I _never_ eat breakfast and I'm fat.
Skipping breakfast might help you lose weight
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#13A couple of thoughts:
It's worth noting that both of the breakfasts in the study were high in high-glycemic carbohydrates. It would be interesting to see if the result holds when eating something like eggs and bacon for breakfast.
Second, since most people fast overnight, you get the double whammy of low insulin (making fat cells more willing to give up stored energy) and a caloric deficit in the morning. It seems plausible that extending the period of time when that is the case would result in fat loss.
I've personally had pretty good luck (~34.5" to ~32.5" waist measurement over a couple of weeks) with eliminating most carbohydrates between about 5PM and 10AM.
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#14The more interesting question I think is not whether skipping breakfast might help lose weight, it is whether the weight loss is due to lower overall caloric intake, the timing of digestion reducing bioavailability, the timing of when sugar became available to the body impacting targeted fat burn or somehow enhancing the body's ability to burn fat cells, or maybe the types of "breakfast" foods skipped, or just genera…
In an interview with Ryan Carson, he mentioned that he eats something as soon as he gets up to kick off his body's metabolism.
This seems logical, but like all nutrition-related things, there's an obvious counter argument, and no good science to tell you which is correct.
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#15The advice that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" is, as I recall, based on similar junk science. They looked at lots of kids, recorded how often they ate breakfast, then looked at how well they did in school.
The kids who ate breakfast did better in school. Yay, breakfast is good for you.
Or, possibly, the correlation between eating breakfast and doing well in school has another explanation. One possible explanation of the correlation is that kids who don't eat breakfast are poor, and the poor statistically dont do as well in school due to other factors.
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#16Eating less helps you lose weight. News at eleven. Seriously, how difficult is it to understand that? Once when I was in the US I had some pancakes for breakfast and on the side was a huge chunk of white mass that looked like a scoop of vanilla ice cream. I took a large bite and oh boy.. it was butter. Plain butter. That chunk alone was about half of the calorie need of an average young person. Oh, and then there was…
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#17At the end of the day it will always be calories in vs. calories out.
My personal experience is that I try to only eat 1 meal per day. Intermittent fasting is nothing new, and when I combine it with a low carb diet, it is extremely effective for me. I went from ~300 down to 225 in a matter of 4-5 months.
As long as I am busy, I hardly notice any hunger during the day now that I am used to the schedule and the 1 meal makes it much harder to over eat. 2000 calories is extremely hard to take in all at once, so it basically puts you at quite a deficit just due to the logistics of eating that quantity of food in a small window of time.
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#18The advice that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" is, as I recall, based on similar junk science. They looked at lots of kids, recorded how often they ate breakfast, then looked at how well they did in school. The kids who ate breakfast did better in school. Yay, breakfast is good for you. Or, possibly, the correlation between eating breakfast and doing well in school has another explanation. One poss…
Can you find this study? Many studies are dodgy, but I am incredulous the study was this much dodgy. How can the study observing grade not controlling for socioeconomic status ever pass the review?
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#19Losing weight comes down to a pyramid. The bottom of the pyramid is a calorie deficit. It's simple science and fact that eating less calories than your maintenance calories (basal metabolic rate) will cause you to lose weight. Once you tackle that, you can move up the pyramid and fine tune to maximize the weight loss by incorporating tactics such as meal timing, quality of ingredients, types of food eaten, or different macronutrient percentages. But without the bottom of the pyramid, there can't be anything on top.
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#20At the end of the day it will always be calories in vs. calories out. My personal experience is that I try to only eat 1 meal per day. Intermittent fasting is nothing new, and when I combine it with a low carb diet, it is extremely effective for me. I went from ~300 down to 225 in a matter of 4-5 months. As long as I am busy, I hardly notice any hunger during the day now that I am used to the schedule and the 1 meal…
What do you eat and when do you eat it?