Skipping Breakfast !
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Skipping breakfast feels good to me physically and mentally & honestly helps me ..
Me too .. I feel like I have found a way to cheat the system .. I feel fine this afternoon..
Never been to America but would love to one day .. if the standard is anything like the British fry up .. then point taken!I easily bust my daily goals with the standard american breakfast.
[/quote]Do whatcha like!
Well if I did that and if I ever get to America for vacation I wanna try ALL these naughty things :-
http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/eat/best-usa-travel/top-50-american-foods-513946
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And the lovely pictures on your American food link are part of the reason we are no.2 on the most obese nation list, I believe
(And why I save the "standard American breakfast" for Sundays only!)0 -
Sure, strickly from a weight lose stand point not eating breakfast really dose not matter. Correct, calories at the end of the day is all that matters. But really, think about what you are doing. You just starved (fasted) your body of nutrients for 10 hours or so. Now you are going to continue to starve your body another 4 or 5 hours? Is this good common sense? Yea, yea, we all know breakfast doesn't increase metabolism, etc. Not the point. Probably the most important reason is your brain (as well as all of your other vtial organs) require replenshment to function properly. Do the research. Many studies have found that childern who do not eat breakfast are far more likely to to worse in school. Eating breakfast helps improve memory and positively affects the tasks that require the retention of new information. A hungry person will tend to be apathetic, disinterested, and irritable when confronted with difficult tasks. Additinally, your kidneys, liver, lungs, and especially your heart are all functioning less effeciently because they have no fuel to do so.
If all you care about is losing weight at the cost of hurting your body. Go ahead and starve yourself. If want to be healthy and alert, then feed your body after you just starved it all night long. That goes for hydration as well. The first hing you should do when you get up is drink a glass of water with a little lemon juice.0 -
I do not eat "breakfast"... I drink my coffee, and that is it. I do not like to eat until after 12 noon. I have not entered this mysterious "starvation mode" that some will preach about as of yet. have lost 90 pounds in 10 months without eating "breakfast", although, I do break my fast after 12 noon... to each their own I guess, its all about your body, and what it likes / dislikes...0
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The whole "eating breakfast" thing was due to having something in the morning (hopefully) prevents you from binge-eating at lunch.
Honestly, it comes down to calories in vs calories out, doesn't matter when you're eating them. Eat all your days calories in one meal if you want to. You might be starving the rest of the day, but as long as you're within your macros, you'll lose weight.
I've seen a loss after eating birthday cake and dinner at 9 p.m. because it was all planned into my calorie limits.0 -
Were on the same track.....I posted the question this AM about if skipping breakfast is bad for you haha....I didn't eat this AM but I am about ready for lunch....on the weekends I get up a little later and usually don't have breakfast or have more of a brunch thing and I stay under my calories so I wondered if there would be negative effects of not eating breakfast so I am also trying it this week.0
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My teenage daughter will do it despite me hassling her to eat in my worrying parent mode.
My teenage son has been skipping breakfast while on holiday - he sleeps through breakfast then wakes up for his lunch!
I think I will go back to breakfast once I have got shot of remaining 7 lbs - which I am finding very hard to shift!
From posts it looks like women are better or more able / likely to skip breakfast?0 -
Ugh, really? Please take your own advice and "do the research."Sure, strickly from a weight lose stand point not eating breakfast really dose not matter. Correct, calories at the end of the day is all that matters. But really, think about what you are doing. You just starved (fasted) your body of nutrients for 10 hours or so. Now you are going to continue to starve your body another 4 or 5 hours? Is this good common sense? Yea, yea, we all know breakfast doesn't increase metabolism, etc. Not the point. Probably the most important reason is your brain (as well as all of your other vtial organs) require replenshment to function properly. Do the research. Many studies have found that childern who do not eat breakfast are far more likely to to worse in school. Eating breakfast helps improve memory and positively affects the tasks that require the retention of new information. A hungry person will tend to be apathetic, disinterested, and irritable when confronted with difficult tasks. Additinally, your kidneys, liver, lungs, and especially your heart are all functioning less effeciently because they have no fuel to do so.
If all you care about is losing weight at the cost of hurting your body. Go ahead and starve yourself. If want to be healthy and alert, then feed your body after you just starved it all night long. That goes for hydration as well. The first hing you should do when you get up is drink a glass of water with a little lemon juice.
It takes several days of complete fasting for any negative health effects to occur, not skipping one meal and waiting a few more hours.
If you eat the same number of calories, your body has the SAME AMOUNT OF FUEL, regardless as to whether you ate breakfast, or skipped breakfast and ate lunch and dinner. If you eat one large meal, your body stores it away and uses it as needed, and it lasts just as long as if you had eaten 3 smaller meals. You are not "starving" your body just because you skip breakfast. Up until the 1700's or so, breakfast didn't exist. People woke up at dawn, started working, worked until midday (when the sun was hottest,) then stopped, ate, rested, then went back to work until dusk. Then they went to sleep. Eating more than once in a day is a convenience born out of automation of modern society, not any kind of necessity for survival or health.
Simply put, eating multiple meals a day started happening because rich people could afford to sit around and eat rather than work. That's the only reason it became a thing.0 -
I do what works for me on a daily basis. On work days when I get up at 5.30 I'll have breakfast when I get to work at 7.30 otherwise I simply don't function properly as I can't concentrate. Weekends it can depend when I get up, but normally I'll have just a yoghurt or toast if I'm up early enough or I'll skip breakfast and have a very early lunch if I sleep in.
Skipping breakfast makes no diference to the number of calories I eat, but does tend to move the times I have lunch and dinner a little earlier. I actually prefer that as I've finished eating at 5pm and I seem to sleep better.0 -
Wikipedia sais this about skipping breakfast:-
"Nutritional experts have referred to breakfast as the most important meal of the day, citing studies that find that people who skip breakfast are disproportionately likely to have problems with concentration, metabolism, weight, and cardiac health.[4][5][6] The nutritionist Monica Reinagel has argued the metabolic benefits have been exaggerated, noting the improvement in cognition has been found among children, but is much less significant among adults. Reinagel also explains that the link between skipping breakfast and increased weight is likely behavioral—compensating with snacks and/or eating more later—and therefore not inevitable.[7]"
[Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast]
So from by my view - if I can handle the urge not to over compensate then this can help me for a while.0 -
Why would I be starved after skipping one meal? It would take several days for me to be starved, and several weeks to actually starve to death. One meal means nothing in context, calories and protein held constant.If I skipped breakfast I would feel sick and have trouble stringing a thought together! My tummy wants food within an hour of being awake.
Skipping any meal isn’t ideal, you leave yourself the risk of overeating later as you’re starved.
If you skip breakfast chances are you will eat a larger than average lunch because your body needs calories from food to survive , Food is easily available so you will most likely over eat . Which is fine because you skipped a meal so may aswel get breakfast and lunch in one meal . Yesterday I didn't eat all day and felt like I was STARVING . Dinner time came along and I ate breakfast + lunch + dinner + dessert in one sitting . Was it bad , NO I ate my calories I needed but all in one sitting.0 -
There was a study (and I can't seem to find it at the moment -- sigh) done not too awful long ago and the summary was basically:
1) There is no difference in weight loss or recidivism rates between those who eat breakfast and those who do not normally.
2) The only time there is a difference is when someone who didn't eat breakfast starts or someone who ate breakfast stopped. In both cases the results for both weight loss and recidivism were worse than those who continued to eat breakfast or continued to not eat breakfast as they had previously done.
Long and short is... it's broscience that you need breakfast or will eat more total during the day if you skip it. The other related myth of "eating many small meals is better than a couple big ones" has also been repeatedly disproved by studies but shows up constantly too... well it's been disproved except in the case of extreme athletes who DO benefit from it. For anyone else 2-3 meals a day tends to work better and result in higher weight loss and better maintenance of muscle.
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Since I've learned skipping breakfast won't affect my metabolism I started doing it. It was what I natually did before anyway and eating breakfast just makes me hungrier sooner. So I eat dinner around 7pm then nothing till 11.30am for lunch then I have more calories for later in the day which is when I prefer to eat.0
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I've heard this term thrown around a bit in the last week. Can someone tell me what "broscience" is?0
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I was STARVING . Dinner time came along and I ate breakfast + lunch + dinner + dessert in one sitting . Was it bad , NO I ate my calories I needed but all in one sitting.
Looks like you have a seriously muscular frame with high calorie burn? that kind of fits with the male / female theory..
So it depends on how big (calories being burnt in sedentary state) you are as to if this is possible.
I am 170 lbs 5ft 9" so not huge but reasonably muscular - maybe that's how I manage it - I did get proper hungry yesterday though!!
These just my theories and ramblings not proven fact of course..0 -
Except like other cases. it's been peer reviewed studied and correct.On every issue, you can argue and you will find numbers of support from the net but in my opinion one should not skip the meal especially Breakfast - not at all. I was a big skipper of meals, rarely ate breakfast and now paying for it, as per doc
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It's correlation to it, not the actual cause. People get over weight from over consumption. If someone skipped breakfast then ate their required calories by days end, it doesn't matter.Although there is evidence for both sides they do say that people who do eat breakfast are more likely to be slimmer and healthier, I think it just depends on the person and what works for you. I personally have found that I like to take that time out in the day for myself and it's a good way to start off eating a proper meal and stops me from choosing something less healthy later.
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Personally I eat till 11:30pm. I don't eat again till after 12:00pm. Research here shows a 12 hour fast time. What's the difference if it's 6pm to 6am?Sure, strickly from a weight lose stand point not eating breakfast really dose not matter. Correct, calories at the end of the day is all that matters. But really, think about what you are doing. You just starved (fasted) your body of nutrients for 10 hours or so. Now you are going to continue to starve your body another 4 or 5 hours? Is this good common sense? Yea, yea, we all know breakfast doesn't increase metabolism, etc. Not the point. Probably the most important reason is your brain (as well as all of your other vtial organs) require replenshment to function properly. Do the research.
We're adults with full grown brains and bodies.Many studies have found that childern who do not eat breakfast are far more likely to to worse in school.
Subjective. Personally, I do fine without it due to late night eating.Eating breakfast helps improve memory and positively affects the tasks that require the retention of new information. A hungry person will tend to be apathetic, disinterested, and irritable when confronted with difficult tasks. Additinally, your kidneys, liver, lungs, and especially your heart are all functioning less effeciently because they have no fuel to do so.
Lol broscience now popping up.If all you care about is losing weight at the cost of hurting your body. Go ahead and starve yourself. If want to be healthy and alert, then feed your body after you just starved it all night long. That goes for hydration as well. The first hing you should do when you get up is drink a glass of water with a little lemon juice.
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In the fitness industry, it's anecdotal evidence trying to be passed off as real science.I've heard this term thrown around a bit in the last week. Can someone tell me what "broscience" is?
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Disregard my question about broscience. I looked it up and it's exactly what I assumed it was.0
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Fasting - here is an article from the BBC discussing unproven but interesting theory about potential benefits of intermittent fasting.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19112549
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Everyone knows that skipping breakfast leads total starvation mode within hours, promiscuity and a swift decline into complete moral turpitude. In fact it's been said that most serial killers started off life skipping breakfast!0
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serial killers
so how do you kill a breakfast cereal?
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I am concerned with the total number of calories for the day meeting my goal not when they are consumed. I used to skip breakfast every day and lunch most days but since I have been dieting I eat breakfast every day, not because "it is the most important meal of the day" but because if I skip a meal I find myself feeling like snacking excessively. I spread out my calories throughout the day for that reason.0
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If skipping breakfast causes you to overeat later in the day, then don't do it. If it fits well with the way you like to use your calories, then skip it. I agree with those who have stated that what applies to children does not necessarily apply to adults.
I'm not sure if skipping breakfast alone would qualify as intermittent fasting unless the overall caloric intake would be reduced within a 24 hour period or so. I have started 5:2 recently and prior to that have read information related to IF, but I couldn't find much in the way of scientific studies yet. The link below had interesting information related to IF and cancer, as well as some of the other information in the BBC article earlier posted.
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/the-benefits-of-occasional-fasting-201211160 -
Sorry -just found this which addresses both skipping breakfast and fasting:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1072656-10-unbelievable-diet-rules-backed-by-science0 -
I never eat breakfast. I find eating breakfast makes me hungrier all day. If I skip breakfast, I can go longer without eating and just have a big dinner and dessert. I like going to bed on a full stomach better anyway.
Do whatever works best for you!0 -
Why would I be starved after skipping one meal? It would take several days for me to be starved, and several weeks to actually starve to death. One meal means nothing in context, calories and protein held constant.If I skipped breakfast I would feel sick and have trouble stringing a thought together! My tummy wants food within an hour of being awake.
Skipping any meal isn’t ideal, you leave yourself the risk of overeating later as you’re starved.
If you skip breakfast chances are you will eat a larger than average lunch because your body needs calories from food to survive , Food is easily available so you will most likely over eat . Which is fine because you skipped a meal so may aswel get breakfast and lunch in one meal . Yesterday I didn't eat all day and felt like I was STARVING . Dinner time came along and I ate breakfast + lunch + dinner + dessert in one sitting . Was it bad , NO I ate my calories I needed but all in one sitting.
This is literally exactly what the study disproved. Read the evidence.0 -
Very interesting links - especially about fasting for anyone following this thread. I take your point that skipping breakfast perhaps is not fasting - although the body is without food for 17 hours and likely in a different mode ..If skipping breakfast causes you to overeat later in the day, then don't do it. If it fits well with the way you like to use your calories, then skip it. I agree with those who have stated that what applies to children does not necessarily apply to adults.
I'm not sure if skipping breakfast alone would qualify as intermittent fasting unless the overall caloric intake would be reduced within a 24 hour period or so. I have started 5:2 recently and prior to that have read information related to IF, but I couldn't find much in the way of scientific studies yet. The link below had interesting information related to IF and cancer, as well as some of the other information in the BBC article earlier posted.
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/the-benefits-of-occasional-fasting-20121116
I am only on day two without breakfast - I think it is working for me as I can handle being hungry in the morning with some mental effort, but cannot handle going to bed hungry. I don't think I am over eating to compensate - at least not yet anyway.
I am going hungry to loose weight - that could be criticized - but some abstinence is common in many religious ways of life - so I don't see it as a big deal.
The laugh will be on me if after a week I have gained a stone in weight !!! lol0 -
Completely agree that it is personal preference, however I am starving by the time I wake up so look forward to breakfast however if I wasn’t hungry I wouldn’t force myself same applys for lunch, suppose it doesnt make much difference the time of day? As long as your not snacking on junk due to not having a meal.0
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