Breakfast or No Breakfast?

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  • MKEgal
    MKEgal Posts: 3,250 Member
    Here are several studies (peer-reviewed, published in respected professional journals) showing that breakfast is important, and eating a large breakfast is associated with greater weight loss.

    This study compared eating a small breakfast, medium lunch, and large dinner, [200, 500, 700 cal]
    with eating a large breakfast, medium lunch, and small dinner [700, 500, 200 cal].
    "The [large breakfast] group showed greater weight loss and waist circumference reduction ... fasting glucose, insulin [&] triglycerides ... decreased significantly to a greater extent in the [large breakfast] group."
    In addition, hunger was less and satiety was greater.

    Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23512957
    Here's a PDF of the whole article.
    http://genetics.doctorsonly.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Jakubowicz-at-al-Obesity-2013-oby20460.pdf

    "data suggest that a low-calorie Mediterranean diet with a higher amount of calories in the first part of the day could establish a greater reduction in fat mass and improved insulin sensitivity than a typical daily diet."
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24809437

    "Breakfast is associated with lower body weight ...
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24898236

    "subjects assigned to high caloric intake during breakfast lost significantly more weight than those assigned to high caloric intake during the dinner"
    Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24467926
    Full text: http://www.tradewindsports.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Nutrient-Timing-and-Obesity-2014.pdf
  • MKEgal
    MKEgal Posts: 3,250 Member
    I've never really been a breakfast person, totally happy to start eating at lunchtime, but when I read those articles I changed how I eat.
    Now breakfast is almost always a piece of whole wheat bread, a T of peanut butter, a glass of milk, a serving of carnation instant breakfast, and a banana. I usually eat within 20 min of waking up.
    It's around 600-700 cal. depending on if I want jelly with my PB, or if I put malted milk powder in with the instant breakfast, and there's just under half my calories for the day.
  • IIIIISerenityNowIIIII
    IIIIISerenityNowIIIII Posts: 425 Member
    I often don't eat anything until mid-afternoon.
  • Barbellarella_
    Barbellarella_ Posts: 454 Member
    The people who started the breakfast rumor, are just trying to sell you boxes of cereal.


    Eat when your hungry. Meal timing is irrelevant to weight loss.
  • funguykk
    funguykk Posts: 3 Member
    It looks like you're perfectly suited for Intermittent fasting. It's not a fad diet, neither is it a fast. Please go through leangains dot com. He's got all the scientific evidence also laid out.
  • jodyblanchard
    jodyblanchard Posts: 99 Member
    I do drink hot lemon most morning (hot water, juice of half a lemon) and a coffee with half&half(2tbsp to 16oz coffee) or a skim milk latte pretty much every morning.

    I found, way back when, if I ate breakfast because I was "supposed to", I'd seem hungrier all day long. For now, I am just trying to go with my body's cues and it seems to be working.

    I appreciate your input. Have a great day!
  • jodyblanchard
    jodyblanchard Posts: 99 Member
    It looks like you're perfectly suited for Intermittent fasting. It's not a fad diet, neither is it a fast. Please go through leangains dot com. He's got all the scientific evidence also laid out.

    I will do that right now. Thanks!
  • jodyblanchard
    jodyblanchard Posts: 99 Member
    The people who started the breakfast rumor, are just trying to sell you boxes of cereal.


    Eat when your hungry. Meal timing is irrelevant to weight loss.

    i appreciate your input. You look great!
  • jodyblanchard
    jodyblanchard Posts: 99 Member
    I've never really been a breakfast person, totally happy to start eating at lunchtime, but when I read those articles I changed how I eat.
    Now breakfast is almost always a piece of whole wheat bread, a T of peanut butter, a glass of milk, a serving of carnation instant breakfast, and a banana. I usually eat within 20 min of waking up.
    It's around 600-700 cal. depending on if I want jelly with my PB, or if I put malted milk powder in with the instant breakfast, and there's just under half my calories for the day.

    Are you talking about specific articles?
  • jodyblanchard
    jodyblanchard Posts: 99 Member
    I've never really been a breakfast person, totally happy to start eating at lunchtime, but when I read those articles I changed how I eat.
    Now breakfast is almost always a piece of whole wheat bread, a T of peanut butter, a glass of milk, a serving of carnation instant breakfast, and a banana. I usually eat within 20 min of waking up.
    It's around 600-700 cal. depending on if I want jelly with my PB, or if I put malted milk powder in with the instant breakfast, and there's just under half my calories for the day.

    Are you talking about specific articles?

    I apologize! I was reading from the bottom up. I see them now
  • Jennkies
    Jennkies Posts: 382 Member
    I have started eating 6 to 7 small "meals" a day, starting after my morning walk. As I have started eating every two hours (starting around 6) I find that my stomach feels full after only a few bites nearly every time I stop to eat. Balancing blood sugar by eating small meals throughout the day is a key to success - at least for someone like me who sometimes still struggled with eating too much.
  • laineybz
    laineybz Posts: 704 Member
    I don't tend to eat breakfast...or eat it early if i do. I sometimes find i'm hungrier after having breakfast than if i don't have it.
  • Cardio4Cupcakes
    Cardio4Cupcakes Posts: 289 Member
    Depends on the day. Sometimes I'm ravenous when I wake up and something I can be okay with only coffee until noon.
  • jodyblanchard
    jodyblanchard Posts: 99 Member
    yes
    like they say its the most important meal of the day

    Most of the "they" who say that are trying to sell you something. Breakfast is mostly personal preference.

    Sad, but probably true! :-)
  • eaglelakebill
    eaglelakebill Posts: 120 Member
    I started eating breakfast when I started using MFP
    I have found it helps me get through the morning and
    I'm not starving for lunch.
    Listen to your body.
  • jodyblanchard
    jodyblanchard Posts: 99 Member
    It looks like you're perfectly suited for Intermittent fasting. It's not a fad diet, neither is it a fast. Please go through leangains dot com. He's got all the scientific evidence also laid out.

    Thank you so much for the "leangains" info. It was fascinating. I believe I am finally ok with what MY body is asking of me. After only 65 years!
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  • WitchesGuildMaster
    WitchesGuildMaster Posts: 114
    Well technically... Everyone actually does eat breakfast. Breakfast is just that, BREAK FAST ... That is the first meal you eat after waking up from sleeping. So technically if you eat around 12-1pm and that's your first meal of the day, that would also be breakfast. :wink:
  • accelerashawn
    accelerashawn Posts: 470 Member
    My buddy at work does not eat breakfast...does not want breakfast...does not like breakfast.

    he eats about 800-1000 calories for lunch and probably 1000-2000 calories for dinner. Every day. He doesn't work out and he looks pretty fit.

    He confirms the fact that meal timing and meal sizes are irrelevant to weight loss.


    The ONLY reason I eat every 3-4 hours is because I get HUNGRY every 3-4 hours. Somedays, when I feel like a triple baconator for lunch, i wont get hungry afterwards so i'll skip dinner. Some days, when I had way too much for dinner, i'll skip breakfast.

    Consistency over time is what matters. a few hours here or there and a few calories here or there wont make much of a difference in the long run.
  • Geloza
    Geloza Posts: 315 Member
    Well technically... Everyone actually does eat breakfast. Breakfast is just that, BREAK FAST ... That is the first meal you eat after waking up from sleeping. So technically if you eat around 12-1pm and that's your first meal of the day, that would also be breakfast. :wink:

    I like this. :drinker:
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    I rarely did, mostly because a. I was lazy (not that that's changed much) and b. I often had to be at work fairly early. But then last year when my shifts got a little later I started eating it more. I feel less tired throughout the day and don't feel the need to snack as much. But just because it works for me doesn't mean it'll work for you.
  • Glaziazisaur
    Glaziazisaur Posts: 30
    Well technically... Everyone actually does eat breakfast. Breakfast is just that, BREAK FAST ... That is the first meal you eat after waking up from sleeping. So technically if you eat around 12-1pm and that's your first meal of the day, that would also be breakfast. :wink:

    +1!

    I personally don't eat breakfast other than a coffee unless somebody I'm with wants to grab breakfast. I find that eating sort of triggers a hunger wave and I tend to actually eat more throughout the day than if I do not eat so early! I've lost a lot of weight after I stopped sticking to "traditional meal times" and eating when we are "supposed" to
    Everybody's body is different, so just do what you want :) If you are not finding yourself binge-eating due to not eating breakfast, it shouldn't be an issue for you
  • wellthenwhat
    wellthenwhat Posts: 526 Member
    Breakfast literally makes me nauseous at times. If I try to force myself to eat, I gag. Other times breakfast is delicious, it all depends how I feel. If I don't want to eat, I don't; if I do, I do.

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