Two-Meal (Big Breakfast) Diet, Anyone? (Vanity)

[Feline_AIDS]

Hey Freepers,

Would any of you skinny folks like to share you daily meal habits? How many meals do you eat, when, and how big are they? What sort of things do you eat?

I ask this because I've recently embarked on a "big breakfast diet" and so far it seems like a great idea. I just want to see if it's sustainable long term, and if people are already doing it, that would indicate that it is. (The basics: Eat a huge protein-packed breakfast that includes one sweet indulgence and some carbs, then a reasonable protein lunch and little or no supper. It's like eating in reverse order.)

[Before anyone jumps on the "fad diets are stupid" bandwagon, just let me say that this diet is reasonable in that it doesn't restrict what type of food, just what time it's eaten. Basically, carbs only at breakfast when the body isn't just going to store glucose. This just seems like a more reasonable way to eat than going with nothing until 3 or 4pm and grazing til midnight.]

Also, this old feller claims that eating only breakfast and lunch is why he's 113. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-24-oldest-man-diet_N.htm

[Feline_AIDS]

Thanks

[Perdogg]

Instead of eating two big meals, you should eat smaller meals at different times of the day.

You need a minimum amout of calories = 9.8 X (your body weight), to keep you metabolism up. You need to watch your protein intake as well as your carbs. Go to the gym lift weights and do cardio (I would suggest Zumba).

[Nachum]

I generally follow the menu and eating program of Compulsive Eaters Anonymous. Took off 70 lbs with it and kept it off.

[Chickensoup]

Breakfast: eat like a King
Lunch: eat like a prince
Supper:eat like a pauper

[mdittmar]

Mine is easy,I eat when I feel hungry.

[cripplecreek]

Same here but I’m pretty active.

[Hildy]

I am 51 years old, 5'3" and weigh 120 pounds. But it hasn't always been that way. I have battled weight issues my whole life. Never obese, but always had problems. This last time, when I was 47, I told myself it would be the lat time I dieted to LOSE WEIGHT. That's the important phrase. I lost 35 pounds using Medifast. It's not for everyone, but it worked for me.

Since then I have not had a problem because I work on it all the time and here's my secret. I eat whatever I want...JUST NOT ALOT OF IT. I do eat breakfast, because it is my favorite meal of the day. I limit carbs. If I order a sandwich, I take off one piece of bread...I don't eat everything on my plate. I am aware of what I put in my body and I (and everyone else) knows when it's been too much.

I don't like to exercise...but when I do, i feel better. But I don't as a rule, exercise. The bottom line is I have a range I like to be in, and if I step on the scale (as I do everyday), and I am near the top of that range, I stop eating carbs for a few days and it comes down.

AGAIN, NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.

[HungarianGypsy]

I have gone from size 12 to 8 since March. All I did was cut my portions in half and splurge on whatever junk I want one day a week. After a few weeks I could not physically eat larger portions without getting sick from overfullness. I also started hiking and walking the dog. How I wish for the coolness of Fall, so I can do the last part again.

[ClearCase_guy]

I grew up in a family that ate backwards as a diet plan. Breakfast was very large -- meals such as lasagna, steak, grilled salmon, roast chicken, etc. We at dinner first thing in the morning, basically. Lunch was a basic lunch (sandwiches, etc.) and Dinner (the evening meal) could be eggs, oatmeal, maybe just fruit and toast.

Not everyone wants to cook dinner at 6 AM, but it was an interesting way of life.

[Bryanw92]

Eat small meals 3x a day. Reduce fat intake (hint: most low-calorie and low-carb food is high in fat). Don’t worry about carbs and calories. Exercise lightly, but regularly.

I lost 35 pounds this year by doing the above.

[TheConservativeParty]

I never skip breakfast (cereal and milk, it’s easy), then I have “linner” (lunch-dinner) around 3pm, and then a snack or small meal around 7 when I’m done working on the farm. Nothing like constant excersice to keep you from weighing 400 pounds. If I had a desk job, forget about it, I’d be a real heifer.

Whatever works for you. I like the small meals throughout the day theory to keep blood sugars from spiking and keeping them rather even.

One thing I’ve tried without success to impress on my husband, is that his drinking of sugared soda as if it were water, is a very very bad thing. I estimate if he stopped doing that, he’d easily drop 20 pounds the first year without even missing that sugary crap. As a treat, soda is fine, but not by the huge glassful like water.

Best of luck on finding the best way for you to eat healthy.

I need to take more time to shop and get more fruits and veg. I tend to get too busy and send the hubby to the store for food staples. I know I always feel better when I eat closer to the cave man diet than the Little Debbie diet.

: )

[Tax Government]

I lost 20 pounds over 2.5 months using this diet. It is extremely simple.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwdxTRAH_Gs

[Tax Government]

I lost 20 pounds over 2.5 months using this diet. It is extremely simple.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwdxTRAH_Gs

[deport]

I grew up in a family that ate backwards as a diet plan.

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I once had a boss that followed that approach. Whatever his wife prepared for the evening meal was saved and reheated for early morning. He ate a light lunch and a very light evening snack. He seemed to do okay with it.

[Frantzie]

O**ma’s America.

Eat and live like a pauper.

[FatherofFive]

Very simple -

1. NO refined sugar
2. NO refined flour.
3. Eat REAL food, ie no "ingredient" list. Beef is food. Broccoli is food. Twinkies is not food.

My breakfast is steel cut oats, fruit and yogurt (greek strained yogurt, no added sugar). Lunch is a bowl of vegetables, heavy on broccoli and cauliflower with a vinegar olive oil dressing. Dinner is usually a gourmet meal - most anything, lots of butter sauces, chicken, beef, fish lamb. Cut out the refined flour and refined sugar and you can eat most anything you want. Plus I play racquetball every day for about an hour.

This is a 90 minute video on the dangers of sugar. Sugar: The Bitter Truth

[matt1234]

Do not draw conclusions from one man or a small group of FReepers. Both samples are statistically insignificant and unreliable. A scientfically valid study requires a much larger sample.

[Cloverfarm]

I lost about 20 pounds since starting to work full time at a local factory. It’s because 1. All of a sudden I am standing or walking 7 hours a day; 2. It’s hot in there and that kills my appetite; 3. My job is kind of nerve-wracking, which also kills my appetite.

However, after hitting a plateau I started eating breakfast every day; a light lunch; and instead of Cokes drink water plus Crystal Light. This instead of starving all day.

I often do lunch with a co-worker who lost 60 pounds by using portion control and more exercise.

My BP is about 110/70; resting heart rate is 56; fasting blood sugar was 80 last time I was tested; but cholesterol was 264 (with no meds). This was down from 300+ but still not where it needs to be.

I can’t emphasize enough what a difference exercise has made.

[kimmie7]

That’s what my mother swears by. Works for her.

[irishjuggler]

I basically eat only two meals per day: a 600-800 calorie brunch and a 700-1000 calorie dinner. Not gaining but not losing either. I don’t care what anyone says. Once you get past your mid-20s, it’s HARD to lose weight, especially if you have a sedentary occupation. I laugh when I see these nutritional guidelines that recommend 2000-2500 calories per day. If I ate like that every day, I’d be obese in 6-12 months.