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Do you eat breakfast?

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Nutragrain bar or something similar with a really big mug of coffee every morning. Used to eat oatmeal or grits every morning but this is quicker
 
I don't eat breakfast. I eat a huge meal right before bed. And most of your digestive system shuts down overnight. Thus as I get ready for my day, I'm digesting the meal and have all the energy I need.

The story behind the beginning of the "most important meal of the day" is interesting. Look it up sometime. It started with cereal companies doing a study of a couple dozen people. A few who ate breakfast could do a couple more situps in a given time period than those who didn't eat breakfast. That certainly has potential for bias, the study was done on far too few people, and really didn't focus on anything useful (not many people really care how many situps they can do). Somehow that one and only study morphed into something that schools promoted as necessary for proper learning. As of a few years ago, no comprehensive scientific study was ever done on the subject (of course one could have been done recently).

I'm not saying breakfast isn't important - it probably is. But when that phrase came out, there wasn't evidence to support it.
 
Breakfast sometimes: Usually oatmeal, cereal, or a peanut butter & jelly sandwich 😀

It's important to me because I'm up @ 5am and if I don't eat my breakfast I'll be falling asleep at my desk by 11am...hehehe.

My breakfast is always healthy....my wife is a diabetic and we eat sugar free stuff....low card stuff...etc. (PS: Smuckers makes the best sugar free jam)
 
I try to, but sometimes I just don't have time. I like to hit the snooze button, A LOT! When I do, its oatmeal or cereal.
 
Originally posted by: AbsoluteParadigm
Don't eat breakfast that often. Had bad experiences with it as a kid. Threw up and stuff.
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Thats the same reason I don't eat breakfast
 
Almost never..

I eat when I'm hungry, not when society tells me I need to.

But I do believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. That is, your first meal of the day; it doesen't necessarily have to be at 8AM or whatever.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
I don't eat breakfast. I eat a huge meal right before bed. And most of your digestive system shuts down overnight. Thus as I get ready for my day, I'm digesting the meal and have all the energy I need.

The story behind the beginning of the "most important meal of the day" is interesting. Look it up sometime. It started with cereal companies doing a study of a couple dozen people. A few who ate breakfast could do a couple more situps in a given time period than those who didn't eat breakfast. That certainly has potential for bias, the study was done on far too few people, and really didn't focus on anything useful (not many people really care how many situps they can do). Somehow that one and only study morphed into something that schools promoted as necessary for proper learning. As of a few years ago, no comprehensive scientific study was ever done on the subject (of course one could have been done recently).

I'm not saying breakfast isn't important - it probably is. But when that phrase came out, there wasn't evidence to support it.
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You do realize that the huge meal you eat right before bed turns into fat, right? It isn't like you just store it in your stomach for the next morning.
 
I'll grab breakfast out the door, usually have it about 50% of the time.

I think Lunch is the most important meal for me.

When I do eat breakfast, yeah, it's usually a balanced healthy one.
 
Originally posted by: MacBaine
You do realize that the huge meal you eat right before bed turns into fat, right? It isn't like you just store it in your stomach for the next morning.
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I believe in calories in vs calories out, what time you eat shouldn't matter.
 
Originally posted by: MacBaine
You do realize that the huge meal you eat right before bed turns into fat, right? It isn't like you just store it in your stomach for the next morning.
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I don't think there is any scientific evidence that when you eat the meal affects how much goes to fat.

I know this one person's experience means nothing to prove or disprove anything, but I'm 5'9" and 125 lbs. I've been that weight without exercise for 11 years now. I say this since I definiately COULD use some more fat on my body.
 
Yes, of course. Just think about it. When you get up in the morning you probably haven't eaten in 6 - 10 hrs or so. If you don't eat breakfast, your body goes into starvation mode and your metablism slows down.

I have oatmeal with 1 heaping tablespoon of flaxseed and a kiwi, yogurt and a protein shake with 1 whole raw egg every morning.
 
I don't wake up until 8 pm, so it's hard to call it breakfast.

but I eat a meal right after waking up, and a meal right before going to bed. I guess they could loosely be termed breakfast and dinner.
 
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