Why Skipping Breakfast Is Your Biggest Weight Loss Mistake

We all know the story, we’re trying to lose weight and we think that skipping breakfast is an easy way to cut some calories from our daily intake-we’ve all done it, me too! The fact that you get an extra 20 minutes lie-in can be tempting too! But it has been shown that those people that are successful in their weight loss goals are the ones that start the day with a healthy breakfast. So it appears that when your mum told you that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”, she may have been right!

Breakfast - your most important meal of the day for weight loss success.

So, why can eating breakfast help with your weight loss?

To many it goes against common sense that by eating extra calories in the morning as opposed to skipping breakfast would help your weight loss. There has been a lot of research on the subject and studies have shown that those that eat breakfast on the whole weight less than those who regularly skip a morning meal.

There are many reasons that starting the day with a healthy breakfast can help you achieve your weight loss goals:

• Eating breakfast can reduce hunger throughout the day which helps you make better food choices in the rest of your meals. If you skip breakfast, chances are by mid-morning you’ll be grabbing for that packet of crisps or chocolate bar and come lunch time you’ll be so ravenous you’ll have munched your way through a high calorie dinner before you know it!
• Eating breakfast is part of a healthy lifestyle, if you are making wise food choices and eating balanced meals at regular intervals you are more likely to be making long term changes to your habits and helping you on your road to weight loss success. If you skip breakfast, especially with the intention of saving calories for later in the day you are only fuelling your habits of binge eating and excess.
• Eating breakfast gets your metabolism working from the moment you start your day. We all know that starvation causes our metabolism to slow down and to go into “starvation mode” holding on to all the fat and calories that comes our way. When you skip breakfast bear in mind you have had nothing to eat overnight so waiting until lunch could mean your body has gone over 12 hours without food, this can be classed a mini-starvation.
• Eating breakfast gives you the energy boost you need to start your day the right way, without it you will feel sluggish and tired.
• It has been shown that eating your calories earlier in the day gives you more time to burn them off and prevents you going to bed with a stomach full of food! Perhaps the traditional way of having a hearty breakfast, large meal at lunch and a small meal in the evening is the way to go.

So there you have it, if you want to start each day the right way and achieve your weight loss goals faster then tucking into a healthy breakfast every morning is the way to go.

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