Breakfast is the most important meal of the day...

I am up early, i need about 20 minutes to wake up before I work out. I find if I drink some water before (4 oz) and after my work out (4-8 oz), by the time I am done showering, I am hungry. When I dont drink the water or if I drink a small amount, I dont get hungry.
I also will eat a protein bar sometimes before I shower, or I will eat it on the car ride to work. Thats what works for me.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day because, that is what it does, starts your metabolism.

Sorry but, nonsense.

Why did that comment make me feel I am at a NASCAR event...and breakfast is the key to ....(START YOUR ENGINES)
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Why does eating a healthy breakfast help control weight?
Answer
from Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D.
Here are some of the ways that regularly eating a healthy breakfast may help you lose excess weight and maintain your weight loss:

Reduced hunger. Eating breakfast may reduce your hunger later in the day, which may make it easier to avoid overeating. When you skip breakfast, you may feel ravenous later and be tempted to reach for a quick fix — such as vending machine candy or doughnuts at the office. In addition, the prolonged fasting that occurs when you skip breakfast can increase your body's insulin response, which in turn increases fat storage and weight gain. In fact, skipping breakfast actually increases your risk of obesity.

Healthy choices. Eating breakfast may get you on track to make healthy choices all day. When you eat breakfast, you tend to eat a healthier overall diet, one that is more nutritious and lower in fat. When you skip breakfast, you're more likely to skip fruits and vegetables the rest of the day, too.

More energy. Eating breakfast may give you energy, increasing your physical activity during the day. A healthy breakfast refuels your body and replenishes the glycogen stores that supply your muscles with immediate energy. Skipping breakfast is associated with decreased physical activity.So, if you skip breakfast — whether you're trying to save time or cut calories — you may want to reconsider, especially if you're trying to control your weight.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/food-and-nutrition/AN01119

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day because, that is what it does, starts your metabolism.

Sorry but, nonsense.

Why did that comment make me feel I am at a NASCAR event...and breakfast is the key to ....(START YOUR ENGINES)
********************************************************************************************************************
Why does eating a healthy breakfast help control weight?
Answer
from Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D.
Here are some of the ways that regularly eating a healthy breakfast may help you lose excess weight and maintain your weight loss:

Reduced hunger. Eating breakfast may reduce your hunger later in the day, which may make it easier to avoid overeating. When you skip breakfast, you may feel ravenous later and be tempted to reach for a quick fix — such as vending machine candy or doughnuts at the office. In addition, the prolonged fasting that occurs when you skip breakfast can increase your body's insulin response, which in turn increases fat storage and weight gain. In fact, skipping breakfast actually increases your risk of obesity.

Healthy choices. Eating breakfast may get you on track to make healthy choices all day. When you eat breakfast, you tend to eat a healthier overall diet, one that is more nutritious and lower in fat. When you skip breakfast, you're more likely to skip fruits and vegetables the rest of the day, too.

More energy. Eating breakfast may give you energy, increasing your physical activity during the day. A healthy breakfast refuels your body and replenishes the glycogen stores that supply your muscles with immediate energy. Skipping breakfast is associated with decreased physical activity.So, if you skip breakfast — whether you're trying to save time or cut calories — you may want to reconsider, especially if you're trying to control your weight.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/food-and-nutrition/AN01119

These are all behavioral reasons and not physiological reasons. This doesn't make the article invalid by any means, but for those of us that can monitor behavior and make the conclusion as to whether or not skipping breakfast causes us to behave differently, it's perfectly fine to skip breakfast -- purely from a physiological standpoint.

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

IF you do like eating something for breakfast, go right ahead. I'm not saying not eating breakfast is a good tool for success or anything. What I (and others) are saying is that it's not necessary if you can function without it and you aren't having any problems regarding your weightloss or health.

If you don't like to eat in the morning, you don't have to. That's all.

I agree, but some of the posts were making others out to look like idiots. A general statement that you don't what you are talking about if you say breakfast is important, to me seems a bit mean. What would make more sense is what YOU just said....not comments like you don't know what you think you know. Each person knows what is right for them. We aren't cookie cutter beings. And you can't believe everything you read.....on a medical site or an online group.

I don't believe you (lol)

I know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but what if you're not hungry right away in the morning? I wake up at 3:30 am, go for a walk, get ready, and go to work. I'm usually not hungry until at least 7-8:00. Is it bad to wait that long to eat or should I be eating breakfast earlier, even if I don't think I'm hungry?

Any time I'm not hungry in the AM I just eat some nuts. I have mixed peanuts, almonds, and walnuts in a bag just for this purpose. They are dense in calories so not even a full hand full and you are good.

Congratulations!!! LOL!

I dont really eat breakfast. I never believed that most important meal of day ad.

3:30am your body is in it's elimination cycle. i would save breakfast for a few hours. in this case listen to your body. Some hot lemon water will speed up the cycle. Fruit maybe.
That's early, do you work in a bakery?

Really now, you think your body can tell time?

The actual "kickstart" that you get from eating is called the Thermic Effect of Feeding or Diet Induced Thermogenesis. It's based on the calorie total and macronutrient composition of your food and for lack of a better way to put it, it's the energy requirement to process the food you eat.

The myth is that "Hey, I burn calories to process food, I should eat more often therefore I'll burn more calories" and it's absolutely false assuming we're holding calories and macronutrients (in total) constant.

For an analogy, if I lay a table of food in front of you, and lets just say that it's the rack of ribs that tipped over the Flintstones car in the beginning episode.

If you eat it all in one meal, your body will have to expend a hefty amount of calories to process all of the food. If you eat it in equal portions over the course of 5 meals, it will require 1/5th of that energy (because you're eating less of it) but since you're doing this 5 times, the net expenditure you get strictly from consumption is essentially a wash.

I wrote a post about this effect, and I'm not suggesting you just take my word for it. I've referenced the post to several different reliable sources, and I'd suggest going into the thread and using it to navigate to those sites for better info:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/529002-a-compliation-on-meal-frequency

I skip breakfast on a regular basis. You don't need to eat it to "rev up your metabolism" or any such nonsense. If you don't want to eat breakfast, don't. You have to find a way of eating that is sustainable and doable for you.

Every time I come across this thread, which is at least 3x daily...



If you're not hungry don't eat, just don't over eat later. Hit goals, then repeat.

LOL

Provided you don't have any medical issues that necessitate eating frequently, and provided you don't have any behavioral issues from not eating (for example, if skipping breakfast causes you to overeat later in the day) then I wouldn't worry about it.

The whole idea of breakfast being "most important" is basically sillyness.

It doesn't "boost your metabolism" as people claim, and additionally there is no harm in short-term periods of not-eating.

www.leangains.com for one well-referenced site about this.

This! Skip breakfast!
Workout at 12pm or 1pm.
Eat at 2pm and make it count!

Every time I come across this thread, which is at least 3x daily...



If you're not hungry don't eat, just don't over eat later. Hit goals, then repeat.

HAHA!

If I skip breakfast, I don't realize I'm hungry until I'm reaching for a Snickers or something else that I shouldn't be eating. Also on the days that I skip breakfast I find that instead of maintaining my blood sugar all day, I'm bouncing up and down which causes me to have mood swings and overeat at night. I don't think that it is necessary to eat breakfast every morning and I also think that fasting is fine when done with a doctor's oversight but I do eat breakfast most mornings. It is what works for me. I find I am hungry for breakfast as long as I stop eating at least 3 hours before bed. (I typically sleep 7 hours per night.)

For an early morning start, I eat more bland foods like sugar free steel cut oats and egg whites. I find really early in the morning that highly sweet or spiced foods make my stomach upset.

Hope this helps!