PLAN: 50% CALORIES IN BREAKFAST!

It is not easy to follow a low calorie diet over the long term. The number one enemy is the munchies. To get rid of, divide your daily calories more wisely authorized by attacking the day with half the calories at breakfast.

What is the best tactic to lose weight? Eat less and eat better especially. In practice, it seems that the breakfast is a key element in the distribution of calories throughout the day. According to a study with impressive results over the long term, it is better to consume half the calories allowed by the regime since breakfast. Why? The caloric distribution can certainly lead to a good satiety and thus avoid cravings. But those are the compulsive cravings that are responsible for the failures of low-calorie diets?

Low calorie diet: a convincing demonstration

Here the conditions and conclusions of this study. One hundred and sedentary obese women were assigned to a low calorie diet but providing a different distribution of carbohydrates (simple and complex sugars). Half of them had to do breakfast meal the lightest (290 calories on the 1085 total calories allowed per day), the other half being instructed to make a hearty breakfast at half height of daily calories, or 610 calories for breakfast on the 1240 total calories daily. The breakfast buffet included 58 g carbohydrates, 47 g protein and 22 g fat.

Four months later, the weight loss is slightly higher among women taking lightweight Breakfast (12.7 kg) compared to those who make a hearty breakfast (9.5 kg). However, the trend reverses frankly after 8 months of diet as women in the first group gained weight: +8.2 kg on average, while those assigned to the hearty breakfast continued to lose weight: - 7.5 kg on average.

In the end, eight months on a system with a hearty breakfast has enabled women to lose 21% of their weight, as against 4.5% with a very light breakfast.