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Originally Posted by Willravel
Skipping breakfast? Oy vey. Numerous studies clearly demonstrate that people who skip breakfast are more likely to be obese. Why? YOU NEED FOOD. You've been burning food all night and your tanks are on empty. If you skip breakfast you're more likely to snack in the morning.
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See, this is exactly what I'm talking about - stuff like this is why people can't lose weight. "It's ok, eat breakfast, eat 'til your belly is full!"
I actually am absolutely starving if I DO eat breakfast, it catalyzes my appetite to the point of ordering a pizza at 9:30 AM. If I skip breakfast, I just feel normal, and get hungry around 11:00 AM.
And everyone saying all this crap about "what you eat depends on how much weight you lose! 87 octane is more efficient etc.!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Yeah, there is healthy food and there's bad food, and some calories are burned easier and more efficient, but the bottom line is: if you eat more than you burn you are fucked.
I can prove it because I ate like I was Father Nutrition himself for 4 months, very strict diet of fruits and veggies and lean meats and poultry, and went to the gym EVERY SINGLE DAY for one hour, and lost 5 lbs. My cholesterol improved more than my dietition had every seen in 4 months, my blood pressure got slightly better.
Then I just started eating less, WAY less, and being less strict on what I ate - and lost the remaining 55 lbs nearly without going to the gym at all.
McDonald's versus fruit, your choice, but at the end of the day, you can eat fruit and veggies and healthy all day and gain weight. My parents are constantly complaining about being overweight even though they are "eating right" as I watch them pile on 2000 calories of vegetables and lean meat onto their plates at dinner.
In order to lose weight fast, you have to starve yourself. You got into the mess of being fat, now get yourself out - stop eating.
Once you are down to your correct weight, feel free to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and have a well-balanced diet. But until then, reduce the calories you eat so your body burns the excess fat - doesn't matter what you eat, just stop eating.
I apologize for being so blunt and slightly overzealous with this argument but I am trying to stand up for all the people who have been fed bullshit about losing weight for years, just like me. The key to losing weight is to burn more than you use, and it's extremely difficult to burn the average consumption of a normal person - that's why most people maintain, but don't lose weight, even if they exercise.