[Bardan the Slayer]

Breakfast is *essential*. After a full night's sleep, your body has no sugar in it's bloodstream to get working with. If you eat berakfast, the sugar gets into your bloodstream, you have energy, you go to work everything is fine. Your body releases Insulin to force some of the sugar into your muscles to prepare them for action, and very little of it as fat. Things are looking good.

If you don't eat breakfast, then bad things happen. Your body releases cortisol, a stress chemical, into your bloodstream, and it provides you with an energy boost by starting to break down fat for energy. is this good? No - because cortisol actually breaks down muscle, too. And at an astounding rate. That's right folks - if you don't eat breakfast, your body starts eating it's own muscles.

*Then*, once these stress chemicles are in your body, it figures there is a reason that you are not eating, so it shifts it's priority to putting on fat, figuring there is a food shortage. Then, when you finally grab lunch at midday, your body releases a massive surge of Insulin, only this time it is geared to doing it's very best to force as much of the contained sugar into your body's fat reserves as possible, preparing to combat the food shortage. This sucks all the sugar out of your bloodstream as fast as it is put in, making you lethargic and sleepy. With a full stomach (because you were so hungry before lunch that you ate alot), you are not hungry again for hours and hours, and so once again your body starts to slow down, seeing as no new food is ebtering your system. hence a vicious circle begins.

Eat breakfast. Even if it makes you feel ill, keep at it. Within one month, your body will adapt to having food on it's stomach first thing in the morning, and you will actually be hungry when you wake up, and you will feel great.