Breakfast. It’s the most important meal of the day – right?
Our culture has bought into the fact that if we don’t eat breakfast, we suffer the following consequences:
1: Our metabolism will slow down
2: We’ll get intense cravings and lose energy
3: It will be harder to lose weight and burn fat
Now, I’ll be the first one to admit that, for a very long time, I was a huge advocate of eating breakfast as a healthy way to start my days and get my metabolism moving.
But, over the years, published scientific research, using real world people, is now proving otherwise.
And that’s exactly why I totally changed my approach to eating breakfast for health and fat loss over 3 years ago… sometimes skipping it all together.
It makes it easier to stay lean, and it’s MUCH easier to adhere to your diet… More on how you can use this method below.
But first, here are 3 blatant lies we’ve all been fed about eating breakfast for long term health and weight loss.
LIE #1: Breakfast Increases Your Metabolism
The whole idea that not eating a big breakfast will somehow slow down your metabolism is a load of B.S.
All that really matters are two things; the actual amount of calories you’re taking in on a daily basis, and the composition of those calories.
As long as you’re making healthy choices and keeping your body in a calorie deficit, it doesn’t necessarily matter WHEN you eat those calories.
Proof: In a recent paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers delved into dozens of studies to uncover the relationship between eating breakfast and losing bodyweight.
Conclusion: The researchers concluded that breakfast being the most important meal of the day is merely nothing but a shared belief.
In other words, there is ZERO long term research indicating or proving that eating breakfast leads to lower body fat or increased metabolism.
LIE #2: Eating Breakfast Helps Control Your Hunger
It’s practically a ritual in our world to eat breakfast first thing in the morning to increase energy levels and help you stave off cravings.
Instead, the exact opposite happens.
Typical breakfast foods will spike insulin levels and send your blood sugar souring sky high, making you go on a hunger binge, putting your body in a fat storing environment.
That’s why eating a big breakfast could actually decrease insulin sensitivity and INCREASE your appetite.
LIE 3: Breakfast Helps You Control Weight And Lose Fat
There are tons of studies out there that claim eating a big, well-balanced breakfast helps promote weight loss.
But in reality there are NO long term studies that show a direct correlation between eating breakfast and weight loss.
Maintaining a calorie deficit, your food choices, and activity level, are all that really matters when it comes to staying healthy and losing fat.
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