At which meal do you eat the most carbs?

[gonnabskinny]

I was just thinking about this today after I read something in Gary Taubes book. It seems for me, that even though I try to spread my carbs out throughout the day, most of my carbs come at breakfast.

I wonder if it has anything to do with what I just read in Chapter 24 "The Carbohydrate Hypothesis, III: Hunger and Satiety."

This was based on Jacques Le Magnen's findings in the mid-1970's of a dirunal cycle of hunger, satiety, and energy balance. Essentially, that at the beginning of waking hours, the insulin response to glucose-the "insulin secretory responsiveness" as he called it, is enhanced, but during the sleeping hours it is surpressed. All that means is that you store fat during the day, so that you can burn it at night. Insuline secretion then is released in the morning upon waking and is what drives us to eat, and it ebbs after the last meal of the day to allow for prolonged sleep without hunger.

Does it then stand to reason that if insuline secretion starts getting released in the morning, and after a full nights sleep of using living off of your own fat stores, that it also drives the desire for additional carbohydrates to replentish those fat stores?

Food for thought!

[quotidianlight]

Re: At which meal do you eat the most carbs?

That is interesting. My breakfast is usually fat heavy with few carbs but I will snack all morning until about 1pm and during that time eat 2/3 of my carbs. Then I have to practically force the remaining carbs down me because suddenly I am full for the rest of the day!

[SunnySmile501]

Re: At which meal do you eat the most carbs?

I have been working to get carbs at breakfast; just starting to the last few months. I used to just scramble up my eggs with red pepper, green onions and sometimes baby spinach to get some carbs. I have been striving to eat heavy at breakfast, moderate at lunch and light at dinner since I started. I do okay with the lunch and dinner meals, but breakfast is a struggle. It all got better when I finally learned to like guacamole, to which I add lots of garlic, onion, hot peppers, tomato, fresh herbs and lime juice, besides the carbs in the avocado. I'm really liking a fried egg topped with warmed chicken or turkey breast topped with guacamole. I made homemade Hollandaise sauce for the first time the other day and had an omelet with roasted asparagus topped with Hollandaise sauce and I wanted to lick the plate. I guess I will finally see if spreading the carbs out more over the day will help get the last pounds off.

After 2 1/2 years, I still have trouble not snacking at night, mostly "head' hunger, but I can't stop thinking about food. I'm not hungry in the morning, even if I was hungry when I finally fell asleep. I make myself eat before 9 a.m each morning, and I don't eat after dinner or after 7 p.m.

I'm not exactly sure I understand what you are asking.

Sunny!

[gonnabskinny]

Re: At which meal do you eat the most carbs?

Sunny, I guess what I'm trying to find out is whether I'm unusual in eating most of my carbs at breakfast, or whether that is just a natural occurance, due to insulin levels starting to rev up.