Research suggests our internal clock and circadian rhythms have something to do with it. Indeed, the benefits to only eating in the morning is that periods of food intake and fasting coincide with our biological clock.
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That makes sense to me.
If you skip breakfast, but have lunch or even a late meal, you started out with your metabolism expecting an external metabolic boost (consumed calories) but hasn’t panicked yet and started glycogen metabolism yet. If you skipped breakfast and lunch, the circadian rhythms are telling the body “hay, don’t you think we should have ate by now?”, and by the time evening rolls around, it’s time to switch over.
Likewise, if you have breakfast, you’ve reset the energy clock to zero, so to speak, so it would take all day and even that night to try to trip the switch.
Beth Dutton intermittent diet:
Nothing but coffee and cigarettes until noon.
Then eat whatever you want until you start drinking at six.
I've been following the IF schedule in his book for a couple of years and it works. A1C down from 8 to 6.1...still shooting for lower.
There article has some nice charts but there’s no mention of the fasting mimicking diet.
You have almost 12 hours after supper before you have breakfast, so I’m not sure if that is the best time to skip a meal.
I think a good breakfast, medium lunch and a small supper is best if you’re trying to lose weight.
I fast overnight and between meals.
CM Thanks! I have been skipping breakfast and having lunch and dinner. Better schedule since my daughter works and eats dinner at home. Perhaps I need to stay up late and sleep until 9:00 so I can have a 10:00 breakfast and 5:30 dinner. :) !
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Thanks.
BKMK