How did we get duped into believing that an early breakfast

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Eating almonds is the best.

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I’m a raw walnut guy, and I agree with you.

Not that I've verified any of this but I've read that it was possibly the grain? lobby that paid a Harvard professor to who then falsified a research paper which ended up being the basis for the food pyramid.

I may have made that all up.

Have you ever seen what they did with orange juice? It was all an ad campaign in the 50s or 60s that took off and made everyone start drinking it for breakfast.

The more meals you eat the more money food and beverage companies make.

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If someone lifts around lunch and has a huge meal after wouldn't you say that lunch is the most important meal of the day? If someone lifts around dinner and has a huge meal after wouldn't you say that dinner is the most important meal of the day?

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Yes, I'd agree with both of those statements as well. My point was that it all depends how your day is structured.

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Not that I've verified any of this but I've read that it was possibly the grain? lobby that paid a Harvard professor to who then falsified a research paper which ended up being the basis for the food pyramid.

I may have made that all up.

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No I agree with you fully. It was a concerted lobbying effort by sugar, corn, and grain type industries to promote their shitty products and villainize fat. The whole “complete breakfast” charade was promoted by people like General Mills to sell sugary, refined grain type shite. As a kid in the early 90’s, we were taught to avoid eating things like eggs and bacon, but yet school kids were allowed to drink poison like sunny delight and fruit loops.

There’s nothing wrong with breakfast per se. but the whole “breakfast is most important meal of the day” is a product of advertising. Now that science has emerged favorably towards fasting and healthy fats, that campaign has been exposed for what it is. Still, I do think what you eat for breakfast - or don’t eat for breakfast - sets the tone for the rest of your day.

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Regulates my blood sugar and metabolism

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I think that's the point of OP. The reason your blood sugar and glucose metabolism needs "regulating" regularly is because you eat too often. Sort of circular.

I've found that limiting my feeding window over the last 3-4 years has made me seldom snacky/hungry. My hunger is much more, ok, it's time to eat something. Instead of that sort of frantic hunger or craving.

That said, I love breakfast food and want to move my window a little earlier and eating breakfast food mid am. I know that's cultural, and I do enjoy breakfast for dinner, but I just prefer breakfast in am.

Hijack rant over.

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AyyyBaw

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I love how we get down voted for disagreeing based on performance. Lol

I been doing IF for over 5 years now, before most have even heard of it, but its mugging by a way to control total caloric intake. So stupid people by into it enthusiasts the same mentality the op talks about with the who breakfast is most important meal of the day.


Bottom line is breakfast is important for athletes, not because it's special but because most its a chance to ingest calories and athletes need lots of calories.

I’m normally not really hungry for breakfast unless I eat dinner really early. Typically just do a meal replacement shake or bacon and eggs.