What Happens When You Always Skip Breakfast: 5 Disadvantages

Having meals multiple times a day doesn’t means you are taking the right diet to keep your body healthy.

Many people avoid eating at night to control their weight while many of them skip breakfast which means ‘breaking the fast’ from the time you’ve spent asleep throughout the night which is not good for your health.

Skipping meals at night could be helpful in controlling your weight but do you know what happens if we skip breakfast? It could badly affect your health, as after night meal there is lots of gap in the next nutrition.

And next day your body needs food to restart your day with energy that can come only with food, so right here we have discussed what happens when you skip breakfast and the side effects of not eating breakfast.

5 Effects of Not Eating Breakfast Regularly  

#1 Your Body’s Metabolism Slowdowns

When you skip breakfast or meals in the morning your body starts conserving fuel resulting in stops working fast.

To compensate for restricted calories your body slows it’s basal metabolic and as per the doctors, in the morning your metabolism is already at a slow level due to sleep over the night, so you need food to balance the same.

Just like polar bears’ hibernation, when you skip meals or fast for too long time, your body goes into protection mode and starts storing as many as calories it can.

And when your body’s metabolisms slowdowns it can use glucose stored in your muscles as a backup fuel source means affecting or you can say wasting your muscles. 

#2 Blood Sugar Level Starts Dropping 

There is a strong correlation between food intake and blood sugar fluctuation.

Hence, if you skip breakfast it will affect your blood sugar levels which start gradually falling due to hunger resulting bring a down in your energy levels throughout the day.

Actually, eating in the morning restores glycogen and stabilizes the levels of insulin in your body.

And skipping breakfast means you are ignoring and not replenishing your glucose levels in the morning which will make feel fatigued and unfit.

#3 Empty Stomach Increases Acid Levels 

One of the most common disadvantages of skipping breakfast is that the acid level in the body starts increasing making you feel heartburn or suffer from acidity.

Our body is mechanized to release acid in the stomach that helps to digest the food we eat and it also occurs when our body feels hungry and needs food to get processed.

And owing to skipping breakfast if this acid does not get any kind of food substance to process it starts surging up to the wall of the stomach areas.

And this acid reaches the food pipe and the heart which leads to an acidity that can become a heart-burning problem in the long term. 

#4 Cortisol or Stress Hormones Increases

Cortisol is a kind of stress hormone produced by the adrenal glands that also get affected if you skip your breakfast.

Cortisol has many functions including helping the body use sugar in the form of glucose and fat for energy and managing stress.

And as per the research, women who skip breakfast had higher cortisol levels which are at the highest level in the morning.

Hence, it is important to eat something or take breakfast to bring down the cortisol levels that trigger anxiety and sleepless nights.    

#5 Higher Chances of Stones in Gallbladder

This could be one of the worst disadvantages of skipping breakfast.

As per the research and studies people who skip breakfast regularly for many years have a higher chance of gallbladder stones especially overweight people over 40 years old.

Actually, when you stop eating breakfast, your gallbladder would stop shrinking or expanding which causes the bile to build up in the gallbladder, leading to high cholesterol and calcium levels in the body.

A few years back surgeons in China removed more than 200 stones from a woman’s body because she had regularly skipped breakfast for more than a decade.

Always eat something in the morning to keep yourself energetic and healthy.

If you don’t feel hungry in the morning, take a low-cal diet the night and do some workouts or exercise in the morning that will make you exhausted and hungry.

Otherwise, such bad habits have long-term effects that can cause major health problems at later stages of life.