Somewhere down the line you may have heard that the key to weight loss is to; "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper".
But, if you do eat like a king for breakfast, you may be royally ticked at your lack of progress, according to a study in the Nutrition Journal.
Volker Schusdziarra, MD, of the Else-Kröner-Fresenius Center of Nutritional Medicine in Munich, conducted a study on 380 normal weight and obese people who were asked to log what they ate.
Within the group, sometimes people ate a big breakfast, sometimes small, and sometimes skipped it altogether. Says Schusdziarra,
"People ate the same at lunch and dinner, regardless of what they had for breakfast."
Researches did note that for those who ate a really big breakfast, they often skipped a mid-morning snack, but this did not offset the surplus they had already eaten by days end.
This study further underscores the fact that your body is smarter than you are. Breakfast is highly individual. Not only is it ill-advised to scarf down a huge breakfast if your goal is fat loss, but you shouldn't eat breakfast at all if you're not hungry. It would be interesting to see the contents/caloric breakdown of the breakfasts as this could have implications as to total caloric intake. Eating higher protein breakfasts for example can keep you fuller for longer, which can contribute to an overall caloric deficit.Conclusion: Eat like a sensible king - most of the time.
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