Bigger breakfast, better weight loss

[suzie]

Hi Everyone,

Was reading in the paper, this morning and saw this article in the Globe and Mail from Canada (found it through Google News) that I found interesting and I wanted to share it. How eating a bigger breakfast can help you achieve your weight loss goals - The Globe and Mail

It says that people who eat bigger breakfasts will lose weight better. It's actually a pretty interesting article about choosing the right food and actually eating a bigger quantity at breakfast so that you will lose weight. That is interesting to me because I used to skip breakfast (which I now know is bad) but since then, I've always thought that the best strategy is to eat a small breakfast so that you save up more calories to eat at lunch and dinner. Nope, turns out I was wrong.

[Penny]

Wow! That's really interesting information Suzie. Thanks for sharing!!

[tracy1976]

I’m not sure what I think of that. I don’t know if it’s the same for everybody. The reason I say that is that I tend to like being a little bit light on breakfast, having a small mid morning snack, and then eating a good lunch. The reason is that I find that if I eat a big breakfast, Im’ really satisfied for a good hour afterward and then I’m hungrier throughout the day that I normally would be! So not only will I have eaten a lot of calories at breakfast but then I end up eating a lot more for the rest of the day because I’m hungry then, too!

I agree with you Tiff. I find when I eat a big breakfast, it doesn't motivate me to eat smaller for the rest of the day. I'm not saying you should skip breakfast, and I'm sure it does good things for your metabolism, but at the same time, I still think that you lose weight by making healthy food choice, eating smaller portions and exercising...eating a big breakfast isn't going to necessarily make you lose weight.

[bruceH]

I can see that this would actually be pretty effective as long as you make the right choices. If you eat a big breakfast and all you have is food that you will burn thorugh very quickly, then I can see that you really aren’t going to find much benefit by it and you’ll end up eating just as much at lunch, dinner, and snacks. The key is to eat things like protein and stuff that will fill you up and keep you filled up, right from the start but that will still get your metabolism going at the same time. Have a boiled egg and whole grain low sugar, low sodium cereal or something like that. Add a bit of fruit to it if you want it to be a little more zippy. That should keep you going way longer than a breakfast shake or bar.

That's probably exactly what the researchers found. Not all breakfasts are created equal so you have to eat the right one

[Beth]

I can see that this would actually be pretty effective as long as you make the right choices. If you eat a big breakfast and all you have is food that you will burn thorugh very quickly, then I can see that you really aren’t going to find much benefit by it and you’ll end up eating just as much at lunch, dinner, and snacks. The key is to eat things like protein and stuff that will fill you up and keep you filled up, right from the start but that will still get your metabolism going at the same time. Have a boiled egg and whole grain low sugar, low sodium cereal or something like that. Add a bit of fruit to it if you want it to be a little more zippy. That should keep you going way longer than a breakfast shake or bar.

[brightstar]

I’m not sure what I think of that. I don’t know if it’s the same for everybody. The reason I say that is that I tend to like being a little bit light on breakfast, having a small mid morning snack, and then eating a good lunch. The reason is that I find that if I eat a big breakfast, Im’ really satisfied for a good hour afterward and then I’m hungrier throughout the day that I normally would be! So not only will I have eaten a lot of calories at breakfast but then I end up eating a lot more for the rest of the day because I’m hungry then, too!

I'm the same

[Tiff]

I’m not sure what I think of that. I don’t know if it’s the same for everybody. The reason I say that is that I tend to like being a little bit light on breakfast, having a small mid morning snack, and then eating a good lunch. The reason is that I find that if I eat a big breakfast, Im’ really satisfied for a good hour afterward and then I’m hungrier throughout the day that I normally would be! So not only will I have eaten a lot of calories at breakfast but then I end up eating a lot more for the rest of the day because I’m hungry then, too!

[Paplo]

This really makes a lot of sense to me. If you start off the day right, giving yourself a way to push your hunger down and a way to keep your metabolism running right from the start then you will be able to eat less and burn more fat with greater ease. It’s not that eating a good breakfast makes you lose more weight, but it gives you a better way to take control of your choices so that the fat loss is an automatic outcome.