Why is breakfast called the most important part of the day to start with?
“By the time you awaken, 12 hours or more have passed since your last meal. As a result, your supply of blood sugar has dropped to a near-low point. So you need food to produce a steady stream of glucose to fuel every cell in your body. ” But wait a minute! This is exactly what we are trying to avoid on any low carb diet! Low carbers are not relying on glucose for fuel, we use ketone bodies instead, and this fuel is most abundant exactly in the morning. Any breakfasts, not only the ones rich in carbohydrates, quickly reverse the picture: glucose rises and ketones fall. For the lucky ones among us that is more or less OK, but for many of us it is not good — because of the insulin resistance or exaggerated response to the taste of any food, or for some other reasons. The fact is, skipping breakfast does wonders in many tough cases of stalled weight loss. We all wake up in deep ketosis independently of our diet: low fat, low carb, or no diet at all. Even before breakfast, just by the mer
