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i have a question: everyone says breakfast is the most important meal of the day but i skip it,i have dinner at 7-8 at night and dont eat anything until lunch time the next day about 11ish which means i have fasted for a good 15 hours or so which my theory is during that time my body will use up all that food i had for dinner the previous night especially if im exercising but people say you need breakfast to get metabolisim firing and something about stored fats-could someone please put holes in my theory?
Your first meal of the day is important, the timing of it not so much. You don't need to eat unless you are hungry. Intermittent fasting has become very popular these days and it's exactly how you eating patterns are currently. Your metabolism won't shut down if you don't eat for 15 hours, your metabolism won't fire up because you have eaten. You will burn calories eating that food, but the net calories in the food outweigh what you burn eating/digesting the food.
I'd say people who skip breakfast and over weight (as many experts will claim and lead us to believe) is because of their poor dietary habits not because of what time they eat their food. Their mentality is most likely "i didn't eat breakfast so now i can have the meat pie, coke and a packet of chips for lunch and pizza for dinner"