SubscribeA Different Take on the Breakfast Debate
The following is a guest post from Cari Corbet-Owen. This post challenges the assumption that an early breakfast keeps you slim.
I'm tired of the 'breakfast buzz' - every breakfast article finds that eating first thing is essential. Fact is, much 'breakfast research' is done by groups that have a lot invested in the "Eat Breakfast like a King" theory.
So it's hardly surprising that researchers comes to the same conclusions. It's called 'research bias.' Researchers design their hypothesis and questions to inevitably prove their hypothesis true.
Let's look at each of the claims:
1. It kick-starts your metabolism
This implies our metabolism has stopped. Unless you're dead, this is untrue. Our basal metabolism keeps going 24/7. It's the energy our body consumes keeping our essential bodily functions going -breathing, digesting, excreting etc...2. You won't be able to concentrate without it
Plenty of people who don't eat until they get hungry in the mornings tell me their concentration isn't impaired at all. Water and exercise help mental agility as does oxygen. But breakfast researchers don't ask questions about water consumption or exercise. It wouldn't fit their hypothesis.3. You won't have energy
My body only wants food between 10-11am, so I only eat then. Yet, I have tons of energy having only had a large glass of lemon water and a brisk walk/jog. But let me eat a highly processed, refined and sugary breakfast cereal - and I'm lethargic and even sleepy.4. You'll have problems with your blood sugar
If you suffer with problems of blood sugar regulation -your body will let you know that. It's an amazing biological masterpiece, constantly letting you know what's going on with it. While some people may have blood sugar fluctuations if they don't eat first thing in the morning, the vast majority don't.5. You'll be starving
Notice how your eating pattern changes over the weekends or on holiday. Do you eat later than usual? Could that be because your body only gets hungry later?6. You'll struggle to maintain your weight
Well yes, if you don't honor your body and eat whenever it tells you it is hungry you will most likely have a battle with the bulge. When I ate breakfast before I was hungry I still found myself getting hungry around 10-11am. And so I'd then land up eating twice. But when I eat my first meal of the day only when I am hungry and when I then eat whenever I am hungry thereafter, I eat in a way that maintains my weight just fine.And when I do skip my hunger - and note I didn't say when I skip breakfast - THEN I land up eating uncontrollably later in the afternoon. So it doesn't surprise me that breakfast research shows that if you skip breakfast (by which they mean you don't eat at all any time in the morning) you gain weight.
The Last Word
I'm not disputing whether to 'break-the-fast' ... all I'm disputing isa) Our unquestioning belief in breakfast research.
b) When we eat breakfast.
I don't believe in eating when I'm not hungry, nor does it fit my body clock (see more about this). But when I eat according to my body's needs I have plenty of energy and concentration, I'm never hungry and maintaining my weight or blood sugar levels is simply no problem.
Sometimes research 'sounds right' because we've heard it so often that we never stop to question if it is all true for us personally. But when it comes to what I believe - I'm afraid my body, and not breakfast research, is king!
Written by Cari Corbet-Owen, clinical psychologist and author of Mind over Fatter and The Joy-Filled Body.
Hmm.... I suppose I never have questioned it because it is right for me.
But then, I have fasting hypoglycemia (NOT reactive) and it makes sense after any extended period without food such as I go through without sleep my body would react poorly if I try to do anything without eating first.
I do feel that each person needs to find what works best for them. Our bodies are so evolved and variable, there is very little you can say is right for everyone in every case without getting extremely vague.
ReplyWhat Heather said!
I need to eat very soon after I get up in the morning - within an hour for sure. We don't have "sugary breakfast cereals," or really any breakfast cereals for that matter. (There's a box of Cheerios that my boys snack on, and I buy Chex sometimes to make Chex mix. Oh, and when I was pg I craved Frosted Flakes, but that's been 2 years.)
It is an individual thing. I eat, I make sure my boys eat in the morning, but my husband rarely eats before 2 in the afternoon - he NEVER eats breakfast. Coffee, coffee and more coffee work for him.
I can't imagine how eating a healthy breakfast regularly would hurt most people, especially if they are in school or work jobs where there won't be another chance to eat for a long time. It's one of my problems with traditional school - eat breakfast at 7:30 a.m. and then not another chance for a bite of anything until sometimes 12:30. I think that's too long for a lot of people - especially young kids - to go without eating.
Replyi never had a problem losing weight until i integrated breakfast into my diet. i wasn't brought up with breakfast really, so i'm not used to that anyway, and i really dont get hungry until about 2-3 in the after noon. if i eat earlier in the day, i feel as if i'm starving all day long and all i want to do is graze on junk and high sugar foods. so, my solution is that when i do get hungry in the afternoon, that i add fruit to whatever i eat and this balances out the sugar cravings i would normally get after eating and i dont have to eat breakfast to maintain my weight
ReplyHi Cari,
Interesting point of view. What are your thoughts on children eating breakfast before school?
I'm curious as to how many studies are sponsored by breakfast cereals - good point. I would have to take at least some issue though, with the way you framed your arguments. I think with breakfast it isn't so much a matter of you NEED to eat first thing OR ELSE... It is more of an optimization thing. While it isn't advisable to stuff yourself if you aren't the least bit hungry, it certainly doesn't make physiological or common sense to skip either.
So while not eating breakfast won't necessarily STARVE you, give you blood sugar problems, make you lethargic and keep you fat - breakfast does in fact help in these aforementioned areas.
It is an individual thing, no doubt - but I still wouldn't balk at highly recommending breakfast to those who don't normally eat it - even if it's something small.
ReplyHI Mike
(And thanks everyone for your comments - I think it's such an interesting debate)
Mike in answer to your question about children and breakfast. My sister has two children and always had breakfast struggles because neither of them wanted to eat breakfast. Now she makes them a smoothie with fruit and yoghurt which they take to school in opague cycling bottle that they can have anytime in class. She spoke to their teachers who said that as long as it looked like a water bottle she didn't think the school could object. This then tides them over til their break when they have a sandwhich and whatever else.
I just think we'd have a lot fewer obesity problems if we had more body-based eating than culturally based eating.
Sorry I wasn't able to post earlier - was having a few sign-in gremlins!
ReplyCari
Hi Cari,
Thanks for your response. Yes - it is an interesting debate! I think your example of different hunger levels of children is a good comprimise.
Are you suggesting that eating breakfast is a cultural thing? I would suggest that nowadays it is almost counter-culture. I agree with the "body-based" eating idea, however we have greatly mistaken "hunger" for "appetite" and this has in part lead to a society of overeating. Further, body-based eating a great way to go, but sometimes our bodies need the food even if we don't feel like it. A good example is the post-workout meal. In this case, hunger is often the very last sensation we feel, and yet this is the window where are bodies most need the replenishment.
I think it is prudent to eat something - even if it is something very small for breakfast. In my experience, those who don't eat breakfast are usually quite tired and lathargic in the mornings and need coffee just to get them functional.
I also think we need to examine WHY people aren't eating breakfast. Many believe that this will prevent them from losing weight. I think THIS is the prevailing problem moreso than people trying to cram something down their throats to fit the the "culture". And for the studies out there showing the benefits of children eating a good breakfast - I'm glad this is part of our culture.
I think it's an interesting idea, but I don't see encouraging breakfast eating as a negative thing.
ReplyI remember when I was a kid, my parents always made us eat breakfast before school, but it wasn't a huge meal. Usually they'd tell us to eat a bowl of cereal or oatmeal, a bagel, or a granola bar and a yogurt. Sometimes, if we weren't hungry yet or we were running late, we'd grab fruit and a granola bar to eat later on in the morning. I think it's important for kids to eat before going to school because they usually have a lot of stuff going on before they get to eat lunch. Plus, some schools don't let kids eat during class, so they aren't able to eat ANYTHING until 12 or later.
ReplyI am not sure I agree with the "unquestioning belief" that we have. Hasn't it been questioned by doing the scientific research that you mentioned? It seems to me that you are saying, yes there is research which agrees that it's important but then dismiss it by saying that it's clearly biased - offering no proof.
"Researchers design their hypothesis and questions to inevitably prove their hypothesis true" really smacks of not valuing the hard work and long hours that many put in trying to come up with solutions or explanations for issues. The system may be flawed, but thank God there are people out there trying.
ReplyHI Tanya - sure we need to be grateful for research.
But having worked in an advisory capacity on a 'Board' funded by a major company - it was a REAL eye-opener as to what research they would undertake in the first place and just how carefully us 'researchers' had to be with how our questions were framed... and how often results when they didn't turn out the way they expected to just quietly went away. The questions I would ask were very often just ignored (and for obvious reasons) and they were (and can we blame them for that) not going to spend their hard-earned profits on research that didn't benefit them.
ReplyRgds Cari
I think there is a lot of personal variation on this one. It probably depends on how one spaces out their food for a 24 hour period. I do think it's advisable for children to eat a healthy breakfast before school.
ReplyAs for me, haven't eaten breakfast in a long time. Do you know how early in the morning the operating room opens? I love those days when by 10:00, I've already been working for 4 hours :-(
Very true. I don't eat breakfast if I am not hungry either. The very reason most people put on weight is because they associate the clock with must have food in system or else.
ReplyI completely disagree. Never in my entire life have I associated particular times with food. If anything, it's the opposite. I was always distracted by something else more *interesting* to do than food.
I can remember my mother trying to get me to eat oatmeal (which I hated), while I was only interested in getting to a horseback riding lesson.
I grew up NOT feeling hungry at breakfast time. Trouble was, by not eating then, by skipping lunch as well (still NOT hungry) and not eating until late afternoon, when I finally DID feel hungry, then I gorged, ate too much and often was so hungry that I'd eat whatever was convenient and fast... which usually isn't the healthiest option.
I always found it easy to fast or do without food if needed. And got fatter and fatter, because when I did remember food, I'd be famished and overeat.
It was not a case of justifying the extra food because of a missed meal so much as simply being ravenous! I literally could, at those times, eat like a 6'10" football player and not feel stuffed after either.
It's only in the past year and a half, where I've been eating breakfast, hungry or not and eating regular meals (5 per day), hungry or not, that I've actually started to lose my weight and keep it off.
So, I'll stick with what works.
ReplyIt's funny -- I always assumed that the research pointed to eating breakfast...whenever you happen to get hungry in the morning, not first thing. It's 11 a.m. and I'm just now starting to feel peckish. Why would I eat before that?
ReplyI guess it depends on the metabolism and nutritional needs of each one. Like for example, I have a blood sugar condition (postpandrial hypoglucemia I believe...)with which I cannot have anything sugary for breakfast or else I'll be feeling all zombie-like throughout the day...
After my nutriologist told me that, I only eat salty breakfast... which is a pain for me since I loooooove sweet food :(
ReplyLook into taking Chromium Picolinate. Ask your health care provider about it's ability to stabilize blood sugar levels
ReplyAs some who practices intermittent fasting I can say that I never eat before 10am and somedays not before Noon. Maybe some coffee but that is it. My metabolism may slow down a bit, but because of the lowered calorie intake during the day you can still burn fat for fuel. The main key is reteaching your body to burn fat, to have a fat based metabolism. You can burn fat all day long if you give your body the right hormonal signals. Low blood sugar is usually directly related to the #1 problem people have which is insulin resistance. If you never give your body a "break" from insulin, how does it improve it's resistance issue? Much like if you are going deaf from loud music...how do you get your hearing back? Turn off the music! Periods of fasting can help to reverse insulin resistance...and then many good things happen from there. When in doubt, start slow and start off by eating healthy foods all day long...add in a fasting day 1-2x a week where you may not eat till later in the day. Of course quality of food is the most important factor. Here's a good intro to it all.
ReplyAlso eating large meals take a strain on the digestive system...so people always are going to feel sluggish after a large meal. Look at everyone at work around 10am and 2pm...all drained from a large breakfast and lunch...and then half asleep and looking for a sugar jolt. Eat small through out the day and have your bigger meal at dinner....after all isn't that the cultural default around the world? I notice more mental clarity and get more work done without eating till 10-12 everyday and then keeping it small meals until dinner when I can "enjoy" my food. Hunger is not starving ourselves as we have enough fat to burn for fuel...you can only be malnutrioned from a lack of vitamins and minerals, so quality of foods is important (more fruits and vegetables...less processed and sugar)
ReplyI agree with this. There have been times when I've gone running on a lunch break and in the afternoon, I'm the only one awake :-)
Replythink you hit the nail on the head with this one!
ReplyCari
Interesting article. My girlfriend never eats breakfast and does quite better than me at staying fit, so I've always wondered about this.
Of course, that's only one very skewed data point.
ReplyBut if you last ate at 7pm, and you skip breakfast and have your next meal at 12pm the following day, that's many hours with no fuel. Isn't it common sense that we should feed our bodies more often than that?
Replythat so called "common" sense is why obesity is climbing...how about instead...using those internal storage tanks of unused energy call FAT....we have enough of that to go for days....ever hear of person dying without eating for a day?
ReplyI think that's a big part of it...socially, we're conditioned to NEVER feel hunger. People feel like if they go more than 3 hours without food, they'll die or something. I've done fasts where I'll go a day or so without eating and I don't feel terrible. Hungry, yes, but not like I'm going to die. Your body is a lot smarter than people give it credit for. We have systems for storing energy and accessing it later on if immediate energy (from food) isn't available.
ReplyFor me what is common sense if body sense which is eating when my body tells me when it's hungry. I think so often what we think of as 'common sense' is culturally eroded sense. But again each person is an individual - and if we all responded to when our bodies were hungry and stopped when we'd had enough, we'd eat smaller quantities more often and have fewere weight problems. At least that's the way I look at it.
ReplyCari
Perhaps it depends on how late you eat at night? We eat dinner at 6pm and I rarely eat after that. I go to bed around 9pm and wake up at 4:45am. I'm usually hungry when I wake up -- often REALLY hungry. If I don't eat breakfast, I can't concentrate on anything until I have something to eat. I feel nauseated if I wait too long.
ReplyThere are many factors to hunger...such as the amount of calories you consume and the quality of them...if you eat high quality foods like fruits, vegetables, healthy proteins/fats and no processed foods...then you can eat as you feel you need to....if you are putting processed foods and sugar in when you feel hungry, it is just going to mess up your hormones, lead to insulin resistance, weight gain and ill health. Most people confuse hunger with needing sugar....when it's just your body asking for healthy nutrients. A person who's body is also deficient in essential vitamins/minerals/nutrients may also have increased hunger...because the body is trying to tell you something. Unfortunately these instincts for self preservation by the body were designed millions of years ago well before anything processed or sugar was available.
ReplyAre you replying to my message? I eat healthier than anyone I know, so I don't think the quality of my food -- or lack thereof -- is making me hungry in the mornings!
ReplyJust because you think you are eating "healthy" and "quality food" doesn't mean you are. Listen to the experts and stop arguing.
ReplySusan, not sure how long you've been here, but Fitness Factor excels in the art of trolling.
Though this one was funny if you take it with a grain of sarcasm. Which might be how it was intended. They're hard to read sometimes.
Of course, do what works for your body. If I last ate at 6 pm I'd be hungry even sooner than that (I usually eat small, frequent meals)
ReplySusan, I agree that even thought many people think they eat healthy...sometimes unfortunately that can be far from the truth. There may be underlying foods that are marketed as healthy but also may leave you deficient in essential vitamins and minerals. When in doubt I always say eat organic local fruits and veg, lean healthy meats and healthy fats. Things like grains and other so called healthy foods...while in some people may not be any issue...in others can cause nutrient deficiencies. You can google "leaky gut" if you want more info on that. Unfortunately with the food supply it is today we don't even know what kind of vitamins and minerals are in one apple...to the next.
ReplySusan - I have to agree with you on this. The later I eat and the heavier the meal - the more ravenous I am when I wake it. It's almost as if I've put my body clock out of whack.
ReplyCari
I wake up hungry nearly every morning, with hunger pangs and all.
But it wasn't always this way. Only when I began making myself eat breakfast, did my body come to expect it.
ReplyYeah, I went for years without eating breakfast - about 20 years, drank a lot of coffee in the morning, but didn't eat.
I started to eat breakfast when I wanted to lose weight, and I do think it helped, at least it helped to eat more frequently, because I ate sensibly regularly and didn't want to eat everything in sight later in the day. Now I really do feel I need to eat in the morning, but not always right when I wake up. Usually an hour to three hours passes before I need it.
However, the biggest change I noticed was that once I started eating breakfast, I had energy all day. Before I used to crash big-time in the afternoon, having lunch made no difference. So I'll keep with the breakfast thing. I'm just talking about a modest portion of oatmeal with other whole grains here, though. Nothing huge.
ReplyEveryone is on their own schedules. Breakfast probably should be eaten, but when it's time for them, not 7-9AM. For some breakfast might be at 10-11.
ReplyI personally never get hungry until about 10-11 am. I start work at like, 6 in the morning and I work out before that. Working out suppresses my appetite and I get so wrapped up in my job that I never even feel hungry until later. When I DO get hungry, I eat oatmeal and a piece of fruit and it tides me over until later.
I don't have an issue with research that says you should eat breakfast because it prevents you from eating more later on, but I DO have issues with advice that says "Eat breakfast even if you aren't hungry". It seems kind of silly to do that.
As far as getting low blood sugar, I've never had problems with it. Glucagon, the counterpart to insulin, pulls glycogen out of "storage" to convert it to glucose for the blood. So unless you have insulin/glucagon problems, most people don't actually experience low blood sugar. People forget that you don't need to get sugar for your blood from food all the time. You store fat for that purpose.
I think the bottom line is that to lose weight, you have to eat fewer calories than you use and for a lot of people, eating breakfast helps keep them on track all day so they don't OVEReat at later meals.
ReplyI find that when I eat breakfast as soon as I get up, I am starving all day and want to keep eating. If I don't, I tend to eat my "breakfast" around noon time and never feel tired before then. I usually go out and run 5-8 miles before I eat anything. The earlier I eat, the more I eat.
ReplyThis post nailed it.
Excellent job.
So many people do not realize how important eating breakfast really is to their physique.
ReplyI've been practicing intermittent fasting for the past three weeks. I eat from 4-9 (sometimes 6-9 depending on when I get home. I'm so full of energy during the day and the time and money I save on not having to pack 4-5 meals for the day is great! fast-5.com has a free book on this subject. I do feel hungry during the day, but I don't lose any energy during the day.
ReplyGreat article! I completely agree as I often find that science, while great, sometimes over thinks just about anything that has to do with food and nutrition.
Eat real food and eat when your hungry is my motto ... and don't forget to enjoy what you eat.
ReplyThanks Tanya - I love your last sentance - that's it in a nutshell!
ReplyCaru
I couldn't agree more with this post. I grew up with the same advice about how important eating a hearty breakfast that is until I went to Madrid, Spain. They NEVER eat breakfast, as we know it in the states, and when you go around looking for it, they know you're American. Hell, they don't eat their first semi-meal until 11am, which is usually coffee and a pastry or bagel. I could also count the number of obese folks I saw walking around on one hand the entire week I was there. So, this definitely shows me that eating breakfast the way it is portrayed in the US is not necessary for everyone.
ReplyFor a short period, I worked on a friend's dairy farm. It was a small, but very labor intensive, operation. We were milking cows starting at 5:00 in the morning. By 7:30, breakfast seemed like a good idea. I've thought that the American traditional breakfast was due to the farming industry.
ReplyThat makes sense to me. If you get up at 4 am and eat for the first time at 7:30-8:00, that's not really any different than getting up at 7 and eating your first meal at 11 or so. So maybe that IS why Americans are used to the whole big breakfast of eggs/pancakes/bacon/etc. while Europeans eat a much lighter morning meal. The problem with Americans eating a huge breakfast is, well, I don't know too many dairy farmers still out there, but a lot of people still eat like one!
ReplySorry for the double comment…but just came across this also in relation to the Africans and low incidence of colon cancer research…and how the “Bran” industry jumped on that bandwagon.
“Commercial interests were quick to see the potential in the recommendation and jump on the bran wagon. Burkitt’s recommendation was based on vegetable fibre, but bran (cereal fibre) has a far higher fibre content and bran was a practically worthless by-product of the milling process that, until then, had been thrown away. Almost overnight, it became a highly priced profit maker. Although totally inedible, backed by Burkitt’s fibre hypothesis, bran could now be promoted as a valuable food. But Dr. Hugh Trowell, Burkitt’s partner and another strong advocate of dietary fibre, stated in 1974 that:”A serious confusion of thought is produced by referring to the dietary fibre hypothesis as the bran hypothesis, for many Africans do not consume cereal or bran”"
good read overall
Replyhttp://easydiagnosis.com/articles/cholesterol3.html
Hi Mike - thanks this is a really valuable post... I think there is so much commercialism in food that us consumers wouldn't ever know about! I know that for myself my biggest single 'rule' about food is: "How unprocessed is it?" It's not that I don't ever eat anything that comes out of a box, or comes in a can - but a good 90% of my food is a close to 'real' food as possible.
ReplyCari
Now that I am lifting more weights, I try to eat a bit more of my calories earlier. So now, instead of coffee and no lunch, I have breakfast at noon, lunch at 3:30 and dinner at 7-8 ish. Same calories as before, but shifted around.
I have more energy, I'm losing weight faster and my size is shrinking faster. The kicker is I am up for *HOURS* before I ever eat.
So far it's working for me. Don't care what the studies say. :)
ReplyThere is no one way of looking at things including taking breakfast. You go by your body needs and call. If breakfast is something you need to take in order to jump start, that itself is a call. When I was young I care less about taking breakfast but now that I am much older, I know the reasons. This works extremely well for me.
ReplyTwo comments.
I think the eat breakfast thing for kids is based on a study where they took two sets of kids from homes where there was little supervision including providing breakfast. Half the kids were given breakfast every day. The ones that got breakfast did a lot better in school, so this was held up as a reason for giving kids breakfast. However, later it was suggested that it was not so much the breakfast, but that the kids who got the organized breakfast got much needed attention. So who knows.
One reason that eating breakfast may be good some who are trying to lose weight is that the missed meal can be used as justification for eating a lot later in the day. I have a friend who has a major weight problem. He does not eat breakfast, and has a reasonable lunch. Before, or at dinner he will always justify eating some "extra" food because he did not eat breakfast. The "extra" food often has more calories than a healthy breakfast and it means he consumes most of that days' calories in one meal before he goes to bed.
ReplyI read something recently that claimed that the notion of the traditional American breakfast was a PR push back in the early 20th century to sell more bacon. Before that we usually just had coffee and toast / bread product, more like a traditional European breakfast. Personally I have a happy medium, usually a roll with some cheese for protein.
ReplyI haven't heard about the idea of selling more bacon, but I know when boxed cereals were invented there was a lot of wacky marketing going on to push them as the elixer of health, and I imagine they too put on a big push to promote breakfast.
I don't know that much is changed, look at all the advertising focus on special k products which are all pretty much carbo-crap in a box. And lots of people buy into it.
ReplyFinally, someone's said it! I stopped eating breakfast around the eighth grade (I'm 49) and never had much of a problem keeping my weight stable, if about 5-10 lbs. overweight. I kept reading, though, that breakfast was essential, so I decided to force myself for a while to see if I could lose those last few pounds. Big mistake! I gained and kept gaining because I, too, would eat again when I was really hungry. I've finally wised up, and I don't eat until I'm hungry. I've lost 47 lbs. and I'm still losing, without feeling like I'm missing a thing.
ReplyI think some of the points here are a bit off the mark. For one thing, "kick-starting your metabolism" doesn't imply you're dead, it implies your metabolism is sluggish after a night's sleep and could use a little fuel. Also, breakfast doesn't have to be consumed at the crack of dawn, nor does it need to be a bowl of refined carbs. I think the point of the study is that, for most people, three meals a day keep energy levels consistent and, therefore, overall food consumption under control. I'm one of those people who need breakfast--I had a soft-boiled egg on wheat toast and a cup of coffee around 8 this morning, and I still feel full and energetic. Everyone has different needs, but I think it's foolish to see this study as some kind of cereal company kabal. It's just something to keep in mind when reevaluating your eating habits.
ReplyI really think if you are interested in "kick-starting your metabolism," it would be a better idea to concentrate on your voluntary skeletal muscles rather than "working out" your involuntary smooth muscles :-)
ReplyI have to disagree with the conclusions of this blog. I have written a blog in response to comments made by the author. My blog can be seen here:
http://blogs.proclub.com/blogs/2020insights/archive/2008/04/15/the-most-important-meal-of-the-day.aspx
ReplyI rarely, if ever, eat breakfast. I'm an athlete who almost always works out in the morning. I can't workout with food in my stomach. That's just the way my body works. Apparently, I digest food slowly. So I've actually learned to workout with little or no food in my system.
When I was a competitive cyclist, I only ate breakfast on days that I raced, never on days when I was just training (unless I knew I was doing more than 50 miles that day).
Now I surf and I cannot tolerate food in my stomach at all. It's probably because surfing is a sport which involves lying on your stomach. But even on the days when I do nothing more than lift weights, I still don't eat breakfast. I don't want food early. I don't know if it's because my body just doesn't need it or because my body adapted to decades without breakfast.
Nevertheless, I'm still fit and trim at 44.
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