Sport Big Breakfast......Good or Bad?

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I am currently trying to lose about 60 pounds to get to in better shape. I've already lost 60 pounds in the last year and a half, but had to take a 3 month break because of school/work. I am now ready to re-dedicate myself.

One question that I've been wanting to ask is if a big breakfast is a good thing? I normally have 3 meals, with 2 snacks (normally a banana, apple, or a cup of cheerios), with breakfast being my biggest meal. I limit myself to around 1800-1900 (currently about 55% carbs, 35% protein, 10% fat over the past week as tracked by fitday.com) calories per day, 330 of them coming from 3 scoops of my protein shakes (3 servs. 72g prot). I normally have a pretty big breakfast (600 calories or so at 6am) to get my day started, and have a snack (125 calories) around 10am, eat lunch around 12 (400 calories on average), have another snack around 3pm (125 calories), eat dinner around 6pm (400 calories), workout around 7:30 (about an hour), have protein shake after workout at about 8:45 (330 calories).

Does this seem like a descent enough plan? Any critiques welcome. I also started taking Ripped Fuel Extreme to help me with my energy levels (it seems to give me more energy throughout the day, which gives me energy when i get out of work so that I want to workout and not go straight to bed). Has anyone used this before, and does it continue to give you energy over the long run, or does you body compensate, and the effect goes away after awhile?

Thanks

Steve
 
Yep, breakfest should be your biggest meal %98 of the time. Has with your eating plan you haven't listed any foods. I myself lost about 25 pounds 8months ago just by counting calories but once you get under %20bodyfat you will have to eat healthier foods to get cut. In my experience anyways. Has they say, "Not all calories are equal" meaning 100cals from an healthy fat is not the same has saturated fat in terms of body composition.
 
Total: 1831
Fat: 24 218 12%
Sat: 5 49 3%
Poly: 3 30 2%
Mono: 4 33 2%
Carbs: 295 1023 57%
Fiber: 39 0 0%
Protein: 142 566 31%
Alcohol: 0 0 0%

**Thats Grams, Calories, %ofdiet

This is my average for the month, but its only been about 2 weeks since i started getting serious about adding more protein and eating less carbs. Instead of listing all the food, I hope this is a descent representation of my eating for the month. This next month, I will be doing the protein shakes to increase protein, decrease carbs, and try to keep fat between 10-15%.
 
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Healthy fats are ok, olive oil, flax seeds/oil, fish oil.

Like i said you can just watch cals for a while without attention to food choices but if you want to get very lean you will have to address food selection at sometime.

Fruit, Veggies, lean proteins, healthy fats etc
 
Well Im currenty 230lbs at 5'7" so I far from worrying about getting super lean or ripped. Right now I am aiming for healthy. My next goal is 170. Its crazy, but 16months ago, I weighed 290 pounds(shiver). I've had to adjust my diet from time to time, as it was alot easier to lose weight at 290lbs than it is at 230. I will try to incorporate more fruits/veggies into my diet.

Thanks.

Steve
 
Its good you never lose weight too fast. Your weight stablized, that's a good thing in the long run.

Be patient and learn. :)
 
Bad idea.

Firstly your body is detoxing and secondly it is a surefire way to sap your energy for the day. Hunger provides the energy we need to hunt (even though we dont hunt anymore we still have to go out and earn a living). Think about it, if being hungry made you tired, humans would have perished cos they wouldnt have had the energy to hunt.

Like sex, hunger is a positive drive that makes us energetic. And think about what babies do when they eat... they go to sleep! Therefore eat your big meal in the evening when you can eat it and then be satiated and rest.

In short, graze on snacks during the day, eat a big meal at night. You can still get all the calories you need and you should still eat good ingredients, but stuffing yourself in the morning is a surefire way to lethargy.
 
haha thanks cannavaro thats my thoughts too and everyone is always on my case about not eating a huge breakfast.. now i have a great come back, you rock!
 
I'm with newf, a large breakfast and tapper your meals throughout the day.. This is the most widely accepted concept. How does hunger (the body sensing it is low on food, aka calories, aka the stuff your body breaks down to atp and energy) give you more energy? It may give you a mental edge, but nothing physiological, all psychological.
 
This may be the widely accepted concept... in a world of fat tired people! If hunger and sexual desire made you tired, human beings would have perished bcos our 2 main purposes in life are to survive and to reproduce.

Eating and having sex are satiating acts that cause pleasure, fulfillment and relaxation- if not then we would never go after them. It is pure common sense, something that has been done for millenia until recently.

Try it before you knock it bcos one things for certain- the way people are eating now is absolutely catastrophic.
 
hhmmm its not like you don't eat breakfast just not a huge breakfast, when you eat a bigg meal you feel tired, so smaller meals give you energy without feeling tired.. it works for me at any rate.
 
I said the biggest meal of the day, like your breakfest should be 400 to 500cals hardly a huge meal.

The body is very receptive to carbs ands protein after fasting for 8+hours. Its usually goes where its suppose to, in the muscles.

Hunger provides the energy we need to hunt (even though we dont hunt anymore we still have to go out and earn a living).
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What kind of energy are we talking about? Surly not from food calories but your fat and muscles.
 
cannavaro said:
Bad idea.

Firstly your body is detoxing and secondly it is a surefire way to sap your energy for the day. Hunger provides the energy we need to hunt (even though we dont hunt anymore we still have to go out and earn a living). Think about it, if being hungry made you tired, humans would have perished cos they wouldnt have had the energy to hunt.

Like sex, hunger is a positive drive that makes us energetic. And think about what babies do when they eat... they go to sleep! Therefore eat your big meal in the evening when you can eat it and then be satiated and rest.

In short, graze on snacks during the day, eat a big meal at night. You can still get all the calories you need and you should still eat good ingredients, but stuffing yourself in the morning is a surefire way to lethargy.
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I just wokeup so i never read this over that well.

cannavaro, what the hell are you reading dude? do you think man didn't try to catch more then one meal at a time? why did we learn how to harvest? breed cattle etc? You ever hear of evolution? I'm sure more then one caveman had a small meal before he and his posse went to gather more food for his family and/or community.
 
Still I can't, and have never been able, to eat a big breakfast, it makes me feel pukey.I have maintained my weight since high school and after having two kids. I eat smaller type meals thru out the day and it seems to work for me, even during night shifts. I think that big meals do make you sleepy and that to keep your enegy levels up eating moderate meals thru out the day is better. Atleast thats what works for me, working 12's plus two kids, a dog and maintaining my home can be taxing and add workingout into the mix. Keeping a consistent feed on the body and not jamming it once or twice a day full of food makes more sense. A bigger meal doesn't keep your glucose levels even, what about the spikes?? Am I missing something here??? If so correct me, have I been doing it wrong half my life???
 
lol that extra banana would send me over the top. lol I think I'll just stick to what is working for me.. Plus I've never counted calories!! I would not even know where to begin. Is that bad???
 
Righto Newf, I guess I'm golden. Hell two kids and I've managed to maintain for 16 years at the same weight even with the whole aging factor. I'll forget worrying about adding in counting calories to my busy scedule. Lol, thanks for the info. ;)
 
cannavaro said:
Bad idea.

Firstly your body is detoxing and secondly it is a surefire way to sap your energy for the day. Hunger provides the energy we need to hunt (even though we dont hunt anymore we still have to go out and earn a living). Think about it, if being hungry made you tired, humans would have perished cos they wouldnt have had the energy to hunt.

Like sex, hunger is a positive drive that makes us energetic. And think about what babies do when they eat... they go to sleep! Therefore eat your big meal in the evening when you can eat it and then be satiated and rest.

In short, graze on snacks during the day, eat a big meal at night. You can still get all the calories you need and you should still eat good ingredients, but stuffing yourself in the morning is a surefire way to lethargy.
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The first humans were not hunters, so that kinda kills the hunter theory.

Being sex starved is not like being starved. Wanting food and wanting sex are two different things. Food means you survive, sex means reproduction. We want both, yet they can't be compared. You can survive without sex, and as far as I know the lack of sex only makes you frustrated (thankfully, we have ways to cope with it to some degree). You can't survive without food. I'm not saying your method is bad, but you simply can't use your comparisons. As long as it works for you, I see no reason to change it. If eating "big" breakfast doesn't work for others, then I think they should give your method a try, but personally I don't eat a meal at all right before I go to bed. I eat breakfast, a bit bigger lunch, even bigger dinner. Probarbly not the best thing to do, but it has worked for me so far and untill I need a change I won't change it.
 
I still think for the majority of the population (obviously other stuff works better for some people :::cough, cough::: jenn.. lol) breakfast should be the largest meal of the day. If you're eating 5 meals a day, taking in 2500 kcal, breakfast should be 500-600+ Kcal. Sex & food are not related, different kinds of satisfaction. Explain to me in common sense how eating calories (which are energy) make you tired. Then why would someone eat before they lift? Or before they run a 5k or a 10k? Yes their is one amino acid that is said to make people tired, L-tryptophan, but other than that its all in your head; which is easily overcome if you're determined to get fit.

Oh, and it's completely different if it upsets your stomach.. Obviously someone shouldn't do something they know will make them hurt.
 
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