This is something I never expected to read, a bigger breakfast in the morning may in fact help people lose more weight over the long term because eating a larger breakfast reduces food cravings in the morning whereas a smaller breakfast doesn't.
I'm not sure how much weight I could lose by eating a larger breakfast but I must confess to being very hungry by lunchtime and I often snack mid morning to keep me going. The man in the house is worse than me, he grazes all day long.
What I found really interesting reading that article was the difference over 8 months that was noticed between the two groups of dieters. One group was on a lower calorie smaller breakfast diet and after a few months they stopped losing weight and started gaining weight again.
The other group was on a higher calorie large breakfast diet and started losing weight much slower in the first few months but at the end of 8 months were still losing weight.
A few of my friends and family are a little bit overweight and they all seem to eventually put weight back on again so I might mention this to them and see if it helps.
Tuesday, June 24. 2008
