"Our metabolisms are always going - otherwise we'd be dead." LOL!!!

I don't eat breakfast. Blurgh.

Everybody's different.

I've changed everything about the way I used to eat.
When I weighed the most, I Never ate breakfast.

I've found if I skip a meal, especially breakfast, it opens me up to making poor food choices or over eating at lunch. That was one of my favorite things about Atkins - first rule listed under rules of induction was to not skip meals or go more than six waking hours without eating. I thought any "diet" that told me to eat and never be hungry sounded too good to be true, but if it worked I could be a happy woman for life! Luckily, for me it works.

I realize that fasting for 1 or more meals a day or going with a bullet proof coffee version with fat calories but not food, works well for others. I've read different studies showing benefits both ways. I think it is definitely a whatever works for each person is great and to go with what your body responds to the best.

I think a high protein breakfast is a good idea. Usually eat 30 to 50 grams upon waking. Does the trick.

There is logic behind the three meals and two snacks idea--if you are eating a "balanced" diet. When you are eating a higher ratio of carbs to everything else, you get hungry every two to three hours, and, if you don't eat, your metabolism slows down in response to the perceived lack of adequate food.

But when you have retrained your body to use what it evolved to use for energy--the fats and glucose stored in the fat cells--so long as you are getting adequate nutrition, it won't yell FEED ME all day long.

And, based on the many, many people who've eaten LCHF over the past century and a half, as well as indigenous people who do the same, avoiding carbs lowers significantly the need for dietary sources of many essential nutrients.

One of my favorite parts of GCBC was the years' long study of Inuit in northern Canada and Alaska. Researchers who adopted their "plants are not food for humans" diet thrived, alongside the Inuit. When they returned to their academic worlds, they were thought to be liars, because it was felt that it was impossible to avoid scurvy without eating vegetable sources of Vitamin C.

I don't think you should eat immediately before going to sleep, as I think you should digest your meal before lying down. Skipping breakfast can be nice too if you were lazy and didn't clean everything the night before. Have some coffee and make sure your kitchen is spotless! Otherwise I'm not sure how much it really matters.

Why, if it's not broke, don't fix it