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[โ€“] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Aside from being tone deaf, I think this is bad advice. Common breakfast foods are fairly cheap comparatively and I'm pretty sure most nutritionists recommend eating something for breakfast to kickstart your metabolism. If I were skipping/reducing a meal, it would be lunch.

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Gluconeogenesis does that well enough.

Plenty of people don't eat breakfast. I'll be nauseous for the rest of the day if I have anything before noon.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did I just find my people? I thought I was alone. Do I need to look that word up now fuck

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's basically your liver (and kidneys) pushing glucose into your bloodstream when you wake up. It's common across nearly all animals. It seems like if your body gets used to not having food first thing, the morning response becomes stronger, and your body takes longer to shift to glucolysis. Which might explain the nausea part if you aren't used to eating first thing.

I stopped eating breakfast when I left home, so I'm pretty locked in to 2 or even 1 meal a day since I can't be arsed to waste time eating at lunchtime most days anyway. I make up for it with coffee.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Deployment did it for me :( I don't mind but when I get hungry for lunch now, it's a more severe hunger.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iโ€™m the other way around, due to some of the medication I take. Gotta eat with it or Iโ€™ll have terrible stomach pains all morning.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

lol nah, a medication Iโ€™ve been taking most of my life that angers an empty stomach.

My doctor is making me do weight loss (and diabetes avoidance) the natural way, unfortunately.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I only eat one real meal a day and supplement with light snacks and plenty of fluids. As long as that one meal is something of substance and not say, a ramen packet or something like that, I feel pretty good. There are people that do one meal a day with no other food intake at all, too, but that's a bit low for me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wait, my condition has a name?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Best I can do is add some more milk to my coffee.

[โ€“] JohnDClay 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hmm, lunch sandwiches are also pretty cheap compared to supper, maybe have lunch for supper then instead?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that would just make supper dinner then wouldn't it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think they know about supperdinninses, Pip!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Have you seen the cost of deli meat lately?