Eating vs. Skipping Breakfast

Crafting Mom wrote:

NeoSmokey wrote:
According to my dietician, and verified by my own experience,
breakfast is
vital simply because after fasting all night, you need that bit of
fuel to restart your metabolism.

True. However, WHEN that fast is best broken varies from person to
person. Some people can stomach the idea of food first thing in the
morning, others cannot.

I have a feeling that a lot of these non-breakfast eaters are also eating
late-night snacks.

Phil M.

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Crossing the river of the world,
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No one will seek to harm you. -Chuang Tzu

Phil M. wrote:
I have a feeling that a lot of these non-breakfast eaters are also eating
late-night snacks.

Some might. I know of some people who purposely skip breakfast, in
spite of being hungry, thinking it will make them "eat less", but they
binge later on.

For me, eating when I am hungry, and not eating when not hungry, even if
it means I don't eat AT breakfast "time", doesn't result in late night
eating.

YMMV

In article , jayjay
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:13:15 GMT, "Phil M." wrote:

Crafting Mom wrote:

NeoSmokey wrote:
According to my dietician, and verified by my own experience,
breakfast is
vital simply because after fasting all night, you need that bit of
fuel to restart your metabolism.

True. However, WHEN that fast is best broken varies from person to
person. Some people can stomach the idea of food first thing in the
morning, others cannot.

I have a feeling that a lot of these non-breakfast eaters are also eating
late-night snacks.

Phil M.

Not necessarily true.

I never eat past 10pm, never wake at night for a midnight snake.

Munching on Cobra and Anaconda again Jay Jay? :-)

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On 7/27/2004 1:32 PM, jayjay wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:53:31 GMT, Crafting Mom
wrote:


NeoSmokey wrote:

According to my dietician, and verified by my own experience, breakfast is
vital simply because after fasting all night, you need that bit of fuel to
restart your metabolism.

True. However, WHEN that fast is best broken varies from person to
person. Some people can stomach the idea of food first thing in the
morning, others cannot. I've never believed there is anything
particularly magical about the traditional breakfast *hours*.
Technically, everyone eats "breakfast", because they are breaking the
fast. The metabolism can still get kick started whether the switch gets
turned on at 7 am or at 11 am.



Very good point. You can't say a particular time is breakfast. If
you did, you'd pick an arbitary time like 8am, and for someone like
me, I've been up for 2 hrs, and am already at work. For others they
aren't even out of bed yet. And for others who work night hours, 8am
may be bed time....

Good points. I usually eat before I go to the gym and have a small
snack after I get to work. I'm just opposed to the idea of eating two
meals a day at work. I'll have to get over it some day. Oh Friday's
though, I have spin class in the morning and I don't want to have
breakfast before spin so I have breakfast at work after spin. I break
may fast all over the place, time wise.


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jmk in NC

"Carol Frilegh" wrote in message
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In article , jayjay
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:13:15 GMT, "Phil M." wrote:

Crafting Mom wrote:

NeoSmokey wrote:
According to my dietician, and verified by my own experience,
breakfast is
vital simply because after fasting all night, you need that bit of
fuel to restart your metabolism.

True. However, WHEN that fast is best broken varies from person to
person. Some people can stomach the idea of food first thing in the
morning, others cannot.

I have a feeling that a lot of these non-breakfast eaters are also
eating
late-night snacks.

Phil M.

Not necessarily true.

I never eat past 10pm, never wake at night for a midnight snake.

Munching on Cobra and Anaconda again Jay Jay? :-)

--
Diva
*****
The Best Man For The Job Is A Woman

I was going to tell her that *no way* would I wake up for that type of
snack.

"Carol Frilegh" wrote in message
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In article , jayjay
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:13:15 GMT, "Phil M." wrote:

Crafting Mom wrote:

NeoSmokey wrote:
According to my dietician, and verified by my own experience,
breakfast is
vital simply because after fasting all night, you need that bit of
fuel to restart your metabolism.

True. However, WHEN that fast is best broken varies from person to
person. Some people can stomach the idea of food first thing in the
morning, others cannot.

I have a feeling that a lot of these non-breakfast eaters are also
eating
late-night snacks.

Phil M.

Not necessarily true.

I never eat past 10pm, never wake at night for a midnight snake.

Munching on Cobra and Anaconda again Jay Jay? :-)

--
Diva
*****
The Best Man For The Job Is A Woman

I was going to tell her that *no way* would I wake up for that type of
snack.

(jayjay) wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:13:15 GMT, "Phil M." wrote:

Crafting Mom wrote:

NeoSmokey wrote:
According to my dietician, and verified by my own experience,
breakfast is
vital simply because after fasting all night, you need that bit of
fuel to restart your metabolism.

True. However, WHEN that fast is best broken varies from person to
person. Some people can stomach the idea of food first thing in the
morning, others cannot.

I have a feeling that a lot of these non-breakfast eaters are also
eating late-night snacks.

Phil M.

Not necessarily true.

I did not say all.

Phil M.

Tulip Tracy wrote:
Kelly,

I used to try to skip breakfasts in the morning thinking that one less
meal meant that many less calories.

Well. What I found happened was that by lunchtime, I was starving. And
when you get that hungry, only a really calorie laden meal will do. So
I'd end up really loading up on fat and calories during lunchtime and
throw my whole metabolism off track.

I used to do the same thing. Definite good way to fool yourself. There
is a vast difference between purposely skipping a meal *even though one
is hungry*, and not eating - yet - simply because you don't happen to be
hungry yet.

When I forced myself to "fast" for longer, I wound up bingeing bigtime.

Carol Frilegh wrote:

Munching on Cobra and Anaconda again Jay Jay? :-)

or the vegetarian choice - fresh garden snake ;-)

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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:14:54 -0400, jmk wrote:

I'm just opposed to the idea of eating two
meals a day at work. I'll have to get over it some day.

I sort of try to get away from the concept of meals altogether and
just bring an insulated bag of various foods to work with me. Then I
eat something whenever I feel hungry. Sometimes this is just at
lunchtime, but other times it might be 3-4 mini-meals during the day.
Like today -- since I had to leave early and go downtown -- I had just
a protein shake in the car for my first meal. So I ate some
hard-boiled eggs a few hours later, then half a wrap sandwich when
lunch was served, then an apple an hour or so later, then another half
sandwich before I left to go the gym.

Chris
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