Skipping Breakfast !

There was a study (and I can't seem to find it at the moment -- sigh) done not too awful long ago and the summary was basically:

1) There is no difference in weight loss or recidivism rates between those who eat breakfast and those who do not normally.

2) The only time there is a difference is when someone who didn't eat breakfast starts or someone who ate breakfast stopped. In both cases the results for both weight loss and recidivism were worse than those who continued to eat breakfast or continued to not eat breakfast as they had previously done.

Long and short is... it's broscience that you need breakfast or will eat more total during the day if you skip it. The other related myth of "eating many small meals is better than a couple big ones" has also been repeatedly disproved by studies but shows up constantly too... well it's been disproved except in the case of extreme athletes who DO benefit from it. For anyone else 2-3 meals a day tends to work better and result in higher weight loss and better maintenance of muscle.

*shrug*

I've heard this term thrown around a bit in the last week. Can someone tell me what "broscience" is?

On every issue, you can argue and you will find numbers of support from the net but in my opinion one should not skip the meal especially Breakfast - not at all. I was a big skipper of meals, rarely ate breakfast and now paying for it, as per doc

Except like other cases. it's been peer reviewed studied and correct.

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Sure, strickly from a weight lose stand point not eating breakfast really dose not matter. Correct, calories at the end of the day is all that matters. But really, think about what you are doing. You just starved (fasted) your body of nutrients for 10 hours or so. Now you are going to continue to starve your body another 4 or 5 hours? Is this good common sense? Yea, yea, we all know breakfast doesn't increase metabolism, etc. Not the point. Probably the most important reason is your brain (as well as all of your other vtial organs) require replenshment to function properly. Do the research.

Personally I eat till 11:30pm. I don't eat again till after 12:00pm. Research here shows a 12 hour fast time. What's the difference if it's 6pm to 6am?

Many studies have found that childern who do not eat breakfast are far more likely to to worse in school.

We're adults with full grown brains and bodies.

Eating breakfast helps improve memory and positively affects the tasks that require the retention of new information. A hungry person will tend to be apathetic, disinterested, and irritable when confronted with difficult tasks. Additinally, your kidneys, liver, lungs, and especially your heart are all functioning less effeciently because they have no fuel to do so.

Subjective. Personally, I do fine without it due to late night eating.

If all you care about is losing weight at the cost of hurting your body. Go ahead and starve yourself. If want to be healthy and alert, then feed your body after you just starved it all night long. That goes for hydration as well. The first hing you should do when you get up is drink a glass of water with a little lemon juice.

Lol broscience now popping up.

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Disregard my question about broscience. I looked it up and it's exactly what I assumed it was.

Everyone knows that skipping breakfast leads total starvation mode within hours, promiscuity and a swift decline into complete moral turpitude. In fact it's been said that most serial killers started off life skipping breakfast!

I am concerned with the total number of calories for the day meeting my goal not when they are consumed. I used to skip breakfast every day and lunch most days but since I have been dieting I eat breakfast every day, not because "it is the most important meal of the day" but because if I skip a meal I find myself feeling like snacking excessively. I spread out my calories throughout the day for that reason.

Sorry -just found this which addresses both skipping breakfast and fasting:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1072656-10-unbelievable-diet-rules-backed-by-science

If I skipped breakfast I would feel sick and have trouble stringing a thought together! My tummy wants food within an hour of being awake.

Skipping any meal isn’t ideal, you leave yourself the risk of overeating later as you’re starved.

Why would I be starved after skipping one meal? It would take several days for me to be starved, and several weeks to actually starve to death. One meal means nothing in context, calories and protein held constant.

If you skip breakfast chances are you will eat a larger than average lunch because your body needs calories from food to survive , Food is easily available so you will most likely over eat . Which is fine because you skipped a meal so may aswel get breakfast and lunch in one meal . Yesterday I didn't eat all day and felt like I was STARVING . Dinner time came along and I ate breakfast + lunch + dinner + dessert in one sitting . Was it bad , NO I ate my calories I needed but all in one sitting.

This is literally exactly what the study disproved. Read the evidence.

Completely agree that it is personal preference, however I am starving by the time I wake up so look forward to breakfast however if I wasn’t hungry I wouldn’t force myself same applys for lunch, suppose it doesnt make much difference the time of day? As long as your not snacking on junk due to not having a meal.