Anti-Breakfast brigade?
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Leijing
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Before anyone freaks out, I'm NOT saying that I think breakfast is bad for you. I've just never been a fan of breakfast. I'm the one that ate a pack of pop-tarts every morning in high school because I wouldn't want to eat before I left in the morning, but I needed something to tide me over until lunch. My stomach thinks it needs a couple hours to wake up in the morning before it's willing to accept food.
Since I started tracking, I've noticed that I usually don't break 300 cal for my breakfasts, and most of that is juice, coffee, and creamer.
Is breakfast really the "most important meal of the day" like everyone keeps saying, or are there more people out there that think breakfast is just sort of "meh"? Also, what do those of you who aren't breakfast fans do to make sure your calorie intake stays on point?
Since I started tracking, I've noticed that I usually don't break 300 cal for my breakfasts, and most of that is juice, coffee, and creamer.
Is breakfast really the "most important meal of the day" like everyone keeps saying, or are there more people out there that think breakfast is just sort of "meh"? Also, what do those of you who aren't breakfast fans do to make sure your calorie intake stays on point?
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"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" was started by Kelloggs to get people to buy cereal. Some people don't like eating early, some get ill eating early, and some have found that by eating early they will end up eating all day (I'm actually the opposite of this where if I DON'T eat breakfast I'll snack all afternoon). Those people who don't eat early will just eat more calories in the meals they do consume.15
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You don't need to eat first thing in the morning of you don't want to. However, if you are trying to gain weight and having issues, expanding your eating window can help get the calories in.4
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My high energy time is the morning and my favourite meal of the day is breakfast. I’ve had to get used to the idea that I might be enjoying my morning alone, though.2
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Meal timing is irrelevant to weight loss/gain. It can, however, be relevant to satiety/adherence and workout performance (in other words, let personal preference be your guide).
The whole breakfast thing is advertising propaganda, as malibu927 stated above. It was started by John Kellogg (of Kellogg's cereal fame), a doctor who had some very strange, tinfoil hat ideas about nutrition and human behavior.10 -
If I eat breakfast, I don’t stop eating and I’ll eat junk. I have a coffee or a latte, but that’s all I need until lunch. I just eat good meals for lunch and dinner. Whatever works for you!5
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When you’re trying to gain mass, the “most important meal of the day” is usually your next one. Granted, most people aren’t as absurdly stubborn about insisting upon whole food bulking as I am, but when you’re trying to get in 3500+ kcals per day, skipping a meal isn’t an option, unless you want to have one that ends in you feeling like overstuffed garbage.
Personally, I tend to frontload most of my calories into the earliest parts of the day, but I also train between 4-7 am, depending upon the day of the week (earlier during the work week).0 -
I have this issue with lunch. I eat a big breakfast because I wake up hungry but then find I'm not hungry at lunchtime.
The only issue I have with skipping a meal is that for me, it makes it harder to reach my calorie goal.2 -
"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" was started by Kelloggs to get people to buy cereal. Some people don't like eating early, some get ill eating early, and some have found that by eating early they will end up eating all day (I'm actually the opposite of this where if I DON'T eat breakfast I'll snack all afternoon). Those people who don't eat early will just eat more calories in the meals they do consume.
I'm eating breakfast as I read this, and yes it is is a bowl of cereal. But I remember as a young child in the 70s we always had breakfast, but at that time my parents weren't buying cereal yet, so it certainly wasn't a Kelloggs inspired concept. They learnt about cereal on an overseas trip in 1982 and followed up on the idea when they got back home.
Social change and the deterioration of family life has had some impact on the breakfast scenario (and other meals as well). Some houses no longer have someone waking up and preparing breakfast and calling the family to sit around the table to eat together. Even less likely to be happening at lunch time now, and sometimes not even the meal at the end of the day is had together as a family.8 -
Meal timing is not important, its about the total calories you consume being less than you burn so if you don't want breakfast, don't have it.2
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The term "breakfast" is literal - it means to break the fast - i.e: when your asleep. So you can have "breakfast" at any time of day that suits you and your meal plan, not just when society deems it "breakfast time". Dont think you are skipping a meal if you dont eat until 11am, 12noon, whenever, that's just when you and your body are ready to "break the fast". Do what's right for you. '8
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Lol. Three Square Meals a Day is a relatively modern concept actually. I've dug up an interesting article you might enjoy. Knowing a lot of farmers they've often done hours of work before coming in to have a breakfast. As a former shift worker I used to eat "breakfast" a few hours into my shift.
bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-202436921 -
I used to believe breakfast was essential.
However, my experience with intermittent fasting has shown me it is not.3 -
sytchequeen wrote: »Lol. Three Square Meals a Day is a relatively modern concept actually. I've dug up an interesting article you might enjoy. Knowing a lot of farmers they've often done hours of work before coming in to have a breakfast. As a former shift worker I used to eat "breakfast" a few hours into my shift.
bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20243692
Honestly that’s what I do. Up at 4:45, at work at 6, eat at 10:30.2 -
Everyone eats breakfast, if you never break your fast, you're simply not eating.7
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I typically don’t break my fast until midday at the earliest. Fewer large meals work really well for my adherence to a deficit.2
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"Most important meal of the day" was Kellog's marketing for cereal.
Personally, I like breakfast around 8:30 am...it's usually my smallest meal at around 350 calories. Usually a couple eggs and oats or pinto beans with a low sodium V82 -
sytchequeen wrote: »Lol. Three Square Meals a Day is a relatively modern concept actually. I've dug up an interesting article you might enjoy. Knowing a lot of farmers they've often done hours of work before coming in to have a breakfast. As a former shift worker I used to eat "breakfast" a few hours into my shift.
bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20243692
Honestly that’s what I do. Up at 4:45, at work at 6, eat at 10:30.
Me, too.0 -
"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" was started by Kelloggs to get people to buy cereal. Some people don't like eating early, some get ill eating early, and some have found that by eating early they will end up eating all day (I'm actually the opposite of this where if I DON'T eat breakfast I'll snack all afternoon). Those people who don't eat early will just eat more calories in the meals they do consume.
When I was a kid, this was always stated as a fact, not an advertising slogan.
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"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" was started by Kelloggs to get people to buy cereal. Some people don't like eating early, some get ill eating early, and some have found that by eating early they will end up eating all day (I'm actually the opposite of this where if I DON'T eat breakfast I'll snack all afternoon). Those people who don't eat early will just eat more calories in the meals they do consume.
When I was a kid, this was always stated as a fact, not an advertising slogan.
It‘s time as a marketing campaign predated almost anyone who is still alive. By anyone under 100 years old’s time, it had moved into the zeitgeist as accepted “fact”.0 -
I'm a crazy heavy night time eater. When I started on calorie counting (I'm into maintenance for nearly five years), I thought you had to eat breakfast (as in the traditional sense) every day. Now I mostly skip it and save the calories for between 1PM and 9PM, where I cram a ton of calories into the hours my body is hungriest naturally. I don't feel deprived at all any longer.2
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