Alfresco

Yep, it sure does. Skipping breakfast and even lunch (maybe an apple after 12pm, sometimes before) doesn't bother me now. Then when I eat at night, I stick to 80% full feeling, and that's it. The body adjusts amazingly.

commonwealth

...except that i never skip breakfast. It's essential. I need it ro jumpstart my metabolism. I don't feel well if i don't eat before leaving home in the morning.

IvanM

5 rashers 2 eggs

commonwealth

OMG - cholesterol galore.

but it's all good. a long life is bland and tasteless if you always eat healthily.

DeadVim

1) Dietary cholesterol does not affect blood serum cholesterol.

2) 'High' Cholesterol isn't a problem anyway.

Just FYI

DeadVim

My breakfast and lunch was a splash of milk (whole!) in my coffee around 7am, didn't eat until around 12 hours later.

But did I eat then? Hell yes

commonwealth

so it's a matter of choles absorption right? fibre reabsorbs blood choles so i heard.

DeadVim

As far as I can tell we will make way more cholesterol naturally than we can take in nutritionally so a few eggs a day really has no effect.

Fibre is good from a gut health perspective (keeping things moving) but I would not use it as some kind of cholesterol mitigation thing.

But hey, if you are feeling great then follow whatever works

carolinephillips

I remembered to eat breakfast this morning!! (Usually too full of tablets and feeling nauseous to eat immediately when I get up.)

I thought that having breakfast was supposed to be important - especially if you have to do physical stuff. What was the saying??

"Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper."

I can't go to bed on a full stomach due to acid reflux and incredible indigestion. If I eat closer than 3 hours before bedtime I suffer.

Mind you, dietary advice seems to say one thing one week and then totally contradicts it the next!!

jad n rich

After 5 days fasting in hospital, ( wait for surgery - cancelled each day ) so only got one small meal. Plus 2 litre of water a day in a drip.

The following week I had never felt so well, the digestive system was like a new machine, my stomach totally flat, 3lb lighter, and my appetite shrunk. I just felt so well.

Other thing that I find is cutting all wheat, and all sugar from diet. not difficult you just eat totally natural food and use another non wheat grain. That is truly a miracle cure, your skin, digestion, stomach, even my waist I measured it once 3 inches off waist and stomach in 2 weeks.

Have friends here right now, north american diet SUGAR !!! and processed and coffee, even a small amount of what they like has sent me puffy and bloated, plus they NEVER drink plain water. I am polietly slipping off to down water and eat raw veggies

asprilla

why not?!

Surely doing it for a few weeks, or months, can't hurt you?

Dreamy

And then what do you do? Go back to eating exactly the same way as you did previously?

DeadVim

I'm surviving on the splash of milk in my coffee this morning. According to my pedometer I've somehow hit my 10,000 goal too (stats to be stored in a pedofile ... poor joke, I'll inform the scriptwriters). I will also happily run around a cricket field in the same state.

It's a personal thing though, I just function better during the working week running lean. Got a huge dinner planned though

DeadVim

Yeh, you do hear stories of people that have dropped the wheat and had miraculous results. The Wheat Belly book is popular, although how much is based in fact is open to debate.

I did the grain-free thing for a bit, cut lots of sugar too. I think it helped me control cravings as I was probably a bit insulin resistant.

I find can go long periods without thinking about food these days even without restricting anything. I enjoy it when I do get to stuff my face though ... Drink red wine like a fish too

carolinephillips

I have never felt so good as I do on a totally gluten free diet, as recommended by my gastrologist. I no longer have raging diarrhoea, bloating, cramps, and I can now tolerate some lactose, which I couldn't before, so I can indulge in cheese!!
I always know if some gluten has inadvertently got into my diet, as I get bloaty, gassy and the toilet becomes my friend the next day.

Makes eating out hard, though as I go to morning tea with friends, and they often cook cakes/scones which look delicious, and then there are some shop-bought macaroons/muffins and rice crackers for me!! I also can't trust restaurants - a soup that was listed as GF came with pearl barley in it!!