10-04-2023, 09:43 AM
If we are being literal, the letter of the law, then it is anything that breaks the fast. According to intermittent fasting rules, anything other than water or tea or black coffee breaks your fast. So, yes, one small chocolate can be a literal breakfast.
However, in the spirit of the law, breakfast as a true meal should be whatever it is that you eat to tide yourself over to the next meal. If you eat one chocolate upon waking and then nothing else until noon, then the chocolate is still breakfast. If you have chocolate and then later have bacon and eggs and toast, then the chocolate was an appetizer, not a meal.
If you begin your day with a chocolate and then move on to beef and potatoes, then neither is breakfast but instead you are eating your day in reverse.
However, in the spirit of the law, breakfast as a true meal should be whatever it is that you eat to tide yourself over to the next meal. If you eat one chocolate upon waking and then nothing else until noon, then the chocolate is still breakfast. If you have chocolate and then later have bacon and eggs and toast, then the chocolate was an appetizer, not a meal.
If you begin your day with a chocolate and then move on to beef and potatoes, then neither is breakfast but instead you are eating your day in reverse.
The Soufflé isn’t the soufflé; the soufflé is the recipe. --Clara