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Breakfast is the first meal of the day. If you eat -any- meals, then you eat breakfast. The first one you eat, is your breakfast. Breakfast, by definition, is the meal that breaks your fast. The fast, is the one you experience from the time you stop eating, until the time you start eating again. For most people of the human variety, this would be after supper, through sleepy-time, til some time in the morning, prior to lunch.
For others, such as those who work third shift, it would be some time in the late afternoon or evening.
For some people who fast for religious or political reasons, the fast would occur some time after the last meal, and some time before the moment they go off the fast, or die, whichever comes first.
Breakfast is a term that means "to break a fast." Or "to cease fasting." Or "to resume eating after a period of not eating."
Breakfast doesn't mean "morning eggs" or "cuppa coffee." Breakfast is the first meal of the day - whenever that first meal occurs.
I eat twice in the morning, once after my workout around 7:00 a.m. and again around 9:30 or 10:00. The first one is usually a Greek yogurt/banana smoothie or toast and peanut butter and the second is usally a bowl of cereal or yogurt and cereal if I didn't have the yogurt earlier. I'm hungry then so I eat.
I do whatever I am in the mood for. Lately I just wanted a huge glass of whole milk for breakfast + coffee.
Then about 500 calorie lunch, dinner and double snacks at night. I just don't always something of substance so early in the morning these days. I was starving for breakfast though when I was losing weight. My hunger would wake me before the alarm did.
Breakfast doesn't mean "morning eggs" or "cuppa coffee." Breakfast is the first meal of the day - whenever that first meal occurs.
Etymology does not always dictate definition. Usage does. "I skipped breakfast and had a sandwich for lunch" is a standard, widely used, English sentence. It is used to translate "dejeuner de matin" (french) Aruchat Boker (Hebrew) etc, etc all of which literally are "morning meal"
The word "brunch" could not have been invented if breakfast was only used as you define it.
Language evolves. Words shift in meaning. A chair of a committee is still such, even if the stand up. The "left" in a legislature, does not always sit on the speaker's left. You can "ship" something by air, or truck, or rail.
The standard usage for the first meal after a deliberate fast is "break the fast" If you think otherwise, go to a synagogue at the end of Yom Kippur, and ask people about their plans for "breakfast" and see how many confused looks you get.
Even the derm Dr. Denese recommends protein only or nothing in the morning to allow human growth hormone to be released. There is nothing inherently metabolism boosting about breakfast in fact it may be the opposite. In any case I've decided to shift the majority of my food intake past noon.
I feel like breakfast is the most important meal. I feel better after I eat it. I don't eat breakfast till around 1030 - 1100 so I guess it could almost be brunch but I have the same thing every day. Whole grain oatmeal with a few blueberries....sometimes a couple of egg whites with seasoning.
I've eaten breakfast religiously the last ten years, time to switch it up.
im surprised you are looking to switch it up. i would think that with all your focus on diet for all this time you would have found an approach you were happy with. not that it isnt perfectly normal for people to try different things over the years but you seem like you are kind of set with how you do things.
i dont really try any "diets." just manipulate the calories. the only things ive played around with is the ratios of protein/carbs/fats but never enough to consider it a special diet.
i dont really try any "diets." just manipulate the calories. the only things ive played around with is the ratios of protein/carbs/fats but never enough to consider it a special diet.
And what could be better for breakfast than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? I guess you could "switch it up" by toasting the bread, yes?
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