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Breakfast, mix and match any of: Pork (Bacon, ham, sausage) Eggs (fried, poached, scrambled) Cottage cheese or full-fat, unflavored Greek yogurt, like Cabot

by douche 10y ago

Breakfast, mix and match any of: Pork (Bacon, ham, sausage) Eggs (fried, poached, scrambled) Cottage cheese or full-fat, unflavored Greek yogurt, like Cabot Greek olives, a tomato, pickles maybe That'll keep you going all day, without getting hungry. Long ago, I used to eat two honking great bowls of cereal for breakfast, and be murderously hangry by 9 AM.

CalRobert 10y ago
It works for you, but it all depends. That would have me passing out all morning. When I couldn't sleep in college I would stay up until 6:00 AM just to eat the big breakfast and finally go to sleep). My breakfast: * 2 cups of coffee * Nothing. And people will judge you for not eating breakfast with alarming harshness. It works for me though. I also have a diet that consists of large (some would say enormous) amounts of vegetables and not a whole lot else, unless I'm splurging. This happened after several years of fighting with my weight and discovering that by eating low calorie-density foods I could lose weight and not feel hungry all the time. It is astonishing how portions in the US (and where I live now, Ireland) are not just too big, but perhaps 5 times as big as they probably ought to be. I order a stew and it can easily feed three people.
onion2k 10y ago
That works well for you, and that's awesome, but I don't think there's much evidence that there's one breakfast that works for everyone. People are different - notably in the make up of their gut microbiome, which has a big impact on what you can digest well. In your case it appears you can't digest cereals well, or you don't absorb processed sugar as well as other people, so breakfast cereals are a poor choice. That doesn't mean someone else wouldn't do well eating them. Food and the way we digest it is a hugely complex subject.
- eru 10y ago
  As a counterexample to the grandfather comment, I do well without breakfast, and only get hungry at lunchtime. Probably because that's what I'm used to. I eat a big lunch, because food at Google is good, but I can't be bothered to get up in time for their breakfast.

by douche 10y ago

CalRobert 10y ago

It works for you, but it all depends. That would have me passing out all morning. When I couldn't sleep in college I would stay up until 6:00 AM just to eat the big breakfast and finally go to sleep). My breakfast: * 2 cups of coffee * Nothing. And people will judge you for not eating breakfast with alarming harshness. It works for me though. I also have a diet that consists of large (some would say enormous) amounts of vegetables and not a whole lot else, unless I'm splurging. This happened after several years of fighting with my weight and discovering that by eating low calorie-density foods I could lose weight and not feel hungry all the time. It is astonishing how portions in the US (and where I live now, Ireland) are not just too big, but perhaps 5 times as big as they probably ought to be. I order a stew and it can easily feed three people.

onion2k 10y ago

That works well for you, and that's awesome, but I don't think there's much evidence that there's one breakfast that works for everyone. People are different - notably in the make up of their gut microbiome, which has a big impact on what you can digest well. In your case it appears you can't digest cereals well, or you don't absorb processed sugar as well as other people, so breakfast cereals are a poor choice. That doesn't mean someone else wouldn't do well eating them. Food and the way we digest it is a hugely complex subject.

eru 10y ago
As a counterexample to the grandfather comment, I do well without breakfast, and only get hungry at lunchtime. Probably because that's what I'm used to. I eat a big lunch, because food at Google is good, but I can't be bothered to get up in time for their breakfast.