How Bad Is It To Skip Breakfast?

I never had breakfast in the mornings. I'd get up, get to work, have coffee and then didn't have lunch until after 2pm. I was starving my body and in doing it was affecting my blood sugars.

Ever since I started eating breakfast, I noticed I have more energy thru the day and I think is a contributing factor to weight management. I think not eating breakfast actually caused me to gain weight. Since I didn't eat for a good 5-7 hours after I woke up, I would binge at lunch and then since I didn't eat lunch until 2-3pm, I would have a late dinner just before bed.

I'd say don't listen to what anyone says on this and go with what your body tells you. Experts will say its the most important meal of the day, but if like me you get up really early and the thought of food in the morning makes you feel sick then what's wrong with waiting until lunchtime?

I usually skip breakfast - unless my body tells me it wants some. I then have lunch and dinner, but also a late afternoon snack with my breakfast calories which keeps me sane and is when my body craves food. I am losing weight this way so it works for me - its whatever works for you.

I guess the danger is if you don't eat breakfast and you have a physically demanding job but if you don't it shouldn't be a problem.

how about making an iced coffee smoothie? you get your coffee fix and its not hard to have in the morning, plus you get some energy.

1 tub vanilla or plain yogurt
4 ice cubes
1/2 cup skim milk
1/2 tablespoon honey
2 teaspoons coffee

thats a recipe i use but you could change it up

how about making an iced coffee smoothie? you get your coffee fix and its not hard to have in the morning, plus you get some energy.

1 tub vanilla or plain yogurt
4 ice cubes
1/2 cup skim milk
1/2 tablespoon honey
2 teaspoons coffee

thats a recipe i use but you could change it up

im going to do this!

how about making an iced coffee smoothie? you get your coffee fix and its not hard to have in the morning, plus you get some energy.

1 tub vanilla or plain yogurt
4 ice cubes
1/2 cup skim milk
1/2 tablespoon honey
2 teaspoons coffee

thats a recipe i use but you could change it up

Oh that sound so delicious!!! Thank you! I will definitely be trying this one!!!!!

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Wrong wrong wrong.....Please,,,,,, you like it or not breakfast is important. Is like you are gonna use your car and have no gas in it. That's how our body works.

Cars don't have a fat supply to work off, nor do they get overweight and have to diet...

I think breakfast is pretty important, but if you can't deal with it then just make sure to take something with you at least so that if you get hungry an hour or two later you can eat and not have to wait til lunch. Just be smart - better to skip it than feel nauseous all day from having force fed yourself. That said I trained myself to eat breakfast after years of never touching it and my energy levels are much more consistent through the day now.

if the car is running, then it has gas in it to spare

I don't know much about it but I used to wait until about 10.30-11 until eating because I am not a morning person and generally struggle with food in the morning but I have recently started eating either toast or cereal in the mornings and find that I'm less irritable first thing at work and it may be my imagination or unrelated but I am craving crisps a lot less

I find that eating breakfast allows me time to plan my lunch so I don't make a bad decision when I'm suddenly hungry.

I think this all depends on your sleeping habits if you sleep til ten lunch is your breakfast.

It's pretty well proven that your body doesn't burn fat when in fasting mode. Fasting mode starts a few hours after you go to bed and lasts until you start feeding again. And recent studies suggest that people who eat a low GI breakfast within an hour of waking generally have 5% less bodyfat than those that eat high GI breakfasts or who fast until mid-morning.

This sounds interesting, I'm gonna read something about it. That would be a good motivation to force myself to eat ^^

Breakfast absolutely. But it can be as simple as a bowl of oatmeal. I used to eat like you, and I couldn't lose weight. Once I started eating breakfast and putting in my small healthy snacks during the day, I've been losing like I never have before. Find something you can tolerate and do it!

I have my Trader Joes gummy bear vitamins and take them first. I get the low sugar oatmeal which is only 110 - 120 calories, depending on the flavor, and I'm good to go.

Think of your body as an engine. If the engine doesn't have enough fuel to burn, it will compensate and run less effectively, trying to store resources so it can keep running (low metabolism), but if you've got fuel going to it in a constant stream, (eating every 2 - 3 hours, meals and snacks) it will run more efficiently on a continual burn. That's what you want your metabolism to do. That's why eating and exercising together are so important, and why not eating slows your metabolism down, and that leads to diet disaster. The biggest change I've made since I've come here is to eat breakfast and eat all my calories, but it's made a huge difference.

There is a lot of one side or the other comments so far. I find personally, eating breakfast helps me stay on track but I don't really like to eat in the morning either.

One comment I haven't seen is breakfast doesn't have to be a whole meal. A handful of almonds or grapes, a couple of strawberries or a small orange can be just enough at 6am. I know I'm probably stoking the know-it-alls fires recommending fruit and no protein in the morning but I like the fruit bc it's watery and easier to get down and you can have it with your coffee.

Try to keep it light if your not into it. For me, even a banana, yogurt, or smoothie just seems like way too much. Although the coffee smoothie sounds rockin! I think I'll try that one for an afternoon snack/pick-me-up.

Not that bad as long as you eat as much total food as you should. I often just have coffee then have hard boiled eggs or something at 10 or 11.