breakfast...the most unhealthiest meal of the day..

i think it depends what you eat for breakfast. stopping at ihop for all you can eat pancakes with bacon and the whole shebang isn't going to work.
i'm content with my bowl of plain oats mixed with various things like pb/syrup, unsweetened applesauce or chocolate protein powder.
to each their own.
i don't see how eating a nutritional breakfast of eggwhites with veggies or whatever your choice may be is unhealthy. check your *kitten*.
people are obese because they eat crap all day and not move around, or maybe because they have a medical problem (usually not the case), not because they eat the morning. check your *kitten* again.

shhhh this crowd doesn't like logic.

...Hmmm yet we keep hearing that breakfast is the "most important meal of the day". I guess if you want to be obese then it is...

You're so funny. I've never been overweight and I've always eaten breakfast. I know people who always skip breakfast and are horribly overweight. Those, along with your story, are just individual anecdotes, and not proof of anything. If you do better without breakfast, more power to you, but don't blame breakfast for the obesity epidemic. :laugh:

People have been eating breakfast for a VERY long time and yet, most of our ancestors were quite thin. The few people who were "corpulent" in the past were the "well to do" (in fact, it became a mark of status to be plump). They were the only ones who had access to a lot of sweet food as sugar has always been very expensive until the latter half of the 20th century. In 1900, our consumption of sugar was less than 5 pounds per person per year. The obesity epidemic only started about 1960 or so. And it tracks perfectly with the consumption of sugar. Our per capita consumption of sugar skyrocketed during the prosperous Post-WWII era (you couldn't get much sugar during wartime rationing). It really got going when everyone started to eat more and more processed food in the 70s and it accelerated rapidly when we started eating more and more restaurant food (also heavily laden with sugar). Now, the per capita consumption of sugar is about 150 pounds per person per year. Not all of it is in "sugary" foods---much of it is hidden in processed food. Breakfast does not make people fat or unhealthy.

Here is the proof! Ever since breakfast was invented in 1970 people have kept getting fatter. Just look at the chart. You can't argue with a sciency chart.

There is is on the chart. Proof postive!!

Try plotting the same for obesity and use of mobile phones. Or maybe use of synthetic fabrics? I also recommend plotting the previously suggested people with out without shoes and obese people. If it is a graph it must be science, proven and true.....

i doubt that 0% of people were obese in 1950. you need to check your *kitten* too

I'm still laughing that so many people took this chart seriously when it's obviously made up. The accompanying text stating that breakfast was invented in 1970 should have been a clue that it was intentionally silly. (Sorry I forgot to add that it was invented by Phineas J. Breakfast.)

But on a more "serious" note, I was on active duty in the Air Force (basic training + tech school) for 9 months. Everyone ate breakfast. Nobody was fat. I was 155 lbs. I am 6'1". (I'm certain you will find similar results in basic training/boot camp for all the armed forces.) I also got a 99.6% test average, so it's safe to say my academic/cognitive performance wasn't diminished by eating breakfast.

This is still going lol... to funny..... but if anyone wants to send me there pop tarts I will keep eating my 1200 calorie breakfasts and keep adding to my ticker..... Best of Luck..... :-)

congrats on the amazing tranformation, and obviously you're much healthier than you were at the get-go, but the reality is that thin =/= healthy. HealthIER, like I said, but it doesn't mean your body is operating at a completely optimal level.

but if the only goal is weight loss, then more power to ya and congrats again!

This is still going lol... to funny..... but if anyone wants to send me there pop tarts I will keep eating my 1200 calorie breakfasts and keep adding to my ticker..... Best of Luck..... :-)

congrats on the amazing tranformation, and obviously you're much healthier than you were at the get-go, but the reality is that thin =/= healthy. HealthIER, like I said, but it doesn't mean your body is operating at a completely optimal level.

but if the only goal is weight loss, then more power to ya and congrats again!

lol Much healthier lets try probably would be dead today had I not changed my ways... I eat my fair share of salad, fish, chicken and veggies but I will be damned if I give up any food I want to fit it my Macro's and Caloric intake... but I have never been on here to push an agenda just here to encourage and offer some advice when asked. Been doing resistance training since I was put in a therapy pool at 560 lbs. because I was unable to stand (or walk for that matter) so this has never been just about weightloss but Thanks anyway.....

good stuff. sorry didn't mean to belittle your accomplishment as obviously it was more important than just losing a few pounds.

it is a historical fact that there was no breakfast or obese people prior to 1950. It is in all the history books...

I'm still laughing that so many people took this chart seriously when it's obviously made up.

This kind of thing tends to happen a lot around here. :laugh:

why not? Everyone says that breakfast is the most "healthiest meal" of the day. But most of the people eating breakfast are obese. .

Actually, epidemiological research shows people who eat breakfast are more likely to be in the healthy weight range than people who don't.

Hmmmm.....7:30am...must be time for breakfast!!!

I had a baked mackerel for breakfast and have felt full ever since (12.43pm here now). Not all breakfasts have to be sugary rubbish!

I had a baked mackerel for breakfast and have felt full ever since (12.43pm here now). Not all breakfasts have to be sugary rubbish!

Absolutely the point. I am not "manipulated by big food companies", a good amount of protein for breakfast -I ALWAYS have my egg- keeps you moving. And of course, I have a 400-450 cal breakfast everyday. Love my bread to go with it and my morning fruit juice of whatever kind.

Did you know that logging into MFP every day keeps you from being eaten by rabid wombats?

Seriously. I've logged in every day for 51 days, and ain't a wombat to be seen in my general vicinity.

Correlation =/= causation.

Haha!!! This^^^

Here is the proof! Ever since breakfast was invented in 1970 people have kept getting fatter. Just look at the chart. You can't argue with a sciency chart.

I think your source is wrong. That chart claims almost 70% of the population is obese. When the most recent study from the CDC says only about 36% of the population is obese. http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

And since everyone is throwing in anecdotal evidence I'll give my .02. For most of my life I never ate breakfast. I've been obese for most of my life too. About 7 months ago I started losing weight. One of the things that helped me was eating in the morning during traditional breakfast times. It made a huge impact on my work. I'm now the lead developer for my company and my brain needs lots of energy to actually code properly. When I started eating something in the morning I noticed clear thinking and better time spent. Then around 12:30 or 1pm I'm hungry again and I start losing focus. I eat again and soon I'm back to normal. I've actually got it down so that I eat again around noon so that I don't have that dip in my focus.

So breakfast helped me lose 40 pounds at least. 24 pounds is since the 1st of the year and that is about when I settled into a breakfast routine that cut yogurt out in the morning.

So for me, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, then lunch. I skip dinner sometimes when I'm not hungry but I can't skip a breakfast. However on the weekends when I don't have any work to do or any personal projects I'm working on I normally have a late breakfast and lunch and they are normally more even in size. Like now I'm going to go get something to eat for breakfast and I've already been up for two hours. During the week I could not do that and not be able to focus.

However my results are anecdotal and are no way scientific. Since I have not had breakfast I don't have the energy or focus to go find valid sources that say something one way or the other.