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RE: ADSactly Food - 💜 Homemade Granola and The Origin of Breakfast 💜

in #food7 years ago

IF = Intermittent Fasting
Nothing for breakfast, as we are late eaters and like to go to bed with a fully belly. When you go to bed full, you won't wake up hungry, so a cup of coffee with a few drops of half n half is all we have until about 2pm.
We're not crazy, IF is being practised by a lot of people who like the benefits of daily fasting, particularly on days you aren't doing a lot of exercise. Combined with eating better (more raw) foods in general, intermittent fasting is a great and relatively easy way to lose wieght and feel good.

Benefits:
#1 Easier to lose weight, as you don't adhere to all the fake-science old wives' tales that skipping a meal is bad for you. People have been skipping meals since the beginning of time, your body is built to store reserves, and needs to USE THEM occassionally.

#2 It's painless and actually makes you more alert and active during day
There's no energy like no energy. Not eating food can make you tired over an extended period, like days, but in the morning thru midday it actually heightens your senses. This is probably genetic, as it allowed for finer concentration in hunting/gathering, such that you could function perfectly to feed yourself in tough situations.

#3 Old Wives Tales
almost everything you hear thats good for you, isn't. That includes eating "3 squares". If you're going to be training or doing strenuous stuff during the day, then surely you should eat more often, and think about eating before strain/work/workouts. But most people don't have very physically taxing lives anymore, so less is more.

#4 No stretchy stomach
If you CONSTANTLY eat, you're stomach can expand and it can take more to make you feel good from eating. This is a downward spiral, and leads to a place where you're not even sure you're actually hungry when you eat. We went thru years without skipping meals, and remember forcing ourselves to eat when we weren't actually hungry, simply bc some talking head said you shouldn't skip meals. NONSENSE! Eat when you're hungry, not when you're not hungry. Ask any kid!

When we DO eat, we feel great, and we eat as much as we want. It's a great relieving feeling to stop doing what OTHERS tell you is right, and start paying attention to your instincts.

On the flip side, if you go hours after your last meal before going to bed, you'll prolly wake up hungry, you're probably a morning person. If you can not eat for 4 hours before going to bed, and sleep 8 hours, then IF may not be for you, as you're actually kinda doing IF in your sleep.

Look it up on YouTube, it's very cool and the people doing it are looking and functioning great. It's natural, and combined with eating good natural local mostly raw foods (meat too!), you'll feel much better.
Our first meal? sometimes it's a fruit & veggie smoothie, sometimes it's bacon and eggs with sour dough 2-ingredient bread-toast (water, flour).
While bacon is a preserved meat, we gotta live a little!

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In my opinion, breakfast violates the law of fasting.
From the word itself, breakfast means breaking the fast.
"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." I guess its a food industry slogan.

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