A really big breakfast

[supernova]

Thinking about eating strategies is hard work. Thinking about how to eat during the day to 1) Get good nutrition, 2) control weight, 3) Make sure it tastes good. :P ;-)

When I think about how hard a time I've had controlling my weight, I often think about one of my college roomates and one of my best friends from that time. She was a beautiful Korean girl from the DC area. She wanted to be a fashion designer and I hope that now that is what she is, being as artistically talented as she was then. She even offered to make me a wedding dress when the time came. Sadly, I never took her up on her offer. Like a lot of Asian women, she was small, well taller than me really, and more importantly, thin.. I hated that about her! :P :D I was thin then too really, running around campus, walking everywhere. But she seemed to have an easier time than me with it. Why I wondered, when we ate mostly the same things from the cafe???

A typical situation was that when coming back to the room, I would find Young Joo and another Korean girl sitting on her bed talking. Just the usual girltalk really, who's dating whom, what guys are cute.... And then the subject of food came up.

Here's where the stereotypes hit the road.

My dainty Korean roomate would proceed to hold forth on the mammoth breakfasts she would eat at home. And I mean, eggs (american-style breakfast), crab, steak from last night, Kim Chee, oranges or whatever fruit was about, salad, basically anything and everything in the fridge was fair breakfast game. Whether it was considered proper breafast food or not, just didn't enter into it.

"How could you eat all that in one sitting?" I'd roll my eyes in wonderment/disgust.

"But I was HUNGRY!!" She would whine. :D

This was a mock argument. I was simply amazed a small thing like her had room for all that. :D

Back to the present, and I find this in the morning news:


Big breakfast 'aids weight loss'
The easy way to lose weight?

Breakfast really could be the most important meal of the day when it comes to losing weight, claims a researcher.

Over several months, obese women who ate half their daily calories first thing fared better than those eating a much smaller amount.

US researcher Dr Daniela Jakubowicz told a San Francisco conference having a small breakfast could actually boost food cravings.

A UK expert said a big breakfast diet might simply be less boring.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7460729.stm

Seems those Korean women might really be on to something...

[AllieB]

1. I have had to train myself to eat in the morning

I was never hungry until 2 hours after coffee, but aside from weight loss, a breakfast with adequate protein energizes me for the day. I usually eat an omelette or frittata with at least 2 eggs (sometimes mixed with liquid egg whites), and include onions, spinach, or some other type of vegetable, and a little cheese. Sometimes I eat a chicken sausage too. This can hold me most of the day, and I don't get that afternoon blood sugar crash anymore.