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After 30, one should seriously evaluate breakfast. Three meals per day becomes just too many calories to burn. Two meals for an adult is plenty. Coffee in the m
by papito 7y ago
After 30, one should seriously evaluate breakfast. Three meals per day becomes just too many calories to burn. Two meals for an adult is plenty. Coffee in the morning suppresses hunger, so one can go until 12-12:30 before getting woozy.
At some point I noticed that I was force-feeding myself lunch if I ate breakfast. Hunger is a normal feeling - embrace it.
- scarface74 7y agoI’m really trying to get out of the breakfast habit. If I cut out breakfast just on the 4 days a week I don’t work out (as opposed to the three days that I workout around 2.5 hours a day) I could easily lose over a pound a month and get past my “I think I look decent in a short sleeve shirt” plateau to, a toned very low body fat weight.
- Forge36 7y agoI've done this for years. Still fat. I'm not skipping dinner, and I'm dropping pounds really quickly
- Touche 7y agoChange what you eat, not how often you eat. A yogurt and some fruit is fine for breakfast.
- bluthru 7y agoNot if you want to limit your eating window, which is a great way to make your body burn its fat reserves.
- Touche 7y agoIf you have the willpower to ignore your body telling you its hungry, then yeah fasting will work for you. Most people can do this for only a little while though, and then revert to what they used to do.
- papito 7y agoDiets fail because people view them as "temporary struggles". Something to get through and then it's over. It's obvious why that doesn't work. It has to be a way of life.
- Touche 7y agoAll I'm saying is fasting doesn't work if you make up the calories during non fasting hours.
- bluthru 7y agoIf you control for calories, when you eat does actually have an impact: https://www.uab.edu/shp/nutrition/news/168-time-restricted-eating-can-help https://www.uab.edu/shp/nutrition/news/168-time-restricted-e...
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoIf you skip breakfast 16-8 is easy to achieve. Lunch at noon, and dinner anytime before 8pm.
- driverdan 7y agoYogurt and fruit are full of sugar and aren't very healthy.
- Touche 7y agoNot all sugar is the same. Fruits are extremely healthy for you.
- dragonwriter 7y agoFruits are healthy, to the extent they are, because of the nonsugar components.
- Touche 7y agoRight, and it's almost impossible to eat so much fruit that the fructose causes harm.
- eof 7y agoI agree about the hunger part. There seems to be this idea imparted by parents into children that hunger is “bad” and should be avoided. Of course we evolved with hunger being a regular part of our experience and only in modern times can the gnawing feeling of hunger be avoided almost entirely by many people, or addressed immediately with a convenient food. I am no biologist but my own experience and some reasonable assumptions would point to the idea that there are biological processes taking place during hunger pangs which are part of our overall energy systems.
- stronglikedan 7y agoAnecdotal, but I'm well past 30, and I notice a marked improvement in cognition when I have a small, high-protein breakfast. Granted, I'm on a portion-control, no-processed-food diet the rest of the day too, so I'm rarely ever consuming more than I need.
- papito 7y agoRight, portion control requires a lot of discipline. I choose to have fewer meals instead :) It's easy to overeat even with just two meals per day. As for better cognitive facilities - I feel like a lot of that also can be achieved with being disciplined about sleep and getting enough of it. Nothing can really replace it.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoOther adults might experience this, but I naturally fell into a 2-meal a day routine. It's what my body seems to prefer, and it seems sensible enough to me. I occasionally do 1 meal a day, but those seem kind of randomly dispersed: 1 or 2 of those days per week, rarely back-to-back, but sometimes that happens.
- kelnos 7y agoUnless you're doing intermittent fasting, there's no reason for this. Eat smaller portions and/or lower-calorie food for each meal and you'll be fine. I rarely eat breakfast, but not for metabolic reasons; I tend to sleep in and don't feel hungry until lunch time. Really, though, do what works for you. But giving blanket advice like this isn't so great.
- papito 7y agoWell, that's why I said "evaluate" :) Or I guess "re-evaluate" is more precise.