Now it's "eat a big breakfast to lose weight"...

[Manedwolf]

Diet fad of the month. I thought this only applied to people who work hard, physically, all day... 

Study: Big, Carb-Heavy Breakfast Key to Weight Loss

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

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Eating a big breakfast, heavy in carbs, is the key to keeping slim, according to new research.

A new study found that women who eat half of their daily calories first thing in the morning lose more weight in the long term than those who start the day with a small breakfast.

And they are also less likely to pile the pounds back on.

Dr. Daniela Jakubowicz, from the Hospital de Clinicas in Caracas, Venezuela, who led the study, said: "A very low carbohydrate diet exacerbates the craving for carbohydrates and slows metabolism. After a short period of weight loss, there is a quick return to obesity."

It is thought that eating a meal packed with protein and carbohydrates helps cut cravings for sweet or starchy foods, and boosts the metabolism.

Scientists compared the "big breakfast" diet with a strict low-carb weight-loss regime.

Jakubowicz and a team at Virginia Commonwealth University studied 94 obese, inactive women and found that low-carb dieters initially lost more weight.

The strict low-carb diet caused an average weight loss of 28 pounds; the big-breakfast version cut 23 pounds.

However, after eight months, the strict dieters had regained 18 pounds. The big-breakfast eaters continued to drop weight, losing another 16.5 pounds.

Those on the big breakfast diet lost more than 21 percent of their body weight, compared with just 4.5 percent for the low-carb group.

Women who ate a big breakfast reported feeling less hungry, especially before lunch and had fewer cravings for carbs than the other women did. The big breakfast dieters ate an average of 1,240 calories per day, 610 of which were consumed at breakfast. The low-carb dieters ate just 1,085 calories per day.

The findings will be presented this week at ENDO 08, the 90th annual meeting of The Endocrine Society in San Francisco.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,368462,00.html

[MicroBalrog]

I suspect this will be widely adopted, as an excuse for fat people to munch on happily, while claiming to be on a diet, of course.

[The Annoyed Man]

I used to get DOT physicals from a certificate factory quack who touted the "Truckers' Diet,"  no caloric intake after noon, which is not too dissimilar.  Actually, it's identical if you get half your calories at breakfast and the other half at an early lunch.  Hmmmmm, prohibiting calorie intake for three fourths of the day-who'da thunk it?

[Manedwolf]

I used to get DOT physicals from a certificate factory quack who touted the "Truckers' Diet,"  no caloric intake after noon, which is not too dissimilar.  Actually, it's identical if you get half your calories at breakfast and the other half at an early lunch.  Hmmmmm, prohibiting calorie intake for three fourths of the day-who'da thunk it?

Er.

How many slender truckers do you see?

[Fly320s]

Mu unscientific studies show that if I eat more fat and carbs in the morning, I have less desire for fat and carbs throughout the day.  Makes sense to me.  It also gives my body a chance to burn that food during the day, as opposed to sleeping on it at night.

[K Frame]

Not particularly surprising.

Doctors and Scientists have for years been telling people to eat a good hearty breakfast, with each meal being smaller and lighter.

The body is most metabolically active in the early parts of the day and does a slow glide down the later it gets.

[K Frame]

"How many slender truckers do you see?"

A lot.

[Manedwolf]

As regards breakfast, it is known that eating breakfast as opposed to skipping it is better for making the metabolism go, yes.

The problem is that most people need to leave so early to commute that a "full breakfast" is absolutely out of the question to cook at home, especially with all members of the family leaving in the morning.

And it seems like less and less restaurants have breakfast, even. If they're even open. Most have focused on quick lunches and extremely large and heavy dinners.

[Mabs2]

Well I was going to go eat a pack of nabs but now I'm going to go all out.
My boss pays for breakfast and lunch, and I will attack him with these findings.
BWAHAHA

[Sergeant Bob]

I used to get DOT physicals from a certificate factory quack who touted the "Truckers' Diet,"  no caloric intake after noon, which is not too dissimilar.

"Breath on this mirror and sign here." Met a few of those in my truck driving career too.

Er.

How many slender truckers do you see?

Actually, there are a lot, as Mike said. While it is true more truckers do tend to be overweight, due to the fact the lifestyle is conducive to gaining weight. The more you work, the less exercise you get and the more often you eat.

[Brad Johnson]

Heck, I'm living proof of it.  I eat about half my daily caloric intake at breakfast.  A light lunch, maybe an afternoon snack, and that's it for the day.

75 lbs and counting.

Brad

[crt360]

The big breakfast dieters ate an average of 1,240 calories per day, 610 of which were consumed at breakfast.

610 calories?  Big breakfast, my ass.  What's that, a couple of small blueberry muffins and a glass of orange juice?

[mtnbkr]

That's not a big breakfast, but it is a significant portion of their entire intake for that day.

Chris

[Ex-MA Hole]

It's funny- I was thinking about this the other day.

When we had the time, my Wife and I would go out for breakfast on a Saturday or Sunday morning.  We'd spluge, and we would EAT.  I mean EAT.

Funny thing- we would then run around all day doing this or that.  We'd eat a light lunch, and usually little to nothing for dinner....

Interesting....

[Leatherneck]

I've always eaten a big breakfast, medium lunch if any, and very light evening meal. I weigh the same weight now I wrestled at in college almost 45 years ago. I don't like big eats in the evening because it seems to make me sleep restlessly.

TC

[Iain]

I don't like big eats in the evening because it seems to make me sleep restlessly.

TC

Eating at night is about what you eat. I eat a protein/fat meal about an hour before I go to bed.

[Balog]

Forget when they ate it, 1,240 calories a day is pretty low. The whole big breakfast helps with weight loss thing is true, but such a low caloric intake would most likely have resulted in weight loss in any case.

[Ezekiel]

Heck, I'm living proof of it.  I eat about half my daily caloric intake at breakfast.  A light lunch, maybe an afternoon snack, and that's it for the day.

75 lbs and counting.

Brad

How do you keep from being ravenous about 10 PM?

[Manedwolf]

Heck, I'm living proof of it.  I eat about half my daily caloric intake at breakfast.  A light lunch, maybe an afternoon snack, and that's it for the day.

75 lbs and counting.

Brad

How do you keep from being ravenous about 10 PM?

If you're male and have got a wife or girlfriend, you ought to have your mind on other things at around 10pm.

[mtnbkr]

Sleep? 

Got one kid and one on the way, I want sleep at 10pm most days.

Chris

[Brad Johnson]

How do you keep from being ravenous about 10 PM?

You don't.

It's not that I don't feel hungry.  I just choose not to eat.  Plenty of water and a dash of willpower.  It helps that I do my workout at that time. 

Brad

[Scout26]

To quote Opus:

"Eat Less and Exercise ?!?!?! Too radical.  I'm sticking with the Froglegs and Flatulence Diet."   

[Ezekiel]

How do you keep from being ravenous about 10 PM?

You don't.

It's not that I don't feel hungry.  I just choose not to eat.  Plenty of water and a dash of willpower.  It helps that I do my workout at that time. 

Brad

If I exercised at that hour, I'd be up until 1 AM.

Damn.

[thebaldguy]

We find that when we eat a big HEALTHY breakfast, it keeps us going the entire day.

[seeker_two]

People today eat backwards.....your biggest meal should be breakfast and your smallest should be dinner/supper.....you need the calories at the beginning of the day, not the end.....