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I've skipped breakfast for years and my body is not missing it. That said breakfast may be important when doing intermittent fasting for losing weight, because
by bad_user 8y ago
I've skipped breakfast for years and my body is not missing it.
That said breakfast may be important when doing intermittent fasting for losing weight, because the secret there is to not let your metabolism get used to a certain rhythm, or in other words it's best if you are little unpredictable in what meals you eat or skip — so when doing IF, in some days I eat breakfast and skip dinner.
And when eating dinner it's best if you eat light, b/c digestion during the night sleep can make you tired during the next day. My general rule is to eat about half what I ate for lunch.
- nissarup 8y agoWhy would unpredictability be good? If you eat at the same time your body starts preparing to digest the food before you eat it, making for a faster, better digestion of the food.
- jplayer01 8y agoThis is ridiculous - the point of choosing a predetermined window for feeding is so your body adapts to only expecting food within that window. Routine is incredibly important for being able to stick to something like IF. If you're fighting your body at every step by, for example, being unpredictable, you're just screwing yourself.
- iand 8y agoThis seems unlikely in evolutionary terms. It's more likely that eating times were unpredictable for most of our history and that our bodies have evolved to prepare for digestion based on external stimuli such as sight and smell of food.
- krageon 8y agoThis is completely unsubstantiated. Worse yet, the "from an evolutionary standpoint" trope is frequently (ab)used to support some kind of pseudoscientific idea/diet (Paleo springs to mind here). If you have a real, coherent argument based on verifiable truth to make that is great, but right now you're just making something up and running with it because it feels right to you. Nobody benefits in this scenario, least of all you.
- iand 8y agoPlease read my comment again and pay attention to the language I used. I'm expressing an opinion, not writing a thesis.
- jplayer01 8y agoThe difference between us back then and us now is context. We live in an age of complete overwhelming external stimulus. You see food or calorie-laden drinks everywhere you look. The point of routine, which is also an evolutionary trait, is to reduce reliance on willpower and avoid wasting energy on making decisions. These are real problems that we have right now because of our body's greedy, opportunistic behavior (which was evolutionarily advantageous when food wasn't so abundant and also had completely different forms).