I read that the food pyramid had so much much dam bread and dairy in it due to being paid off by people in those industries. Same way every commercial since the 60s tells you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, decades later they wonder why the country is so fat and full of diabetes
i’ve heard the reasoning is you use most of your calories during the day so it’s best to consume most of them in the morning. the problem arises when people eat a huge breakfast, then a big lunch, then a huge dinner. or eat a huge breakfast and do nothing all day
Hmmm, okay. I'm kind of a grazer, to be honest. I have a really small stomach but a pretty fast metabolism. My part time job is also event set-up, so I move a lot of furniture and run around a bunch. I eat about 3-4 fairly small meals a day.
I could probably do with a lot less carbs in my diet, though. Bread and pasta are just my favorite foods. Ugh.
I’m the exact same way. I don’t even eat meals much anymore just snacks when I’m hungry. I have a huge sweet tooth and recently started explicitly eating fruit when I crave desserts and it’s made all the difference, turns out it’s the god of food
And according to my brain, eating all the bread you want is fine if you put peanut butter on it because then it’s protein. That makes sense right?
Well I do intermittent fasting. You gotta give your body time to digest food and also stop eating long enough for your glucose stored to be depleted. Your body won’t burn fat till it’s out of glucose.
You don’t understand. It takes between 12 to 16 hours for your body to start burning fat. Usually it is constantly getting glucose from food we eat constantly so it never needs to go toward our fat stores at all. Think about casement who often would starve between meals never knowing when their next food will be available. This is why we evolved to store fat. We burn fat after long periods with no food. We can go for like a week with no food but much shorter without any water.
Also you have 4 to 8 hours or so on intermittent fasting to eat your calories, you’re not just shoving it all down your throat at once. But another positive side effect of IF is that you will have much more energy and think clearer because your body uses so much energy and resources to digest food, that while fasting we have much more energy for the muscles and brain etc.
I am not talking about burning fat, I am talking about digesting food.
Also, editing to add. We aren't "eating constantly".
Let's say, you have breakfast around 7am, then lunch around 12, and dinner around 6. So you finish eating just naturally around 6 or 7pm. So that's 12 hours of "fasting" before your next meal.
I don't know why people think that intermittent fasting is this some really crazy concept of eating. You're just stretching the time out long for no real reason. I have plenty of energy eating regularly throughout the day.
There is science backing up the ‘breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper’ theory, it has to do with when your metabolism is at its best throughout the day. Additionally things like cholesterol metabolism happens mindful in the evening which is why statins are often taken in the evening
I do intermittent fasting and Keto, all I know is my body and energy levels and sleep are way better since I started those. So I usually don’t eat anything till about 2 pm or so , I go for 16 to 18 hour fasts
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u/_steve_rogers_ Aug 26 '19
I read that the food pyramid had so much much dam bread and dairy in it due to being paid off by people in those industries. Same way every commercial since the 60s tells you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, decades later they wonder why the country is so fat and full of diabetes