the best breakfast to start the day?

depending on how much time I have in the morning will vary what I eat. When I have time I like to have egg beaters with cheese and ham or sometimes will use light bread and make an egg sandwich with it. you can cook the egg beaters in the mircrowave too! I work in an office so i have to use what ive got. Another fast and easy breakfast option are Vita tops. I typically buy mine from Target in the freezer section by the eggos and other frozen breakfast items. They are only 100 calories but have 8 or 9 grams of Fiber and Protein in them so they keep you fuller much longer than you would think for only being 100 cals. My favorite flavor is the double chocolate.

I love oatmeal/steel cut oats made overnight in a crock pot. Then, add cocoa, peanut butter and jam or a banana and a splash of milk.

I love quinoa and almond milk with vanilla stevia, eggwhites on a 1/2 english muffin, greek yogurt and fruit salad, even a bowl cereal with almond milk.

anything is better than no breakfast.

Eating breakfast slows down fat oxidation. That entire deal of "Breakfast is the most improtant meal of the day" was strated by breakfast companies. Here are the studies to support my claim.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10967612

Every body builder I know and am training with agree that breakfast starts your day out, your metabolism and your brain working. It is a balanced and healthy breakfast that you need, not sugery cereals, I agree. I would be careful telling people to not eat breakfast though.

In the day of arnold they didn't eat breakfast too much. IF you don't eat breakfast your brain won't work? Your body will get energy from fat, that's the entire point. When you eat you inhbit your fat burning abilities. Of course we need to eat our calories. Look at things from a insulin perspective.

Eating breakfast slows down fat oxidation. That entire deal of "Breakfast is the most improtant meal of the day" was strated by breakfast companies. Here are the studies to support my claim.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10967612

A two week (thereby short for 'study' standards ... maybe why they are calling this an 'experiment' rather than a 'study'?) involving only 10 "free-living healthy young men" is not much to go by. This study also does not define what they are using as "high-energy" vs. "low-energy" as it only says that while protein and lipids were the same for eat type of breakfast and the macronutrient comp of the rest of their daily diets were the same, the carbs were upped for the high-energy breakfast by 6% over that of the 'low-energy' diet. It makes no reference to whether they were complex or simple carbs which are processed by the body differently. Of course a higher glycaemic response would be observed after the "high-energy" breakfast period, they upped the carbs for that breakfast, which turns to into sugars.

If anything, the only thing I would take away from this 'experiment' is the suggestion that increased carbs of any kind is not "necessary" at breakfast - not that breakfast, in general should be avoided.

All of these are great ideas, except the one who said it was okay to skip breakfast. You want a nice level blood sugar through the day, so don't go heavy on the sugar with a poptart, donut, or sugary cereal--that's almost as bad as skipping breakfast. Get some fruit, some protein, some healthy grain each day, but you can mix it up. OJ, eggs, and a slice of whole wheat toast one day, a high-fiber oatmeal or cereal with blueberries and walnuts the next, peanut butter and bananas on a sliced bagel the third day.

I like to eat a fat free greek Chobani yogurt (lots of flavors available) and 1/2 of a bottle of muscle milk. It gives you some quality protein, quality carbs and fills you up. Give it a try, you'll like it, I promise.

Here's a few examples of what I have for breakfast:

2 scrambled eggs w/ wheat toast (can you say EGG sandwich?)

Oatmeal w/ almond butter & banana

Bagel Thin w/ Laughing Cow cheese & banana

Smoothie w/ greek yogurt, fruit, milk...sometimes I'll make a smoothie w/ raw oatmeal which really keeps me full.

I'm also known to have the occasional piece of pizza and a banana for breakfast too. LOL

Eating breakfast slows down fat oxidation. That entire deal of "Breakfast is the most improtant meal of the day" was strated by breakfast companies. Here are the studies to support my claim.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10967612

A two week (thereby short for 'study' standards ... maybe why they are calling this an 'experiment' rather than a 'study'?) involving only 10 "free-living healthy young men" is not much to go by. This study also does not define what they are using as "high-energy" vs. "low-energy" as it only says that while protein and lipids were the same for eat type of breakfast and the macronutrient comp of the rest of their daily diets were the same, the carbs were upped for the high-energy breakfast by 6% over that of the 'low-energy' diet. It makes no reference to whether they were complex or simple carbs which are processed by the body differently. Of course a higher glycaemic response would be observed after the "high-energy" breakfast period, they upped the carbs for that breakfast, which turns to into sugars.

If anything, the only thing I would take away from this 'experiment' is the suggestion that increased carbs of any kind is not "necessary" at breakfast - not that breakfast, in general should be avoided.

As you said it yourself “Of course a higher glycaemic response would be observed after the "high-energy" breakfast period, they upped the carbs for that breakfast, which turns to into sugars.”
What does sugar do? Increases insulin. What does eating do? Increase insulin which inhibits fat oxidation. I never said breakfast is bad. It's a personal preference. I stated my reasons why I don't do it. there are many people who lost weight
eating breakfast. There are different diet methods, the point of eating "multiple times a day" is to prevent cravings which can lead to binding. Some people say they get dizzy if they don't eat breakfast. It's not necessary to elminate breakfast for weight loss at all. I do believe not eating it will create greater weight loss results.

I always wake up late and never have time for breakfast at home. So I keep packages of oatmeal in my desk at work and I mix fruit in with it. Try to get at least 300 calories in for your breakfast