do you notice losing more eating breakfast?

The only thing that makes you lose weight is a calorie deficit. Time of eating, how much you eat in one go, etc, has nothing to do with it. It doesn't matter if you eat nothing all day then your entire days allowance for dinner.

If breakfast makes you hungrier, skip it.

I eat a small breakfast around 7 am, a snack around 9:30, lunch around 12, another snack around 2:30 then dinner around 6:30. I found adding those small 100 calories snacks keeps me for binging at meals.

When I say small, I normally eat yogurt for morning snack and a piece of fruit for afternoon snack.

Good luck!

Nope, lost over 50lbs usually breaking my fast at noon or later. It really is about the amount of calories you consume and has nothing to do with what time you eat them/how you divvy them up.

I eat a small breakfast around 7 am, a snack around 9:30, lunch around 12, another snack around 2:30 then dinner around 6:30. I found adding those small 100 calories snacks keeps me for binging at meals.

When I say small, I normally eat yogurt for morning snack and a piece of fruit for afternoon snack.

Good luck!

Same here - little and often during the day.

Same. I don't eat a regular meal at work for lunch. I just snack throughout the day. Fruit and peanut butter, yogurt and nuts, protein bar.. keeps me full so I don't binge before dinner.

I dont really think it matters when you eat... but I do think that some people who skip breakfast are so hungry by lunch time that they over-eat. and I think that leads people to think that eating breakfast aids weight loss.

eating breakfast always makes me hungrier for lunch and even before. I usually have about a cup of almond milk (30 calories). That gives me some calcium and something to sip on...but it doesn't make me hungrier for lunch. Also, I can save my calories for my lunch and dinner.

There is no truth to metabolism being boosted by breakfast. Or so I read recently on the internet. So, who knows.

I have a very good nutritionist and she talked me into trying eating breakfast. I had always felt like I was "saving" the calories for later in the day. It tended to make me hungry by the time lunch came also, but after a few weeks that went away. Now, I need something in the morning. Breakfast for me tends to be about 300 cals during the week.

I've found that if I don't eat breakfast I'm starving by the time lunch rolls around and I'm grabbing anything I can find, usually something high in processed sugar or carbs and calorie dense.

I've also found that if I start my day thinking about what I'm eating, I do much better staying mindful the whole day.

It makes sense to me that a metabolism is your body's fire, and fire needs fuel to burn. But there is all kinds of research that says kids mentally perform better and aren't as sluggish/sleepy if they eat a good breakfast, so there must be something to it, even the research doesn't hold up for losing weight.

As much as some people here who will say you're no special snowflake, and I believe that's true in some things, I do think that everyone is different particularly when it comes to motivation. Experiment - and find what works for you.

I always do better sticking to my calorie limit for the day when I have a satisfying breakfast, two mini lunches, and dinner

The reason it's a good idea to have a little something within a couple hours of waking is because it's not good to starve your metabolism to it for 12, 15, 16 hrs.

FALSE

In 2004 a group of 29 men and women fasted for 12, 36 and 72 hours for a study in the British Journal of Nutrition and their metabolism was measured before and after each fast. The results showed that their resting metabolic rate had not changed at all after a 12 hour fast, had actually increased by the 32 hour fast, and it wasn’t until after the 72nd hour of fasting that they started to notice a decline in their metabolism.

cited: http://ifasters.com/intermittent-fasting-and-your-metabolism/

And there are dozens of other studies out there refuting your blanket statement

I think it depends on the person... as far as losing more weight I can't say that either .. I know I feel better if i eat breakfast. I eat the weight control Instant oatmeal every morning and have found it holds my hunger off better than cereal or other breakfast foods... That's just me though. May not work for everyone.

Adamant breakfast eater here that has been plateaued for a month. Stopped eating breakfast Monday and have dropped 5 pounds. I weigh everyday, same time, same circumstances. Maybe a fluke but I will know more in a month or so.

This might be due to the fact that there have been studies showing that a fast CAN be beneficial. If you do it once or twice a week. But not everyday. It's like a shock to your system. If you do the same thing everyday it can actually cause you to plateau because your body is used to it.

Really, you just have to find something that works for you.

I think that if you lose weight eating breakfast, it has more to do with PREFERENCE and DIET ADHERENCE than it does "boosting your metabolism."

I did just fine at first losing weight when I ate breakfast and 4 other meals throughout the day, but when I started lifting more, I noticed I was constantly hungry and started overeating. I craved more at dinner and ALWAYS wanted dessert whether I had the calories left or not. I didn't lose weight simply because I was going over my calorie goal.

So I stopped eating breakfast. Now, I have nothing but a 90-calorie coffee in the mornings (which isn't truuuuuly by intermittent fasting standards). I eat 1800 calories between 12P.M. and 9P.M. I get to have the huge dinner and dessert that I crave. EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT. I am much HAPPIER, and I am CONSISTENT in meeting my calorie and macro goals. For that reason, I have been more successful in losing weight.

It has nothing to do with my metabolism and everything to do with my preference for a big dinner and dessert and the likeliness of adhering to my calorie goal.

When I eat breakfast, I lose the ability to eat more food later in the day.

Looking over my diary from the past few months, I found that I had the easiest time staying in my net cal zone on the days when I ate a breakfast including two eggs, some meat and cheese, and vegetables. Close second were the days when I slept through breakfast and put the extra calories into a nice big lunch. The protein and fat keep me satisfied on 2-3 meals a day.

I've heard all the studies and advice about eating breakfast. But, when I eat breakfast..I'm actually more hungry all day. I'm looking for people who know for sure from the scale..not studies and advice they've read... that they lose more one way or the other.

I've been eating breakfast to see if it makes me lose faster; my thinking is maybe my metabolism is working faster that is why I'm so hungry all day.

Any of you know for sure that you lose more eating breakfast?

From what I hear, eating breakfast gets your metabolism started early (ideally you'd eat within 30 minutes of waking up), which would cause you to be hungry throughout the day, because your metabolism is burning through energy. I eat a light breakfast and two small snacks all before my lunch at 1 pm, and it seems to be working well toward my goals.

Eating breakfast isn't the key to losing weight, but I do think it is good for your metabolism. A calorie deficit is the only way to lose weight, with or without breakfast.