Check this out... new study
 

The title of this article is obviously made to get attention, but read on.

http://todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.c...says-go-for-it

For those who don't want to go read it, this study divided obese people into two groups. One group ate a large, 600 calorie breakfast that included a dessert item--a cookie, cake, or a donut. The other group ate a small, low carb, low cal 300 calorie breakfast. The total number of calories was the same for both groups--the large-breakfast group had a smaller dinner. After 16 weeks both groups lost about the same amount of weight.

Then, both groups were advised to stay on this plan, but told they could eat more if they felt hunger/cravings. After another length of time (which the article doesn't state), the group that ate small breakfasts had gained 24 pounds on average. The group that ate large breakfasts had lost 15 pounds on average.

The group that ate the large breakfast with a dessert item also had lower levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin.

Hmmmm.... worth looking up the actual article, I think.

Jay

Guess its true what they say; eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. XD

I have never heard that before but I LOVE it. I'm totally going to start thinking like that.

Interesting. I can see it working for me. Since I am outside and busy all day I can't binge eat after brekkie. I wonder if I would have a huge sugar crash about 11 a.m. though? And I would have to find some way of purchasing 1 "dessert" item.

Maybe a Clif bar? I liken those to cookie desserts and they are available "one at a time".

I'm going to try this for a week with a Clif bar at breakfast. I'll buy one (240 cals) every day at the supermarket and have it for the next day's brekkie, along with oatmeal (240 cals) and a yogurt or 1 c. milk (110 cals).

Dagmar :moo: (if you squint it's guinea pig, right? :p)

Honestly I do the opposite. :lol: Eating the large breakfast didn't help me at all (It's what I used to do before). When I started eating smaller, filling breakfasts I found it easier to stick to a low-calorie diet.

That is quite interesting.

I'm the same way. If I eat a 600-cal breakfast, it sets me up for a 1000-cal lunch, a 500-cal afternoon snack, etc. It just makes me wanna eat and eat. I definitely need breakfast, but it has to be relatively low-cal.

I got curious, so I went and looked for more information. It turns out that the big breakfast is a high protein breakfast. A pile of carbs doesn't do it.

http://niunadietamas.com/DanielaJakubowicz/?paged=2

I also read more about the study. The follow-up period was another 16 weeks. Both groups lost the same amount after the first 16 weeks--about 30 pounds average. During the next 16 weeks, the small breakfast group regained 24 pounds, while the big breakfast group lost another 15 pounds.

The lead author, Jakubowicz, naturally has a book called The Big Breakfast Diet based on this. According to Jakubowicz, protein is the mainstay of the plan.

Jay

Looks like the study isn't that new--the book is 2 years old. Still, it's kind of interesting to think about.

Jay

Interesting to see this JayEll, thanks for posting it. :) Being I'm from the camp where I still have my cake & eat it too, I think it's a sa-weet study!

I notice with myself that if I eat well in the morning and early afternoon, I'm good. I can skip dinner and be fine. I simply am not very hungry in the second half of the day and I've always been this way. I think a big part of my problem in the past was that I would eat what I wanted in the morning and then still eat a big meal with the family at night. Well, that would put me over in calories a lot.

Now, I will eat a big breakfast, a snack, a big lunch, an afternoon snack and a very small dinner of just veggies and soemtiemes a protein. I am completely ok with not eating anything from 4 pm to the next morning.

Totally opposite of my husband and older son who are starving in the evening and not very hungry earlier in the day. It used to be a huge issue with meals and sleep, but Now we get it that we just have different biorhythms. I'm also a morning person. He's a night owl.

That's interesting. I am definitely a morning person (usually up by 5:30 at latest), but oddly enough, I'm not a big breakfast person. Usually, I eat breakfast later in the morning, and to be honest, if I'm busy, I can skip it altogether and be okay. However, I am a big dinner person, and my biggest temptation is overeating at night.

super on that maintaining for 4 years. Keepon a trucken.

hmm.... that is interesting. I do eat a protein filled breakfast and I usually finish it off with a fiberone brownie so I guess I'm following that philosophy-- though my breakfast is nowhere near 600 calories total.

That's good news for me, given that I love breakfast and usually "spend" 500 of my calories on it. I have no problem having a smallish supper if I've eaten well for breakfast and lunch.

F.