Should You Eat Breakfast or Skip Breakfast?
How many times have you heard that if you want to maintain a healthy weight or see any type of weight loss that you need to eat breakfast? That if you skip breakfast, you’re going to slow down your metabolism, go blind in one eye, lose all your gains, and die alone? Ok, that may be a stretch, but you get the point.
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The fact of the matter is, much of what you hear and see online when it comes to if you should eat breakfast or skip breakfast is a bunch of BS. Here’s what you need to know so you can make the best decision for YOU.
If You Don’t Eat Breakfast, You Won’t Get Fat from It
Looking at a study conducted by Cornell University, researchers observed what your overall calorie consumption would be if you were to skip breakfast and the findings may surprise you. According to the data, the participants of the study were actually at a 408-calorie deficit by the end of the day when they would skip breakfast.
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Obviously, this was an average and your mileage may vary if you were to also skip breakfast, but the overall findings showed that when you skip breakfast, your net caloric intake at the end of the day can be less than your maintenance. This deficit when done daily puts you in a great position to lose weight and body fat.
Sure, during lunch and dinner the individuals may have consumed more food than normal when they skip breakfast, but the net at the end of the day was still fewer calories than what they would have consumed if they would eat breakfast in the morning. Most people assume that if you don’t eat breakfast, you’ll be starving come lunchtime and splurge on anything and everything you can. This doesn’t seem to be the case according to the research.
Kiss Your Revving Metabolism Goodbye?
No, your metabolism isn’t going to be singing the Post Malone song. All of a sudden when you skip breakfast your metabolism isn’t going to pump the brakes and leave you high and dry with a spare tire around your waist. More than likely if that were to happen, it’s from your poor lifestyle and nutrition choices – not the fact that you decided to skip breakfast.
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The inverse is also not true in that when you eat breakfast, your metabolism isn’t all of a sudden going to put itself in high gear and start melting away body fat. Surprisingly enough, whether you eat breakfast in the morning or get up, skip breakfast, and head out the door, the research shows that there is no difference at all with your metabolism and how many calories you burn throughout the day.
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