Need some advice...

Eh... thanks but I don't think so. I am a breakfast person and believe that it's the most important meal of the day. I'm not into skipping meals, I want to nourish my body and give it the fuel it needs to be healthy.

(reading this, Piglet?)

If you are overweight, by, say, ten pounds, you can stop eating entirely and just drink water and you will do just fine for ten days.

In other words, the food you eat this morning your body does NOT need.

And there is no such thing as metabolic machinery that needs to be started up.

And...your glucose (of concern to some) will do just fine whether you eat breakfast or not.

This is science. This is how your body works. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

By not eating breakfast, as I outlined in my post, I can eat pretty much whatever I want the rest of the day.

Check out the freebie pages on the Kindle site of Dr. Hagan's "Breakfast: The least important meal of the day" to give you more reassurance.

Losing weight in the end is a psychological game.

Breakfast to "kick start" metabolism?

OUCH! OUCH! OUCH!

Again:. Google "Hagan" and "Breakfast:Least important Meal of the Day"

It is a Kindle site.

DON'T BUY ANYTHING!

But read the first freebie 40 pages of the book.

Learn.

I don't feel the need to find out whether I should be eating breakfast or not - it's mine, OPs and everyone else's choice. I would also prefer to listen to advice of nutritionists (and no, I'm not going to 'name them' - no reason to justify myself to you).

At the end of the day, people do what works best for them. If not eating breakfast works best for you then I applaud you. But leave us breakfast-lovers alone. Thanks

That's the problem.
People think they are different and what works for one doesn't work for another.
Diversity is to be accepted, right?
WRONG!!
Everyone here who wants to lose weight has the EXACT SAME METABOLISM.
They have the EXACT SAME NEUROLOGIC MAKE-UP.
Weight is lost the EXACT SAME WAY.
We are only superficially different, but 99.99% the same.

Now, you can lose weight by burning more calories.
You can lose weight by ingesting less calories.
Running a calorie deficit.
Right?

For most people, it is far easier and more convenient to consume less calories than to burn them away doing otherwise pointless physical activity.
One vastly under-appreciated technique is to modify hunger, i.e. your psychological response to the signals that your stomach is empty.
It can be done and "naturally" thin people have learned it on their own.
You can, too.
In fact, mastering that approach should be the FIRST STEP in weight loss, and it might be the ONLY step you will need.

Saying that weight loss is different for everyone is a talk-show cop-out.

And, no, I will not leave you breakfast-lovers alone. Smiley face or no.

Do you want to lose weight or not?

Breakfast to "kick start" metabolism?

OUCH! OUCH! OUCH!

Again:. Google "Hagan" and "Breakfast:Least important Meal of the Day"

It is a Kindle site.

DON'T BUY ANYTHING!

But read the first freebie 40 pages of the book.

Learn.

I don't feel the need to find out whether I should be eating breakfast or not - it's mine, OPs and everyone else's choice. I would also prefer to listen to advice of nutritionists (and no, I'm not going to 'name them' - no reason to justify myself to you).

At the end of the day, people do what works best for them. If not eating breakfast works best for you then I applaud you. But leave us breakfast-lovers alone. Thanks

That's the problem.
People think they are different and what works for one doesn't work for another.
Diversity is to be accepted, right?
WRONG!!
Everyone here who wants to lose weight has the EXACT SAME METABOLISM.
They have the EXACT SAME NEUROLOGIC MAKE-UP.
Weight is lost the EXACT SAME WAY.
We are only superficially different, but 99.99% the same.

Now, you can lose weight by burning more calories.
You can lose weight by ingesting less calories.
Running a calorie deficit.
Right?

For most people, it is far easier and more convenient to consume less calories than to burn them away doing otherwise pointless physical activity.
One vastly under-appreciated technique is to modify hunger, i.e. your psychological response to the signals that your stomach is empty.
It can be done and "naturally" thin people have learned it on their own.
You can, too.
In fact, mastering that approach should be the FIRST STEP in weight loss, and it might be the ONLY step you will need.

Saying that weight loss is different for everyone is a talk-show cop-out.

And, no, I will not leave you breakfast-lovers alone. Smiley face or no.

Do you want to lose weight or not?

Yeah we all get it, you don't have to eat breakfast to lose weight, it all comes down to Cals in vs Cals, but you can eat breakfast if you want. You are trying to make it seem like the only way to lose weight is to skip breakfast which is just as wrong as the people who say you have to eat breakfast to lose weight, and at this point since the OP likes eating breakfast, you really are just making yourself look like somebody who thinks they are smarter than everyone else, but is really somebody who just likes to argue for the sake of arguing. It's like HEY LOOK AT ME I"M SMARTER THAN YOU BECAUSE I DON'T EAT BREAKFAST AND YOU DO FATTY.