Should You Eat Breakfast if You're Trying to Lose Weight?
When it comes to losing weight, you’ve got numerous strategies that you know work, including: Eating more plant-based foods. Exercising more. Getting more sleep. and cutting out junk food, simple carbs, and alcohol. Once you've checked those boxes a looming question remains: What about breakfast? Should we eat early upon waking, or start the day by elongating our window of fasting, pushing off our first meal until later?
That’s become the million-dollar question for dieters who know that intermittent fasting has gained in popularity. As simple as it sounds, breakfast is a controversial topic. Granted, your mom always told you it was the most important meal of the day, and for some people, it is. Studies even show it may help people shed pounds.
Yet truth be told, breakfast may not be the universal weight loss strategy it’s touted to be. What’s more, it may not be the breakfast itself that matters the most but rather, when you eat your first meal. Confused? Experts schuss out the breakfast debate below.