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@carbcounter Your friend may want to skip breakfast completely; it is NOT, contrary to the old saying, ‘the most important meal of the day’.
Sugars/starches eaten at dinner are stored overnight in the form of glycogen; your body will use that first for fuel the next morning.
But if you eat breakfast, your body will use that glucose first and the stored glycogen will go on to be stored as fat.
I’ve been doing this for 50 years and now I find that it is called ‘intermittent fasting’…every gd thing gets a label these days…
Phil
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@heavyphil As I understand it, the glycogen won't get converted to fat until you have too much if it stored, regardless of what time of day you eat. But yes, it's fine to skip breakfast if that works for you.
Regardless, I think exercising *before* breakfast will burn down your existing glycogen stores because there's not much glucose available when you haven't eaten all night. Exercising *after* breakfast will burn off the glucose from breakfast before it gets converted to more glycogen. So it's sort-of a wash. 🤷