Skipping Breakfast?

LowcarbNY

Shiver me timbers! What blasted landlubber would have though that me Pirate lads were keeping the world cool.

Blast it all, maybe it is the other way. Those warming temperatures have melted all me Pirate lads away.

LizaArg

I'm too busy to eat sometimes but I like to have something like a protein shake after my coffee so I'm not too jittery. I usually like to work out in the morning, so I need something light.

cindylou1992

On a serious note, I personally found eating breakfast to be very beneficial for me. Sets you up for the day and in my experience leads to eating less.

I never used to eat breakfast and I would find myself getting really hungry within a couple of hours, so I tend to have a low fat yogurt and a slice of toast or two and I feel much better for it as it keeps me going until my next meal!

Because of my working hours I start work between 10am and midday so my "lunch" isn't until 4pm.

dhiammarath

I've never been able to stomach breakfast. I don't wake up ready to eat, and if I try, I get ill. At least until several hours after I've woken up. Which usually is like around 11 am, so I might as well hold out for lunch! So I eat lunch and dinner only and sometimes I have a snack.

Thus far, it's not negatively impacted my weight loss that I can tell. I've recently tried to eat breakfast and still no-go.

Lunch and dinner it is!

ninerbuff

MFP is a great place to get 100 different opinions and answers to your question. If you are really serious about your health, contact a professional. Their advice will be night and day different from this thread. I'm a fitness and nutrition professional, but my prescriptions revolve around exercise and eating healthy. If you are exercising properly and care about your muscles, you would never willingly allow them to enter Cannibalism (the breakdown and use of body tissue for energy in the absence of nutrients).

Isn't it actually a called "catabolism"? Cannibalism is the physical eating of your own kind. And just what state does the body actually be in to have catabolism be activated? What I'm asking is how can you tell when you're on the cusp of catabolism? Also please provide a scientific source (not an article, but an actual peer reviewed study) because I would be interested in seeing it since I haven't found any real evidence yet of it happening if you fast.

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ninerbuff

eating breakfast is proven to help u loose weight, u should eat breakfast!

So is using crack. Have you read Sidesteal's links?

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lolly2721

I personally am hungry in the morning. I make a frozen fruit and protein shake and that holds me until around 10. I have found that eating smaller meals more often helps me and breakfast is just one of those.

I say eat when you are hungry but if you don't see any weight loss them try a low cal breakfast or breakfast shake. It may kick start your day. Do what works best for you as long as it is healthy.

Athijade

Actually there have been studies that show that eating breakfast, lunch and dinner show a link to greater weight loss.

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/13/three-simple-weight-loss-strategies-that-work/

Should read what you link to. The "study" says people skipping meals tend to over compensate their calories later (correlation, not causation).

Additionally, it suggests REGULAR meals. Meaning eating at the same intervals every day. So if your interval does not include the standard conception of breakfast, then that is fine.

The study you mention is in regards to skipping regular meals, not specific meals as designated by ideology (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner).

Calories in vs Calories out. Not what time you eat them. You body does not magically not absorb calories before 10am or during a blue moon or whatever crazy timing idea pops up next.

I have a MBA, so I have mastered the art of learning to read.

I see you have lost 2 lbs in your weight loss journey and therefore must be a weight loss expert. I am sure the people who spent time on this study are nowhere near as educated as you are. How silly of me to not defer to your wisdom.

Responses like yours are the reason many choose not to participate in the message boards.

Please don't give the rest of us MBAs a bad name. The person you quoted was correct. Correlation does not equal causation (which you should have learned in your business statistics course work). The study being discussed does not show that BREAKFAST alone helps with weight loss. It simply shows that for some people, skipping that meal can lead to over consumption of calories later on. However, if you are tracking your calories, then this will not happen.

There is NO proof that eating breakfast will have an impact on losing weight. There is no causation here. There is no such thing as "boosting" your metabolism or having to eat X number of meals a day. Those are myths that have no real scientific backing.

AnvilHead

As usual, Sidesteal's info cuts through all the broscience crap and is right on the mark....backed by actual scientific studies rather than random articles from "diet" websites. Props to Sidesteal, acg67 and ninerbuff for posting consistently accurate info - and having the personal experience and RESULTS to back it up.

I eat breakfast every day, but for two specific reasons:

1) I shoot for at least 173g of protein a day and I always have high-protein breakfast foods available to me at home. My breakfast usually contains a minimum of 25-30g protein, which gives me a good running start at hitting my macros.

2) If I don't eat breakfast, I'm starving by mid-morning and more prone to making bad food choices (i.e., cramming whatever I can find into my mouth).

SomeoneSomeplace

I know breakfast kick starts your metabolism but personally when I eat it I cannot under any circumstances stay anywhere near my goal. Once I force myself to eat in the morning I am STARVING an end up eating 1800 calories. If I wait until I feel hungry around 1 PM for lunch then I am easily able to keep my calories at my goal.

So I stopped eating breakfast as well. I still eat three meals a day (normally lunch, dinner at work and then some kind of late night meal when I get home at night) this works best for me.