Do you have to have breakfast?

:noway: mmmm I didn't see an M.D. after your name ....

I just read a book called 6 weeks to OMG which says to not have breakfast, just black coffee. I'm trying it for 6 weeks (i'm on week 2) and although it takes some getting used to, I think it's working!

It says that with eating little and often your body never needs to use its fat reserves. That logic makes some sense so I thought i'd give it a go.

I always find it funny that we are all here because we have food consumption issues and people don't like breakfast.:laugh: OMG, food is what gets my lazy butt out of bed!! And coffee. LOL. I was just listening to the Jillian Michael's podcast and she talked about how breakfast before a workout is very important. You can actually start burning muscle if you don't have any blood sugars/food for the body to work off of. Plus you don't have the energy to give a super HARD workout. I love food...I love breakfast. MIne is around 400 calories every day and it keeps me full for hours!

:noway: mmmm I didn't see an M.D. after your name ....

And none behind yours. Please send me some peer-reviewed literature that backs up your "fasting for 8 hours will create fat outta nowhere in a caloric deficit" theory.

I don't need an MD after my name to be educated in the BASICS of human nutrition, physiology and science.

check out the post by Mamawood74 - same answer

Several epidemiological studies have observed an inverse relationship between people's habitual frequency of eating and body weight, leading to the suggestion that a ‘nibbling’ meal pattern may help in the avoidance of obesity. A review of all pertinent studies shows that, although many fail to find any significant relationship, the relationship is consistently inverse in those that do observe a relationship. However, this finding is highly vulnerable to the probable confounding effects of post hoc changes in dietary patterns as a consequence of weight gain and to dietary under-reporting which undoubtedly invalidates some of the studies. We conclude that the epidemiological evidence is at best very weak, and almost certainly represents an artefact. A detailed review of the possible mechanistic explanations for a metabolic advantage of nibbling meal patterns failed to reveal significant benefits in respect of energy expenditure. Although some short-term studies suggest that the thermic effect of feeding is higher when an isoenergetic test load is divided into multiple small meals, other studies refute this, and most are neutral. More importantly, studies using whole-body calorimetry and doubly-labelled water to assess total 24h energy expenditure find no difference between nibbling and gorging. Finally, with the exception of a single study, there is no evidence that weight loss on hypoenergetic regimens is altered by meal frequency. We conclude that any effects of meal pattern on the regulation of body weight are likely to be mediated through effects on the food intake side of the energy balance equation.

Effects of two differing meal patterns (six versus three per day) on weight loss, nitrogen retention, and serum lipids were studied in two groups (four each) of overweight young women for 60 days. Diets contained 1,700 kcal, (115 g protein and 50 g fat) during the first 30 days and 1,400 kcal (106 g protein and 40 g fat) during the remaining time. Weight losses ranged from 0 to 9 lb during the first 30 days, from 4 to 10 lb during the second 30 days. Nitrogen retention was considered satisfactory in both periods, for all subjects. Total serum lipids and serum cholesterol values varied considerably among subjects but were within normal limits. Meal frequency did not significantly affect weight loss, nitrogen balance, total serum lipids, or serum cholesterol.

absolutely! If you have no other meal during the day, you must have breakfast