because mcdonalds.

Stupid. Not eating breakfast and eating around 1-2pm is GOAT. Breakfast is probably the WORST meal to eat for weight loss

Everyone has already said it ITT

People drastically underestimate how many grams of sugar they consume daily. It is only recommended that most people eat no more than 25g or something ridiculous. Not even one can of pop will already accomplish that.

I work in cardiac rehab and you'd be shocked how many people have no clue about nutrition and what they're eating (most people don't). This one patient was drinking 5-6 cans of regular coke per day and wondered why he had diabetes, was overweight and in his current situation. 150 grams of empty, useless sugar every day will slowly kill you.

meanwhile the french start their day with orange juice/cafe, bread and butter, possibly a croissant and are rail thin.

It's a combination of things. Work and family kills 90% of your time. How can you eat healthy working 9 hours 5 days a week? And then there's kids you have to worry about.

been eating 3500 cals+ for the last 9 months and ive gained........6 pounds
lol at fat people, eating loads is not a sin, but not doing the adequate work to make use of the large amounts of food is.

Smaller portions but I bet a lot of them aren't Ethiopian thin, probably got some pudge


Lolwut that's not excuse to not eat better

What I've noticed from being a former fatty myself and my dad, extended family etc is the late night snacking and couch eating. You should stop eating at least in my opinion 3 hours before you sleep. It's that extra food that you don't need that catches up to you. Otherwise they don't really eat too crazy. That and complete lack of exercise - and when they do go to gym it's not usually productive.

It's not fuking breakfast. It's being sedentary, having 0 knowledge of nutrition, lack of actual motivation to change habits, mindless grazing/snacking, meals out with friends & family with huge portion sizes where people ignore calories/health because they're "eating out anyway", emotional eating, & possibly alcohol.Breakfast makes no difference, people ultimately just eat more cals later in the day:http://www.fasebj.org/content/30/1_S...nt/lb394.short

If your already skipping breakfast I assume you already have more dedication and motivation to lose weight than your average person

why would you intentionally skip breakfast just to eat in a surplus the rest of the day if your goal is weight loss?

Skipping breakfast is horrible for weight loss/weight control. People will either snack or eat a bigger lunch.

Also, have you ever seen a Full English Breakfast? I'm surprised everyone there isn't fatter than in the US.

Who's fixing home cooked meals for the family after work?

This one.

They miss breakfast, so by morning tea-time they've low blood sugar and are feeling woozy - it'd be 14-16 hours since their last meal, dinner last night. This is when they head to the vending machine for a Mars bar and Coke.

By lunchtime it's now 18 hours since their last meal, they didn't bring lunch to work with them, so it's off to the food court. The sandwich bar beckons, but the McDs or KFC smells good and is much quicker. Chomp. Coke again. Slurp.

Afternoon tea is just coffee.

After eight hours of work and no food with much else than calories (not much protein, not much vitamins and minerals) they stagger home exhausted. What's that? Fridge is empty? Well there's the "vegetable crisping" drawer, but then they'd have to decide what to make, chop vegies, blah blah... hey look in the freezer there is a frozen chicken kiev, whack that in the microwave, there we go.

Somehave a good dinner, especially if there's a stay at home parent to organise things for them. But that's their first good meal of the day. Notice also no fruit was consumed during the day.

After dinner they settle down on the couch in front of the tv and knock back a couple of beers, chips, chocolate biscuits, that sort of thing.

Through this day they made sure to park the car close to the entrance to work, go to the closest food court at lunchtime, and so on. They walked at most 2,000 steps during the day.

Because they don't have an active job or lift, they're weak, they have low muscle mass. So their body doesn't consume much energy just sitting around, the way it would if they had lots of muscle. Their knees hurt when they sit down and stand up, so that couch - they're staying on it all night. Their back hurts, too - all that time sitting makes their abs weak, their lower back does all the work, and again it's not strong, plus they carry a bit of extra weight at the front, so it's asking too much of it. "I'd like to work out, but I have bad knees and a bad back."

They stagger to bed, eight hours later their alarm goes off and it starts all over again.

So yes: fat people miss breakfast.

As a trainer, my only nutrition question for newbies is: "What did you have for breakfast?" My favourite answer: "a couple of cans of beer." Do I really need to ask them about the rest of their day? Breakfast sets the pattern for the rest of the day. If you can't organise yourself to have a good breakfast, you won't organise yourself to have any other good meals, either.