Weight Control ((photo by Clara Natoli, courtesy of morguefile.com)

Counting carbs in order to control your weight may not be a good idea for the most important meal of the day. “A new study found that women who eat half of their daily calories first thing in the morning lose more weight in the long term than those who start the day with a small breakfast,” says a report by Fox News.

The study was led by Dr. Daniela Jakubowicz, from the Hospital de Clinicas in Caracas, Venezuela. She led a research team at Virginia Commonwealth University. The researchers found that women who had a carb-heavy breakfast were also less likely to put the pounds back on than those who followed a strict low-carb weight-loss regime.

The Fox News article explained:

Women who ate a big breakfast reported feeling less hungry, especially before lunch and had fewer cravings for carbs than the other women did. The big breakfast dieters ate an average of 1,240 calories per day, 610 of which were consumed at breakfast. The low-carb dieters ate just 1,085 calories per day.

If you’d like to read the article from Fox News cited above go to: Study: Big, Carb-Heavy Breakfast Key to Weight Loss