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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.

Thanks for the link. I needed something to help others understand in laymen terms the process of autophagy and fat burning.

Three hots and a cot never had any basis in scientific RCTs, however the advice was a great business model marketed I believe originally by Kelloggs. Their claims of health benefits even went as far as to say Kelloggs Corn Flakes prevent boys from masturbating. Maybe they were the original nanny feminists?

Three hots and a cot is a prescription for prison and nursing homes, not for healthy living and a productive long life.