So I was having this talk with my friend the other morning, and I asked, “Did you eat breakfast?”
Mind you this was at 10 in the morning and a couple hours before exams and he said, “I don’t eat anything until after my exams.”
I thought, “That’s horrible, to starve yourself.” And after the exam he said, “I don’t even eat breakfast on a daily basis” and I was shocked. Then I thought about it.
It’s not hard to imagine why he skipped breakfast. On average, we engineers sleep at such late hours and wake up just minutes before class starts, so breakfast is a lost cause. There is just no time to prepare anything, or even line up at those long lines in front of Tim Horton’s each day. We have to get to those classes on time or else we will miss out on some hours of lectures and possibly not know enough to pass those bloody hard exams the professors like to unload upon us. Think of this though, if you are in class on an empty stomach, can you even pay attention in class?
There’s a reason why breakfast is called the most important meal of the day. If you’re in class on an empty stomach, it starts to grumble and groan and you get those pains annoy you every couple seconds begging for you to eat something so your stomach can be put to good work. Then you actually think more about that empty stomach than paying attention in class.Next thing you know you know during your first break you are rushing to the closest C&D buying a sandwiches, a cup of coffee maybe a couple of cookies because you are starving. Ten minutes after buying this scrumptious food you have satisfied your stomach and you are content for the next couple hours. However, because lunch is in two hours and in reality you are not hungry but you are an adherent to the 3-meals-a-day philosophy, you decide to eat a nice big lunch as well. Several hours after this, snacks and perhaps dinner follow, and during all that time we are sitting on our behinds studying or completing assignments.
By the end of the term you have acquired a Freshman 15. This all stemming from the fact that you skipped breakfast and overcompensated later on. It’s a bad thing and probably the root cause of all those extra pounds. So bottom line is, eat breakfast, eat less during the day, pass on the extra pounds and be happy :D.
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