Posted on 04/03/2019 5:55:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
https://www.dietdoctor.com/intermittent-fasting/time-restricted-eating
Fasting Myths
“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!”
We have all been told to eat breakfast. Unfortunately this is terrible advice.
When you first wake up in the morning, your insulin level is quite low and most people are just starting to enter the fasted state, 12 hours after eating the last meal of the previous day. The worst thing you could do is to eat food, spiking insulin and glucose and immediately shutting off fat-burning. A much better choice would be to push the first meal of your day out at least a few hours, during which you can fully enter the fasted state and burn stored body fat.
The VERY WORST would be to eat a high carbohydrate breakfast, spiking insulin and glucose as high as possible; in addition to shutting off fat-burning for likely 12 hours, this will drive as many calories as possible into fat stores as well as providing further reinforcement of the burning of glucose rather than fat.
Also, high spikes of insulin and glucose always lead to large drops in glucose a few hours later, which triggers HUNGER (if you want to have hypoglycemia or low blood sugar and ravenous hunger, just eat a breakfast of pure carbohydrates and then wait 2-3 hours to see how you feel). Interestingly, many properly fat-adapted people aren’t very hungry in the morning and have no problem skipping breakfast.
This is appropriate, as throughout our evolution humans have always been hunter-gatherers and rather than eating a large breakfast first thing in the morning we would hunt and gather throughout the day, having a larger meal later in the day. I highly recommend mimicking this pattern by skipping breakfast and eating most of your calories later in the day (referred to as a ‘reverse taper’ of calories, with none in the morning and most in the evening).
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Read the whole article to put the excerpt above in context. I’ve lost 50 lbs since May a year ago with LCHF aka a ketogenic diet (now recommended by my dad’s cardiologist) & intermittent fasting. No exercising to death, no calorie counting - pretty ‘easy’, actually. Lots more info at the Diet Doctor site if you want to explore more on the various topics.
But I do eat at night...maybe 9 or 10 PM...my latest is a can of tomato soup with milk and oyster crackers.
For many years, it was cereal and milk and/or graham crackers and milk.
I'm 5'4" 116 lbs, BP 110/65.
And have some real great genes. Very Fortunate.
Eat Wheat Chex every morning with 1% milk for 5 days straight & tell me how you feel afterwards. I’m at my lowest weight since 2004.
We have the same diet.
Yeah, I have a whole file folder full of those. Right next to the one that says, ‘eating bacon’.
When you do a lower carb diet, your appetite turns off when you don’t burn any calories (sit all day).
When you eat a higher carb diet, you are always hungry, even when you don’t burn calories.
Higher carb diets are much better for active people, but they are affected the same, in the end. If dieting on a high carb diet, you have perpetual hunger cravings (read up on Victoria’s Secret models and their constant unfulfilled hunger pangs).
well, if the can surreptitiously acquire cigs, drugs, files, etc....they can probably get candy bars in on the QT.
I do 3 or 5 or 6 days twice a year. Mostly to fit back into my favorite clothes.
I was a wrestler, so not eating for days doesn’t bother me.
Record was 7 days. Could have done longer but I was cool.
I rarely eat breakfast...according to ‘studies” I do it all wrong by eating one large meal in the mid afternoon and having some snacks in the evening...low cholesterol, good blood pressure for a 66 year old (averages 118/65) and I attribute it to a life of exercise...
“Missing breakfast tricks your brain into thinking you want higher-calorie foods,”
Ha! Seems to me that normal brain wants high calorie food, breakfast or not.
Here's the study.
1) 1 Wheat Chex & 1% milk followed by 1 Centrum Heart/ 1 Vision Supplement & 1 Xtreme Testrone Male Potency Tonic.
2) Lunch is Assorted Fruit Basket from Walmart & 1 Green Superfood Vitamin-kills hunger
3) Dinner -Regular white meats, vegetables, Vietnamese food & I take 1 Fiber Advance Gummie after eating .
Exercise at night & walk around in the day.
Sorry to keep responding to you but you seem to have the same eating philosophy as me. Ever do the 5:2 diet? You eat normal for 5 days a week and take two days off. Not even on a row.
I’ve been OMAD for years, too..!
So has Terry Cruise, that ex-NFL, ultra-ripped crazy actor (Idiocracy, White Chicks, Old Spice commercials).
Actually I read Terry Cruise has been OMAD for 20 years or more.
I NEVER EAT BREAKFAST.
I’m thinking of trying something like that. I tried a 30 day fast but, after five days, my wife who was out of town told me to start eating or she was coming back. She was afraid she would come home to a corpse.
Sadly, for two days I’d been in the “I’m no longer ever hungry” mode and actually lost 15 lbs. I had another 50 to go, but that is for another day. I’m considering a ten day fast. Gotta take mineral supplements, though.
But that 5:2 thing looks interesting. I’ll google it. I was thinking of trying 6:1.
Thanks. That is one I have not seen!
Lol! Funniest thing I’ve read all day.
Fondue.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.