But is it better to skip, or eat s*** food, if those are the choices you leave yourself with?
I've been trying to get back to my premium weight so I've stopped buy breakfast. I've been doing a cold-oatmeal thing. Some cut up fruit (usually apples or bananas), maybe a 1/4 cup of oatmeal, a few table spoons of yogurt, a couple dashes of cinnamon. Put it in the fridge overnight and take it to work with me. It's pretty delicious. I don't know how good it is for me, but I'm 99% sure it's better than the egg sandy.
On the topic of egg sandys, are they really bad for you if it's not some mass produced chemical egg and processed everything? Like if I make an egg sandwich at home (sometimes do the night before and heat it in the toaster oven at work), is that bad for me? It's just 2 eggs, a slice of cheese and a slice of ham with the english muffin (sometimes some peppers or tomatoes). Seems like a pretty standard breakfast minus some fruit.
It's my opinion that it's better to eat something.
I do frozen fruit defrosted in the microwave a bit, greek yogurt and some hemp hearts. It's quick and tastes fine.
Egg Sandwiches are the food of the gods.
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It's my opinion that it's better to eat something.
I've lost close to 30lbs over the past 9 months or so, and I gotta admit one of the ways I did it was by basically skipping dinner. I always hear how that's bad, but it seemed to work for me anyway.
I'm lucky in my job where I can get away with late lunches, so I wouldn't eat until like 2-2:30, and I'd ensure it was a big meal. Then I'd hit the gym after work around 5, and I just found I wasn't really hungry the rest of the evening afterwards.
I'd take that whey protein powder stuff after my workout, then maybe if I was hungry I'd have a few nuts or a granola bar, but that's about it. Is it really that bad to not have dinner?
Actually the more I think about it, it's not so much about skipping dinner for me as it was just switching around how much I ate at each meal. It's just ingrained in us that dinner is the big "feast" meal, but is it really that good to have your biggest meal of the day 3-4hrs before bed? I basically turned lunch into my "dinner", and dinner into a light snack, if anything at all. Worked for me anyway for getting in shape.
I've lost close to 30lbs over the past 9 months or so, and I gotta admit one of the ways I did it was by basically skipping dinner. I always hear how that's bad, but it seemed to work for me anyway.
I'm lucky in my job where I can get away with late lunches, so I wouldn't eat until like 2-2:30, and I'd ensure it was a big meal. Then I'd hit the gym after work around 5, and I just found I wasn't really hungry the rest of the evening afterwards.
I'd take that whey protein powder stuff after my workout, then maybe if I was hungry I'd have a few nuts or a granola bar, but that's about it. Is it really that bad to not have dinner?
Actually the more I think about it, it's not so much about skipping dinner for me as it was just switching around how much I ate at each meal. It's just ingrained in us that dinner is the big "feast" meal, but is it really that good to have your biggest meal of the day 3-4hrs before bed? I basically turned lunch into my "dinner", and dinner into a light snack, if anything at all. Worked for me anyway for getting in shape.
Oh man, you are lucky. I find that once I leave the gym I am staving.
I don't think it is bad not to have dinner per se, but if you find yourself eating at 9-10 pm instead of eating dinner it could be an issue.
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Haha yeah sorry, I thought of that right after hitting send. Probably off topic because it's a breakfast convo.
I just read the "you should always eat something" part and chimed in, just got off work and I'm all jacked up on caffeine and feeling rambly.
Maybe you should eat something
But seriously, I don't think it's all that healthy to really eat after 7 or 8, so I don't imagine it being bad to shut it down around 3 if you're getting your calories and nutrition.
Sex in a bowl: corn pops. My god. I can't buy them because I'd eat 5 bowls a day.
Canadian Corn Pops suck compared to American ones. I never understood why we got different ones. We have dry balls of roof-of-mouth shredding blandness. American Corn Pops are foot-ball shaped, smooth sugar-glazed, corn-puffs.
I've lost close to 30lbs over the past 9 months or so, and I gotta admit one of the ways I did it was by basically skipping dinner. I always hear how that's bad, but it seemed to work for me anyway.
I'm lucky in my job where I can get away with late lunches, so I wouldn't eat until like 2-2:30, and I'd ensure it was a big meal. Then I'd hit the gym after work around 5, and I just found I wasn't really hungry the rest of the evening afterwards.
I'd take that whey protein powder stuff after my workout, then maybe if I was hungry I'd have a few nuts or a granola bar, but that's about it. Is it really that bad to not have dinner?
Actually the more I think about it, it's not so much about skipping dinner for me as it was just switching around how much I ate at each meal. It's just ingrained in us that dinner is the big "feast" meal, but is it really that good to have your biggest meal of the day 3-4hrs before bed? I basically turned lunch into my "dinner", and dinner into a light snack, if anything at all. Worked for me anyway for getting in shape.
That's closer to a European style meal plan. Dinner is always a very light meal/cold snack whereas lunch is the feast. It was interesting to see when I was over in Belgium/Germany. It's only the American meal tradition where dinner is a huge fattening affair.
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I'm a millenial and I haven't bought cereal for years. It's not that it's a lazy thing for me but the majority of cereal is just intensely bad for you. Check out the sugar and carbohydrate content of most cereals. Cereal is probably one of those foods to blame for obesity and cardiovascular disease in the modern world.
Of course there's healthy cereals but why bother eating those when you could have other things than dry muesli, etc.?
Personally, I get up at 4 and don't bother with breakfast until I've been working for a few hours, and then on my days off I prefer to actually cook something. So, no cereal for me but I wouldn't say it's because I'm lazy.
Cereal, lol... In Japan we eat Rice, fish and Miso soup for breakfast on weekday mornings. Never going back to cereal, even if I ever go back to Canada.
A big bowl of cereal can have as much sugar as a can of Coke. I wouldn't have a can of Coke for breakfast either.
0 fat 0 protein all carbs, hard pass. I usually have cereal when I'm too lazy to actually make a real breakfast.
Well ya, if you eat sugar bombs. But something like Cheerios is pretty good. Lots of essential vitamins and minerals, some fibre, virtually no sugar, and low calorie.
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I don't eat cereal because I avoid carbs and sugars. Milk has tons of sugar in it. I'll have bacon and eggs in the morning, or a protein shake.
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Well ya, if you eat sugar bombs. But something like Cheerios is pretty good. Lots of essential vitamins and minerals, some fibre, virtually no sugar, and low calorie.
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Yes, but Cheerios taste like cardboard.
For an extra ~10 calories per serving (less if you actually calculate the real caloric values per macro), and similar macro/micronutrient content, you can have Honey Nut Cheerios.
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Also, fun fact: Fiber One Protein cereal vs Lucky Charms... Lucky Charms is the better choice. Macronutrients are almost the same, but Lucky Charms blows Fiber One away when it comes to micronutrients.
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Fiber One Protein
Lucky Charms (multiply serving size by 2 to match Fiber One)
