Eating more at breakfast to reduce your overall daily calorie intake? Not so fast...

One diet technique out there is to eat a larger breakfast in the hopes that you will be be more satiated and thus eat fewer calories throughout the rest of the day.  This is one I have been known to rely on personally...okay and I have even carried the theory over into lunch, but leave it to the Germans to set me straight.  This German study reveals that a large breakfast just adds to the overall calorie intake.  In academic speak "Acute feeding experiments demonstrated that high breakfast energy leads to greater overall intake supported by cross-sectional data of a free-living population." AKA if you think getting the full breakfast skillet with a side of pancakes and bacon is going to put you on the path to skinny, you are way off.