Switch Breakfast and Dinner - Weight Loss Message Board

hiitscw · 05-04-2005, 03:56 PM

Has anyone heard about a women named Tricia Cunningham losing 125lbs by eating dinner at breakfast and breakfast at dinner. I was just curious about it.

Christie

Sugarhi16 · 05-04-2005, 05:07 PM

I have. A local news channel did a story on her a few months ago. Something about diets that actually work. The basic principle was that she had her biggest meal with the most calories at the beginning of the day. Then she could burn those calories off with normal daily activites. She then ate breakfast for dinner, because it is a smaller meal with less calories. I guess it worked for her because we tend to not be as active after dinner. The before and after pictures were amazing though!

tattoogirl · 05-05-2005, 06:34 AM

I always wondered if that should be done. I am a night-eater (although I eat well). I tend feel more hungry at night!? I surmise it is because I feel more tired. I tend to feel hungry around bedtime. What are others experience. Has anyone on this board done that? If so, I would love to hear from you! I am on Nutrisystem right now, which I am enjoying. I think I might attempt doing that starting neext week and see how I feel. I do not weigh myself though, I rely on how my clothes feel. The scale SUCKS! I gave up on it 2 years ago because it can get you/me OBSESSIVE and plan crazy.

Bella

Nixona · 05-05-2005, 10:09 AM

I'm not sure how much I could trust a dieting plan that relies solely on switching meals around. When it comes down to it, we lose weight by burning more calories than we consume. Just to throw numbers out, if she were eating 2500 calories a day and burning 2000 calories a day, she's getting 500 "extra" calories a day. Seven days of this would be 3500 calories stored, equating to 1lb of fat. If she did nothing different other than switch meals around, I don't know how that would do any good, she'd still be getting her extra 500 calories.

The only way I could see this working is if she either started an exercise regimen, in which case she could do whatever she wanted with her meals and probably lose weight. Or, she didn't eat the same food. People tend to eat "junk" food at night before bed, loading up on the sweet food with empty calories are what make you really put on the pounds. If she did this, but then switched to having egg whites and toast at night, or a wholegrain cereal, she would consume less calories and have the ability to lose weight...It's never as simple as they make it seem.

Magnolia29 · 05-06-2005, 05:25 AM

That does make sense about the switching dinner/breakfast thing. My biggest meal of the dya is breakfast, i eat about 6-700 cals for it, and it keeps me very satisfied the whole day basically, so it is easy to resist the 4 30 pm snack attack. After a while your body gets used to eating a large breakfast, so it isnt that hard to eat more in the morning.