I do OMAD. One Meal A Day. I eat when I get home from work.
But since I’m only eating one meal, I have to be careful that I get all the nutrition I need in that one meal, which is why I go through a lot of bacon. :)
Most of us would be healthier skipping a few meals. Our bodies are built for feast and famine, not just feast three times a day.
You can if they are in prison...
Better to snack eat all day rather than dumping a whole load of food in you stomach at one time - well except for T-Day when you just go all out.
“Eat your breakfast” has been used to justify all manner of school meal programs.
Personally, I find that if I skip breakfast, I don’t get hungry during the day, but if I eat something, my appetite is stimulated and I’m looking to refill the empty feeling in my stomach all day.
I recommend to everyone that they do a search on “long term fasting”. It is eye opening.
and “long term” can mean everything from a few days to a year (or more). Naturally, for the latter you have to start out pretty darned fat - and be supervised by a doctor.
My morning breakfast...
Oatmeal sprinkled w/cut-up strawberries
Banana chaser on the side
Skim milk
...and coffee (1 cup before and 1 cup after)
:: there’s no proof that skipping breakfast causes heart attacks or any other problem ::
STILL waiting for that death certificate that has “skipping breakfast” as a cause.
I pay little attention to those “studies.” Common sense should prevail. It makes sense to eat breakfast before going out to work, or to school.
Also, if you haven’t eaten since supper the previous day, you’re hungry.
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).
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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.
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.
My breakfast usually consists of coffee.
Then, soon after, coffee.
Not if you're diabetic. Then it's just a swan dive into the cesspool of sugar spikes and a day of testing and balancing.
I never eat breakfast except for the occasional 6 oz. glass of V8.
Welp, that’s it, I’m going to IHOP ... or maybe Cracker Barrel. Or did I miss the point somehow?
Or maybe breakfast IS important.