Not a Breakfast Person - Suggestions?

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  • Yogi_Flexi
    Yogi_Flexi Posts: 31 Member
    You need to eat something with protein before 7:45 am. I suggest a smoothie. Almond milk, frozen berries, hemp protein powder.
    If you eat this early it stops your body from getting stressed out and makes weigh loss easier.
  • amyr271
    amyr271 Posts: 343 Member
    singingflutelady wrote: »
    If I eat breakfast I get hungrier earlier than if I don't. It's odd but it does

    This is what happens to me! If I have breakfast I am getting painful belly rumbles before lunch. If I don't eat breakfast then I'm only mildly hungry when lunch comes around!

    It's weird isn't it?
  • ReaderGirl3
    ReaderGirl3 Posts: 868 Member
    CollieFit wrote: »
    quinndeborde wrote: »
    ReaderGirl3 wrote: »
    quinndeborde wrote: »
    I lost my initial weight by incorporating breakfast. (I used to be just like you)
    You need to eat breakfast.

    Even something small is fine!
    Oatmeal (you can add a plethora of things to oatmeal!), fruit, eggs, turkey bacon, healthy breakfast sandwich, even a granola bar.

    No, actually you don't. I lost 50+ pounds and have maintained the loss for around 3 years now, without eating in the morning most days (I usually break my daily fast between 11am-noon). Meal/calorie timing is not important-how many calories you're consuming overall is.

    I don't think timing is necessarily important, I just know that it helped me go a long way. Eating breakfast gives you energy, keeps you full longer, etc.

    Generalisation.

    It's a personal experience and a personal choice.

    Whether breakfast keeps you full depends entirely on what you have for breakfast.

    Personally, breakfast makes me more hungry not less.

    This. I have no hunger in the morning, so it makes no sense for me to force myself to eat. However if I do eat something in the morning, I'm hungry soon after and it sets a negative pattern for the whole day (where I end up going over on calories). I also have plenty of energy in the morning without eating (I'm a morning person and up and going 5:30-6am). If someone wants to eat in the morning, then sure go for it. There's lots of people who prefer to eat in the morning. And there's lots of people who just don't have any interest in eating. Neither way is right/wrong :)
  • amyr271
    amyr271 Posts: 343 Member
    Yogi_Flexi wrote: »
    You need to eat something with protein before 7:45 am. I suggest a smoothie. Almond milk, frozen berries, hemp protein powder.
    If you eat this early it stops your body from getting stressed out and makes weigh loss easier.

    Why would protein before 7:45 am stop your body getting stressed or make weight loss easier?

    I'll be damned if I am getting out of bed that early on the weekend!
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Yogi_Flexi wrote: »
    You need to eat something with protein before 7:45 am. I suggest a smoothie. Almond milk, frozen berries, hemp protein powder.
    If you eat this early it stops your body from getting stressed out and makes weigh loss easier.

    I never eat that early, even on the days where I wake up at 3 AM
  • AnneCoolbreze
    AnneCoolbreze Posts: 29 Member
    I agree with the "if you're not hungry don't eat" idea but for me if I don't eat (actually usually a protein smoothie so drink) breakfast, there is NO WAY I eat enough the rest of the day. I'm trying to get my body fat % to the 20% range and need to get in all of my food.
  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    Yogi_Flexi wrote: »
    You need to eat something with protein before 7:45 am. I suggest a smoothie. Almond milk, frozen berries, hemp protein powder.
    If you eat this early it stops your body from getting stressed out and makes weigh loss easier.

    Nope. All psuedoscience nonsense.
  • CrabNebula
    CrabNebula Posts: 1,119 Member
    I don't think it matters. I always eat breakfast because I am starving in the morning. Probably because I don't really eat after 8pm. I'm not a night owl or a night time snacker, so by 8am, time to eat.

    I think as long as you don't get caught up in the idea that because you didn't eat breakfast, you can double or triple down for lunch and/or dinner without a lot of regard for the calorie budget, there is no problem.
  • getfitkas
    getfitkas Posts: 3 Member
    The necessity of breakfast is super personal to be honest.

    I know people who absolutely need breakfast in the morning but I'm not one of them. I might have a small protein shake if I know I'm going to be doing anything super physical super early, but usually eating anything (especially anything solid) before I've been up at least two to three hours leaves me incredibly nauseous.

    And say my kcal goal was 1500 (for simplicity sake). Normally I might have 700 for lunch, a 200 kcal snack midafternoon, and 600 for dinner or something. If I try forcing a breakfast (as I have a few times) it ends up looking like 300-400 breakfast, and then exactly the same for lunch, snack, and dinner. So I end up over shooting my goal by a few hundred kcal because in addition to the nausea, breakfast doesn't keep my appetite lower the rest of the day anyway.

    My suggestion would be that if you feel hungry/weak/over tired in the mornings, have something small to start (yogurt or oatmeal or something) and see how your body reacts and go from there. If you don't feel hungry, it won't hurt to try something light each morning for a week or so just to see if it does anything (good or bad), and again decide for yourself from there.
  • ASKyle
    ASKyle Posts: 1,475 Member
    Yogi_Flexi wrote: »
    You need to eat something with protein before 7:45 am. I suggest a smoothie. Almond milk, frozen berries, hemp protein powder.
    If you eat this early it stops your body from getting stressed out and makes weigh loss easier.

    Absolutely not. No way.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Yogi_Flexi wrote: »
    You need to eat something with protein before 7:45 am. I suggest a smoothie. Almond milk, frozen berries, hemp protein powder.
    If you eat this early it stops your body from getting stressed out and makes weigh loss easier.

    Isn't it dangerous to eat in my sleep?
  • SToast
    SToast Posts: 255 Member
    I'm not a breakfast person either. I find that some almond milk, vanilla protein powder, and instant coffee (or Pero as I prefer no caffein) makes a tasty "Iced latte" for breakfast.
  • ambeeJ78
    ambeeJ78 Posts: 1 Member
    I suggest you don't skip breakfast because once you eat enough, there's no tendency to eat more and get hungry easily. You could always choose healthy and delicious meals from the web, like the meal planning menus I had in http://www.Mealplans4thefamily.com/. It's been my practice and so far I am able to maintain my ideal weight.
  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    ambeeJ78 wrote: »
    I suggest you don't skip breakfast because once you eat enough, there's no tendency to eat more and get hungry easily. You could always choose healthy and delicious meals from the web, like the meal planning menus I had in http://www.Mealplans4thefamily.com/. It's been my practice and so far I am able to maintain my ideal weight.

    What?!? by this logic, no one would be overweight.

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