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In Indonesia, the obesity rate in teenagers is still quite high. There are 36.9% of teenagers who are categorized overweight. One of the risk factors in the increase of obesity is the habit of skipping breakfast. Obesity is weight gain exceeding the limt needs and physical, skeletal as a result the accumulation ofe excessive fat in the body. The purpose of this study was to describe the breakfast habit and body mass index (BMI) in the tenth grade students at Senior High School 2 Kuta. This study employed descriptive design with cross sectional approach. There were 224 respondents recruited as the sample through proportionate stratified random sampling technique. Data were collected using questionnaire and analyzed by using descriptive statistical. The findings indicated that 190 (84.8%) respondents had moderate category in breakfast habit; however, there were 96 (42.9%) respondents had quite risky category of BMI, and 45 (20.1%) respondents had high risk in BMI. The majority of respondents had poor eating habit such as skipping breakfast and consuming junk food. It is expected that the public health center routinely provides counseling about nutrition in schools; moreover, the school needs to provide more sources of information on healthy eating and periodically check the body weight through school health unit activities.