Skipping breakfast?

Meal timing does not matter.

I also hate breakfast it is bad that you skip breakfast keeps you full throughout the day and gives you energy to move your energy booster for the day.. I usually just have a fruit salad in the morning with plain oatmeal

Michaelg235 wrote: »

I also hate breakfast it is bad that you skip breakfast keeps you full throughout the day and gives you energy to move your energy booster for the day.. I usually just have a fruit salad in the morning with plain oatmeal

If you don't want to eat breakfast you shouldn't. Breakfast doesn't keep you full all day.

It's a matter of personal choice. I am never hungry in the morning except when I eat breakfast. On days I eat breakfast (eggs or oatmeal) I am hungry in a few hours and eat more than if I don't have breakfast. I personally eat in a small window (12-6) for my own reasons (I have Crohn's and my abdominal pain is worse after eating so I don't eat in the morning so I can get my workout in and I don't eat in the evening so I can sleep without debilitating pain plus the no appetite in the morning thing). Everybody is different in regards of meal timing.

I eat my breakfast around noon (im up around 630)....so i have more calories for after dinner. Ive lost 72# this way.

I generally eat more calories overall on days I eat before 11 am.

Plus I prefer to run fasted...I feel better and am able to run longer distances and faster than if I eat breakfast.

Breakfast is awesome. If I had a high TDEE I'd eat it, but I don't. I REALLY like skipping breakfast and enjoying the calories later in the day. Lately I've gotten really good at going until 1:00 or so without eating, but I'm in a surplus. I might have to adjust once I'm back in a deficit or maintenance.

I eat eggs and toast every morning--mostly so that the other people in the office don't have to deal with me being hangry.

http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debunked.html


7. Myth: Skipping breakfast is bad and will make you fat.


Truth

Breakfast skipping is associated with higher body weights in the population. The explanation is similar to that of lower meal frequencies and higher body weights. Breakfast skippers have dysregulated eating habits and show a higher disregard for health. People who skip breakfast are also more likely to be dieting, thus by default they are also likely to be heavier than non-dieters. Keep in mind that most people who resort to breakfast skipping are not the type that sit around and read about nutrition. They are like most people dieting in a haphazard manner. The type to go on a 800 calorie-crash diet and then rebound, gaining all the weight (and then some) back.

Sometimes, an argument is made for eating breakfast as we are more insulin sensitive in the morning. This is true; you are always more insulin sensitive after an overnight fast. Or rather, you are always the most insulin sensitive during the first meal of the day. Insulin sensitivity is increased after glycogen depletion. If you haven't eaten in 8-10 hours, liver glycogen is modestly depleted. This is what increases insulin sensitivity - not some magical time period during the morning hours. Same thing with weight training. Insulin sensitivity is increased as long as muscle glycogen stores aren't full. It doesn't disappear if you omit carbs after your workout.

Origin

First of all, we have the large scale epidemiological studies showing an association with breakfast skipping and higher body weights in the population. One researcher from that study, commenting on the association with breakfast skipping or food choices for breakfast, said:

"These groups appear to represent people 'on the run,' eating only candy or soda, or grabbing a glass of milk or a piece of cheese. Their higher BMI would appear to
support the notion that 'dysregulated' eating patterns are associated with obesity, instead of or in addition to total energy intake per se."

Kellogg's and clueless RDs love to cite them over and over again, so people are lead to believe that breakfast has unique metabolic and health-related benefits. In reality, these studies just show breakfast eaters maintain better dietary habits overall.

Other studies frequently cited claiming that breakfast is beneficial for insulin sensitivity are all marred with methodological flaws and largely uncontrolled in design.

In one widely cited study, subjects were entrusted to eat most meals in free-living conditions. The breakfast skipping group ate more and gained weight, which affected health parameters negatively.

From the abstract: "Reported energy intake was significantly lower in the EB period (P=0.001), and resting energy expenditure did not differ significantly between the 2 periods." EB = eating breakfast. In essence, people who ate breakfast could control their energy intake better for the rest of the day. They didn't gain any weight but the breakfast skipping group did. Fat gain always affects insulin sensitivity and other health parameters negatively. Thus what people took this to mean is that breakfast is healthy and improves insulin sensitivity. Which isn't at all what the study showed.

At the weekend I skip breakfast, well I delay it I guess and have brunch, During the week however I have no interest in breakfast but I'd be no sooner in work until my stomach is rumbling so I eat something.

It is only bad to skip breakfast if you are hungry. If you are not hungry then there is no reason you have to eat breakfast. If you want to save those calories for later in the say then that is what you should do.

It is bad for me to skip breakfast because I get hangry but if skipping breakfast works for you then go for it. Meal timing is irrelevant to weight loss.

I eat a big breakfast and skimp at lunch. Because I love breakfast, not because it's the most important meal of the day, not because it "jumpstarts" my metabolism, or any other myth out there.

Does four cups of coffee count as breakfast? If so, I have breakfast every day.

It doesn't matter when you eat. Just how much. That said I have found that it is better not to allow myself to wait until I start to feel hungry because by the time I prepare a meal I am to the point where it is difficult to control how much I consume. I always eat breakfast on work days or if I have to be active early. If I am planning to be sedentary for the day I tend to wait and have brunch.