Breakfast
They always say "breakfast is the most important meal of the day". Well why do so many people, including myself, skip it then? While talking to friends, it was noted that if you ate breakfast, it would probably help you lose weight as it wakes your body up earlier. Is that true? Would eating breakfast actually help you lose weight? I'm going to try this out and see what happens. Does eating breakfast, help you eat smaller meals throughout the day?
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Does anyone else ever notice that when you eat really late at night, you get really hungry in the morning? I know I do. And don't people say eating late at night makes you gain weight? Is that really true? All I know is that I tend to always eat late and skip breakfast. I should be GAINING weight, but instead, I'm always LOSING weight. Maybe it's just me....
re: eating late. It's been proven that doesn't make a difference to weight gain. It's total calories per day that makes the only sizable difference. Not eating breakfast however, alarms your body into starvation mode so your metabolism slows down to conserve energy and you can gain weight. That is why a lot of people eat small frequent meals, so their body never thinks it is in starvation mode. Breakfast = important.
let's take that Breakfast=important to the next step.
Doughnuts= bad breakfast, twinkies=bad breakfast, McDonalds=bad, just bad. Spam and Eggs= bad Spam. Healthy breakfast=important.
Definitely, breakfast is important. What you have during it is doubly so. The basic reasoning behind having breakfast is moderating your body's mode all the time. You want to have your body "awake" and consuming calories whenever you're awake, and that keeps the metabolism at a healthy going rate. When you starve, like Van said, your body starts to store up the energy (because it never knows when the next meal might come, so it's going into survival instincts).
When I wake up, the first thing I have is a drink of some sort (non-alcoholic, of course). THEN I go shower and wash up and all that. And when I'm at work (roughly an hour later), I eat. And then I eat every two to three hours afterwards until about 10pm. Smaller meals each time, but it just means you get to eat more food in total and not have to worry about gaining weight.
Unless you liked the result in SuperSize Me, I would generally avoid In-n-Out and McDonald's, save "special occasions".
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