Rethinking Breakfast: Why Delaying Your First Meal and Intermittent Fasting Can Change Your Life

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day… or is it? It’s funny how a concept that has no nutritional foundation, scientific backing or even a clever theory could become such a household staple. Cereal, oatmeal, eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, coffee… all beneficiaries from this nonsense and consumed by millions every morning. The truth is, the definition of breakfast doesn’t align with how the majority of people practice it.

Vital energy is your life-force and what’s needed to power your daily processes, consistently repair damaged cells and build new tissue. That’s why it’s imperative to incorporate intermittent fasting into your daily lifestyle.

The word breakfast means to break-your-fast. When you sleep, you give your body a much needed fast and your first meal of the day is when you break that fast. Unfortunately, the power of fasting isn’t common knowledge. See, your body is self-healing and has the ability to heal ANY and ALL internal issues given the proper conditions. One of the main conditions is minimal digestive burden. Digestion is the biggest energy drain on your body and it’s something you do far too much and way too inefficiently. When your body is constantly digesting foods, mainly foods that are not energy efficient (cooked foods, meats, processed foods etc..), there’s no time for your body to rest and accumulate vital energy. Vital energy is your life-force and what’s needed to power your daily processes, consistently repair damaged cells and build new tissue. That’s why it’s imperative to incorporate intermittent fasting into your daily lifestyle.

You are an energetic being and your body has a natural rhythm. From the hours of 12pm-8pm, your body goes into digestion mode. It’s the most optimal and efficient time to eat. From the hours of 8pm-4am, your body goes into assimilation mode. This is when your body disperses the nutrition throughout the body, allocates energy to healing and rebuilding tissue. That’s another reason most people get sick in the middle of the night. From the hours of 4am-12pm, your body goes into elimination mode. After assimilation, your body starts removing the excess waste. That’s why most people have heavy urination and bowel movements in the morning. The goal is to stay within these rhythms as much as possible to keep your body in balance and operating at optimal levels. By creating an eating window of 12pm-8pm, you guarantee at least 16 hours of fasting every day and usually more because you’ll most likely stop eating prior to 8pm.

So in actuality, breakfast should be taking place around what most consider lunch time. Implementing intermittent fasting as a daily habit has changed my life. I sleep better, my digestion is far better and it contributed to me losing 30 pounds! It’s a major key to getting your life in balance. If you have difficulty adjusting, start off with a few days a week or lengthen the eating window by and hour or two until you can stay consistent.

The transition can be tough, so I do offer customized dietary plans and coaching plans on my website if you need some extra guidance – www.theeatcoach.com/pricing-plans/plans-pricing

Listen to the full podcast here — https://www.theeatcoach.com/nature-over-everything/episode/7c41b6b2/breaking-fast-not-yourself