Can You Skip Breakfast and Still Reach Your Fat Loss Goal?

It's possible, but not likely. Eating breakfast is one of the best ways to keep your appetite under control throughout the day. The idea behind a healthy fat loss diet is to consume fewer calories; not just calories overall, but fewer calories at each meal as well.

A healthy fat loss diet is one that will have you eating the bulk of your complex carbohydrate calories at breakfast. Then tapering off of those carbohydrates as your body's need for energy declines; the end result would be you going to bed with little to no carbohydrates in your stomach.

Remember, when you wake up your body will have been without nutrition (fasting) for however long you were at rest. If you choose to continue fasting, your body could go into starvation mode.

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Meaning your body will react as if your intentions are to starve it, and in turn hold on to its fat stores. And when you do decide to break your fast, you will most likely overeat without even realizing it. And guess what your body will crave the most? Simple carbohydrates (sugar).

Another problem with skipping breakfast is it will cause your metabolism to slow down. Hey, there's no need for your body to burn calories if you're not going to feed it for hours on end, right? The way to a fat burning metabolism is to feed your body several small meals throughout the day.

Eating smaller more frequent meals will let your body know that you have no intentions of starving it. Now I do realize that some of you are not the breakfast eating type, and just aren't hungry when you wake up. That's great, use it to your advantage and eat anyway, even if you have to force yourself.

Choosing to eat breakfast even though you aren't hungry will kill your appetite, and make it easier for you to stick to your diet. So forget about skipping breakfast, because breakfast is the meal that determines how easy it will be for you to sick to your diet and ultimately reach your goal.