Cake With Breakfast - Is It Too Good To Be True?

According to The Telegraph and The Tampa Bay Times a recent study has shown evidence that eating chocolate cake with a regular breakfast can actually stimulate weight loss. However an article from Women's Health speculates that it is not so much the timing of eating the cupcake but simply that to have a little bit of something indulgent will keep cravings under control. Now this sounds way too good to be true so I intend to get to the bottom of this. I bought a half a dozen cupcakes and will be eating one with each breakfast over the next week. I will make classic breakfast dishes and then finish off with a cupcake for dessert. 

The fun thing about cupcakes is that you can have one of one flavour and then another a completely different flavour. For example, this article shows fifty different recipes for cupcakes!
http://www.food.com/slideshow/unique-cupcake-recipes-239

Day One - Toast with Honey...and a chocolate cupcake.

The first day I found it difficult to eat something so rich and sweet with my breakfast and almost found myself forcing it down instead of enjoying it. Throughout the day I did not notice too much of a change and ended up having a pretty large dinner however, I felt rather full afterwards and was not craving any other sweets throughout the day.

Day Two - Multigrain French Toast...and a vanilla cupcake

Day two I found myself more hungry than usual early in the morning. I had a vanilla cupcake which I liked more than my chocolate cupcake. Throughout the day I felt a little sluggish but not all that hungry - I must also take into account that I had to work the night before and thus was not able to get enough sleep. 

Day Three - Mushroom, Scallion & Brie Omlette...and a vanilla coconut cupcake

The vanilla coconut cupcake was delicious however it was a little frozen when my breakfast was ready so I threw it in the microwave and left it in a little too long. The icing melted off the cupcake a bit but I still ate it. By day three I was starting to feel a little sick of eating cupcakes, who  knew it was possible!

Day Four - Breakfast sandwich...and a chocolate cupcake

Day four was a struggle. I really did not want to eat the cupcake and felt as though I was forcing it down. I still ate the cupcake and for the rest of the day did not crave any sweets but still ate plenty of other unhealthy food. 







Overall I would say that this diet does not work. I normally would not eat something sweet such as a cupcake every day anyways and thus ended up eating way more sugar than normal without replacing it with anything else. I just ate a cupcake as well as my normal diet. I was not even able to do the full week of the diet because it was just too much sweets. I definitely do not suggest this diet however it was a fun excuse to eat cake.

Sources:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/health/research/the-chocolate-cake-diet-can-dessert-with-breakfast-really-help-you-lose/1214588

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9069276/Chocolate-cake-breakfast-could-help-you-lose-weight.html

http://www.womenshealthmag.com/weight-loss/let-them-eat-cake