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34: Skipping Breakfast: Good or Bad?

Chelsea Blackbird

On today’s episode we are myth busting current notions out there about intermittent fasting and skipping breakfast. Tune in to discover what is means to be a sugar burning versus a fat burner, and what you can do to promote stable mood, and balanced energy through food and fasting.

EPISODE 34: Skipping Breakfast: Good or Bad?

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SHOW NOTES

(0:00) Intro

(0:44) Introducing today’s topic: Skipping breakfast, good or bad?

  • Airport backstory:

  • Two questions!

    • What do you think about intermittent fasting?

    • Isn’t breakfast the most important meal of the day?

(3:50) The real meaning of breakfast:

  • Intermittent fasting doesn’t mean that you skip breakfast.

  • Breakfast comes from the words “break” and “fast”.

  • When we have our first meal the next day after sleeping we break the fast.

  • Consider concept of breakfast of time and not just food.

  • So, the more accurate question is, is it bad to delay breakfast?

(6:30) We’ve heard the myths, now here’s the truth:

  • When you wake up, your metabolism is already on fire IF you are metabolically flexible.

  • Metabolic flexibility means being about to burn both sugar and fat for energy.

  • How your body uses energy while sleeping.

  • SAD Diet – Standard American Diet

    • Overload of processed carbohydrates keeps people stuck in sugar burning mode.

    • Leads to energy crisis upon waking.

(9:45) Backstory of how I used to not be metabolically flexible: 

  • Oh, the irony of my previous outlook! 🙈

  • Now, I never eat before I exercise!

  • Metabolically flexible people do not feel the need to wake up and eat right away.

(12:29) What is means to be a sugar burner:

  • How Dietitians and Nutritionists attempting to get ahead of this problem.

  • Being hangry leads to unhealthy and compulsive choices.

  • Studies funded by companies with a stake in the game.  

(15:13) Tidbit on John Harvey Kellogg:

  • Intention behind the invention cornflakes.

    • Anaphrodisiac foods

  • Excess of carbs can negatively affect libido.

(17:30) Taking studies with a grain of salt:

  • Some are legit, and some are propaganda.

  • Pay attention to the context.

 (18:21) More on breakfast and intermittent fasting:

  • Fasting myth: You can’t break your fast until midday?

  • You can choose whatever fasting window you like!

  • Why you do NOT have to fast for 16 hours

  • What food are you going to break for fast with?

    • Goals: stable mood, energy, balanced appetite.

    • Power of protein + fat for breakfast.

    • Too many carbs without the presences of the other macronutrients will crash your energy sooner.

  • #1 Goal in Feast to Fast® is to train our bodies to be metabolically flexible.

    • Training your body to be in fat burning mode.

(24:55) There are no breakfast police!

  • Breakfast does not have to be what we have come to know as ‘breakfast foods’

    • Historical outlook.

    • Modern day food abundance.

(28:09) How we are designed to be metabolically flexible:

  • Understanding food availability.

  • How God designed our bodies.

(30:15) Kicking off the next round of Feast 2 Fast®:

(31:50) Outro & Disclaimer

Thanks for listening! Have a healthy and blessed week!

XOXO,

Chelsea