Today, I'm writing this to convince myself otherwise. So I'm going to address these thoughts and expose them to myself as the invalid rationalizations that they are:
- Why start so early? When humans eat, the ingested contents undergo the process of digestion, ultimately resulting in nutrients and glucose being absorbed by the body in the small and large intestine. Glucose is necessary for cellular respiration-- a body can't synthesize energy without it. Therefore, a body's metabolism cannot get started unless one eats, so eating in the morning IS the smarter thing to do. Otherwise, the metabolism gets sluggish and the person in question has less energy and will be bound to have a less active day.
- It's only going to make you eat more later. Bullshit. This is total nonsense. Eating breakfast is usually paired in studies as being a trait shared in common by people who weigh less overall than those who don't eat breakfast. Eating breakfast primes metabolism so that the next meal is being put into a working machine rather than an already full dump site. If anything, it will make me eat less later.
- You're too fat. Newsflash-- I always think I'm too fat to do anything. How will 230 calories affect this big picture wise? That's right, it won't. I am always going to think I'm fat so I simply have to fight against using it as a valid reason to draw any conclusion about the way that I should eat.
- You only think you're hungry. Seeing this written shows just how asinine it really is. A past therapist of mine once explained to me how when the body wakes up, it's already in a state of starvation induced by the fact that it was asleep for 8 hours (give or take) and obviously had no intake during this time. So why would I be an exception?
- Just wait until the afternoon. For what? This is stupid because waiting will only cause more and more of a hunger signal to be sent to me. When someone is dehydrated, the signal they get from their body is one of thirst. If they don't drink, they will get more and more thirsty as time passes. This will result in them drinking a large amount when they finally do drink. So why would this be any different for food?? I should eat now and feel less hungry later.
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