Does Eating Breakfast Really Help You Lose Weight?

You’ve probably heard that eating breakfast every day helps you lose weight, but not many actual experiments have been done on this, so is it true?

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[sebastianelytron]

I eat a balanced breakfast everyday.

10 stacked pancakes, perfectly balanced.

[futuresonex]

I don't know what effect school breakfast programs have overall, but it's definitely easier to pay attention in class when you're not thinking about how hungry you are.

[shanerooney]

Eating _two_ breakfasts helps you to lose weight _twice_ as fast.

[Sorrysrry]

You should do an episode on intermittent fasting ^^

[dulcimerrafi]

The trouble with this is that there is so much variability in what people can eat for breakfast, ranging from the protein-heavy (eggs, especially with meat and/or cheese) to the carbohydrate-heavy (pancakes and syrup; sugary cereal; pastries), from the light (fat-free yogurt with fruit; a hard-boiled egg) to the heavily caloric (most any full-size breakfast meal at a restaurant), that it's probably hard to reach an overall conclusion about the effects on health measures, occupational/academic performance, or general sense of wellbeing that come simply from whether or not someone consumes breakfast regularly without a more-detailed view about what a typical breakfast for that person looks like.

[AveryMilieu]

I wait until I'm actually hungry to eat breakfast. That may not happen until afternoon. I have my coffee (with gelatin and butter) in the morning but hunger doesn't always happen. Not until the previous meals have been processed, at least. I'm not obese at this point, but I have been. I find if I start the day eating, I'll eat all day - THAT leads to obesity. Better to eat when I'm actually hungry and then drop the subject of food until I'm hungry again instead of letting a clock tell me when to eat. This means I weigh at least 80 pounds less than I did when I tried to follow diet plans.

[tomchizek]

What? 700 calories for breakfast? no wonder they didn't loose weight, that's like 2.5x what I eat for breakfast, that is a huge breakfast.

[PowahSlapEntertainmint]

No, but eating weight helps you lose breakfast.

[polkadottedpolak]

I don't care if the provided breakfast helps kids academically. I care if it keeps them from going hungry.

[PoisonTheOgres]

Got a mcdonalds commercial before this. Of course.

[enoq]

Me: eats breakfast and gets a stomach ache for the next two hours

[mariapaz]

I havent eaten breakfast in the last year, i dont miss it. If think about it, eating breakfast is just a matter of lifestyle, so its importance depends in each individual person.

[PaleGhost]

Breakfast? I believe it's spelled "Coffee"

[Happy_Abe]

700 calories sounds way too much for breakfast

[GantryG]

Good job SciShow, this was very well written regarding the issues such studies have and the difficulties of studying nutrition effects, etc.

[JenniferMyers]

I eat my breakfast at around 4:30 in the afternoon.

[computer]

They also think that dietary fat causes heart disease. Find a better source to reference.

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[just-a-silly-goofy-guy]

If you eat flex tape, you should be fine.

[cyanidejunkie]

I always check the obituaries first... if I’m not in it, then I eat breakfast.