Big, Carb Packed Breakfast Best for Weight?

Well, it may seem counterintuitive to some, including me, but apparently eating a big, high carb breakfast may be the ticket to eating less throughout the day, and even more surprising, may be the best way to beat further carb cravings throughout the day.  You’d think that starting off with carbs would fuel your hunger, but apparently the opposite is shown as being true. 

I read on in this article that was recently in the news advocating high carb, large breakfasts, and thought about those days when I happen to eat a larger breakfast and thought it did seem to be true in my case, since if I eat a smaller, more restricted and low carb, high protein breakfast, I do seem to eat more throughout the day, and in fact I even crave more sugar throughout the day.  Carb blockers work on the assumption that someone has taken in too many excess carbs and can work to help burn those off, but those are for later in the day. 

But the real killer is snacking all the way almost until you go to bed, which can happen when you deprive yourself earlier in the day, when it’s actually better to load on the majority of the day’s calories, since you still have the rest of the day to burn those naughty little calories off.  Here’s the trick though, researchers are advocating the large breakfast that is more high in carbs, because they say it’s especially effective if, for the remainder of the day, the dieter eats low carb foods and a low calorie menu.

They say that because of the early load up, it actually works to the dieter’s benefit since they’ve already had their fill of fruits and veggies, or wheat products, all which tend to be high carb, and that since they’ve had their fill in the morning, they then do not crave these foods which are harder to burn off later in the day.  The key is though, to not take the big breakfast as a cue for the rest of the day, and instead stick to that lower calorie, lower carb regimen for the rest of the day, when the body is not burning off all the calories.

Research has shown that low carb diets do not work in the long term because they actually slow the metabolism down and fuel the cravings for sugars and carbs, so that when the person goes off, they really go off, and usually people who try this type of diet return to obesity, whereas if they follow the general rule of big breakfast, controlled the rest of the day, they will keep that weight off for the rest of the day.