I don't eat breakfast since a long time. I wake up at 11am-12pm and sleep at 3-4am. I just sleep through it. Does that mean that my lunch counts as a breakfast?
There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
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Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
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Carbs aren't bad, they're just calorie-rich, hard on the pancreas and less satisfying than not-carbs, so you eat more of them.
They are as calorie rich as protein gram for gram, and less than half of fat. Have you any evidence for the other two claims?
Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
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Iced coffee = 110 (with 2%, not whole milk or cream) http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/brewed-coffee/iced-coff... Notwithstanding the fact most people do not use half-milk, I think you can look at the fact the starbucks drinks are >200 calories at a rate of 5:1 as indicative of the market demands. Just look at their list of best beverages[1]: 1. 540 cal/16oz 2. 470 cal/16oz 3. 250 cal/16oz 4. 360 cal/16oz 5. 190 c…
> Iced coffee = 110 (with 2%, not whole milk or cream) > http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/brewed-coffee/iced-coff... That drink is not just milk and coffee. It contains a flavored simple syrup and falls squarely in the realm of "coffee-flavored beverages". > Notwithstanding the fact most people do not use half-milk, I think you can look at the fact the starbucks drinks are >200 calories at a rate of 5:1 as indica…
>Conflating that shit with actual coffee, black or doctored, is ridiculous.
Entirely my point...coffee can mean anything from zero calories black coffee to a 600+ calorie sugary sludge. Moreover, just because people claim they skip breakfast and only have coffee (such as the author), that does not mean they are consuming zero calorie black coffee.
It shouldn't be controversial my asking if it is really skipping a breakfast if they are consuming a beverage that exceeds the calories found in a nutritious breakfast. I'm surprised my observation has resulted in down votes, then again I assume my comments about people - as you eloquently state - conflating that shit with actual coffee, probably hits very close to home for a lot of people, and no one likes hearing their habits are unhealthy.
Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, I used starbucks website to get my numbers, so maybe they are grossly inflating those numbers. >Even a peppermint mocha with whipped cream - pretty much one of the sweetest drinks you'll find at Starbucks - only has 440 calories, so you'd need to really add a lot of syrups to get to >600. Example: Iced White Chocolate Mocha = 640 calories >A grande Starbucks cappuccino is 120 calories. I would say the 120 i…
> I would still say that is a substantial amount of empty calories. Its really no different than having a 12 oz coke every morning from an empty calorie point of view. So, in your opinion a glass of milk is empty calories, no different from a Coke?
Unlike sugary starbucks drinks, I never said milk was no different than coke.
Its not opinion, but by definition milk is not empty calories like sugary coffees and coke, because it contains nutritional value above food energy. But my opinion would be to avoid milk. Here is my quick analysis:
16 oz of milk is ~250 cal and ~25g of sugar, that is a lot of calories and sugar for the comparative nutritional value (minimal protein and vitamins). To put it in perspective that is 100% of the daily sugar intake suggested by the AHA yet only 1/3 the daily protein intake (for women).
Again one would be much better off replacing that 250 calories in a glass of milk for a breakfast of say 3 egg omelette with spinach (~250) on a daily basis because they would get much better nutritional value and avoid an inevitable sugar surplus. Really this circles around to my original point, if people are consuming even 100 calories from coffee in the morning, they are not really skipping a meal, because a healthy breakfast could come in 100 calories...that is an egg and slice of bacon or one egg omelette with a green vegetable.
So let me ask you if someone has a 120 calorie sugary coffee or 250 calorie glass of milk (100% daily sugar, 1/3 daily protein) in the morning, is that really the same as skipping a meal?
Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
>people adding muscle mass. There is a very large following of Intermittent Fasting in the bodybuilding community. Tens/hundreds of thousands of consistent weightlifters who do not eat breakfast or lunch and put on impressive mass. Your body doesn't care about daily fluctuations, calories in/calories out, count your macros. Fin. So I disagree with your casual conclusion.
IF is great for reducing body fat percentage while increasing muscle mass, but someone starting the day with protein will increase muscle at a faster rate.
Of course you will be providing a source to this claim, right? right...? oh.
Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
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Except for people who eat Soylent, they're so far alive and healthy.
I've never been so sad as when I read the New Yorker profile[1] of the creator of Soylent. Most people understand that food can be extremely healthful, and is a crucial part of culture and social bonding. [1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/12/the-end-of-food
He still goes out to restaurants with people as a social activity. But that's only what, 10% of what he eats at most?
Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
If anybody is telling you to eat when you are not hungry, check to see if they are selling something.
This is the kind of thing that sounds right but makes absolutely no sense at all Exactly because the sense of hunger is not correlated with the exact need to eat is that we have obesity. Eating only when hungry sounds like a good idea but then you get (usually fat) people complaining they are hungry all the time. An average adult will spend around 12h (and probably more) physiologically fine without food, until its g…
>Eating only when hungry sounds like a good idea but then you get (usually fat) people complaining they are hungry all the time.
Those people have no idea what is like to be actually hungry -- in the literal, haven't eater for 2 days sense.
They just have cravings.
Re: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everyone healthy is sightly insulin resistant in the morning. Cereal is not a good idea then. Actually, it's never a good idea.
Do you have any citations on morning insulin resistance? Even a starting point would be appreciated. If not, I can search myself. I'm curious, as I just recently switched from a cereal-heavy w/ coffee breakfast to a strictly-smoothie w/o coffee breakfast (likely high in simple sugars, but I try to blend in at least something dark green). Initial results seem positive.
I have T1D and have firsthand knowledge of this. It's called the dawn phenomenon: certain hormones make the liver release glucose back into the bloodstream. I take extra insulin just to stay level. Now, while in a healthy person it's all taken care of automatically, I would still recommend not to compound things and give your pancreas a break.