Breakfast,the most important meal of the Day? Let’s discuss.

I think we have all heard the saying “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”.

I digress, I think it is one of MANY important meals of the day. Eating enough throughout the day is what is really important so that there are less chances of bingeing.

There is a debate in the Intuitive Eating Wellness space whether it is ok to skip breakfast or not.

Well, it depends.

Some have to wake up really early,and are just not hungry. You may be waking up at 5am,6am,7am to get ready for your day and just not quite ready to eat yet, so your first meal of the day may be 10am,11am, 12 noon even.

One of the principles of Intuitive Eating is honor your hunger and fullness, and it is here where we honor our hunger, and not go by the clock. This is good.

But here is what usually happens:

We are in careers/ caregiving responsibilities etc where we may not have the chance to eat at 10 am, 11 am, and so forth as our first meal of the day. So then when you finally do have an opportunity to eat, you end up bingeing all the foods and not feel so great due to eating past fullness. A total normal response to not having food all day. I think about the nurses that work in a hospital, the teachers at school, the bus driver in the city, etc. SO what do you do in this case?

When you know you won’t be able to eat at all due to a meeting, obligations, your job etc this is where “practical eating” comes in.

Practical eating is the habit of eating BEFORE your scheduled obligations whether you are hungry or not because you won’t have an opportunity to eat for awhile. This applies even for lunch and dinner too. Otherwise, you will be finding yourself at 3pm bingeing and eating past fullness and wonder why you are “overeating”. But this is normal, your body needed food.

Overtime, your body can send signals of hunger before your set schedule begins including those schedules where you have to get up earlier and get ready for your day.

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