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- November 28, 2021 at 2:22 pm #581999Anonymous
Breakfast is already said to be the most important meal of the day. Experts now believe eating it at the crack of dawn could help you live longer. Early research found eating late at night increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Researchers tracked 34,000 Americans aged 40 for several decades. Results found those that ate breakfast between 6.00am & and 8.00am were 6% less likely to die prematurely from major illnesses like heart disease & cancer, than those that ate at 8.00am, & 12% less risk of early death than those who first ate at 10am. Skipping breakfast or eating late disrupts the body’s food clock that controls feeding – related hormones such as insulin. Hormones helps burn up glucose in the bloodstream, eating later may mean the body gradually makes less insulin causing glucose levels to rise leading to diabetes, obesity & heart disease. So ladies do you eat early or are you one those that skips breakfast entirely, or eat late?.
Lol Amanda xx
- November 28, 2021 at 2:34 pm #582003
Dear Amanda .
I eat a little breakfast at about 07:00 hours before I go to work in the morning.
Then only beverages until 12:00 hours when I have lunch.Love Sylvia.
- November 28, 2021 at 3:07 pm #582017Anonymous
Sensible Sylvia
- November 28, 2021 at 3:15 pm #582021AnonymousLady
So fasting is bad?
I only eat breakfast on the weekends… eggs and bacon… yum!
- November 29, 2021 at 2:13 pm #582496Anonymous
I wouldn’t say fasting for long periods regularly or dieting with out medical and nutritional support be recommended to anyone. Bacon and eggs sounds good though Michelle, LOL Amanda xx
- November 29, 2021 at 3:09 pm #582525AnonymousLady
Hi Amanda
At my age with my slow metabolism, even though I stay active, fasting is the only way I can control my weight. I only lose a few pounds and bounce up and down within ten pounds so no big change really. Its easy after your stomach shrinks a bit and then you only need smaller portions.
I only fast for weight but we know fasting is required with many religions.
If you wait a minute you can probably read another article that proposes the exact opposite of what you quoted.
- November 29, 2021 at 10:17 pm #582634Anonymous
Things change all the time Michelle the body is a complex study.
Lol Amanda xx
- November 28, 2021 at 3:18 pm #582022Anonymous
Hello honey…xx.
I only eat breakfast on my days off, usually between 8 and 9. This is usually cereal or toast with thick marmalade….or the great treat of a bacon sarnie………just a couple of coffee’s when I am working.
I don’t eat late, it tends to just lie there and make me feel uncomfortable…..a cup of hot chocolate before bed is all I need!!
Grace 💓💓
- November 29, 2021 at 2:07 pm #582494Anonymous
What? Only breakfast on your days off, but six breakfasts a week then that’s good sweetie 😂😂😂, LOL Amanda xx
- November 28, 2021 at 3:21 pm #582024
I always breakfast 1st thing, and I rise at 6am most days.
Not really through choice, but through child drop off and work shifts – but I have always been up before 7am, and can’t get my brain in gear until I’ve eaten and had a cup of tea. Never coffee.
Breakfast is usually a large bowl of high bran cereal with fruit and nuts, and often fruit juice and additional fresh fruits.
It’s all my stomach can take – unless I am in a hotel, in which case, the nearest I can get to a full English breakfast, while staying vegetarian, so eggs, beans, toast, tomatoes, mushrooms, hash browns, vegetarian sausages, halloumi, pastries… I can eat for England when it comes to an English!!!
After a large breakfast, coffee is essential to prevent me going back to bed to sleep it off…🤣🤣🤣
But only in hotels, reason being, probably, because it’s there…
Love Laura
- November 29, 2021 at 2:01 pm #582491Anonymous
That’s a very healthy breakfast, and the cereal one is not bad either 😂😂 Laura, LOL Amanda xx
- November 28, 2021 at 3:26 pm #582028Anonymous
On weekends always eating breakfast Sometimes do cook breakfast for dinner but no diabates for this girl.
Donna
- November 28, 2021 at 3:38 pm #582040
Oh Amanda, now you are making me rethink my diet. I have been intermittent fasting (not eating between 7 pm and 11 am) and it is helpful in losing weight, which is a good thing. But based on your advice, I shall forgo that meal plan and try to eat a small healthy meal first thing in the morning and then a small healthy lunch. Where I mess up my diet is at supper; the food is healthy but the quantity is too great. Healthy portion sizes are supposed to fit in the palm of your hand; yikes that just doesn’t work for me at supper. I love cooking and I love food too much to deprive myself. Being happy is also important for a long life. I’m counting on the healthy foods I consume to assist notwithstanding the large portion size. Thanks for the good advice Amanda, Have a lovely week. Hugs, Krista.
- November 29, 2021 at 1:36 pm #582477Anonymous
Hi Krista, I’m sure many of us skip meals sweetie, or eat to suit our day’s activities. But this is as a good survey and each meal and content was meticulously recorded along with the with meal times. What it shows is we are never really aware of possibly consequences of our actions medically.
Lol Amanda xx
- November 28, 2021 at 5:08 pm #582154
I have an active/physical job so breakfast is very important to me. I usually eat around 3:30-4 am and it starts with 2 eggs along with 4-6 oz of egg whites 85g of spinach 85g of cauliflower and a whole avocado. Mix it all together and it holds me till about 8am. Then little snack every 3 hours.
- November 29, 2021 at 1:21 pm #582469Anonymous
Hi Paula, I would have to substitute spinach for broccoli other wise good to go. Lol Amanda
- November 28, 2021 at 5:27 pm #582163
16 to 18 hours fasting is good for the body. It drives down insulin resistance.
There is a “Omad” movement. One meal a day. Others create a 6 hour grazing window in the day.
I have been doing keto for some years. High fat.(70% of diet.) Moderate protein. (20%) low carbs. (10%) when on it, I tend to naturally skip meals because I’m not hungry.
I broke my protocols the other day. Breads. Sausage Roll. And Chiko Roll. And Vanilla Slice.
It threw me out of ketosis, and left me craving carbs big time for a few days. And feeling like crap.
- November 29, 2021 at 1:40 pm #582481Anonymous
Hi Mary Jane, my I enquire are you medically checked out before you start on Kato,, and subsequently periodically while on it?
Lol Amanda xx
- November 29, 2021 at 4:06 pm #582546
Lets see. Medically checked out.
I lost 45kg in 18 months after starting Keto. I was 120 when I started, and went down to 75kg.
I have been a lifelong chronic asthmatic. I went of all asthma meds, 7 months after starting.
My allergies significantly reduced. And so did joint pain. And my chronic fatigue is almost completely gone. (I suffer bad fatigue after eating high carbs)
Whats your thoughts about medically checking out?
- November 30, 2021 at 2:38 am #582664Anonymous
Hi Mary Jane, my thoughts on medically being check out. Obviously I think every one should be checked pre – diet, to make sure they haven’t got any underline health problems, and to make sure any action they undertake is appropriate nutritionally for them. I’m a quadruple stroke survivor, so meals are aligned to medication, or damage can be done to the stomach if not. I do have other things too, which sadly goes with the territory of medications, so I do think nutritional support and check ups are vital, essential if you are medically ill, and safer over all generally.
Lol Amanda xx
- November 29, 2021 at 11:41 am #582427Anonymous
Hi Amanda
Very thought provoking monday to friday breakfast is 6.00 am a large bowl of Porridge.
10.30am an orange and a sandwich
1.30 pm Lunch an apple another sandwich
6.00pm dinner
11.00pm pork pie or scotch egg & crisps followed by Turkish delight
Weekends breakfast at 10.00am sugar puffs and eating throughout the day.
I am a lucky person I’ve been 11 – 11.5 stone for 30 years.
I also have a bottle of real ale for supper every night.
I think it really depends on your own metabolism, my body just burns it off Iknow some people just are not as lucky.
Love Sarah
xx
- November 29, 2021 at 12:42 pm #582452Anonymous
Hi Sarah, absolutely right it does greatly depend on ones metabolism, you certainly sound like one of the lucky ones, lol Amanda xx
- November 29, 2021 at 2:38 pm #582510Anonymous
Sarah ..love the sound of the weekday 11.00 pm shift….but it would probably keep me up all night..
…can we move it to 7.00p pm??? Haha xx
- November 29, 2021 at 2:29 pm #582505
Not once in my adult life have I skipped breakfast. If it comes down to being late or skipping breakfast, I go with being late every time.
It’s an absolute must for good health and fave meal of the day.
Also morning is the only time of day I am consistently hungry.
- November 29, 2021 at 2:32 pm #582506Anonymous
I agree with you Jenny, breakfast is so important. LOL Amanda xx
- November 29, 2021 at 2:52 pm #582517
My biological clock is very far off from normal. Having been a DJ for so many years it’s not bedtime until 5am, sleep until noon and then rise for a normal, albeit late, day.
My favorite breakfast, about 1pm, is sausage, egg, tomato, onion and cheese with mayo on wheat toast. Occasionally substitute a bowl of corn flakes. Lunch, about 5pm, is a sandwich or salad. Dinner at 10pm, a variety of hot meals, mostly involving pasta.
I too have found cooking for fewer is problematic. Recipes are mostly for 4 servings and cooking less actually is more expensive. My solution is to double the recipe and split the results into multiple servings. Some go to the refrigerator and some to the freezer. Thus I have several ready made meals ready to heat and eat.
🍽🍳🍜
Beth
- November 29, 2021 at 11:51 pm #582647Anonymous
Exactly as I do Beth …I usually cook up 2 or 3 meals at once, and 1 or 2 go into the freezer…..sometimes it’s just not possible to buy ” one girl ” portions
…….unless you are counting packets of ” multi produced, chemically enhanced, salt and sugar saturated, microwavable mush”….yes, you guessed it….not a fan of ready meals !!🤣🤣🤣
- November 30, 2021 at 3:46 am #582679Anonymous
Ugh, I hate those things too, Grace. My wife keeps bringing them home, I keep tossing them out.
Jillian
- November 30, 2021 at 7:55 am #582752Anonymous
Well done Jillian…straight in the bin and miss out the
middle man…middle girl!!!
- November 30, 2021 at 11:47 am #582828
I agree. Manufactured ready to eat meals are the equivalent to McDonald’s. Fast, easy and unhealthy. Also more expensive. The only packaged meal I stock in the cupboard is Ramen noodles, cheap but still loaded with salt and preservatives. Good for days when not feeling well.
🍜❤
Beth
- November 29, 2021 at 3:13 pm #582527AnonymousLady
I have to ask…. what exactly is porridge? Makes me think of Goldilocks and the bears… lol
- November 30, 2021 at 5:31 am #582720Anonymous
Hi Michelle,
Porridge is basically oats and water – or milk – mixed up and heated. It’s very filling and quite healthy, although most people add sugar or honey or … Whatever
Growing up, it was standard winter breakfast fare in our house.
Marti xxx
- November 30, 2021 at 7:59 am #582755AnonymousLady
Thanks Marti.
In the US I’ve always known what you call porridge as simply oatmeal.
Some reason I always had in my mind porridge as a steaming bowl of soup consisting of some type of fowl. Live and learn.
- November 30, 2021 at 4:02 am #582687Anonymous
Research like this is an interesting topic and I have learned to critically examine it.
Who funded the research? Was it something that has a vested interest in us eating breakfast?
What was the scope of the research? A large pool or a small pool? A longer period of time or relatively small one?
What did they compare their results to? A control group or the general population?
Examine the research carefully and draw your own conclusions.
As for me, well I worked overnights for decades so my internal clock is on permanent daylight savings time. I’d come home at 5am, sleep at 6am and wake in the afternoon, so breakfast was about when most people eat dinner.
Now that I’m retired, breakfast is after I deliver my granddaughter to school about 8am and is usually a smoothie from fresh fruit and greek yogurt.
Damn, now I’m hungry.
Hugs, Jillian
- November 30, 2021 at 5:17 am #582718Anonymous
Hi Amanda,
My diet is simpler. Eat less food. And cook your own meals, that way you know what’s gone into it.
It works !!!
Ok if you are worried about diabetes, also stay away from salt and sugar and processed food as much as you can.
I can feel a ‘but’ coming on. Alcohol. Has. Calories. It can ruin the best dietary lifestyles lol.
Marti xxx
- November 30, 2021 at 9:26 am #582780Anonymous
Home cooking and fresh vegetables straight out the garden Can’t better be that Marti.
Amanda xx
- November 29, 2021 at 6:51 am #582360Anonymous
LOL steph anyone can do it if they want to. gets easier each day and week. Today my one week post op and feeling pretty good. pass the bacon hehe.
- November 29, 2021 at 1:14 pm #582466Anonymous
Hi Stephanie, I think a lot of people find it hard to adjust their volume of cooking when the household shrinks. it’s also easy to not want to waste food. I ‘m sure in the future young school children will reference the “battle of the bulge” in history as Stephanie Plumb’ s wobble fight, as the real ” battle of the Bulge” the German offensive in the world war 2, would be air brushed out or re-written or simply not taught.
Lol Amanda xx
- November 29, 2021 at 1:56 pm #582488Anonymous
Stephanie you are going to have, to have a serious conversation with “him” sweetie. LOL Amanda xx
- November 30, 2021 at 8:02 am #582757AnonymousLady
Thanks Stephanie
Here, porridge is simply called oatmeal. Maybe because Quaker Oat brand is the most popular… idk.
I have never known anyone to keep leftover oatmeal… I just toss it out.
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