Does breakfast REALLY help lose weight

BecciLucy
BecciLucy Posts: 6 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
So, does eating breakfast really aid weightloss?
I HATE breakfast, I don't want to eat until lunch time, so it's not like skipping breakfast makes me snack mid morning.
But it's that "most important meal of the day" I keep hearing.

Will a small breakfast help me lose weight more, or is it a myth? :)
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  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    no
  • ladyhusker39
    ladyhusker39 Posts: 1,406 Member
    Nope, eat when it suits you within your calorie goals.
  • amtyrell
    amtyrell Posts: 1,447 Member
    For some people yes for others no.
    Lots of folks do intermittent fasting which basically means they skip a meal and only eat at certain times.
    Some of us would eat every calorie in the house all day if forced to skip breakfast. So eat in a manner you find filling energizing and delicious while filling your calorie and nutrition goals.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    I figure I need something wash down with my coffee. Because coffee.
  • abirdintherain
    abirdintherain Posts: 73 Member
    If I’m hungry, I eat. Otherwise, and most often, I wait for lunch. I prefer lunch foods to breakfast foods and I usually sleep late-ish since I work second shift. I don’t ever see a difference between eating breakfast or not, except that without breakfast calories I can have more snacks later, lol.
  • dsboohead
    dsboohead Posts: 1,899 Member
    Meelisv wrote: »
    This might be an urban legend but supposedly "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" phrase was introduced by cereal companies.

    In any case I ate breakfast like clockwork too when I started my weight loss path. Now I skip breakfast since I shifted my meals to later time, because I find this kind of "light IF" type of eating helps my to avoid cravings later at night.

    It was coined by John Kellogg who believed a breakfast of bland, sugar-free cornflakes would keep factory workers from having impure thoughts or touching themselves throughout the day.

    LOL! For real?! :D
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited February 2018
    What does your logic and common sense tell you?

    Anytime I hear something like this I just go back to my logic and common sense...if it defies logic and common sense, it's likely a load of *kitten*...
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    For me it does, because I tend to graze and overeat later on if I don't have breakfast. But that doesn't mean it's the case for everyone. If you don't want to eat in the morning, don't eat.
  • dsboohead wrote: »
    Meelisv wrote: »
    This might be an urban legend but supposedly "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" phrase was introduced by cereal companies.

    In any case I ate breakfast like clockwork too when I started my weight loss path. Now I skip breakfast since I shifted my meals to later time, because I find this kind of "light IF" type of eating helps my to avoid cravings later at night.

    It was coined by John Kellogg who believed a breakfast of bland, sugar-free cornflakes would keep factory workers from having impure thoughts or touching themselves throughout the day.

    LOL! For real?! :D

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    Yes. I wish I didn't know that but it's absolutely true lol.

    You can not eat breakfast and be just fine. I usually drink a couple cups of coffee and I'm good til lunch.
  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    I always eat breakfast but I don't think breakfast actually helps you lose weight.

    Eating less calories than you burn helps you lose weight.
  • Evamutt
    Evamutt Posts: 2,837 Member
    the trainer at the gym(who lost 65 lbs) said to eat 3 meals & 3 snacks including breakfast. I hate food in the morning so I've been eating 3-4 Tbl of my non fat plain greek yogurt. I really does help me not to be super hungry by lunch.
  • feisty_bucket
    feisty_bucket Posts: 1,047 Member
    dsboohead wrote: »
    It was coined by John Kellogg who believed a breakfast of bland, sugar-free cornflakes would keep factory workers from having impure thoughts or touching themselves throughout the day.

    LOL! For real?! :D

    Yep, Dr. Kellogg was a freak. It's really interesting, tons of articles, check it out.

    In my experience, his theories don't hold up. B)
  • Noreenmarie1234
    Noreenmarie1234 Posts: 7,492 Member
    Not at all. For me it makes me hungrier and I end up eating a few hundred more calories a day. Never eat "breakfast" until 12 or later.
  • huntersvonnegut
    huntersvonnegut Posts: 1,177 Member
    I've been trying intermittent fasting for about the past 3 weeks and the fasting/eating windows I've been using has me between 12-1 PM to 7-8 PM so basically I've cut out breakfast. That meal was usually only a few hundred calories anyway. I have found that I'm not ravenous by lunch so I'm not gorging myself when meal time arrives and it's given me more motivation to cut out snacking in the evening which was a big downfall previously. I'm *this* close to trying the one meal a day approach which will be to skip lunch too.
  • missysippy930
    missysippy930 Posts: 2,577 Member
    Eating less calories than you are burning results in weight loss.
    Whatever works best for you and allows you to stick with your program.
    It can be different for each individual.
  • WilmaValley
    WilmaValley Posts: 1,092 Member
    Yes, otherwise I get too hungry and overeat all day
  • fb47
    fb47 Posts: 1,058 Member
    The only thing in life that makes you lose weight is eating less calories than you burn....the other stuff you hear when it comes to losing weight is all bs.
  • eminater
    eminater Posts: 2,477 Member
    Not at all. For me it makes me hungrier and I end up eating a few hundred more calories a day. Never eat "breakfast" until 12 or later.

    This is me. I tend to eat a few hundred more on "breakfast" days and think about food a lot more also.

    But usually I am not hungry until lunchtime, well 11 or so. I have switched from "6 meals every 2 hours" - something ppl used to say a lot - to more like 2 meals spread over 6 hours or 3 meals over 8 hours. It has kept me fuller and made my CI goals a lot easier.

    I do have a coffee in the morning, at least if there is anything to the "waking up your metabolism thing" - which I am more skeptical about now, then the coffee would be a good trigger for that.
  • 2baninja
    2baninja Posts: 519 Member
    No, I've always eaten breakfast, I'm hungry within a half hour of waking, and 90% of the time I still have a snack mid morning, and I've always been fat.
    As much as I love breakfast, it doesn't help me lose....
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    It's much easier for me to stick to my goal when I skip breakfast, but I'm usually too hungry by 9am to skip it.
  • richardgavel
    richardgavel Posts: 1,001 Member
    I'm almost the opposite. With the size of the meals I generally eat, if I don't eat breakfast along with my lunch/dinner, then I struggle to get all my calories in for the day. Plus I find breakfast to be such a cheap meal, since it's almost always at home vs lunch and dinner.
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