Breakfast fasting can help lose weight due to reducing calories consumption but not a healthy or sustainable method. The weight loss process needs to ensure the amount of calories loaded less than the calories consumed during the day. If you hold back breakfast without controlling the total calories consuming the remaining meals, it is difficult to achieve the desired weight. When skipping breakfast, the body lacks energy to function, easy to fatigue, distract, reduce performance and study. You may also have a headache, dizziness, irritability due to hypoglycemia.
Do not eat breakfast also increases the feeling of hunger at the rest of the day, making you out of control, craving for sweets, starch or unhealthy snacks. These factors increase the total amount of calories loaded, counterproductive weight loss. Another consequence of fasting the first day of meals can disrupt cortisol and insulin hormone disorders, affecting metabolism, blood sugar control, increased risk of diabetes.
Breakfast helps to provide energy and nutrients for the body to operate effectively all day. Image: Tuan Dat
When you lack energy in the morning, you tend to be less sedentary, reducing calories consumption from daily activities, thereby hindering weight loss. Instead of skipping breakfast, you should focus on eating a nutritional balanced breakfast, rich in protein and fiber and balance the amount of calories loaded into meals lower than calories consumed. Eat enough breakfast to help you control the feeling of hunger, stabilize blood sugar and provide energy to operate effectively.