How long after waking up do you have before eating breakfast?

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  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    Annanna91 wrote: »
    At the risk of being judged or ridiculed, I usually have my breakfast around 15mins after waking up. Non of this waiting for hours or skipping malarkey!!

    No judging, this is what works for you, that's the great part of meal timing is it's all about personal preference. This doesn't work for me, but waiting hours does work perfectly for me.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Wake up at 3-4, gym at 5 and first food is about 9-10, so 6 hours.
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,002 Member
    Annanna91 wrote: »
    Non of this waiting for hours or skipping malarkey!!

    Why do you consider it malarkey?

  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,002 Member
    Personally, wake up at 5am, coffee at 6am and breakfast at 10am... most days.
  • SwankyTomato
    SwankyTomato Posts: 442 Member
    edited February 2015
    I have a cup of coffee first thing when I get up.

    That being said I love breakfast and could eat my entire day's worth of calories in the morning. Yep.

    My struggle has been how to cut back my breakfast calories. I feel like I am the only one with this problem.

    I think I just need to eat my 700 calories in the morning and then skip lunch. I have been playing around with what works for me.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Annanna91 wrote: »
    At the risk of being judged or ridiculed, I usually have my breakfast around 15mins after waking up. Non of this waiting for hours or skipping malarkey!!

    Why would you call this malarkey? This is what works for you; your personal preference. Personally, I find the earlier I eat, the hungrier I am throughout the day, thus my preference is to wait.
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    Annanna91 wrote: »
    At the risk of being judged or ridiculed, I usually have my breakfast around 15mins after waking up. Non of this waiting for hours or skipping malarkey!!

    Why would you call this malarkey? This is what works for you; your personal preference. Personally, I find the earlier I eat, the hungrier I am throughout the day, thus my preference is to wait.

    This is me as well. I wait 6-7 hours to eat breakfast. I'm just not hungry before then. I do have tea, though.

  • SwankyTomato
    SwankyTomato Posts: 442 Member
    edited February 2015
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    Personally, I find the earlier I eat, the hungrier I am throughout the day, thus my preference is to wait.

    I know, right?

    But if I don't eat it, I am SO HUNGRY I feel sick and have a headache.

    IDK, I will be 50 next week and I think I have to just accept the fact I have to eat my large calorie breakfast and try and adjust my lunch/dinner.

  • tomandshell
    tomandshell Posts: 32 Member
    I'm not hungry until lunch, so I don't eat until lunch.

    I am hungry late in the day whether I eat breakfast or not, so I tend to save my calories and use them when my body is actually telling me to eat instead of forcing down food in the morning when I have no appetite.
  • Emilia777
    Emilia777 Posts: 978 Member
    J72FIT wrote: »
    Emilia777 wrote: »
    I definitely like having dinner for breakfast, and I have been known to eat pancakes for dinner!
    YES! YES! YES!
    =)

    I'm glad someone gets that :-). I actually highly recommend Sally's baking addiction whole wheat oatmeal pancakes. I add 1/4c bran to the recipe and they come to 120 cal, 5.5g protein, 4g fibre.

    I had raisin oatmeal cookies and milk for dinner just the other night. No regrets!
  • katherineclarkson
    katherineclarkson Posts: 17 Member
    I can never eat just after waking up. I work in London so I eat breakfast when I get to work.
  • KeepGoinGirl
    KeepGoinGirl Posts: 60 Member
    About 2 hours after waking.

    Weekdays I wake at 7:30 AM and eat breakfast at work between 9 and 9:30 AM.

    Weekends I wake around 10:00 AM and eat breakfast at around Noon.

    My breakfast almost always consists of an egg, turkey sausage or turkey bacon, and a carb like english muffin, whole wheat toast, or tortilla (pancake or waffle on weekends).
  • Jolinia
    Jolinia Posts: 846 Member
    As long as possible unless I am about to go work out and feel I would do better with a meal first. For some reason once I break my fast from the night before I get hungrier. So if I wait I'm less likely to get into the cheese that evening.
  • Emilia777
    Emilia777 Posts: 978 Member
    Jolinia wrote: »
    As long as possible unless I am about to go work out and feel I would do better with a meal first. For some reason once I break my fast from the night before I get hungrier. So if I wait I'm less likely to get into the cheese that evening.

    The cheese always gets me!
  • Jolinia
    Jolinia Posts: 846 Member
    Emilia777 wrote: »
    Jolinia wrote: »
    As long as possible unless I am about to go work out and feel I would do better with a meal first. For some reason once I break my fast from the night before I get hungrier. So if I wait I'm less likely to get into the cheese that evening.

    The cheese always gets me!

    Yeah, I might give it up again for a couple of weeks. I don't need it because I take a multivitamin. I just like it.
  • Emilia777
    Emilia777 Posts: 978 Member
    Jolinia wrote: »
    Emilia777 wrote: »
    Jolinia wrote: »
    As long as possible unless I am about to go work out and feel I would do better with a meal first. For some reason once I break my fast from the night before I get hungrier. So if I wait I'm less likely to get into the cheese that evening.

    The cheese always gets me!

    Yeah, I might give it up again for a couple of weeks. I don't need it because I take a multivitamin. I just like it.

    I hear you.
  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,300 Member
    tomandshell wrote: »
    I'm not hungry until lunch, so I don't eat until lunch.

    I am hungry late in the day whether I eat breakfast or not, so I tend to save my calories and use them when my body is actually telling me to eat instead of forcing down food in the morning when I have no appetite.

    This is me as well. No matter if I eat breakfast or skip it, I find my hunger for the rest of the day to be the same. Which means, if I eat breakfast, I have less calories to use later on. So I wait and eat later when I WANT to eat instead of forcing myself to eat because I "have to".

  • miss_rye_
    miss_rye_ Posts: 94 Member
    Depends on the day. Sometimes within 30 minutes, other days by noon
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    It might be a couple of hours. I tend to wake up at about 5AM and don't like to eat before 7AM.
  • grandmamere
    grandmamere Posts: 155 Member
    pap3rw1ngs wrote: »
    2-3 hours usually. I like to go to the gym or for a walk before I eat.

    Same with me. Mainly due to meds I have to wait an hour before I eat>
  • keziak1
    keziak1 Posts: 204 Member
    I'm in the no-breakfast, intermittent-fasting, early eating makes me nauseous camp. However after not eating breakfast for a long time today I just wanted a bowl of cereal so I had some with blueberries and other fruit for lunch! I won't do that everyday because at l lunch I like to have soup or stew with beans, and a salad. But I suppose once in a while can't hurt!
  • tephanies1234
    tephanies1234 Posts: 299 Member
    Meal timing is a myth like others have said. I wake up at 6:45am and eat around 10-11am depending on the day. This helps me keep my calories in check when I'm dieting down and I sleep better with calories consumer closer to the end of the day.
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    <pedantic>
    You have until you die of starvation to eat breakfast.
    </pedantic>

    And yes, I know people usually mean "morning meal" when they say "breakfast."
  • cstevenson86
    cstevenson86 Posts: 158 Member
    I eat breakfast after being up for 15 minutes!
  • cstevenson86
    cstevenson86 Posts: 158 Member
    So usually around 7:30... :)
  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    On weekdays I get up at 4:30 then work out shower get ready go to work and eat @8am. On weekends I get up as late as I can which is usually like 6am (argh) and still eat around the same time.
  • ogmomma2012
    ogmomma2012 Posts: 1,520 Member
    I wake up around 7:30-8am. I really have liked cooking breakfast the past couple mornings, usually we all eat about 3hr. after waking, just to get moving and cook for the family. I admit a little more organization on our part would speed things up. :smile:
  • KGRebelRanch
    KGRebelRanch Posts: 109 Member
    I get my coffee at 5am, then I feed animals/do laundry/ etc and usually I remember I haven't eaten by about 11.
  • PurpleYFronts
    PurpleYFronts Posts: 344 Member
    Out of interest to all those who wait at least a few hours after getting up, what time do you eat your last meal the previous day? I try to eat before 7pm so I have basically a 12 hour fast till breakfast. I'm always ravenous
  • ogmomma2012
    ogmomma2012 Posts: 1,520 Member
    PurpleYFronts wrote: »
    Out of interest to all those who wait at least a few hours after getting up, what time do you eat your last meal the previous day? I try to eat before 7pm so I have basically a 12 hour fast till breakfast. I'm always ravenous

    I work nights so I eat dinner around 11pm... so it's almost the same fasting time you have.
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