Eat Breakfast to Lose Weight

I found this article interesting and thought I would pass it on......

Why it's the most important meal of the day
-- By Elizabeth Evans Fryer, Health & Fitness Writer


The first – and easiest – step you should take towards becoming more healthy is so, so simple; it’s eating breakfast. Breakfast eaters get myriad benefits including:
a revved up metabolism started early so that it burns the maximum number of calories to fuel your activities
fewer total calories consumed throughout the day
an increased leptin output
What’s leptin, you ask? Leptin is a hormone that suppresses appetite. Eating a significant meal early in the day ensures our body’s leptin production, says Meg Jordan, Ph.D., R.N. – as reported to First, September 2003. The book "Fit Not Fat at 40-Plus: The Shape-Up Plan That Balances Your Hormones, Boosts Your Metabolism, and Fights Female Fat in Your Forties-And Beyond", published by Prevention Health Books for Women, has more of Dr. Jordan’s thoughts on leptin’s influence on appetite.

Since leptin suppresses appetite, it follows that those of us who eat breakfast would take in fewer calories throughout the day. In fact, researchers at the University of Texas, El Paso, studied the food diaries of 586 men and women and determined that the more food people ate in the morning, the fewer calories they consumed in an entire day. So eat up early – though what we eat for breakfast may affect what we eat later on.

That’s right. Your first step to losing weight – eating breakfast – is not as simple as just popping any convenience food into your mouth. Eating refined carbohydrates such as sugary cereals, toasted white bread, waffles, or bagels will likely begin an overeating cycle. Instead, opt for complex carbs, proteins and fats. Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and a banana, or a bowl of high-fiber cereal with low-fat milk and blueberries are good examples. Both options are quick to get you out the door and on your way to starting your day.

Feeding yourself a healthy breakfast of complex carbs, proteins and fats should prevent your feeding the vending machine any money before lunch, making you thinner and your change purse fatter.

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Having a mighty breakfast will fuel your entire day. Being your first meal for every day will keep you energize in doing all your tasks or whatsoever thus giving you high amount of calorie burning and results to a healthy an fit life. A balance amount of nutrition is so important, percentage of fats, protein and carbohydrates is what will keep us into shape and active. My daily diet compose of somewhat heavy breakfast since I need all the energy for the strenuous type of job that I do and I kept feeding myself with smaller meals in 2-3 hours intervals to keep me up. And in the evening I take lighter meals like soft carbs or liquefied form of protein for an easier digestion during sleeping time.

I agree with this, if you eat dinner at 7pm and lunch at noon, and don't eat breakfast then you're starving yourself for 17 hours a day. Your body goes into survival mode and doesn't burn any fat. Instead it tries to source ready energy and store any energy that you eat. This means that your body will try and burn muscle as it uses less energy to do so than converting fat into glucose.

I always start the day with a bowl of porridge (oatmeal), it has a low GI and keeps me going until my next meal.

Yep, very true. I think it's really important to remember to just listen to your body.. people try to starve themselves and it just backfires in so many ways, mostly in the fact that you're then going to be craving food so badly mentally and physically that you eat more in the end then you would have otherwise. And there's no need for special diets. Are you hungry? Then eat. You KNOW what's good for you and what isn't. Of course this is easier said than done. ;D But I think too many people think that eating healthy means eating bland, uncooked vegetables and just haven't known anything else.

I've always heard that it's good to eat breakfast in the morning. I am never hungry in the morning...but I just bought these smoothies that I think I will try to at least drink one of them and maybe that will help.

Its funny as I always hear eat breakfast to lose weight etc however I have never eaten breakfast even when I was a kid I hated breakfast time and I am a size 8/10, even when I reached a bigger size and went to weight watchers, I still never ate breakfast.

I agree that it gives your energy a burst but I have never been into eating breakfast, I have a cup of coffee and a cake lol but when I need something healthier then its a yoghurt.

Some of my friends do that practice. They eat heavy breakfast then light lunch and dinner. I didn't know that this practice is true until I read the article.