Myths Surround Breakfast and Weight
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/myths-surround-breakfast-and-weight/?_r=0
I am also guilty of repeating this concept. I do know that your glycogen levels are at their lowest in the morning (which is why that is the best time to exercise, your body has to use fat to keep going) and that your body is reluctant to switch over to burning fat, so I was easily convinced that eating breakfast would cause your metabolism to increase (to digest the meal) and then remain higher, so you have a net reduction in calories (calories consumed minus calories burned) by eating breakfast. However, it seems that I am guilty of jumping to conclusions, this article takes pains to point out that the little bit of evidence from controlled experiments indicates the exact opposite: that the reduced metabolism is not reduced so much that it overcomes the increase in calories of the breakfast. I would be curious to see an experiment done where pre-breakfast exercise was included, but such is increasingly unlikely, I think, given the budget cutbacks and that no cereal company would sponsor such.
