skipping breakfast

I myself think breakfast is essential, giving your matabolism a kickstart.

^^^ummmmm...no....nice broscience you got there dude....

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I eat my "first meal" at 10 or 11 each day, that's the start of my 8-10 hour IF feeding window. the other 14-16 hours (mostly overnight) there is no eating for me (morning coffee the exception).

So essentially, we all eat "Breakfast" because that stands for "Break the Fast". Whatever time you first eat after waking is "break-fast". My breakfast just happens to be non-traditional breakfast foods eaten at 11 AM...but it's still technically "Break Fast"

^^^ This is me as well. I'm just not hungry till 10 or 11.

You shouldn't skip breakfast because coffee is the most important meal of the day.

Amen.. With two tablespoons of nonfat half and half....

I don't normally eat breakfast because I don't feel like it or because I don't have time. But it's not a good thing! It's better for your metabolism to eat breakfast and to eat less in the evening

nope, not true

It's funny to see all the mass programming..."breakfast is the most important meal" and all that metabolism boosting nonsense...I wonder if anyone has researched the reason this myth has been perpetuated, or maybe we can guess, that the big processed cereal corporations who do mass marketing campaigns and study human behaviour know exactly how to manipulate the population...come on people, time we all thought outside the freaking system box...get a life and do not perpetuate BULL****!!!

I always have breakfast...never skip it. Everyone is different n has their own reasons for it but mine is mainly for medical = for health... and health is wealth.

I am type 2 diabetic, having breakfast and regular balanced meals etc helps maintain my body's even blood sugar levels. I use to be on over 600 pounds and on 170 units of insulin a day... I am now on no insulin at all...so my sugar have come in check by eating healthy and balancing all my meals.

Not eating breakfast really slows your metabolism! I hardly ever do it, unless it can't be prevented! I feel if you skip breakfast it causes that late morning-early afternoon drag! JUST NOT GOOD!

You shouldn't skip breakfast because coffee is the most important meal of the day.

I'll raise my mug to that!

p.s. I skip a few meals, especially when I am busy or away from home or forget to eat one or the other...I am still burning fat just as well...as many have said already, timing of meals is unimportant, as long as you are hitting your goals for the day, some people only eat once or twice a day, if you can stomach it, do it...I like to spread things out a lot more, so I am getting four to six meals a day...timing does not matter, I used to work out at 5 a.m. for months before I changed jobs and I did fine on an empty stomach...

nope, not true

yes true, but only depending on your body!

No, not at all from a metabolism perspective.

BAD IDEA! Eat a healthy breakfast. EX. non fat milk with honey nut cheerios is my favorite

When you eat, you increase your metabolic rate by up to 30% (depending on what your eat) for about 3 hours, therefore if you eat breakfast you're increasing the amount of calories you're burning for that time, so yes it does effect your metabolism.

Where do you get this information from?

I think you are thinking about TEF. However, TEF is based on the amount of food you eat. If you eat 1,000 calories it will be the same whether you eat it on one go or in 5 or 10 sittings.

Calories and macros being equal - meal timing is irrelevant to weight loss.

^^This^^

I don't skip breakfast, but I do tend to make it a little lighter because I don't often wake up hungry. I'll have some coffee and a protein shake and that holds me until lunch time. When I was pregnant, I developed gestational diabetes and ended up on a "diabetic diet" which consisted of small, protein-rich, low-carb meals/snacks at about 3 hour intervals. That diet helped keep my blood sugar and energy level consistent. When the babies were born (2 separate pregnancies, both with GD) I lost weight quickly and realized that diet was a really good thing for me. Now that I'm doing something similar again, it's working again.

If I want to splurge on calories a bit, I exercise more to compensate. If I skip breakfast, I end up extra hungry later on and tend to go overboard when I shouldn't. This is what works for me, anyway.

ETA: I've lost 70 lbs so far.

You shouldn't skip breakfast because coffee is the most important meal of the day.

This.

I have coffee for breakfast and either eat around 10am, or lunch time. I'm not hungry in the mornings and often don't have time to eat. Saving the calories is an added benifit. Having breakfast or not doesn't seem to effect my hunger levels at lunch.

However, if I were hungry in the morning, I wouldn't skip it.

Well I've studied fitness and nutrition for starters.
I'm not sure what country you're from, but here's an Australian Gov website that backs it:

http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Metabolism_explained

Your link shows absolutely nothing with regard to meal timing having relevance on metabolism.

Did you even read what I linked?

Probably not, your links are not supported by the Government of Austrailia.

I go to a nutritionist: she says never skip breakfast or any meal. She prefers I use the program that breaks your eating into three hour segments. She really believes in that; Also keep calories to at least 200 at breakfast & lunch. She says our body will be tricked into going into 'starvation' mode if we don't keep it up...burning up the muscle & not the fat. I used to have trouble at the end of the day, but now I don't using this method. Listen to when you are hungry. Look at the other area of the myfitness program, watching the sugars and salt distributions & amounts, proteins & fats as well; it gives you the amounts you need, tells you when you go over or under...I really like this part of the program. I know when I am in the 'red' for salt I usually am up in weight the next day. Actually this program tells us when we will go into 'starvation' mode so pay attention to that too.