New eating habits.

[Popinski]

1. Eat a huge breakfast. Don't eat breakfast items, eat what you would have for dinner

2. Eat a medium portion for lunch

3. Eat a very small meal during dinner.

A co-worker did this thing where he reversed the amounts of breakfast and dinner and he says his energy skyrocketed. He also says mentally clearer and he has a better time with his wife in bed. Anyone doing this method?

Sorry for so many grammar errors...I have major insomnia and I have work in 2 hours.

 

[zyxelenator]

Try Melatonin pills,they help very good. Melatonin produced by your brain when it's dark and makes you sleepy.

 

[sciphi]

I like a good breakfast. No functioning otherwise.

 

[greenaccord02]

My grandmother used to say, "Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper." She lived to be quite old.

 

[mpvue]

Originally Posted By: Popinski
...has a better time with his wife in bed. Anyone doing this method?



IDK his wife, but if you have a picture...

 

[callbay]

You might try taking vitamin B-12. It helps me. Ny doctor recomends 2,500 micrograms of time release. If you take in the morning it should help you sleep at night.

 

[JHZR2]

Yeah, good idea, IMO. Most breakfast foods are garbage. While eggs can be good, I can only take so many of them before getting sick of eating eggs. Plus everything else (the meats, breads, jellies, etc) are full of sugar and excess fat.

Im all for eating the right share of fats and protein, but I think youre on the right track. Especially larger sizes.

Im not the biggest breakfast person, so I usually dont have a huge appetite. I eat a moderate breakfast, a large lunch, and then a small dinner. But I also try to break up my eating into five or six times instead of three.

 

[CROWNVIC4LIFE]

Originally Posted By: Popinski
1. Eat a huge breakfast. Don't eat breakfast items, eat what you would have for dinner

2. Eat a medium portion for lunch

3. Eat a very small meal during dinner.



I really wish I could do this..I have zero appetite in the morning and not much for lunch..I only get hungry around 6PM..In the AM I manage to eat a little cold cereal,orange juice [and around 6 cups of coffee over a 4 hour period] but thats it.

 

[benjamming]

I enjoy breakfast & wonder if that might be caused by growing up on a farm. If you didn't eat breakfast, you wouldn't make it to lunch & there's nothing edible where I was working.

 

[Pop_Rivit]

It's amazing how crackpot diets continue to rear their ugly heads, such as your friends Reverse Diet. Yes indeed it has a name, and yes indeed there are people who claim to have dropped weight from it.

It's been shown time and time again that the benefit is from switching to healthier foods, and I'm willing to bet that your friend, rather than receiving a benefit from the timing of the meals, is receiving a benefit from eating a different balance of food. If your friend were to take the same balance/ratio and spread it out into three even meals he'd feel the same. Or 6 small meals. Or two large meals.

The Reverse Diet (touted by a fat lady who lost almost 200 pounds) contains the following instruction:

Originally Posted By: Reverse Diet Book
The only way that this diet will work is if users eat healthy foods that are low in fatty contents


Gasp! A diet on which people eat "healthy" food helps with losing weight! Who'd a thunk it?

Your friend would be far better served to learn a bit about food, what constitutes a healthy balance for his body, and rather than follow a fad diet apply the knowledge by following and living a healthy lifestyle.

 

[JHZR2]

Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit
It's amazing how crackpot diets continue to rear their ugly heads, such as your friends Reverse Diet. Yes indeed it has a name, and yes indeed there are people who claim to have dropped weight from it.

It's been shown time and time again that the benefit is from switching to healthier foods, and I'm willing to bet that your friend, rather than receiving a benefit from the timing of the meals, is receiving a benefit from eating a different balance of food.


While I agree that the healthier balance of foods is a key part of it, there is also LOTS of evidence to say that going to sleep with excessive food in your stomach (the typical big dinner American diet approach) can lead to digestive issues, esophogeal issues, etc.

The last thing I'd want is to go to sleep with a ton of food in me. If digestion slows at night, guess what happens to that food?

More smaller meals is preferable, IMO, and I like the bias towards earlier so it digests and meets my needs for the day. Not saying it is a miracle cure for loosing weight or gaining energy, but I do believe that it is sound for other reasons and shouldn't just be dismissed because the American culture tends towards a big final meal each day.

 

[Scoot_4_20]

It's never a good idea to eat much protein late in the day, as it will tax your liver when you're supposed to be rebuilding / healing over night in your sleep. What I do is eat proteins [plant proteins] for breakfast and lunch only.

 

[Popinski]

Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit
It's amazing how crackpot diets continue to rear their ugly heads, such as your friends Reverse Diet. Yes indeed it has a name, and yes indeed there are people who claim to have dropped weight from it.

It's been shown time and time again that the benefit is from switching to healthier foods, and I'm willing to bet that your friend, rather than receiving a benefit from the timing of the meals, is receiving a benefit from eating a different balance of food. If your friend were to take the same balance/ratio and spread it out into three even meals he'd feel the same. Or 6 small meals. Or two large meals.

The Reverse Diet (touted by a fat lady who lost almost 200 pounds) contains the following instruction:

Originally Posted By: Reverse Diet Book
The only way that this diet will work is if users eat healthy foods that are low in fatty contents


Gasp! A diet on which people eat "healthy" food helps with losing weight! Who'd a thunk it?

Your friend would be far better served to learn a bit about food, what constitutes a healthy balance for his body, and rather than follow a fad diet apply the knowledge by following and living a healthy lifestyle.


It has been proven that eating more during breakfast, burning that food during the day, eating a small dinner, sleeping with little food in your stomach, is good for your body. You can ask any dietitian.