1 Eating breakfast
I know some of you are saying, I thought that skipping breakfast was a bad habit of that skipping a meal was about habit. Well, if you are new to my blog, you’re going to find that, eating breakfast is, is a bad habit, especially if it’s carbohydrates, but even if it’s not carbohydrates, when you eat a meal, you actually stimulate hunger. So eating promotes hunger about an hour and a half later. And that is because every time you eat, you do increase insulin regardless of what you eat. So if you’re eating a carbohydrate meal, you’re really going to spike that insulin, and insulin is behind this thing called hunger.
I have to read something to you because I found this paragraph that has more lies or pieces of false information combined into one paragraph than I’ve ever read in anything. So here we go. In a 2011 national survey from the calorie control council, they said that 17% of Americans admitted to skipping meals to lose weight. The problem is skipping meals increases your odds of obesity. Really? No, it isn’t how it’s skipping a meal increase. You getting fat, especially when it comes to breakfast.
So you have to realize that’s completely false. A study from the American journal of epidemiology found that people who cut out the morning meal were 4.5 times more likely to be obese. Wow. I’d love to see that study. I had not seen it. So in other words, if you cut out your breakfast, you’re going to gain weight completely illogical. Why does skipping meals slow your metabolism? This is another piece of false information.
Skipping a meal does not slow your metabolism. Eating frequent meals does slow your metabolism because you’re going to develop something called insulin resistance. And when you get that, you have an excess amount of insulin in your blood and insulin is the hormone that prevents you from losing weight. So why in the world would eating more food, increase your metabolism. It won’t. And then it goes on to say, that it boosts your hunger.
I will say this. If you’re not adapted to fat if you’re not burning fat fuel and you haven’t adapted to that, like a lot of people haven’t then skipping a meal is going to make you very, very hungry because you’re running off blood sugars and you don’t have a lot of it in storage. So as soon as you run out, you’re going to be extremely hungry. So this paragraph really applies to those people who have not adapted to burning their own fat. And unfortunately, it’s torture trying to do some weight loss program or restrict yourself when you haven’t adapted to fat. Because in that state, you have no hunger.
And it’s much easier to stick to something if you’re not hungry or craving all day long. And all right, so then it goes on to say this that puts your body in prime, fat storage mode. So this whole idea to have these small little snacks for the day to prevent overeating is the absolute worst advice you could ever accept because you’re just spiking that insulin to the day, just spiking it. And as insulin goes up, your blood sugars go down and you’re going to be hungry and hungry and craving. And you’re going to be in a torture chamber. you’re not going to succeed.
No one can do that for any period of time, but this theory has still survived and it’s being pushed out there probably from the food manufacturing companies. All right. And then we have the last sentence and don’t say you don’t have time for breakfast. It’s easy if you make the overnight oats. All right. And here’s another point. If you’re going to do breakfast, the worst thing you can do is carbs. So oats are carbs. You don’t want to consume carbs for breakfast. So breakfast is not the most important meal of the day. I used to recommend it. I no longer recommended it was bad advice. If you have breakfast with carbohydrates in the morning, chances are you’re going to be craving carbs later that night.
2 Drinking too much coffee
All right. Number two, drinking too much coffee. And that was me. Okay. I used to drink pots, a very strong coffee. And what happens is that the caffeine in the coffee blocks certain chemicals that help you sleep. Even if you have too much of it, your liver can’t clear it out in time for you to go to sleep at night. So too much caffeine is going to keep you up at night and guess what? You’re going to be tired the next day.
So I recommend just doing one small cup in the morning. , you can also do coffee alternatives, like to Chino, like turmeric lattes, like macho lattes, which have less caffeine because it’s green tea, or just take a whole lemon with some water, blend it up and drink that with maybe a little stadia or electrolytes.
3 Grazing at night
All right. , grazing at night, a really, a really bad habit that you have to brag about. It’s probably the worst habit. And so at night after dinner, you just start eating and you don’t stop until you go to bed. What’s happening as you’re just jacking up insulin. So your ability to fast for the night is gone. You’re not going to be fasting. You’re not going to be in ketosis. You’re not going to be burning fat. You’re basically gonna have this spike of insulin and that insulin is going to then keep you from losing weight.
So the next day you’re going to be bloated and probably in the morning, you’re going to be hungry. You’re going to give in to the temptation to eat something. So what’s really happening is you’re going to end up with a low blood sugar situation in the morning. It’s gonna affect the brain. So you’re going to have brain fog. You’re going to have brain fatigue. You’re not going to be able to beat up. You’re going to have mood issues. You might be irritable. You might have some anxiety and more stress. So what you need to do is have more fat in the last meal.
And maybe as a transition step, instead of snacking on something, maybe you start with snacking on carrots and celery. Okay. And do that for a while until you can give that up. But if your last meal is nutrient-dense, that is going to help you. So even know you’re eating a lot of food. If it’s empty with nutrition, okay, let’s see. You’re just eating conventional foods, whether it’s vegetables or not, and it’s just empty, you might be full, but you’re not going to be satisfied. It’s the nutrients that satisfy you.
4 Exposing yourself to too much blue light
All right. The next one is too much blue light. Okay. Throughout the day. So I’m talking about too much computer work, too much cell phone, especially before you go to bed, you’re getting all these blue light blocks. Another type of light is called infrared. And infrared is really, really important from the sun. From other things like the fireplace candles, and incandescent lights, which we don’t have anymore. And so blue light prevents the creation of melatonin from the infrared light. So if you’re not getting sun during the day, and you’re getting all this blue light, you’re going to be deprived of melatonin, and that’s going to affect your sleeping. It’s going to affect your health. You’re not going to get a rejuvenating sleep. And you’re going to feel kind of sluggish the next day. And you’re going to be tired.
5 Going out to dinner
All right, the next bad habit is going out to dinner. You don’t, it’s a crap shoot. You don’t know you’re getting it. There are a lot of hidden chemicals, MSG, and a lot of omega-six oils that they put foods in. And, I noticed that every time I go out to dinner, even if it’s a fairly decent restaurant, I do not feel good the next day. So try to not go out as often.
6 Grocery shopping when you’re hungry
All right, the next one is shopping for groceries. When you are hungry, big mistake, you’re going to buy things that you don’t normally buy. So always eat before you go food shopping.
7 Not eating enough nutrient-dense foods
And the last one is just not eating enough. Nutrient-dense foods. When you eat food, that’s empty of nutrition, even though it’s keto-friendly or low carb, what happens is you always are in a state where your body’s not satisfied. And so, your tendency is to go for the wrong thing. When you really have nutrient-dense foods, man, is it easy to overcome the cravings? It’s easy to stick to things you feel better about. And the pleasure of that healthy feeling will allow you to stick to it long-term.
