Not Eating Breakfast Sabotages Weight Loss
We have all heard it before, that if you don’t eat breakfast you are more likely to gain weight, not lose weight as quickly, or actually already be obese or overweight. The statistics don’t lie, and they show that people, men and women who do not eat this important meal tend to be more overweight than those that eat breakfast every morning. It seems sort of counter to what might think, given that logically, breakfast is just more calories added to the mix, and you’d think that cutting out even this typically lower calorie meal would be to your benefit if you are trying to reduce your caloric intake.
However, it’s true that skipping breakfast does in fact sabotage your desires to be lower in weight or to lose weight, and it does in fact make you more likely to be overweight in the first place. Although every reason for this fact is not known, it is thought that if you keep your metabolism in a constant state of being revved up and moving, by eating your three small meals a day plus small snacks of about 100 to 150 calories in between, you are keeping your metabolism going, whereas if you do not eat the three small meals a day, including breakfast, you are essentially stalling your metabolism, making it hold onto those calories even more when you do actually eat.
Take for example someone who does not eat until noon. They skip breakfast, and they figure they’ll just eat a hearty lunch to make up for it. By this time, they are undoubtedly famished, unless they are on some miracle super appetite suppressant, so they probably over indulge a bit in things they shouldn’t, or they even might indulge a bit too much in their healthy fare, making their healthy fare too many calories.
Another thing happens here though too, and that is, your body is stuck in a down mode, it’s not used to burning those calories, and when it is deprived of caloric intake and instead has, say, only a coffee in the morning with no food, it’s running on empty by the time you eat lunch and then again at dinner, so it’s tendency is to hold onto those calories for a longer time and convert them into fat.
It’s the body’s own safety mechanism against starvation that makes skipping breakfast an enemy to any healthy eating or diet plan, that’s the way nature intended it believe it or not, so those breakfast skippers who think they are doing themselves a favor by skipping this important meal better think again.
