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Until I was 30 my breakfast was usually one or two cups of tea while getting ready to leave in the morning. It was not a health or wieght issue, just all I was wanting or able to deal with. But when I was married my husband was in the habit of a coke and hostess chocolate cupcakes on the way into the office. I liked both, but the though of them together or for breakfast made me gag. So to wean him away from the convenience store, fat and sugar, I agreed to make us a light breakfast each morning. Tea, toast, yogurt and/or a piece of fruit seem to strike a comfortable balance.

That was 20 years ago and its still my breakfast most days, though in cold weather the yogurt gets replaced with long-cooking oatmeal that I make in weekly batches to nuke in the morning. These days if I skip that start, I am miserable all day and I tend to munch perpetually. The traditional full English breakfast is my treat for Saturday or Sunday morning. It would make me doze at my desk during the week.

The reason dieticians recommend your heaviest meal be breakfast, or at least lunch, is because dinner is usually to close to when you sleep. With the body dealing with a heavy load in the digestive tract, sleep can be disturbed and the chance of reflux while laying prone is increased.