I am a college student and often wake up 30 minutes before my morning class starts which usually gives me enough time to prepare myself and rush to class. For the most part, I have a small bite or just skip breakfast altogether.
What is like for you guys working in IB? I know some people prefer to have bigger breakfasts but was wondering if anyone out there has time for that.
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Pound a cold brew before jumping in the shower followed by oatmeal on the drive to work
sounds like a great way to shit on the car seat....
the questions on this website get stupider every day...
Yes, you have time for breakfast. People eat. It's just a bank, not The Island.
Wrong, breakfast is for closers.
Aldous Huxley's The Island? I'm 3 chapters deep and sort of giving up. It's sort of uncompelling and hard to follow with all the weird Indian names. Should I push on? Confusing because Brave New World is one of my favorite books ever.
Buy breakfast at work / on the commute. Make a shake the night before pound it in the morning. Take 5 minutes to eat cereal. Or here's a thought... wake the fuck up earlier if you want to eat. Of all the struggles of getting a banking gig THIS is what you're worried about / looking for insight on? Come on man.
Protein shake and a caffeine pill on weekdays
Intermittent fasting is the fuckin' bomb and anyone who says otherwise should be taken out back and shot.
Angus is correct.
Breakfast being the most important meal of the day is a myth fed to the masses by cereal, milk, and government entities.
Skipping breakfast is the most important move of the day. Have coffee or tea and don't get the calories going until lunch in order to intermittent fast and keep your body in a catabolic (fat burning) state, to be lean and mean.
No but seriously, eat fat and protein for breakfast in order to keep keto (grains/carbs are the worst thing you could do to yourself.) But more importantly, to wake your brain up/give it the type of energy it needs.
The only proven benefit of intermittent fasting in terms of weight loss is the fact that diet adherence is much higher when you're only eating two meals a day.
Sorry, wrong.
Intermittent fasting typically uses time restricted feeding of 16 hours or more with an 8 hour intake period to put the body in a catabolic state when in the fast. This immediately targets fat as the body is in a 'breakdown' state (catabolic). If you eat morning, noon, night, before bed, and a lil 2am snack, your body is practically always in an anabolic state. The only way for it to break down fat is through pure calorie deficits.
Intermittent fasting and time restricted feeding has been proven to work and improve sleep habits, anxiety, and improve endocrine imbalances.
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Metabolic Effects of Intermittent Fasting - Annual Review of Nutrition
Vol. 37:371-393 (Volume publication date August 2017) https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-nutr-071816-0646…
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Practicality of Intermittent Fasting in Humans and its Effect on Oxidative Stress and Genes Related to Aging and Metabolism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4403246/pdf/rej.2014.1624…
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Intermittent fasting promotes adipose thermogenesis and metabolic homeostasis via VEGF-mediated alternative activation of macrophage
"Here we show that isocaloric IF improves metabolic homeostasis against diet-induced obesity and metabolic dysfunction primarily through adipose thermogenesis"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5674160/pdf/cr2017126a.pdf
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Intermittent fasting: the science of going without
"Fasting has been shown to improve biomarkers of disease, reduce oxidative stress and preserve learning and memory functioning, according to Mark Mattson, senior investigator for the National Institute on Aging, part of the US National Institutes of Health"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680567/pdf/185e363.pdf
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Effects of eight weeks of time-restricted feeding (16/8)
"A key point of the TRF approach utilized in the present study is that total daily calorie intake remained the same while the frequency of meals (i.e. time between meals) was altered. "
"Results: After 8 weeks, the 2 Way ANOVA (Time * Diet interaction) showed a decrease in fat mass in TRF compared to ND (p = 0.0448)"
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Health Benefits of Fasting and Caloric Restriction
"Calorie restriction triggers a complex series of intricate events, including activation of cellular stress response elements, improved autophagy, modification of apoptosis, and alteration in hormonal balance. Intermittent fasting is not only more acceptable to patients, but it also prevents some of the adverse effects of chronic calorie restriction, especially malnutrition. There are many somatic and potentially psychologic benefits of fasting or intermittent calorie restriction. However, some behavioral modifications related to abstinence of binge eating following a fasting period are crucial in maintaining the desired favorable outcomes."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11892-017-0951-7
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Brain Health:
Intermittent fasting could ameliorate cognitive function against distress by regulation of inflammatory response pathway
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5608558/pdf/main.pdf
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Comparison of Intermittent Fasting Versus Caloric Restriction in Obese Subjects: A Two Year Follow-Up.
"Our results suggest that, CR affects metabolic parameters positively which will help especially pre-diabetic and insulin resistant patients without any pharmacological approach. In addition IF without calorie restriction can enhance health and cellular resistance to disease without losing weight and those effects may be attributed to different signalling pathways and circulating ketones during IF. Changes observed during IF are probably due to the changes in eating and sleeping pattern and thus changes in metabolic rhythm."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28537332
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Time-restricted feeding is a preventative and therapeutic intervention against diverse nutritional challenges.
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Time-restricted feeding without reducing caloric intake prevents metabolic diseases in mice fed a high-fat diet.
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Are you saying that breakfast isn't the most important meal of the day? There's been recent studies to prove that it actually is albeit that it's also easier marketing for some companies.
Breakfast is my most important meal of the day because I run in the morning.
Can't function for the rest of the day without breakfast. I usually eat 800-1000 calories.
IF is horrible for people like me.
Smh why did this make the front page over the dozens of actually useful and interesting posts
I think people eat, yes. Might be wrong though.
Do what suits you, and what makes you feel good, but try to eat something healthy like salad and try to have vegan food in the morning. It can do very good things.
Eating salad for breakfast is insane
Same thought....also what does a vegan breakfast exactly entail.....no bacon, sausage, eggs, no yogurt, no cereal....so like oatmeal with water? Fruit?
clearly been listening to earthwalker7 too much
Yes OP, try to eat something in the mornings even if it's just yogurt and coffee.
Yes
Unless I'm lifting at 5:30 in the morning (which I do 3 days a week, and alter my Tuesday/Thursday meal planning to account for this so I'm intermittently fasting for about 12 hours before I have something), where I have a small snack about an hour after I'm done, I generally just have coffee in the morning and just have lunch and dinner. There are exceptions to that, but I stick to what works for me.
You guys should check out Nutrisystem. And no, I don't have any financial interest in it and it's not an MLM pyramid scheme. I've found it to be an easy way to mostly automate healthy eating. While it's probably not the healthiest possible option in existence, it's a hell of a lot better than what I was eating before. They ship a box to my place once a month with the core of my diet and I add in fruits, vegetables, and protein shakes. It costs around $340 a month for the basic plan so it's probably not as cheap as shopping and cooking, but for me, it saves a lot of time and the food is better than you might expect.
Just want to reiterate the stance on intermittent fasting, skipping breakfast is definitely the move of the day. Do some research and brush up on it, I don't want to butcher the facts, but there are tons of health benefits. Everything from the microscopic level (individual cell repair) to the physical changes you'll actually be able to see (fat loss). This could totally throw off the health benefits, but I do enjoy a glass of naked juice or something of the sort before I head out for the day, followed by coffee if needed at work, with my first meal not coming in till 12-2 or so
I agree with this approach so normally I have some apple slices and a banana in the morning but my issue is that I love breakfast food. My solution is that I eat breakfast food whenever. Sometimes on a Saturday I've been known to cook my version of a full English breakfast well into the afternoon or even dinner! :)
Dude c'mon, don't you know that BANKERS don't eat?
Try it sometime.
If I don't have time for breakfast (90% of the time), I drink hit a Soylent (400 perfectly balanced macros, micros and vitamins) with a handful of blueberries and a banana. I've been doing this for several years now and don't think I could optimize my nutritional value / time spent making breakfast ratio any better.
Microwaved oats + water + blueberries is a close second, but I burn through a ton of plastic red cups + silverware and it takes a while to eat / cool down.
Dump a cup of coffee on either and I'm absolutely chilling until lunch.
If you want to have time for breakfast, maybe set your alarm earlier
All depends on discipline/how early you're willing to wake up.
yea fish oil pills and a la croix -- breakfast of champions / analysts that want to maximize sleep
eggs with siracha, canadian bacon, side of black beans.
best.breakfast.ever
Solution: Wake up earlier.
Especially during the busiest months (I'm also a college student) I like to wake up anywhere from 4-6AM, go for a jog, and then start working immediately. Turn your schedule around, you should be waking up at 5am, not sleeping at 5am.
Post work-out. Frozen berries, greek yogurt, whey isolate, water, powedered peanut butter. You won't get hungry before noon.
Wake up earlier first off, but I like a light breakfast, usually greek yogurt and fruit or a couple hard boiled eggs. Heavy carbs early in the morning cause me to crash and in that case I have to compensate with feeding my already borderline dangerous coffee habit.
Do bankers have time to take shits though? Or do they just wear diapers? Asking for a friend.
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