily) savoury breakfasts in the Middle East, South Asia, the Mediterranean, Scandinavia.
For example try organic eggs or smoked fish with a pile of non-starchy vegetables, or try traditional soft cheeses, air-dried ham or Greek yogurt with mixed seeds and low sugar berries.
Modern UK/ US breakfast items such as breads, other baked goods and boxed cereals are surprisingly processed (even when marketed as ‘whole’ and ‘natural’), so can be quick to digest and cause a spike and dip in blood glucose levels.
Starchy or sugary breakfasts also load the muscles and liver with the fuel glycogen. Since glycogen is stored alongside quite a bit of water, weight gain may be noticed but this is unlikely to be measurable fat gain in just a few days.
HTH!
Hotel breakfasts are dangerous for two reasons. In my past life I travelled a lot, living in hotels. Even in good hotels breakfast is usually the worst meal. In the days when I ate breakfast I would usually skip the hotel offer and pick up some street food, which would be fresher. Now that I rarely eat any breakfast, when I do it wrecks my day. I was travelling last week and the hotel had a “meal deal” – evening meal and breakfast for a silly low price that made the evening meal cheap. Having paid for it, I ate breakfast. Not a lot but I was overloaded and unhappy all morning. This surprised me – my previous experience has been that breakfast starts the hunger, so with breakfast I can’t win either way.
Yes, just two meals a day. Within few weeks if starting 5:2 my husband and I found that our appetites had reduced considerably. I could never eat a slice of cake now.
We always have a breakfast if it’s including in an hotel stay, but choose wisely and don’t eat lunch. If we’ve been in company and others want a snack, we’ve shared something.
By “wrecks my day” I mean that breakfast probably consists of the sort of thing I wouldn’t normally eat and then leaves me feeling stuffed, heavy and unfit until mid afternoon. On a no-breakfast day I will feel light on my feet and full of energy, with no hunger until mid-day. A lighter breakfast just stimulates hunger. Two hours later, ie mid-morning, I will be wanting something else.
DG, yes, we have made some crucial changes. I used to consider potatoes as my favourite vegetable – now we rarely have them. Similarly, we used to buy good bread and enjoy a sandwich – I don’t remember the last time I had a sandwich.
Using Mimi’s recipes, with all the different flavourings, made it quite easy for us. Confession, though. We went to a fabulous Indian restaurant last night. So it’s a serious FD today.
If you love bread, something I learn from Dr Xan Van whatsit is that freezing a loaf, then toasting it changes the structure of its sugars. Helps if you fancy beans or scrambled egg on toast occasionally.
We went to that fabulous Indian restaurant again on Bank Holiday Sunday. We’d booked an early meal, 6pm, so I kept busy in the garden and didn’t eat at all. Plenty to drink, though. I found that one popadum and my starter filled my. I ended up bring most of my delicious Goan curry home in a box for Monday.
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