You must eat breakfast if you want to lose weight
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Read the thing you posted from the NCSA.......
duno what to say.........just no........
Skipping a single meal doesn't have that affect..............otherwise people who are doing IF wouldn't be losing weight ......0 -
There's no advantage for weight loss. It's purely a personal preference.0
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Totally agree. I don't like eating breakfast in the morning, but if I don't...by 10:30AM every bag of potato chips in a 5 mile radius is in danger. lol
I'm that sort of menace, and it doesn't matter what time it is or what I had for breakfast.0 -
Didn't read the whole OP because the subject line and first few sentences were just too silly. There are NO "musts" in weight loss.
You MUST eat a calorie deficit under TDEE for weight loss.
As someone already pointed out, this is not true. Just as eating less than TDEE is no guarantee of weight loss.
He didn't say it's a guarantee. He said it's a precondition.
must /mʌst/ [muhst] auxiliary verb
1. to be obliged or bound to by an imperative requirement: I must keep my word.
2. to be under the necessity to; need to: Animals must eat to live.
3. to be required or compelled to, as by the use or threat of force: You must obey the law.
4. to be compelled to in order to fulfill some need or achieve an aim: We must hurry if we're to arrive on time.
5. to be forced to, as by convention or the requirements of honesty: I must say, that is a lovely hat.
Umm your point?
All those definitions prove my point - it's a precondition, NOT a guarantee.
ie. just because an animal eats doesn't mean it will live. Its head might get bitten off by a cougar. But if it doesn't eat at all it certainly won't live.
Nice try but come again.0 -
Umm your point?
All those definitions prove my point - it's a precondition, NOT a guarantee.
That was my thought too. The poster was agreeing with you.0 -
Sorry but I disagree. Yes most people should eat breakfast but it doesn't really do anything for weight loss.
I often miss breakfast with medication that makes me a little sickly in the mornings and just consume extra during the day to catch up on calories and I have lost over 50lbs.0 -
If I eat when I wake up, I end up eating way more throughout the day than if I wait to have breakfast until I'm hungry.0
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this thread is full of so much fail............
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I disagree also. I go from dinner the night before to eating my first meal about 12:30 the next day. I was an EVERY DAY breakfast eater, religiously, my whole life. I also got up to 265+ lbs. during that time. Now, I don't eat breakfast but eat in a roughly 7-8 hour window and it's much easier on me. Love not having to think about food until mid day! Love not being hungry until after my noon work out. win-win for me. To each his/her own though, if breakfast works for you, awesome.0
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Read the thing you posted from the NCSA.......
duno what to say.........just no........
Skipping a single meal doesn't have that affect..............otherwise people who are doing IF wouldn't be losing weight ......
Did you ever stop to think that maybe they are losing weight, but they could lose more if they followed this paper? I have in the past lost weight skipping breakfast, but i think i have been more successful losing what I want to when i put breakfast back into my diet. I do know that since i started not fasting, the impact the gym has on my muscles is much greater. Perhaps they are ALSO losing muscle mass which, in turn will not allow them to burn the fat quite as fast.0 -
this thread is full of so much fail............
:bows out:
a lot of people seem to have graduated with a Broscience PhD.
time to bail0 -
Umm your point?
All those definitions prove my point - it's a precondition, NOT a guarantee.
That was my thought too. The poster was agreeing with you.
I was just pointing out how what the guy said about having to eat less than TDEE isn't necessarily wrong and he wasn't saying it's a guaranteed way to lose weight. It's just that if you don't eat less, then you're not going to lose weight. But actually for someone with normal health and metabolism, I can't see how eating less than TDEE won't result in weight loss. Oh well I'm too tired I gotta go for a walk or something now.0 -
I don't think it's necessary to eat breakfast in order to lose weight but I think it might help you from binging at lunch. I actually forgot mine at home today so I had to do without. I was hungry, but no biggie....0
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Why is everyone so agressive in their answers? This seems a competition on who is right and who isn't.All my life I've heard the OP's statement that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day." and since I was 15 or so I've not eaten breakfast on the regular. Every once in a while I'll get a wild hare up the bum and eat it...but...for the most part its been a latte from the coffee shop on the way to class or work for many years. I've been every weight from 117 to 260 without breakfast, up and down the scale several times. Breakfast does not make one skinny.
I tend to bank my calories for later in the day. I work with a pretty set in stone routine in the morning and it does not include eating. Just the latte. And I can usually make it till 1 or 2pm before I start to even feel hungry. Part of my weight loss successes have been banking calories till later in the evening so I don't end up binging on crap at night and ruining my intake. If I go home, eat dinner and still have 400 calories to play with I'm more likely to succeed at the calories in vs calories out numbers game.
breakfast does usually screw up my daily numbers. They end up bottom heavy and then, around 8pm when I'm feeling all snicksnacky I get HANGRY. I'd rather be able to eat a damn cookie at 11pm then eat some "lean protein" at 7am.
I understand you, cause in my case it's just the opposite. 200-300 calories for breakfast help me not to stay way under my calorie goal at the end of the day, cause in the afternoon I'm not hungry at all. I couldn't imagine my food diary without that meal, I would be under 1000 calories!0 -
this thread is full of so much fail............
:bows out:
a lot of people seem to have graduated with a Broscience PhD.
time to bail
Interesting. It is hard to know who has the proper formal education in nutrition, and who is the amateur here.0 -
this thread is full of so much fail............
:bows out:
a lot of people seem to have graduated with a Broscience PhD.
time to bail
Interesting. It is hard to know who has the proper formal education in nutrition, and who is the amateur here.
Hint: The OP is an amateur.0 -
You are proof-positive that what works for some will not work for others. Congrats on your huge loss! :glasses:0
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See how many books with differing advice were publishing in the last 60 days??? And every one of them has "studies" to back them up. Do yourself a favor, and look closely at the conditions of the studies and see if you're still a true believer in *any* study, whether it supports your position or not.
This is true. Any crap book can cite journal articles. You need to read the actual studies to see if they match what the book is trying to say. What are the conditions? Are there multiple studies that support the conclusion? What limitations are discussed?
Of course, this is hard to do if you don't have a background in science and haven't had any statistics courses. Which means you need to be choosy about what books you read. Do some research online for critiques. In the meantime, remember that citations of scientific studies in books may not mean anything.0 -
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Umm your point?
All those definitions prove my point - it's a precondition, NOT a guarantee.
That was my thought too. The poster was agreeing with you.
I was just pointing out how what the guy said about having to eat less than TDEE isn't necessarily wrong and he wasn't saying it's a guaranteed way to lose weight. It's just that if you don't eat less, then you're not going to lose weight. But actually for someone with normal health and metabolism, I can't see how eating less than TDEE won't result in weight loss. Oh well I'm too tired I gotta go for a walk or something now.
I was just pointing out that I agreed with your point!0 -
Why is everyone so agressive in their answers? This seems a competition on who is right and who isn't.
Welcome to MFP :drinker:0 -
this thread is full of so much fail............
:bows out:
a lot of people seem to have graduated with a Broscience PhD.
time to bail
Interesting. It is hard to know who has the proper formal education in nutrition, and who is the amateur here.
Hint: The OP is an amateur.
LOL, that was apparent.0 -
Umm your point?
All those definitions prove my point - it's a precondition, NOT a guarantee.
That was my thought too. The poster was agreeing with you.
I was just pointing out how what the guy said about having to eat less than TDEE isn't necessarily wrong and he wasn't saying it's a guaranteed way to lose weight. It's just that if you don't eat less, then you're not going to lose weight. But actually for someone with normal health and metabolism, I can't see how eating less than TDEE won't result in weight loss. Oh well I'm too tired I gotta go for a walk or something now.
I was just pointing out that I agreed with your point!
Great minds think alike! :drinker: :smokin:0 -
And oh yeah, another "must' that folks swear by is exercise. I am physically unable to do anything besides walk (very short distances) due to numerous pinched nerves, herniated disks, bulging disks & arthritis. Weight loss is still possible, just takes a bit longer.
All kinds of weight loss myths out there!0 -
People say you should eat breakfast even if your NOT hungry, but I wait till I'm hungry, or noticed I haven't ate anything for a long time....either way without me making myself eat breakfast I'm losing weight anyway...just by watching my calories...so I say eat as you please and if your saving your calories for a meal your looking forward to and not hungry at breakfast then spare yourself and skip breakfast to indulge those calories for the meal your looking forward to. 0
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I thouroughly agree. Bfast can be very detrimental to weight loss because it makes me hungry all day long. IF is the only way to go in my opinion! I eat all I want for 8 hours and lose 4lbs per week and I am under 20% body fat so that is a lot of weight to lose per week. Plus the added fact that IF allows you to burn 90% fat and 10% muscle. Eat breakfast = lose muscle (25% of all weight loss).0
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Eating in the morning is very important!!! The sooner you eat the sooner your body starts making insulin which in turn starts the fat burning process. Skipping breakfast just slows down your overall metabolism and the amount of calories burnt in a 24 hour period. So skipping out on breakfast is not the best thing you could do however if it happens once in a while it will not hurt you at all, just dont make it a habit lol.
lofl. what?
insulin is anabolic. it makes things grow. fat and muscle both............0 -
Just as eating less than TDEE is no guarantee of weight loss.
How can it not be, eventually?
Medical problems could cause water retention that could offset a very small deficit.
No, if you're not losing weight you're not eating below TDEE, medical problems would LOWER TDEE.
I hate you for stealing my thunder. I was waiting for the right time.... Grrrrr.
Of course you used it in probably the only case where it's not relevant. Oh well.0 -
This thread is like riding a mechanical bull... better when drunk and ultimately leaves people laughing at you. =/0
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Eating in the morning is very important!!! The sooner you eat the sooner your body starts making insulin which in turn starts the fat burning process. Skipping breakfast just slows down your overall metabolism and the amount of calories burnt in a 24 hour period. So skipping out on breakfast is not the best thing you could do however if it happens once in a while it will not hurt you at all, just dont make it a habit lol.
Huh? Insulin aids in retaining fat....not burn it.0
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