252 | Is it OK to not eat breakfast? - Tired But Toned

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode
of the Tea with Tina podcast,and today's topic is something
that you may be doing and canrelate to, and, as always,
there's always a little bit ofcontext when it comes to these
things.
So I'm going to break downeverything about this topic and
the nuance in it.
So what we're going to betalking about is eating

(00:22):
breakfast.
Alright, most people I've foundtalking about is eating
breakfast.
All right, most people I'vefound don't actually eat
breakfast, and more so, it seems, women, but guys too.
My husband is one of thosepeople.
He like eats a very smallbreakfast that's usually carby
and, like you know, a granolabar or something, some coffee,
and he's on his way and he'sgood till lunch.

(00:42):
And I do not know if it'sbecause I have PCOS.
I did get tested for my bloodsugar and they said my blood
sugar is fantastic.
Um, so I don't necessarily haveinsulin resistance, but I don't
know if it's my hormones orwhat, but I have always been a
breakfast lover.
I love eating breakfast.
Um, it is probably my biggestmeal of the day, um, or second
biggest meal of the day, and Ijust start off good.

(01:04):
Ironically enough, recently,the past couple of days I've not
been hungry as hungry I've beenwaking up with kind of that
full feeling in my stomach.
But here's what happens, andthis is why I eat breakfast.
And this may only pertain to me, but it seems like once I start
moving, once I get my bodymoving even if it's like 20, 30
minutes of me moving usually bythe time I'm out the door going

(01:26):
to work I start to get hunger.
It's almost like I have a falsefeeling of fullness.
Um, and then, once my body getsmoving, it's like, hey, we're
hungry and um, then I get stuckand I'm usually at work and then
I won't be able to eat untillunchtime and then I get a blood
sugar crash and I'm super tiredand hungry and hangry and it's
just not good.
So that is why I've learned toeat breakfast.

(01:48):
But some people are actuallyokay with fasting.
A lot of them will fast tilllate morning, early afternoon,
and there's nothing wrong withthis if you feel good.
Some people do fasted cardio.
Like I said, if you feel likeyou're not getting a huge energy
crash, low blood sugar, you'regetting grumpy, you're starving
before lunch hits like by allmeans you don't have to eat in

(02:10):
the morning, or maybe you evendo a delayed breakfast where
maybe, once you get to work, youeat something small or you have
a snack before lunch.
That's fine.
One thing I was chatting aboutwith some of my clients, though,

(02:31):
because I made a post on thisand they were commenting how
they weren't really hungryeither.
Um was, you know, it's notinherently bad.
Um, I was saying the big thing Isee with people who don't seem
to eat breakfast is they willhoard their calories um, kind of
all day, like when you get inthis, particularly in a dieting
mindset, you're like, oh, Ididn't eat breakfast and I have,
you know, a really like 200 300calorie lunch, while I'm doing
so good, like I'm normallyeating 2000 calories and I'm

(02:51):
only at 300 right now.
Let me keep that up.
At dinner I'm gonna haveanother 300 calories.
So then you look at it andyou're like 600 or 800 calories
for the day and you're notnecessarily looking at a target
goal to hit.
You're just like you know whatthat's so low.
Imagine how much quicker I'mgonna lose this weight now
because I ate way under what Iwas supposed to eat and you know
, in your head it kind of makessense.

(03:12):
It's like, okay, you'resupposed to eat 1500 calories
but you eat 600.
That's awesome, like you'regonna lose weight like twice the
speed.
But our bodies unfortunately donot work that way.
They they're kind of built on acompound effect.
So maybe the first day or twoyou can white knuckle your way
through that.
Maybe you're gonna have alittle bit of hunger and you're
like you know what.
It's just a part of the process.
I'm gonna drink some water,brush my teeth and go to bed.

(03:34):
Maybe day two you do the samething.
But eventually what happens isyou're like I'm just so tired
and hungry and I get all thesecrazy cravings and then all of a
sudden I just want chips andice cream and then I just I
can't stop eating.
And then you're so full, youwake up full and then you don't
want breakfast and then we'reback to this cycle of
restricting again because wefeel like we need to undo all of

(03:57):
that extra weight we gainedfrom binging right.
That's what I see a lot of thetime.
Pretty much your body is goingto catch up and account for
those calories, no matter what.
That's the big thing.
You know, one way or anotheryour body is going to say hey,

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we need food and that's why itcomes in the form of cravings,
because you, your body's like weneed salt, we need salt to
survive, we need carbs.
Carbs give us quick energy.
Uh, give me the fats.
You know, you know sugar,because it's quick digesting
energy and that's going to giveyou, like if you were a caveman
and you were hungry and therewas a tiger about to attack you,

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if you had some carbs realquick, you would have that burst
of energy to be able to runaway.
Think this is how your bodythinks, hence why we're craving
sugar and salt.
And this happens when you'retired too.
You crave these things becauseyour body's like I just need
energy, right, and your bodydoesn't care if you get fat.
It does not care, it's tryingto keep you alive.

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It does not know.
We're living in modern society,we have not evolved yet,
unfortunately.
So you know how can wealleviate this?
My suggestion would be to, ifyou are going to skip breakfast,
like, let's say, to keep iteasy, your goal would be to eat
1500 calories a day.

(05:21):
I'm doing this for easy math,and if we divide 1500 by three,
you eat breakfast, lunch anddinner that'd be 500 calories a
meal, right?
Well, if we skip breakfast.
That leaves us with an extra500 calories.
Okay, so we need to add that toour lunch and dinner in some
form.
Maybe you do 800 and 700.

(05:41):
If you can't have quite that bigof a meal, maybe you have like
a late morning snack.
That's 300 or 200, and thenmaybe you give yourself a nice
little sweet treat after dinner.
That makes up the rest of thecalories.
You see what I mean.
So we have to shift thosecalories somewhere.
So it's not wrong.
You know, I always say this too.
You can eat one big meal a dayif that works for you.

(06:01):
You can eat two meals a day,three, three, six small meals.
I've played around with all ofthese and it kind of just
depends on your schedule, yourpreferences and what works for
you.
As long as you're getting thecalorie amount that works and
aligns with your goals, itdoesn't matter how it's spread
up.
You could be strategic with it,though.
Like times you feel like you'regonna be more hungry can really

(06:23):
load with food, um, before thattime to feel fuller, right, um,
a lot of people, I feel like,also leave a big gap in between
certain meals and they waituntil they're starving to
absolutely eat, and again, hencewhy I eat breakfast to be more
preventative with the hunger,because I'm usually out and
about for five to six hours, um,before I get to eat again.
Just the way my schedule is, soI need to make sure that I have

(06:45):
enough food in my body for thatbefore I crash and burn.
So just something to kind ofthink about and I think a lot of
us aren't really in tune withour body and its hunger cues
maybe.
So something to play aroundwith.
Think about your currentsituation.
Are you just not eatingbreakfast because you're lazy or
busy and just don't know whatto do, and then you wait till

(07:07):
lunch or whatever?
I would encourage you to try tointroduce a small light
breakfast to see if that wouldhelp.
Something like a smoothie, someberries with oatmeal.
Do something that's not goingto be super heavy on your
stomach but kind of graduallyintroduce some food and see if
that helps.
If you are someone that'sdedicated to like fasting or
doing like a later breakfast,again nothing wrong with that.

(07:29):
Just make sure you are makingup for the lost calories so we
are not snacking at the end ofthe night.
Anytime we get any sort ofcraving, it's usually a result
of we're lacking something,we're lacking a nutrient or
we're lacking enough calories,so there's usually a root to the
craving.
Sometimes it can be emotionalas well.
So, again, something toinvestigate within the self, but

(07:51):
something to think about.
All right, so that was mylittle tidbit for today.
This was a shorter one, but Ihope you enjoyed, as always.
If you enjoy these episodes,feel free to share with a friend
or leave a comment.
I'd love to hear from thelisteners of the show, but have
a great rest of your day andI'll

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