2 Meal Solution – The IF Life
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I never really wanted to eat breakfast, but I usually did it anyways. This all changed once I decided to just eat âhow I feltâ (and enjoyed).
Iâve heard all the reasons for eating a big breakfast, Iâve done my own research, and in the end I think it is not that âimportantâ as it is made out to be. Simply putâ¦hereâs why:
Now you may be thinking: âWait a minuteâ¦when you eat breakfast you âjump startâ that metabolism!â
Well that âjump startâ is really just the increased energy it takes to digest that food (also known as the thermic effect of food..or TEF for short). So in a sense, breakfast does increase immediate energy expenditureâ¦
But hereâs where it gets fun. Assuming you eat the same amount of calories over the entire day (24 hours), the TEF overall is still the same. So even if you donât eat breakfast, you will still have that increased energy expenditure later on with meals.
Mainstream has done a good job of scaring people into eating all the time in fear of some instantaneous âstarvation modeâ and catastrophic metabolic slowdown.
Iâve done the research and looked at the studies on meal frequency, and that instant âcrashingâ metabolic slowdown has never been proven.
Skipping a meal or eating less number of them does not âcrashâ it. That also means that eating more meals (daily calorie load the same) does not âspeed upâ your metabolism either (like every fad diets tells you to do).
There is no solid evidence that six small meals a day instead of three will speed metabolism ~ New York Time Online 2010
In fact, it seems that your body is more optimally hormonally primed for fat burning in the morningâ… Read more…
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