Does breakfast REALLY help lose weight

BecciLucy

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?

macgurlnet

Myth

Eat when it suits you!

~Lyssa

JaydedMiss

no

ladyhusker39

Nope, eat when it suits you within your calorie goals.

livingleanlivingclean

You're "breaking your fast" whenever you ingest your first calories.. That can be whatever time you like!

Meelisv

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.

shepherdfans

I don't usually eat breakfast but I read that starving your body encourages your system to go into hibernation mode and your metabolism slows right down. No longer needing to lose a great deal of weight, I wanted to lose just half a stone, and took on board the advice of eating breakfast. I've either had a boiled egg and Ryvita with low fat spread, cereal with skimmed milk, or a slimfast drink each day. I started my 1200 calorie diet on 1st Feb and today, 16th Feb, I've got just one pound to go - loss of 6lb slowly and painlessly and even managing a daily glass of wine in my allowance most days (probably would have lost more without it!!

jfan175

5 years ago on this forum you would have had a bunch of people telling you that breakfast is necessary to kickstart your metabolism. Nice to see that people are getting wiser.

dsboohead

I'm starved within an hour of waking....I must be a freak

amtyrell

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

I figure I need something wash down with my coffee. Because coffee.

abirdintherain

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.

blambo61

If we're a farmer and your going to go out and work in the fields for a few hours before lunch, breakfast probably is a very important meal. If we're going to sit on your but at a desk tell lunch, not so much.

diannethegeek

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.

dsboohead

diannethegeek 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?!

cwolfman13

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

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.

thelegendofsakura89

dsboohead wrote: »

diannethegeek 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?!

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.

bbell1985

Nope. And for me it makes weight loss more difficult as once I start eating, I'm ready to eat for the day. I like to break my fast closer to noon.

TonyB0588

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

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

dsboohead wrote: »

diannethegeek 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?!

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.

Noreenmarie1234

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

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

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

Yes, otherwise I get too hungry and overeat all day

fb47

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

Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »

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

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

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

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.