38 Chapter 5 – Breakfast like a Princess, lunch like a Queen, dinner like a Supermodel I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. Oscar Wilde Too much of a good thing is wonderful. Mae West So we need to deal with the King’ s men, Starvation, Deprivation and Justification. The first player we need to deal with is Starvation. Now we are starting to appreciate why three-quarters of the National Weight Control Registry eat breakfast. So we send Breakfast in to deal with Starvation. Perhaps the most relevant story on this subject came from one of my hospital group patients who, as I was discussing this issue, was struck by a FOBO – a flash of the blindingly obvious. Excitedly she interrupted,‘ You know I could never work out why I used to lose weight on overseas holidays and now I know! Whenever we travel overseas we get hotel packages that include breakfast. To save money we would start our day by making the most of the hotel breakfast buffet. We would eat until we were really full – all high calorie stuff you know, pancakes and croissants – but I would always come home lighter!’ I suggest to people that they use breakfast as the meal in which they eat their daily fibre. As I have mentioned, fibre is a core part of a healthy diet. There is a huge range of bread / toast and cereals that are all very edible and high in fibre that could be eaten for breakfast.