Losing Weight: Why you should eat a large breakfast

Overview
When I was younger, I never ate breakfast. I never had time for it as I would wake up 10 minutes before school started and would have to sprint to get to school that was 15 minutes away. However, this would leave me craving for food until lunch.

Problem
Craving food often leads to overeating. You tend to over-compensate when you are too low to make sure your cravings go away. However, because your body typically takes 20 minutes to realize when you've actually satisfied your hunger, it's not great to just eat until you feel "Full."

How to stop craving food
You want to avoid craving food as much as possible. In my experience, I never feel hungry in the morning, so my body feels I can skip it. However, to keep from craving food, you should put something in your stomach about every 2 hours. This makes sure your body knows you are feeding it and doesn't have to remind you.

Why you should eat more earlier
You want to give your body the longest amount of time to burn the stuff you eat. If you eat more at night, then you only have a few hours to burn off those extra calories. It allows you to not feel as tired later because your body knows it has energy to burn. It also reduces cravings later because your body isn't just burning the fat at first.

You may be saying "But I want to lose weight, so I should eat a lot less, and be skipping breakfast, I eat less." You are right in saying you lose more weight if you eat less, but that's only if you keep up your exercise routine. If you get frustrated at any point and decide to just quite, you aren't going to lose any weight. The key to losing weight is persistence in your routine. By eating more in the morning, you'll have that wood and kindling to start that fire in your belly everyday to keep going.

Conclusion
Eat more early. You'll be happier this way.



NOTE: This guide is currently in rough draft form and could be improved deeper explanation and more references. If you would like it to be more in depth, I will be extremely happy to improve on this, all you need to do is ask in the comments and I will do it asap (I just don't want to spend forever on something no one reads and/or cares about).