New study: Skipping breakfast does not lead to eating more
This breakfast-eating advice has only been based on the flimsiest of statistical data. To my knowledge no study has ever shown that people will eat more if they skip a meal, and logic certainly points in the opposite direction.
Now a new study shows that people who are instructed to skip breakfast end up eating about the same amount of food for lunch anyway. This means that the total food intake during the day end up being way smaller.
Eat breakfast if you like, but don’t expect to lose any weight from doing it. If you want to lose weight then no breakfast may be the best – and fastest – start of the day.
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I've watched people, including myself, make really irrational decisions because of low blood sugar. And it's just not worth it.
Finding out what works best for each individual person seems worthwhile. Some people can skip breakfast, kudos to them. I can't. I've tested this extensively over the last 20 years. And not only that but I do better with animal protein, fat and little to no carbs in the morning.
I find the 11A.M. to 7 P.M. routine to be sustainable.
I think I do better with Low Carb, however. I sleep better at night and my skin is better. I have a better chance of losing weight. After reading the list of what to do under weight loss section, I might stick to the 11-7 routine for a while.
In fact, here are the tweeks I am planning:
1. 11-7 routine instead of 2-7 routine.
2. Low carb -comfortable fat instead of LCHF. The list says to eat
fat to satisfy. I like this better than other websites I have read that had calculators that said I should be eating 80-100 grams of fat per day. I tried this and I felt so heavy and uncomfortable.
Thank goodness I found this website with some medical doctors! Maybe those truly high fat diets are great for male body builders in their twenties, but I am liking the intuitive approach better than the goal oriented (ie aim for 90 grams of fat per day).
All in all, I think my body is very comfortable low carb and mini fasts, but I can totally understand if some bodies don't fast well, because I know people who eat more carbs than I do and seem to do ok, but my body does not like it.
Adding more protein may help, as this can support blood sugar maintenance.
I have the same problem although it's much less severe when I'm low carbing--I never really "wake up" in the morning until I eat something.
The natural progression was then to stretch it out to dinner 1 day. Then I did it again and again. Maybe 4 in a row now - 1 meal a day. And I really can't eat that much at dinner because I am used to eating less, I just can't eat that much any more.
I am considering a 5 or 7 day fast now, but will wait and see next week. I have no doubt I will get to my goal without fasting. But fasting is super charging my progress, and that in turn means I get there faster and it keeps me super focused and motivated to stick with it. 19kg down, 11 to go
Personally, I feel better not eating breakfast, and that includes on the days I workout.
Do NOT try this at home, well not without a mass of glucose within easy reach, but a Type 1 friend's breakfast is a couple of units of fast-acting insulin to stop the glucagon. He often doesn't actually eat until evening.
http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/test-test-test.html
Knocking down these postprandial spikes will also significantly reduce your insulin spikes, which in my case (and not a few others) was leading to significant BG drops at 3 - 4 hours.
You may be able to get away with the rice OR the chickpeas OR the apple but not all of them.