I hate breakfast

TheHappyLoser

I know what you are going to say, "It's the most important meal of the day," but I just don't like it. I do eat breakfast at the weekend, but then it's more like a brunch. A mix between lunch and a late breakfast.

I have never eaten breakfast, not as a child and not as an adult. I drink something, either tea or water and I am ready for the day. I am just not hungry before lunchtime.

I feel like I am wasting calories because I make myself eat breakfast now. It makes me feel tired and bloated. I don't 'care for it.

Am I the only one who doesn't like to eat breakfast?
Do I really have to include breakfast in my meal plan?

I don't care for cereals, I am not crazy for eggs and I eat fruits as snacks during the day.

kristieshannon

Don't eat it! Eat when you're hungry. As long as you're in a deficit at the end of the day it won't affect your losses.

diannethegeek

If you don't like breakfast and don't have any particular need to eat it (medical reasons, etc), then it's totally fine to skip it.

AnvilHead

If you don't want to eat breakfast, don't eat it. Meal timing is irrelevant for weight loss, it's strictly a matter of personal preference (workout performance, satiety, etc.).

Maria_Fatima

Cutting on your breakfast can actually aid weight loss if youre eating healthy through the day and following your own natural patterns

Ready2Rock206

So don't eat it. There is no reason to if you don't want to.

shagerty777

If you don't like it don't eat it then. There is evidence that whether you eat 1 meal a day or 6 the net result is going to follow your calorie intake. Too many calories and you gain, too little and you lose weight. The most important thing is to not replace that missed breakfast with snacks of garbage food later in the morning. Having said that it also depends on your exercise routine. I hit it hard in the morning and have to eat breakfast.

cecsav1

I'm not sure if you're saying you don't like to eat first thing in the morning or you don't like typical breakfast foods...

If it's the former, all the things that everyone's already said. Lol

If itvs it the latter, eat something different. You don't have to eat eggs or cereal. Have a sandwich or leftovers from dinner the night before

Hwy2TheDangerZone

To each their own!

TheHappyLoser

Thank you!!!!!!! Thank you so much. Kicking breakfast to the curb

queenliz99

Another, don't eat it

pebble4321

I'm not sure who is standing in your kitchen forcing you to eat breakfast, do you live with the owner of a cereal company?

As others have said, it's OK to find your own pattern of eating that makes you feel good and keeps you healthy.

emmylootwo

I would literally never say breakfast is the most important meal of the day (okay, I just did, but typing doesn't count). Don't like breakfast? Don't eat it. I found that eating breakfast, especially when eating a deficit, makes me ravenous all day. Seems like a waste of calories too, only to end up eating lunch a few hours later.

OneTwentyThree

MyReflections wrote: »

I know what you are going to say, "It's the most important meal of the day," but I just don't like it. I do eat breakfast at the weekend, but then it's more like a brunch. A mix between lunch and a late breakfast.

I have never eaten breakfast, not as a child and not as an adult. I drink something, either tea or water and I am ready for the day. I am just not hungry before lunchtime.

I feel like I am wasting calories because I make myself eat breakfast now. It makes me feel tired and bloated. I don't 'care for it.

Am I the only one who doesn't like to eat breakfast?
Do I really have to include breakfast in my meal plan?

I don't care for cereals, I am not crazy for eggs and I eat fruits as snacks during the day.

Do you exercise? If so do you do it in the morning or evening? Just wondering because lately I've been hating to eat breakfast as well, seems to make me tired but I prefer to exercise in the morning and not sure if it's a good idea to work out on empty stomach.

What time do you eat lunch usually?

jgnatca

I was firmly encouraged to start with breakfast at the same time every day in my diabetic classes. Are you diabetic? No? Then eat as you please then.

What typically is the first thing you eat in a day?

kshama2001

I make a smoothie in the AM but don't start drinking it until I'm actually hungry.

robininfl

OneTwentyThree wrote: »

MyReflections wrote: »

I know what you are going to say, "It's the most important meal of the day," but I just don't like it. I do eat breakfast at the weekend, but then it's more like a brunch. A mix between lunch and a late breakfast.

I have never eaten breakfast, not as a child and not as an adult. I drink something, either tea or water and I am ready for the day. I am just not hungry before lunchtime.

I feel like I am wasting calories because I make myself eat breakfast now. It makes me feel tired and bloated. I don't 'care for it.

Am I the only one who doesn't like to eat breakfast?
Do I really have to include breakfast in my meal plan?

I don't care for cereals, I am not crazy for eggs and I eat fruits as snacks during the day.

Do you exercise? If so do you do it in the morning or evening? Just wondering because lately I've been hating to eat breakfast as well, seems to make me tired but I prefer to exercise in the morning and not sure if it's a good idea to work out on empty stomach.

What time do you eat lunch usually?

Not the OP but I work out in the morning without eating, it's no problem as long as I eat supper the day before. I do eat breakfast, but it's small and not until hours after working out (I work out at 5:30 AM and eat breakfast around 9:30 AM at work)

xmichaelyx

MyReflections wrote: »

I know what you are going to say, "It's the most important meal of the day,"

I would never say that, because it's ridiculous - something people told their kids 40 years ago that has no basis in science.

Eat what and when you want.

OneTwentyThree

robininfl wrote: »

OneTwentyThree wrote: »

MyReflections wrote: »

I know what you are going to say, "It's the most important meal of the day," but I just don't like it. I do eat breakfast at the weekend, but then it's more like a brunch. A mix between lunch and a late breakfast.

I have never eaten breakfast, not as a child and not as an adult. I drink something, either tea or water and I am ready for the day. I am just not hungry before lunchtime.

I feel like I am wasting calories because I make myself eat breakfast now. It makes me feel tired and bloated. I don't 'care for it.

Am I the only one who doesn't like to eat breakfast?
Do I really have to include breakfast in my meal plan?

I don't care for cereals, I am not crazy for eggs and I eat fruits as snacks during the day.

Do you exercise? If so do you do it in the morning or evening? Just wondering because lately I've been hating to eat breakfast as well, seems to make me tired but I prefer to exercise in the morning and not sure if it's a good idea to work out on empty stomach.

What time do you eat lunch usually?

Not the OP but I work out in the morning without eating, it's no problem as long as I eat supper the day before. I do eat breakfast, but it's small and not until hours after working out (I work out at 5:30 AM and eat breakfast around 9:30 AM at work)

Thanks for sharing! How many calories do you eat for breakfast.. and what are you usually eating?

85Cardinals

It's no crime to skip breakfast. Some of the greatest men and women of history eschewed breakfast. Goethe, for instance. Possibly Joan of Arc too, her visions kept her busy.

TheHappyLoser

OneTwentyThree wrote: »

MyReflections wrote: »

I know what you are going to say, "It's the most important meal of the day," but I just don't like it. I do eat breakfast at the weekend, but then it's more like a brunch. A mix between lunch and a late breakfast.

I have never eaten breakfast, not as a child and not as an adult. I drink something, either tea or water and I am ready for the day. I am just not hungry before lunchtime.

I feel like I am wasting calories because I make myself eat breakfast now. It makes me feel tired and bloated. I don't 'care for it.

Am I the only one who doesn't like to eat breakfast?
Do I really have to include breakfast in my meal plan?

I don't care for cereals, I am not crazy for eggs and I eat fruits as snacks during the day.

Do you exercise? If so do you do it in the morning or evening? Just wondering because lately I've been hating to eat breakfast as well, seems to make me tired but I prefer to exercise in the morning and not sure if it's a good idea to work out on empty stomach.

What time do you eat lunch usually?

I am fat and I am old. I can't exercise the way I am going to exercise in the future just yet. I walk up and down our stairs to an imaginary 9th floor. 12 steps up and 12 steps down. I do that first thing in the morning before I take a shower.

I feel fine without breakfast.

misskarne

If you don't want to eat it, don't. I don't.

TheHappyLoser

OK now you all make me feel older than dirt. I heard that I would have to eat at least 3 times a day, better would be 5 times a day (small portions of course). That would curb on the metabolism. Is that yesterday's news as well?

Is that my generation that came up with, "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day?"

queenliz99

Yesterday's news

TheHappyLoser

jgnatca wrote: »

I was firmly encouraged to start with breakfast at the same time every day in my diabetic classes. Are you diabetic? No? Then eat as you please then.

What typically is the first thing you eat in a day?

I eat lunch. A salad or a lean cuisine dish. A vegetable sandwich, or fish. Fruits as dessert?

No, I am not diabetic. I am fairly healthy besides being overweight and slow as a snail.

jgnatca

@MyReflections I was as sedentary as you and now I run 5K's regularly. I was T2 diabetic but the symptoms are in remission from significant weight loss.

The trick to regaining mobility is persistence and baby steps. Exercise enough to get you puffing every day and as it gets easier, set new goals.

I am fairly confident you are fine starting your day with a salad or a Lean Cuisine. (I am assuming your lean cousins are live and inedible).

ogtmama

Giving up breakfast was the best thing that ever happened to me...enjoy

JeromeBarry1

You can edit your settings to give meals different names.

Christine_72

MyReflections wrote: »

OK now you all make me feel older than dirt. I heard that I would have to eat at least 3 times a day, better would be 5 times a day (small portions of course). That would curb on the metabolism. Is that yesterday's news as well?

Is that my generation that came up with, "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day?"

I think it was kellogs who coined that phrase

BTW I don't eat breakfast either.

ogtmama

The cereal that was literally invented to stop kids from the evils of self-pleasure? Lol

jgnatca

Indeed, @eveandqsmom

"In 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the superintendent of The Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan and an Adventist, used these recipes as part of a strict vegetarian regimen for his patients, which also included no alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine. The diet he imposed consisted entirely of bland foods. A follower of Sylvester Graham, the inventor of graham crackers and graham bread, Kellogg believed that spicy or sweet foods would increase passions.[2]

This idea for corn flakes began by accident when Kellogg and his younger brother, Will Keith Kellogg, left some cooked wheat to sit while they attended to some pressing matters at the sanitarium."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_flakes