STRUGGLING to shave extra pounds off your body? Try eating breakfast. Studies show breakfast delivers the necessary energy for a day’s work ahead and the extra oomph that won’t show up in your belly.

Researchers from the National Weight Control Registry, a database of more than 3,000 people who have lost at least 60 pounds and maintained it for a six-year average, discovered that eating breakfast daily was a weight control strategy for 78% of the participants. Thus breakfast, along with eating a low-fat diet and exercising for an hour or so every day, was deemed part of long-term weight control.