why breakfast is the worst meal of the day
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I eat breakfast and this article isn't going to stop me.
Nearly every study of people who have lost weight and kept it off finds that the majority of them eat breakfast.
Personally, I find it much easier to control my eating later in the day and evening if I do eat breakfast. I typically eat it about 2 hours after awakening because my allergy medicine has to be taken on an empty stomach. If I eat it earlier, I do have a mid-morning snack, but see no problem with that.0 -
I didn't read the article (never understand them, got the gist from other posters) but I agree, if I eat breakfast I'm hungry all day and find it hard to stop eating.0
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does 6 cups of coffee and 1 plain frozen waffle count as breakfast? Cuz that's where I spend 94 calories every day at 8am...and that keeps me full and going until about 1 pm.0
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i skip breakfast, too.0
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I have never been a huge breakfast person. I usually need to be awake at least an hour before I eat and even then it's usually a snack or waiting until lunch itself.
however, now, I need to eat something in the morning because I don't even have a chance to eat until lunch time. If I pull out a snack with my students in the classroom, they all want something.
But, the things I do eat for breakfast, I keep under 200 calories. That's enough to get me to lunch0 -
why don't you just state your point for everyone to read, instead of trying to force a debate. im still trying to figure out if you think people who claim to get hungrier on days they eat breakfast are lying or not. we get it your smart, now lets move along
not really. if you disagree, thats your right. but you seem to just want to fight, and I seek a more peaceful path. Please eat your breakfast and have a great day.
I don't want to fight -- I dislike the misuse of scienctific research used to support improper or inconclusive information as facts - as this was done in that article and by the title "breakfast IS ...."
At the end of the day - that article is not providing to me more believability than what you read and contested in the post supporting breakfast. Discussing the details of an article is hopefully not "fighting" and I apologize if my rather harsh "bro-science" gives that impression - but I do like to dissect some of these for the scientific meat.
As far as eating breakfast sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. I hope you have a great day too (breakfast or not
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Um... I am already hungry before I eat breakfast, then I eat breakfast and I'm not hungry anymore... at least not for a while... and by this logic that "breakfast makes you hungry" type of logic, then so would lunch and dinner... and besides, techinically any first meal of the day is breakfast as you are breaking the fast from while you were sleeping... and if you haven't eaten since your evening meal then you are still technically "fasting".
You know when a response starts with "Um..." it's gonna be good.
If you hate the idea of fasting, then you might not want to read anything from leangains from now on.0 -
I guess everyone is different
Yup. This is a common topic of conversation, and the net result is that there's little difference in terms of timing your calories, as long as you eat good food within your caloric budget. Some people find breakfast a necessity, some people find it makes them sick, and some people like the blog author finds it makes them hungrier.
Read up on stuff like this, then experiment to find that fits you best.
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I've been doing my morning workouts fasted for 2.5 years now, and did so during my entire weight loss. I get up around 5:30, get to the gym around 6:00 for a 2 to 2.5 hour workout. I don't eat breakfast until I get to work around 9:00 or 9:30. I didn't know about lean gains when I started doing this, it is just what worked for me. I workout hard, and if I have anything in my stomach, I feel horrible while I'm working out. The last time I eat during the day is around 9:00pm, so I go 12 to 13 hours fasted each day.
I've kept this up while maintaining for the past 9 months, and it's worked great for me.0 -
http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html
Even this morning, I saw a another post saying that eating breakfast is almost mandatory for a healthy weight loss plan.
Before you tell someone this again, please read the above link. It is a lot of information to absorb, but well worth your time.
If you still want to have breakfast, go ahead, it wont hurt you, but not having breakfast just might help you reach your goals.
While it may not be "mandatory" for everyone, neither is breakfast the "worst meal of the day" for everyone.0 -
Thank you times one million! I've always wondered why. You explained it so well. I will release my guilt about not being a breakfast person (thank you all you "fitness experts" with your "most important meal of the day" bull). And I'll never eat it again. Thank you thank you thank you.0
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Interesting article.......I'm game to give it a shot. I don't generally eat breakfast until 1-2 hours after I get up anyway, but I do often find myself starving by the time lunch rolls around. Obviously, just as the article AND the OP stated, the hypothesis won't apply to everyone, as everyone is different. I thought the article stated rather clearly, and repeatedly, that there are inumerable variances that will make the post breakfast hunger true for everyone.
ps......no need to take the title of a post quite so seriously. The meat of the original post and of the article really didn't suggest that breakfast was inherantly evil for ALL people.
Have a wonderful day :happy:0 -
why don't you just state your point for everyone to read, instead of trying to force a debate. im still trying to figure out if you think people who claim to get hungrier on days they eat breakfast are lying or not. we get it your smart, now lets move along
my opinion is that the referenced article is full of assumptions and that it isn't supporting one point or the other.
I usually eat breakfast - my diary is open. For years I did not.
My opinion is that I would like to see something that, when it uses references, those references actually support the main points.
I do not think people are lying when they make that claim -- why would they be lying?
Would they be less hungry if they ate breakfast 2 hrs or 3 hrs later? or 6hrs?0 -
Responses to an intellectually interesting post mostly boil down to either:
"This article is true because I don't eat breakfast!"
"This article is false because I do eat breakfast!"0 -
Great article. There are many other very interesting articles here as well, like the "Top Ten Fasting Myths..." I loved the info on "metabolic rate is increased in short-term fasting".
It blew the starvation mode theory out of the water!
Thanks for sharing this info.0 -
If I eat breakfast I will eat more all day. I have to drink my breakfast.0
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Nearly every study of people who have lost weight and kept it off finds that the majority of them eat breakfast.
This is true, but "majority" is the key word in that sentence. I've yet to read a study where all of the participants who lost ate breakfast.0 -
everyone is different. some of us need breakfast to avoid migraines or hypoglygemic symptoms
If I eat late breakfast or skip it, not only am I headachy and dizzy (& a whole list of other things) , but I am FAMISHED all day, no matter what I eat.
I am NOT saying that is how it is for everyone and becuase it works for me, everyone needs to do it that way. It is Just What Works for Me. And you are not a better/healthier person for being different. Neither am I.0 -
Taken literally, the meaning of 'breakfast', is breaking the fast of the night. It is the first meal taken after rising from a night's sleep.
So, surely whether we eat first thing in the morning or choose to eat later......we all eat breakfast because we all have to break the fast at some stage or another!
I read some of the article but it's a little heavy going for me. I don't eat breakfast as people traditionally do first thing in the morning but around mid morning because that suits me and so far it seems to be working!0 -
it probably does have a lot of assumptions but in all fairness about every nutrition article wrote is full of assumptions. people make the assumption because a correlation study says people who eat breakfast weigh less that breakfast must be necessary.why don't you just state your point for everyone to read, instead of trying to force a debate. im still trying to figure out if you think people who claim to get hungrier on days they eat breakfast are lying or not. we get it your smart, now lets move along
my opinion is that the referenced article is full of assumptions and that it isn't supporting one point or the other.
I usually eat breakfast - my diary is open. For years I did not.
My opinion is that I would like to see something that, when it uses references, those references actually support the main points.
I do not think people are lying when they make that claim -- why would they be lying?
Would they be less hungry if they ate breakfast 2 hrs or 3 hrs later? or 6hrs?0 -
I am one of the "majority" who finds it easier to maintain /lose weight if I eat breakfast within an hour of waking up. Even if it is only coffee and a hard boiled egg.
To each his or her own0 -
Nearly every study of people who have lost weight and kept it off finds that the majority of them eat breakfast.
This is true, but "majority" is the key word in that sentence. I've yet to read a study where all of the participants who lost ate breakfast.
And the reasoning behind it is usually that the people were less hungry later in the day, so they didn't indulge in more calorie-heavy foods.
It wasn't eating breakfast that made them lose, it was that eating breakfast helped them eat less later and so they were in a calorie deficit.
Some people, if they don't eat breakfast, are ravenous by the time they finally eat and so they overeat. If you don't do that, then breakfast doesn't matter as much.0 -
My breakfast is a protein shake with 2 capsule of Biotin to accelerate metabolism since I am always in starvation mode and it slow down metabolism. I also take 2 capsule of Glucomanannan to make me feel my stomach is full.
Lost 8 pounds in 10 days until now0 -
Nearly every study of people who have lost weight and kept it off finds that the majority of them eat breakfast.
This is true, but "majority" is the key word in that sentence. I've yet to read a study where all of the participants who lost ate breakfast.
I didn't say that all people have to eat breakfast to lose weight. Nor did I say that all people who sustain their weight loss eat breakfast.0 -
does 6 cups of coffee and 1 plain frozen waffle count as breakfast? Cuz that's where I spend 94 calories every day at 8am...and that keeps me full and going until about 1 pm.
the coffee doesnt (assuming its black or limited cream) but the waffle will trigger the response discussed in the article0 -
Responses to an intellectually interesting post mostly boil down to either:
"This article is true because I don't eat breakfast!"
"This article is false because I do eat breakfast!"
ha...yes. sometimes whether they read the article or not0 -
Responses to an intellectually interesting post mostly boil down to either:
"This article is true because I don't eat breakfast!"
"This article is false because I do eat breakfast!"
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Wait, did you think people were actually going to discuss the article on its own merits? Even the OP doesn't want to do that.0 -
Wow there are so many responses to this so I only got through the first page. I get kinda busy at work but I will try to read the article later. I agree, that everyone is different, so one diet plan that works for one person, will not work for someone else. I just count calories. I used to hate doing it but I love being accountable to myself and knowing what I put in my mouth. Once I started counting, I realized I eat alot of the time just out of boredom so counting calories helps me decide better and make better choices. For example, I can have a 100 calorie sugar-laden granola bar and be hungry again in 10 minutes or eat 100 calories worth of fiber rich veggies or fruits and that will fill me up far longer.
I sometimes eat breakfast, sometimes I don't. So far, I've had coffee and a banana. For me personally, I do better just eating when I'm hungry, if I'm not hungry, I don't eat. I do understand that if you are diabetic, like my gramma is, you have to eat every 2-3 hours or so to keep your blood sugar level.
I think the bottom line is everyone is different. If eating breakfast is a must for you and it helps you with your diet plan, don't change anything. If you are counting calories like me and don't really get hungry if you don't eat breakfast, it wouldn't be wise to force yourself to eat because you'll just be miserable and have less calories for the rest of your day. I am continuously tweaking my plan to better my results. No plan is perfect for every person so just do what works for you.0 -
i have read that article before and as i remember it doesn't tell people they NEED to skip breakfast.0
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Responses to an intellectually interesting post mostly boil down to either:
"This article is true because I don't eat breakfast!"
"This article is false because I do eat breakfast!"
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Wait, did you think people were actually going to discuss the article on its own merits? Even the OP doesn't want to do that.
I dont? hmmmm...because I dont want to argue with someone who has obviously made up their mind ....ahhh...why is everything a fight here...if you dont agree with the author, fine...whatever...have a great day0
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