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In my personal anecdotal experience, skipping breakfast and instead "fasting" from last night's dinner through to lunch has been really effective at weight cont

In my personal anecdotal experience, skipping breakfast and instead "fasting" from last night's dinner through to lunch has been really effective at weight control. You are starving by 10am for the first few days you do it, but after that you dont even notice you've skipped eating breakfast. Makes you wonder why you even had breakfast in the first place after a while. I believe that skipping breakfast has now been given a grandiose term of "intermittent fasting" or "intermittent energy restriction diet". I still call it skipping breakfast. I'll still have breakfast at the weekends as its more of a social thing then, but on the usual 9-5 rat race I just skip it and save 10-20 mins of my day usually spent getting/making + eating breakfast. I even skip before a morning workout - so far no problems after many years doing it.

sys_64738 8y ago
Consuming breakfast takes tome so I’ve skipped for awhile now. When I get hungry I usually drink a cup of tea black. I eat an early lunch around 11.30am so that does me until dinner at 6pm. I find a cycle of predictiveness allows me to keep a regular weight which trends downwards if I don’t deviate. I also avoid snack machines at work by never having loose change. I also avoid ‘free food’ unless fruit. Keep sugar to a minimum so no soda and no visits to drive through or donut shops. No soda either.
- nradov 8y ago
  "Free" snacks in the office cost us a lot.
willio58 8y ago
Skipping breakfast just means increasing the time interval between starting your fast after dinner and breaking your fast during break-fast, call it whatever you want. I find it funny how many people dislike the term intermittent fasting. To me it’s just as silly as the people who attach their whole being to a diet like those living the “Keto life”. Keto and IF are effective ways of losing weight for lots of people including me, but it all just comes down to calorie in calorie out at the end of the day.

sys_64738 8y ago

Consuming breakfast takes tome so I’ve skipped for awhile now. When I get hungry I usually drink a cup of tea black. I eat an early lunch around 11.30am so that does me until dinner at 6pm. I find a cycle of predictiveness allows me to keep a regular weight which trends downwards if I don’t deviate. I also avoid snack machines at work by never having loose change. I also avoid ‘free food’ unless fruit. Keep sugar to a minimum so no soda and no visits to drive through or donut shops. No soda either.

nradov 8y ago
"Free" snacks in the office cost us a lot.

willio58 8y ago

Skipping breakfast just means increasing the time interval between starting your fast after dinner and breaking your fast during break-fast, call it whatever you want. I find it funny how many people dislike the term intermittent fasting. To me it’s just as silly as the people who attach their whole being to a diet like those living the “Keto life”. Keto and IF are effective ways of losing weight for lots of people including me, but it all just comes down to calorie in calorie out at the end of the day.