Breakfast made me fail. What do I do?

kshama2001

Tashlovesfood wrote: »

I've had a very slow weight loss despite being on 1200-1300 per week for the past 3 weeks. Quite a few people recommended that I have breakfast as it will help speed up my metabolism and get me burning fat. I tried eating a healthy breakfast of oats and chia seeds with a little bit of rice milk this morning. However since then I've had constant craving that I have not been able to resist. I've just been starving all day long and it has ended in a binge, which I haven't done for 3 weeks of not eating breakfast. I think it's because my meals have been so small that I haven't felt satisfied. Whereas one bigger meal would have left me feeling more satisfied. Do any of you have any tips?

Since everyone else has the breakfast issue covered, I will say that I'd easily lose over a pound a week on 1200-1300 calories per day. How tall are you and how many pounds do you want to lose total? How many pounds have you lost these past three weeks - maybe the problem is with your expectations?

There are mistakes that people commonly make that cause them to not lose weight that we might be able to spot if you change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

cheryldumais

I'm on 1350 calories and am losing at a rate of .5 per week. If you are a smaller person you won't have a huge deficit. When I type in that I want to lose 2 pounds a week it gives me 1200 calories only because it won't recommend below that for a woman but I won't lose 2 pounds at 1200.

Alidecker

I have been told to eat breakfast within a half hour to an hour of waking up, If I do that I want to eat all morning until lunch. I wake up at 6am and I don't eat breakfast until 9:30 usually. It works better for me. Then I can make it to lunch without eating everything in site.

Luna3386

Find out what works for you and then do it. A good idea would also look into if that meal would ever hold you over regardless of timing. Personally, plain oats at any time of day would hold me over for... about 10 seconds.

I have to eat breakfast but I always choose a meal with lots of protein, carbs and fats because that makes me satiated.

Alatariel75

Good news. There is absolutely no need for you to eat breakfast if you don't want it and it doesn't suit your habits. I rarely eat breakfast and have lost just fine when I've stayed in my calories. The speeding up metabolism thing is a myth.

kenyonhaff

At 1200-1300 calories, you are on the very, very low end of what is considered healthy intake of calories. And that is really only recommended if you are tiny and inactive. Which you might be, I do not know. But more often or not, it's a person who is too aggressive in weight loss goals.

I really think the issue may be that you are simply on a diet that is set at a calorie intake level that is difficult to maintain without feeling very very hungry.

As for the "eat breakfast/don't eat breakfast" I think that's really a secondary concern.

WyldHaggis

Try a few things, maybe, like eggs/protein rather than carbs (cereals can be quite a downfall). And if it doesn't work and you do better without breakfast, well, maybe that's just the way for you. Nothing wrong with that.

I used to have a large breakfast, but have learnt I actually need to go with a light one. (I don't like the traditional saying in my home place, 'eat like a king for breakfast, like a prince at lunch, and like a pauper at dinner' -- at 1300 calories / day, the prospect of coming home after 10 hours at the office and having only calories allotment left for a crummy old salad is seriously disheartening.)

BWA468

Tashlovesfood wrote: »

I've had a very slow weight loss despite being on 1200-1300 per week for the past 3 weeks. Quite a few people recommended that I have breakfast as it will help speed up my metabolism and get me burning fat. I tried eating a healthy breakfast of oats and chia seeds with a little bit of rice milk this morning. However since then I've had constant craving that I have not been able to resist. I've just been starving all day long and it has ended in a binge, which I haven't done for 3 weeks of not eating breakfast. I think it's because my meals have been so small that I haven't felt satisfied. Whereas one bigger meal would have left me feeling more satisfied. Do any of you have any tips?

During the week if I eat breakfast I feel no benefit from it at all. I still feel hungry mid morning at work so 250 or so calories for breakfast is a waste of calories IMO (I'd rather have chocolate at the end of the day). It doesnt make me feel better, curb cravings or fill me up. Some people need to eat breakfast for whatever reason and even prefer to have it as their main meal but each to their own. It wont speed up your metabolism or burn extra fat

Edit: During the work day I snack throughout and then have a 400ish calorie lunch, and about 600-700 calorie dinner. I dont feel deprived. On weekends I HAVE breakfast (cause I like the taste of it) and it keeps me full until mid afternoon so I tend to struggle eating my calories on weekends. Eating breakfast during the week leaves me starving about an hour or 2 later which is odd that it has the opposite affect on the weekend (blame my boring job)...

Just work out a good eating pattern that works for you

phaliamfp

I cannot eat breakfast first thing. It makes me nauseous and then I end up starving all day. I have to wait at least an hour before I eat, I usually try to wait longer. Edited to add that in your shoes I would either try a later breakfast, or go back to skipping breakfast altogether.

Tashlovesfood

kshama2001 wrote: »

Tashlovesfood wrote: »

I've had a very slow weight loss despite being on 1200-1300 per week for the past 3 weeks. Quite a few people recommended that I have breakfast as it will help speed up my metabolism and get me burning fat. I tried eating a healthy breakfast of oats and chia seeds with a little bit of rice milk this morning. However since then I've had constant craving that I have not been able to resist. I've just been starving all day long and it has ended in a binge, which I haven't done for 3 weeks of not eating breakfast. I think it's because my meals have been so small that I haven't felt satisfied. Whereas one bigger meal would have left me feeling more satisfied. Do any of you have any tips?

Since everyone else has the breakfast issue covered, I will say that I'd easily lose over a pound a week on 1200-1300 calories per day. How tall are you and how many pounds do you want to lose total? How many pounds have you lost these past three weeks - maybe the problem is with your expectations?

There are mistakes that people commonly make that cause them to not lose weight that we might be able to spot if you change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

I wish that were the case but I have around 70-80 pounds to lose. I'm 28 years old, female and weigh 210 pounds. In 3 weeks of eating at 1200 -1300 per day I've lost 2 pounds.

DamieBird

Tashlovesfood wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

Tashlovesfood wrote: »

I've had a very slow weight loss despite being on 1200-1300 per week for the past 3 weeks. Quite a few people recommended that I have breakfast as it will help speed up my metabolism and get me burning fat. I tried eating a healthy breakfast of oats and chia seeds with a little bit of rice milk this morning. However since then I've had constant craving that I have not been able to resist. I've just been starving all day long and it has ended in a binge, which I haven't done for 3 weeks of not eating breakfast. I think it's because my meals have been so small that I haven't felt satisfied. Whereas one bigger meal would have left me feeling more satisfied. Do any of you have any tips?

Since everyone else has the breakfast issue covered, I will say that I'd easily lose over a pound a week on 1200-1300 calories per day. How tall are you and how many pounds do you want to lose total? How many pounds have you lost these past three weeks - maybe the problem is with your expectations?

There are mistakes that people commonly make that cause them to not lose weight that we might be able to spot if you change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

I wish that were the case but I have around 70-80 pounds to lose. I'm 28 years old, female and weigh 210 pounds. In 3 weeks of eating at 1200 -1300 per day I've lost 2 pounds.

Are you measuring your intake correctly using a food scale? If you aren't sure that you're eating 1200-1300 calories a day, the problem is in your intake, not breakfast.

12-1300 calories a day at your weight should be enough to lose 1-2lbs/wk depending on your activity level. 3 weeks is a tricky timeline for females. We get lots of hormonal fluctuations and it's not uncommon to put on water weight around ovulation and again at TOM. Less than a month is really too short of a time to see if ANY habit is effecting your weight loss. Edit to clarify: water weight could be masking a much larger fat loss on the scale. Give it 6 weeks and see what your weight loss really is.

As others have said - eat breakfast/ don't eat breakfast based solely on how it makes YOU feel. Satiety is a very individual thing, and no one approach is going to work for everyone. That being said, I think the breakfast question isn't really what you should be considering at this point. It seems like the bigger consideration is measuring intake and expectations.