And what you just stated is something that people who read and then misunderstand and report things they've never experienced say.  What statement did I specifically make that made you respond accordingly? I never said anything about "intermittent fasting" even though you placed the term in quotations as though I actually said that, and I never said "dangerous."

We're talking about staying fit, and there is no part about fasting that contributes any sort of benefit to that statement unless you fall into the small minority of people that are overweight specifically because they eat too many calories and live a completely sedentary lifestyle.   In reality, most people are obese because they have obliterated their metabolism to the point where they remain obese even eating a meager 1000-1500 calories per day.

Why do you think that many obese people actually eat far fewer calories than their skinny counterparts?  I've known many overweight people, and even have some in my family, that eat fewer than 1,500 calories per day.  When you fast, and especially if you significantly cut calories from your diet over a significant period of time, your body goes into hibernation mode where, in the absence of a healthy level of caloric intake, it says to itself, "Oh, shit!" and attempts to store as much fat as is possible from the calories that you do consume.  '

Here are some indisputable facts:
1) More calories equates to a higher metabolism.  Period.
2) Exercise requires that you increase your caloric intake to compensate for the breakdown in muscle tissue, and also due to increased metabolism resulting from an increase in mitochondrial density.
3) Excess glycogen is depleted when you sleep.
4) The body prefers to utilize glycogen from carbohydrates as energy first, fat as energy second, and muscle as energy third.
5) When you fast, your metabolism decreases.  Period.

Go ahead and skip breakfast and keep telling the rest of us who will run circles around you how it's helping you.  You already depleted the best source of energy reserves while you sleep, and then you deprive your body further by not eating breakfast.  I eat ~3,500 calories per day and weigh around 160 lbs. at 6% bodyfat.  But please, keep telling me what I don't know from my 15 years of experience  

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By the way, the last poster who said breakfast is unnecessary is giving horrible advice.  Skipping breakfast is a great way to send your body into a catabolic state where it will consume its own muscle for energy.  Basically, this will kill your metabolism and make the few calories you do eat more likely to be stored as fat.  if you want to get in shape, you should be looking to add calories to allow yourself to work out harder.  You could say there's no such thing as over-eating, just under-training.