I was visiting Dying for Food blog today and found this post very interesting.  Here’s a snippet of it but you should really click The Big Breakfast Diet to get the whole story.  With a lapband on, this is not an option for me because I can only hold 1 cup of food at a time.  I couldn’t fit all that food in one sitting, but if you don’t have a band and are looking for ways to lose weight, why not try it?  Anything with chocolate or candy in it works for me!  Here’s the post:

We’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but now a study has concluded that you can lose more weight if you have a big breakfast.

Women who were on the big breakfast diet lost almost 5 times the weight than did those who were on a low carb diet.

Dr. Daniela Jakubowicz has this explanation for the process. Upon awakening, your body looks for food. The metabolism is geared up for it and your levels of adrenaline and cortisol are at their peaks. The brain needs energy immediately and if you don’t eat or have too little, it has to look for that energy elsewhere. So it goes into a system that takes energy from muscle, which destroys the muscle tissue. When you do eat later in the day the body saves the energy from the food you just ate as fat.

To make it even worse, the levels of serotonin in your brain are at their highest in the morning. So your cravings are at their lowest. Later, when the serotonin levels start dropping you get cravings for cake and chocolate and things like that. When you give in and eat those treats the level of serotonin rise. This is not good because your body associates the treats with feeling good and that becomes addictive.

Check out the whole story at Dying for Food.

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