Our first question – does eating breakfast help you lose weight? – will be answered as researchers have answered it for some time now: “not necessarily”.

According to the members of the American Society for Nutrition and their investigations surrounding meal frequency and weight loss, it’s hard to prove that breakfast (or any meal for that matter) can boost metabolism since eating habits are hard to study. They actually comment that there’s no evidence linking meal types and/or meal frequency to the number of calories burnt daily, so there’s no proof backing up the existence of a metabolism boosting breakfast.

Dietitians comment the same. Nutritionist Jill Weisenberger explains that many people misunderstand the benefits of eating breakfast because of this myth. According to her own breakfast metabolism study, breakfast helps with weight management, but not with calorie-burning! Other studies back her up, stating that breakfast is, indeed, related with lower body weight, but not with enhancing metabolism. So, if you’re hoping to eat breakfast to kick start metabolism solely, we’re sad to say that it won’t work. Are you asking yourself, how to boost metabolism at breakfast then, Should I skip breakfast?