Bigger Breakfasts.

Breakfast like a king; lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper. This is not a new thing!

This is the article

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62797773

My first food intake would probably be called brunch as it takes place from 11 onwards. Pretty healthy kick start and then I snack for the remainder seldom eating anything after 1630. Works wonderfully for me. Feel really good.

I get a bit tired of so called expert advice especially as obesity levels are higher than ever - relative prosperity I suppose.
It used to be that being well-upholstered was a sign of being well-off and only those who could not get enough to eat were thin.
Perversely , I also read that the bigger breakfast idea is a myth, it doesn’t matter when you consume your calories, they get burned up (or not) just the same.
studyfinds.org/big-breakfast-weight-loss/

My late father used to say that the singer Marie Lloyd was the best dietician ever when she sang “A little of what you fancy does you good”.

Just had breakfast: yoghurt, defrosted berries, granola - would have preferred a fry-up!

Nothing wrong with a fry up as long as it’s grilled! Comes Slimming World recommended .

Large breakfasts leave me feeling physically uncomfortable and indigestible all morning. In fact they ruin my day.

Since we retired we have had our main meal at lunch time and a light meal in the evening. I agree with MawtheMerrier, It is what you eat (and how much) that matters, not when you eat it.

I’ve had my usual small breakfasts but I’ve been eating my main meal at lunchtimes recently with just a small snack in the evening rather than eating the main meal in the evening as I used to. I’ve lost weight, go to bed earlier and sleep far better. The slight change certainly seems to suit me

argymargy I said the same thing. I hate breakfast and wo9uldnt do it if it wasn't for the Chief of the Food Police insisting I have some. I like a small lunch of sou9p and fruit and when it gets to dinner time (6-7) I don't want to cook it or eat it so coonsequently I always leave half the plate.

I like to eat when the hunger kicks in and that for me is late morning anything between 11ish and l o'clock. If I swim in the morning then I won't eat first. Sometimes if I feel my sugar levels are running low before that time I'll have a small banana with one of my 3 morning coffees. When I do have breakfast it's usually Greek yogurt and fruit or Weetabix, granola and fruit, maybe a slice of toast that keeps me going until afternoon. I believe in eating around what my appetite dictates to me rather than prescribed meal times. I do cook an evening meal for my husband sometimes I join him and sometimes I don't, depending on what I've eaten mid afternoon. As for those traditional English breakfasts, I only have them if we are staying in a hotel, occasionally they're nice but they're not something I long for. Again they're too early for me, I prefer brunch time that's when I'm ready for it. I like going out for brunch that's an occasional treat.

We are terribly boring.

Cornflakes at 8 30 is normal, sandwiches at 1 with the news and start cooking at 6pm

I’m another bruncher Terri! Especially since I retired 5 years ago!

I generally drink some home made kefir around 8am and then start to feel peckish around 11ish so anything from kedgeree, full Monty, toastie, soup or salad depending on weather and whereabouts!

Main meal around 6, rarely later, as I like at least 4 hours after eating before bed and no liquids after 9pm. This usually guarantees 7-8 hours uninterrupted sleep - partaking of alcoholic beverages always results in a toilet trot before dawn and I’m ? all the next day!

I've had my usual crumpet. Don't seem to have much appetite in the mornings. I eat my main meal just before 6pm so I can watch the news as I eat.

I love a big breakfast but the problem with that was I then had to think of two more meals - I can't be doing with soup or a sandwich, I like proper meals!

I seldom eat breakfast, when I do it's usually a slice of toast. Our main meal is at lunchtime 12:30 - 1:00pm. We have a small supper at 6:30ish.

The study isn’t claiming that a big breakfast leads to weight loss Maw. If you read through it agrees with you.

“The results, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, found the timing of a big meal made no difference to how many calories were burned, to people's resting metabolic rate or the amount of weight they lost.
The key difference was to appetite or hunger levels, which were suppressed by the large breakfast”

I always have toast and thick cut marmalade and a bowl of cereal for breakfast fruit for lunch and a small evening meal when *Mr Glamma" was alive he enjoyed his full English any time of the day.

silverlining48

Nothing wrong with a fry up as long as it’s grilled! Comes Slimming World recommended .

My husband was over the moon when he realised he was "allowed" to have his favourite cooked breakfast as part of the Slimming World programme, which his GP had prescribed.

He's cooked himself dry-fried eggs, bacon medallions, tomatoes and mushrooms virtually every morning for the past year.
He's lost five and a half stone so far!

Not keen on breakfast really. I just don't feel hungry until I've been up a couple of hours. Interestingly (or not), my 2 cats differ on breakfast. She is desperate for food from 5am on, whereas he really doesn't want to eat until lunchtime.

I find that a large breakfast or lunch puts me out of action, so a slice of toast for breakfast, soup or salad for lunch then the largest meal is dinner at about 7 to 7.30, used to be much later when I was working.

My dog is like one of your cats GagaJo. Won’t eat until at least lunchtime, sometimes then leaves it for an hour or two then is ready for and devours dinner about 6. Very different to all my other dogs but seems to suit her.

Tim Spector of Zoe agrees that having breakfast small, large or not at all, isn't important - it's the total quality of our food intake that's important.
He recommends eating at least 30 foods of plant origin every week. Everything counts, eg bread, nuts, soya milk, not only fruit & veg.

I love breakfast, tho, but definitely not a fry-up, or even a grill-up!

We walk dogs prior to all meals, makes us hungry I suppose. So, we eat mostly equal meals, spread from early morning through 7:30pm.

Breakfast is black coffee, oats with fruit, a handful of nuts, more coffee.

We eat as vegans when nobody is around asking for meat, milk, butter and cheese. We give in to our decidedly opinionated children and grandchildren come round for animal based foods.

It's porridge everyday summer/winter from about 7.45 light lunch at I pm, supper from 6.30 to 7.
DH is svelte I am very overweight. The problem is he can fill up on vegetables they play havoc with my hiatus hernia and he does a long fell walk each week which I couldn't contemplate. He also goes on an exercise bicycle. Fatty and thinny have swapped over in our house.