Breakfast is useless - stop eating it.
Can anyone give me one citation for one study anywhere in the English speaking world that finds "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" - from the perspective of weight loss.
As far as I'm concerned it's a waste of calories. I eat, then I go to work and do little exercise. Wow... fine use of food... it's like eating before bed.
Please - someone show me.
It's possible, I suppose - but really, some people are just hungry in the morning. People don't want to "give it up" because, um....they don't like being hungry. Humans are strange that way, I guess. 
I'm trying to figure out why you're trying to characterize a basic human function as a statement on consumer greed. Why does a person need to "give it up" at all? You're making it sound like an addiction.
And why do you even care whether or not other people eat in the morning?
Trying to do this
830am breakfast 110cals
10am snack 110cals
1230pm dinner 600cals
3pm snack 150cals
5pm snack 200 cals
7pm tea 1000cals
9pm snack 100cals
This gets me to around the 2200-2400 cals I need to maintain a 200-400 deficit.
Original Post by santonacci:
It's possible, I suppose - but really, some people are just hungry in the morning. People don't want to "give it up" because, um....they don't like being hungry. Humans are strange that way, I guess.
I'm trying to figure out why you're trying to characterize a basic human function as a statement on consumer greed. Why does a person need to "give it up" at all? You're making it sound like an addiction.
And why do you even care whether or not other people eat in the morning?
Humans do better at getting fat than getting thin because millions of years of evolution in a world of scarcity has trained us to be very good at storing energy. If the world, since the beginning of time, had easy access to food we would all be thin because we would have made adaptations that kept us away from food... I'm just saying we don't need breakfast... well... maybe an apple.
Original Post by roj47:
I have enough problems getting enough healthy calories in my day without missing meals...
Trying to do this
830am breakfast 110cals
10am snack 110cals
1230pm dinner 600cals
3pm snack 150cals
5pm snack 200 cals
7pm tea 1000cals
9pm snack 100cals
This gets me to around the 2200-2400 cals I need to maintain a 200-400 deficit.
SONOFA... You're mocking me (joke)! 110 calories is NOT breakfast...
Also... what are you doing with your tea! - 100 sugars in it? - joke again... you Brits have such funny words.....
110 cals is the large banana I have for breakfast. Yum yum...
Tea as you correctly put (but inevitably don't sell over there as I found in NY) is a drink, but is also a meal you have around the hours of 5 to 8pm.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tea
7. British. any meal, whether a light snack or one consisting of several courses, eaten in the late afternoon or in the evening; any meal other than dinner, eaten after the middle of the afternoon.
Us Brits do not have funny words.... We have perfectly good words that you took from us and messed up ;)
Oh man.... You started it! ;) laughs....
Legaleli - I don't eat breakfast very often either - unless I've been out partying the night before. :)
Each to his own. :)
The third study started with children ages 9 and ten and followed them until they were 19. At age 19 those who ate cereal for breakfast had a BMI less then 25, those who ate breakfast were less overweight than those who did not.
If you don't want to eat breakfast don't!
Original Post by legaleli:
I'm just saying we don't need breakfast... well... maybe an apple.
You must be thinking you are a member of a royal family since you are referring to yourself as "we."
Otherwise, if by "we" you mean "I, myself, me, and you other people" - kindly refrain from telling "other people" what they need for breakfast. Can't you see that by saying "we don't need breakfast" you are no different from the studies and articles that say "we need breakfast"? One generalization is just as bad as the other.
On breakfast I will offer my opinion. Breakfast when you have it is more often and not a pre-planned meal whereby you consume something healthy.
Without breakfast you inevitably become hungary and require a snack. Now that you're awake and being in shops the easiest thing are chocolates etc... high in calories, but do not really dampen a hunger, so you are inclined to consume something else.
Routine then follows you continue this trend and that is why the weight gains. Not because breakfast is important, but because it reduces the ease of grabbing poor choices before dinner :)
Original Post by roj47:
Without breakfast you inevitably become hungary and require a snack.
Talking about countries... :) I guess you meant "hungry"? 
(sorry couldn't resist... you Brits get things wrong too!)
PS: I'm not American, put your gun down!
I eat breakfast because if I don't, I am famished by lunchtime and then end up making unhealthy, typically fast-food lunch choices. It works for me!
Samantha
How do I use the quote option please?
You are right... It is plain silly to suggest that without breakfast you turn into a communist country.... (before you jump on me and say that is wrong everyone, I went to Budapest last year, and it is still very communist from myexperience).
Original Post by roj47:
Disc.... Laughs.... Plenty wrong trust me. Independance was one ;) Hey everyone... it's silly Friday for me as I finish soon and get the weekend off!!!! rah!!!
How do I use the quote option please?
You are right... It is plain silly to suggest that without breakfast you turn into a communist country.... (before you jump on me and say that is wrong everyone, I went to Budapest last year, and it is still very communist from myexperience).
Before you judge a whole country by a single visit to its capital: I actually am from Hungary... I don't want to hijack this thread too much, it's just important not to judge a book by its back cover! (depending on the season, Budapest is always more or less crazy, plus it's "silly Friday" today so I'm not surprised by what you said BTW)
The "quote" function - well, there is the "quote" button above each post - doesn't it show up by you?
Because it doesn't exist in classic.
Original Post by legaleli:
I'm just saying we don't need breakfast...
What's with the "we" stuff? I know perfectly well what my body needs
If you don't need breakfast, then don't eat it.
Wasn't a dig at all.....
I use classic, so no quote function. Was thinking I was really missing something.
this was mostly like said, but when you wake up, your blood sugar is at a very low state since you have been basically fasting for about 10 hours. Breakfast raises your blood sugar levels making your body produce the right amount of insulin...this does keep your metabolism going. You don't need to eat a huge breakfast, just something to raise that blood sugar level and stop the "fast"
Here are the myth's in this thread about eating breakfast:
It jump starts your metabolism - metabolism does not start and stop with breakfast. It is a fallacy that eating makes you burn more calories.
If you don't eat breakfast your body will burn all your muscles - I thought the metabolism was shutting down - now it is burning just muscle? Get real, more fat burning occurs after a period of fasting than it does after eating.
Insulin makes your metabolism rise - insulin promotes energy storange, not energy burn.
Breakfast may be important for satiety control. For some people, eating breakfast helps them eat less throughout the day. If an individual has trouble with hunger management, eating breakfast may help them regulate food intake. It is the eating less that helps them lose or maintain weight loss. It has nothing to do with meatabolic advantages of the other myth's that are perpetuated on this board.
Original Post by petite_powerhouse:
Plus, why not eat? Breakfast foods are so delicious.
That's actually one of the biggest reasons I often don't eat breakfast, or don't eat much of it: I don't like breakfast foods. I never have. If I go out to eat breakfast with friends? I order off the lunch menu.
But these days I typically will eat at least a little something for breakfast, even if it is more what one would eat at lunch—like a bit of my leftover dinner—because I otherwise might be tempted to overeat at the appointed hour for lunch.
That being said, though, I still listen to my body first and foremost. I do not believe that I need to eat breakfast just because. If I really don't feel like it, I won't eat it. I generally eat about 3,000 calories a day, and I'm 111 and losing, so I'm pretty sure my body can deal with skipping breakfast....
I do enjoy breakfast classics like eggs and toast and what have you, but I do, like you, enjoy having "lunch" for "breakfast."
It's like another poster said, it literally means to "break your fast" so if Im not in the mood for cooking up some breakfast, I just have a sandwich and carrot sticks, or a Lean Cuisine of some sort. To me, chicken alfredo tastes good and fills me up anytime of the day!! Its most important to fuel and nourish your body when it needs it, may it be morning or any other time.
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