Breakfast: Yes or No?

I am on the fence with this one. I love a good hearty breakfast if I get a late start to my day, i.e. not being in school for first class because those days kill me and thank God teachers get free coffee. But sometimes I skip it in favor of sleeping 15 more minutes

Yes...every day. A hot one is best.

If I run late, Lean Cuisine and Atkins have a couple of really good scrambled egg frozen meals.

The only thing you should do with regard to breakfast is listen to your body. If your body is hungry, feed it. If it's not, don't just because someone says you should. I have done IF a few times, and as long as I planned out my lunches and dinners I was fine. The days I didn't plan were the ones where I personally had a "put all of the food in my mouth" feeling and ended up eating way too much.

Sometimes I eat breakfast, sometimes I only have a cup of coffee. It all depends on how I am feeling for the day... sometimes it ends up being more like brunch. As long as you are eating the number of calories you SHOULD be, it really won't make a difference when you consume them... unless you get hangry when you skip a meal.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! If anything, you should eat the least at dinner (but obviously no one does that haha)

If you eat in the morning, it kick starts your metabolic rate and therefore helps you burn more calories throughout the day!

Not true, as you can see by my ticker, I don't have breakfast a lot of days and it doesn't hurt me at all.
OP it's all in how you feel, if your hungry then eat, if your not then don't. As with everything there are so many different opinions out there including doctors. Blah blah do what you want. I love fasting and I'm currently doing the 5:2 expanding it some to 4:3 finding it works for me.

Definitely a breakfast person, always have been!

If you interpret breakfast as when you "break" your "fast" then obviously it's the most important meal of the day, because if you never have a first meal (whatever time you eat it) then you aren't going to be able to have a second or third meal and you'll likely starve if you keep it up for too long.

I found it funny that someone posted that they don't have breakfast because they don't get hungry until 2 hours after they wake up. I love breakfast and look forward to it, yet I am never able to fit it into my day until 2 or 3 hours after I wake. I'm usually up by 5 or 5:30 am and finally manage to eat by 7:30 or 8 am, sometimes it's 10 or 11 am. I never knew until reading this post that I'm not actually eating breakfast.

If you interpret breakfast as when you "break" your "fast" then obviously it's the most important meal of the day, because if you never have a first meal (whatever time you eat it) then you aren't going to be able to have a second or third meal and you'll likely starve if you keep it up for too long.

I found it funny that someone posted that they don't have breakfast because they don't get hungry until 2 hours after they wake up. I love breakfast and look forward to it, yet I am never able to fit it into my day until 2 or 3 hours after I wake. I'm usually up by 5 or 5:30 am and finally manage to eat by 7:30 or 8 am, sometimes it's 10 or 11 am. I never knew until reading this post that I'm not actually eating breakfast.

So you're saying if you have a granola bar when you wake up, don't eat anything else all day, then have a 3 course meal for dinner, the granola bar was more important?

:laugh:

If you interpret breakfast as when you "break" your "fast" then obviously it's the most important meal of the day, because if you never have a first meal (whatever time you eat it) then you aren't going to be able to have a second or third meal and you'll likely starve if you keep it up for too long.

I found it funny that someone posted that they don't have breakfast because they don't get hungry until 2 hours after they wake up. I love breakfast and look forward to it, yet I am never able to fit it into my day until 2 or 3 hours after I wake. I'm usually up by 5 or 5:30 am and finally manage to eat by 7:30 or 8 am, sometimes it's 10 or 11 am. I never knew until reading this post that I'm not actually eating breakfast.

Oh come on, you know exactly what people mean when they say they "don't eat breakfast".
It's just easier to say "I don't eat breakfast" than it is to say " I don't have my first meal until several hours after I wake up and once I do eat, it's usually not typical breakfast food"

I know many argue against meal timing but to me it makes sense: If I'm going to eat a larger meal, it should be the earliest in the day when I have the most time available to work it off before I lie down to sleep at night and my metabolism slows.

Now "breakfast" doesn't necessarily have to happen at 6-8AM...depending on your schedule, if you're working a second shift 2PM-10:30PM, 3PM-11:30PM type shift then breakfast might happen at 11AM or Noon or even later if you're working third shift/overnights.

And also if morning is when you do your workout, you want to try and get something into you about an hour before you begin so you have some energy to power it. My two cents...

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I know many argue against meal timing but to me it makes sense: If I'm going to eat a larger meal, it should be the earliest in the day when I have the most time available to work it off before I lie down to sleep at night and my metabolism slows.

Your body burns X number of calories every day based on activity, no matter what time you eat and what time you sleep. Eat fewer calories than you burn in a regular basis, and your body doesn't care when you eat, you will be at a deficit. All that food you think you don't burn because you go to sleep...it doesn't magically become fat just because you go to sleep.
Ask all the people who successfully follow Intermittant Fasting and consume most of their calories between noon-8pm or later (and have a typical sleep schedule) if eating large meals at night disrupts their rate of loss.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! If anything, you should eat the least at dinner (but obviously no one does that haha)

If you eat in the morning, it kick starts your metabolic rate and therefore helps you burn more calories throughout the day!

No, no, no..........no ^^^^^^^ Oh yea, not that^^^^

Some people report increased mood and focus when they eat breakfast. Others react the opposite. Some people find that they stay fuller longer when they eat breakfast. Some are hungrier after eating in the morning.

Meal timing will not affect your weight loss. It may affect your gym performance, concentration, and hunger levels throughout the day. Eat it if you want. Skip it if you want.

Perfectly stated ^^^^ It's as good as any answer that will come along in this thread.

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Couldn't have said it better or more precise.

I will add that I have just started with an IF 16:8 experiment. Honestly didn't think I could do it. It was so easy for me to transition into IF. I skip breakfast (I have white tea and water) and begin to eat between 11 and noon. I actually have found that I am no where near as hungry throughout the day since starting IF. When I was eating a big breakfast I was ready to eat my arm by 10:30am. I'm only in day 4, but I see this as a sustainable lifestyle for me.... Oh, and the scale is moving downward again! To each their own.

They say eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper...

I chose to ignore this and prefer the extra half hour in bed, I've lost successfully so it didn't seem to matter for me. I eat most my allowance in the evening.

I eat breakfast, I like breakfast, I don't need to eat breakfast. Not everyone will eat breakfast, or like breakfast.

Find what works for you.
If you want to eat it, eat it, if you want to skip it skip it.

No right or wrong way to decide when to eat, just make sure to eat!

I've been reading a new book, Dr. Yoni Freedhoff's "The Diet Fix" and one of his recommendations is to eat a breakfast that is at least 1/5 of your total daily calories, with a minimum of 20g of protein. He promises that this will decrease my hunger and urges to snack later in the day, and especially at night which is when I have issues. Trying it today for the first time! I always eat breakfast, just not usually this much.