Do you skip meals?

OhMsDiva

I don't miss meals because I like to eat. I may not always eat all my allotted calories, but I eat. I do eat within an hour of my workout, because if I don't I feel like I am starving and it keeps me from eating everything in the world. I usually take a nap when I get off work. On the weekends if I wake up at 10:00 pm and I am hungry then I eat. Normally it is nothing heavy so I am fine when I go to sleep.

BusyRaeNOTBusty

Sure. I skip breakfast on purpose most days. I'll often go on a bike ride on my lunch break and then just have a big snack.

But there's nothing wrong with eating right before bed either. Going to bed super hungry sucks.

endlessfall16

I have to skip meals if I expect to eat well in other time. Your body can only take in so much before it balloons up.

kshama2001

I budget calories for a bedtime snack. If I don't, I wake up hungry in the middle of the night and am unable to go back to sleep unless I eat.

spiriteagle99

If I miss a meal because I'm busy, I always end up eating it (or the equivalent number of calories) later. I get hungry.

Sunna_W

Personally, I sleep better if I have something in my stomach. On weekends I may skip breakfast because I am well rested and I'll have a latte (that has a lot of half and half in it -- so that's probably really not skipping anything).

AnvilHead

michaelludgate31

Quite a few responses talk about 'being hungry', but that's just the body being used to the time table we impose on it, and it handling that as best it can "Isn't this the time you usually put a load of stuff in my stomach, let's get some acid ready". Thursday dinner to Sunday dinner is a three day fast, with walking on Saturday for 4 hours. Whilst it was a draining experience and required a little more will power than usual, it wasn't an epic experience of Ethiopian starvation. I'd recommend healthy people to look into intermittent fasting and work up a 2 and 3 day fasts, gives a much better perspective on what your body is able to do and what missing a meal actually means.

AnvilHead

michaelludgate31 wrote: »

I'd recommend healthy people to look into intermittent fasting and work up a 2 and 3 day fasts, gives a much better perspective on what your body is able to do and what missing a meal actually means.

To me, that makes about as much sense as saying I should intentionally shoot myself in the leg to give me a much better perspective on how effectively I'm able to manage pain and what a gunshot wound really means. No thanks.

jenilla1

I eat before bed. Never has bothered me. I guess it's a personal preference thing.

jodietownsend03

I don't eat breakfast I have lunch at 11.30 and dinner at 5pm works for me if I ate in the morning my metabolism kicks in and I'd be so hungry I have super busy mornings at work so no time for hunger pains

Troutsy

I'm a nurse working in a residential setting. One of my guys went out to the hospital last night and I had to go with him. Ended up being in the ER until 2am with no break. I skipped dinner and only had half a protein bar. Sometimes I have to skip with work, but it's rare.

descene

I do, but not if I'm actually hungry. Occasionally I do wake up and all I want is a bowl of multigrain cereal, in which case I will eat breakfast. But I have an abysmal appetite during the early hours, even when I was a kid I wasn't too fond of breakfast and lunch, and being overweight most of my childhood I forced myself to eat breakfast because everyone would tell me skipping meals made me fat but it makes me feel ten times hungrier to eat breakfast strangely. And when I went to college I noticed the same issue but even more obviously, because my classes went until 6pm. When I ate breakfast, I couldn't focus at all because I was so hungry through class, but when I didn't eat before class I could make it to 6pm no problem. Very weird.

Spliner1969

On the weekends I sometimes (if my body will allow it) sleep in until about 9am, then drink coffee and work out by 10am to around 11:30. So I'll eat breakfast after my workout as a brunch. Then we'll usually have a larger dinner at night during the weekends. So in that respect I will skip breakfast or lunch (whichever one you want to consider skipped) on the weekends. If, however I do get up for whatever reason very early on the weekends I keep my schedule the same and don't skip any meals. So it's not necessarily intentional, but it happens on a regular basis for me on the weekends.