Breakfast is the most important meal?

blackcows15

If I have heard it once, I have heard it a thousand times. Breakfast is the most important meal, if you want to loose weight you have to start with a good breakfast.

I have never been someone that eats breakfast but when I started MFP in August I decided I would start the day with a good breakfast but soon found out I was using 300 or 400 calories in the morning that I sure wished I had in the evening. Since August I have lost 36 of my 40 pound goal and don't eat breakfast. I drink one cup of coffee in the morning and lots of water until lunch (I get up about 5 am and eat lunch at about 11 am). For me I prefer not to start withdrawing from my daily calories until late morning so I have lots of calories to make it through the day and it seems to be working for me.

So is the good breakfast to loose weight a myth or where did that idea come from?

4theking

The cereal companies, who else. Some people with weak adrenal hormones should not skip breakfast, but for the majority of people it is a great way to save calories for later.

fruttibiscotti

I no longer buy into the hype either. Since finding a better way to eat, and having my blood sugar stable all day long that I no longer get hunger pains, I no longer wake up hungry. All I have is a coffee and cream in the morning, and I'm set till lunch.

tylerslade21

Eating breakfast within at least 2 hours of waking up kick starts your metabolism, which will set you up for the rest of the day to quickly burn through whatever you eat. When people skip breakfast, not only does their metabolism slow down, but more food is stored in the body rather than used. From an evolutional standpoint, the body has not gotten use to the way we eat in the modern day, and so "starving" tricks it into storing future meals into fat to use later on. Not only does lack of breakfast affect how you body consolidates its energy throughout the day, but I find that when I skip breakfast i lack higher functioning mental capacity as well.

If you don't want to withdrawl from your calories dramatically, at least eat a fiber one bar or something quick. Even just a simple smoothie will do the trick. Something small is always better than nothing at all!!

Mr_Knight

So is the good breakfast to loose weight a myth or where did that idea come from?

Yes, it is a myth. Before the Modern Age of Obesity, breakfast was considered something only lazy, indolent people indulged in.

The human metabolism doesn't need to a "kick start" to get going in the morning - that is yet another myth - if it did, we would have become extinct a long, long time ago.

NetflixAndChocolate

I think thats clever marketing

Ang108

I have eaten breakfast for more than half a century thinking the same. Since I work in the field of nutrition ( International Humanitarian Aid ) I always knew that there were far more people who do not eat breakfast than those who do, but always thought it was because more people on this planet are poor than rich.
I also have to admit that I am a volume eater....I like a decent plate full of food to feel happy and satisfied. I am also only barely 5 feet tall, which means that in order to lose some weight I cannot eat more than 1200 calories.
When I started MFP I decided to also start 18:6 ; eighteen hours of fasting and six hours in which to eat 1200 calories. I eat my first meal at 2pm and my second meal before 9pm ( I know that is not exactly 18:6, but that's how it works out well for me ) and I feel perfectly fine with a weight loss of 45 pounds in less than seven month, even though I ate breakfast ( and enjoyed it) all my life...I just ended up eating too many calories with three meals I found personally satisfying.
People need to eat when they feel the most comfortable in quantities they like, while still maintaining a deficit.....any kind of set rule is bogus and science has disproven those rules already years ago. You must eat they way that works for you, maintaining a deficit....nothing else matters.

salladeve

I never eat breakfast and I do just fine, as I am not hungry in the morning, coffee seems to satisfy me. In fact once I do eat (about 4-5 hrs after rising), then I seem to be hungry again in a few hours. I basically do IF (Intermittent Fasting) 16:8, so that I have all my calories within an 8 hour window. It works for me most days, and if I am hungry in the morning, I eat, there really are not hard and fast rules, but I do not believe that breakfast is the most important meal.

Phaedra2014

Some days I don't eat anything until about 11 am while other mornings I eat at 7 am. I can't tell if eating breakfast or not eating breakfast makes a difference. All I know is that since I've been eating very clean, I don't wake up feeling the need to eat nor does my stomach rumble. I don't have highs and lows with energy so I eat if I feel like it and don't if I don't feel like it.

ETA: I do drink a couple of bottles of water and a mug of unsweetened tea after I wake up (it takes me a couple of hours) so perhaps the liquid keeps me from being hungry? I don't know. I wake up with more desire for water than food to be honest.

ldrosophila

ive been eating breakfast since my pregnancy mostly cause it prevented me from puking, and before I'd have like a box of yogurt or a cheese stick with a diet dr. pepper. I'm not a breakfast eater most of the time I'm nauseous when I wake up. I did best with my weight loss when I'd just have a little something usually when i got to work and a bigger lunch, and a huge dinner. didnt snack much either just because im not a snacker.

Now I will say this I know I'm on the right road weight loss wise when shortly after waking I start to get hungry. It usually means I'm not eating too much at my largest meal, dinner, and I'm exercising enough to be hungry.