We have been told to eat breakfast immediately upon awakening.
The food marketers and food companies have ingrained it into our brain so deeply from the early 70’s that
message.
BUT….if you listen to your body.
Are YOU really a breakfast persons so many of my clients on Kick Start are not a breakfast person.
Have you had a sneaky
feeling in the back of your mind that you are not actually hungry first thing?
But you eat anyway thinking that is the healthy approach.
And as soon as you do eat it seems to open the floodgates to being hungry all
day?
Is this you?
* * You are actually not hungry first thing?
* * The moment you finish eating breakfast, you suddenly feel ravenous?
* * Eating breakfast first thing makes you so ravenous that you start eating more food within 20
minutes of having finished eating breakfast?
It is as if I had not even eaten breakfast!
Are you then counting down the seconds until your next meal?
For many people, eating
breakfast first thing in the morning is the equivalent of opening up the floodgates to an all-day snack-a-thon?
Why Does Eating Breakfast Make You Hungrier?
About 20-30 minutes after you wake up in the morning, your blood cortisol levels increase
by about 50%.
This is the Cortisol Awakening Response (CAR), and it happens in anticipation of the demands of your upcoming day.
So your cortisol levels rise and reach a peak around the same time as you eat your morning breakfast.
This augments your
feeding-induced insulin secretion.
In other words, if you eat something during CAR, your insulin secretion is boosted.
The insulin surge is followed by a drop in your blood glucose, with the result being extreme hunger.
This would NOT occur if you ate the same meal later in the day.
Pushing your BREAK FAST or first meal of the day back to a later time can be called intermittent fasting.
You are not skipping a meal you are simply pushing it back to a later time giving your digestive system a break.
There is some amazing studies & research around showing the benefits of intermittent fasting on fatloss and health in general.
Once you start, you can't stop
If you eat breakfast in the morning and then you just can't stop eating thereafter, try changing your breakfast
timing.
AND ensure you eat a High Fat / Good Protein style breakfast.
For example:-)
Salmon, Eggs & Avocado
Eggs (any style) cooked in coconut oil
Organic bacon & eggs cooked in coconut oil
Create your own Greens Juice
Think of it as a healthy fat burning ”brunch”
The fats and protein will keep you going for hours, no need to snack and you feel alert, energised and on top of your game for the rest of the day.
Three reasons to be your break-fast later
* * End Chronic Hunger
* * Anti-Aging: Fasting allows the body to discard damaged parts of your cells. This is integral to anti-aging.
* *
Fat-Burning: Fasting promotes the release of body fat for fuel.
Why?
In order to burn body fat, your insulin levels must be very low.
This can be achieved through short-term fasting.
Push your breakfast time later after your overnight fast, and will finally be able to burn your stored fat for fuel.
Of course not one solution suits everyone and this MIGHT not be for you but if you identify with any of the above then give it how you feel.
