You must eat breakfast if you want to lose weight
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lost nearly 15kg with no breakfasts involved.0
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If you eat too much sodium, you'll turn inside out.0
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You should eat when you're HUNGRY. Not before. Not after.
I'd be in big trouble if I didn't eat until I was hungry.
Due to an abusive past I am still pretty disconnected from my physical body and I don't recognize I'm hungry until I'm REALLY hungry and then I over-eat. So, for me, eating on a fairly regular schedule actually keeps me from over-eating. I'm getting better at recognizing the hunger early on, but I still believe that eating on a regular schedule keeps my metabolism burning. Metabolism is like a fire, and it needs fuel to burn.0 -
There's no advantage for weight loss. It's purely a personal preference.
THIS!!!!! I skip breakfast every day. It is purely personal preference. I also practice intermittent fasting. In fact I follow a procedure written by Rusty Moore on Fitness Black book where you work out fasted so your body produces HGH (intermittent fasting creates this benefit as well as many other benefits for weight loss) --> http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/745151-i-got-a-compliment-from-rusty-moore-from-fitness-black-book0 -
Or not. Whatever works for you. I happen to love breakfast, though.0
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Apparently the key to losing weight is to eat breakfast all day long. Man, if only I'd known...0
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Apparently the key to losing weight is to eat breakfast all day long. Man, if only I'd known...
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OP, that's wonderful -- I never ate breakfast and lost weight and have kept it off for years and years. Stuff it.0
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I didn't start eating breakfast till recently and still for breakfast I only have a granola bar. Man I guess the 121lbs I lost is in my head?0
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The only thing you must do is to maintain a calorie deficit consistently.
For some people (the majority I would wager) having breakfast helps with that....
Yes, agree!
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All this weight loss must be an illusion then. I can't remember the last time I ate before 12.0
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Since joining MFP I have tried to eat breakfast in the morning. Most of the time I am not hungry until about 11am and when I try to eat early 7am to 9:30 ish I find it really hard to stomach. Usually resulting in trying to force it down. Surely that cannot be right for me. I would really love to see some evidence that eating early starts your metabolism up as I have heard time and time again.0
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Apparently the key to losing weight is to eat breakfast all day long. Man, if only I'd known...
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Why eat if you aren't hungry? I don't understand that. Hunger is a signal.
I'm not hungry in the AM. I'm not shoving food in my mouth unless my body tells me too.0 -
This thread is awesome.
OP: that's a glorious backpedal mid-thread.
"You must eat breakfast if you want to lose weight."
*angry pitchfork-wielding mob forms*
"Well, I didn't mean you have to, like really REALLY have to. I just mean you could try it maybe, and it might work for you. Maybe. It worked for me, tho...is what I'm sayin..."
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I finally started seeing a nutrionist after a million half *kitten* attmepts at weight loss for 20 years. This is the first time that I have had any success at all and am on my way to my first 10 pounds. Her advice to me, which was contrary to anything that I had ever been told, was "eat breakfast when you are hungry, not necessarily within 30 minutes of rising". I am limited to 1600 calories a day and this strategy has helped me immensely. I now eat breakfast at 9:30 - lean protein and multrigrain carb and yogurt and then my small meals as the day progresses. I normally don't eat after dinner (not a late night snacker) so it has been very comfortable hitting that calorie goal.
I used to get up at 5:30 and eat 200 calories and then be starving before I even hit my desk at 7:30...just setting the whole day into a tailspin.
This has worked well for me to eat later....0 -
I agree. A hearty snort of cocaine in the morning really gets my metabolism going.0
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Well I know that personally, if I don't have a breakfast of some nature, I'll eat way more at lunch and at dinner. I find if I eat a high fibre breakfast, I am fuller all day. It does work for me. But then I once lost (12yrs ago) 160 pounds by basically starving too- and don't get on me for it- it certainly wasn't by choice- so either will work, it's just if you'd like to do it healthy or not.0
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Bad habit to eat when you're not hungry and is the number one reason why I'm overweight0
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No advantage to weight loss? Tell that to the people that were told they would DIE if they didn't lose weight!0
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I eat good amount of food which has good amount of carbs and less protein during breakfast...I eat a lot during lunch... Finally, i eat less during dinner...
Actually breakfast is essential and need to be taken BUT that does not give full assurance that u will lose weight...
There are some people who skip breakfast and eat more during lunch...they also lose weight.
Also there are some people who eat less during breakfast and lunch...but eat a lot during dinner. .. they also lose weight...0 -
Different ways of eating help different people stick to a calorific deficit and lose weight. And those different ways do not have to be rigid or consistent every day, so long as you keep that calorific deficit over the course of a week.
If I worked in an office that had kitchen facilities I'd eat my breakfast mid-morning, like I do at the weekend, which saves me the snack calories I otherwise need to see me through to lunch if I eat breakfast at 7am.0 -
In on troll thread!0
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I dont think it is a MUST but it does help me to have a little something. During the week when exercise is limited I eat a yogurt for breakfast but on the weekends when I burn around 2000 calories a day cycling I always eat a breakfast. Oatmeal with fruit. If not I bonk out on the rides.0
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I agree. A hearty snort of cocaine in the morning really gets my metabolism going.
I like to sprinkle cocaine on my Honey Bunches of Oats. Man, I burn all day long after a bowl of that!0 -
Eating breakfast isn't a MUST to lose weight. Glad it's working for you. I only eat breakfast when I'm hungry. That works for me.0
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Some people just can't eat breakfast -- I'm one of those. I suffer from IBS and that just doesn't work too well for my digestive system. I might be able to eat some light carbs (pretzels, bread, crackers, etc.) and the occasional yogurt, but my body works better when I eat an early lunch (around 11). Everyone is different and their eating habits are not always by choice. Sometimes the body makes its own schedule.0
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Some days I eat breakfast, some days I don't. You can check my diary. Most day's I don't but I make up the calories later in the day. Today I'm eating breakfast just because I'm hungry. If I don't eat breakfast its simply because I'm not hungry. I refuse to force myself to eat if I'm not hungry. Even after all this skipping breakfast, and eating back most of my exercise calories, I still manage to lose weight. Do what works for you and makes you feel great during the day.0
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