For those that skip breakfast...
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In Spain most people have just coffee for breakfast, and then we have a mid-morning break where we eat something - usually a small sandwich-, because we have lunch very late. I still remember the first time I went abroad and explained it to my host family (whose daughter was coming to my house later on); they looked at me as if I came from Mars, and then told me that was soooooooooo unhealthy. No breakfast! Lunch at 3 o'clock! It got to a point when I feared they wouldn't allow their child to come to my house, just in case she died from starvation ;-)
But you guys have late dinners too.
Still curious about what time people go to work/school over there when they end up having dinner after my bedtime, lol.5 -
I'm an ad major and the history behind 'breakfast' is so fascinating. Through a lot of history, eating as soon as you woke up was a sign of gluttony and considered a vice.
But through genius advertising, breakfast came to be so important to America with very little scientific study and a buttload of ambitious marketing. lol7 -
firefoxxie wrote: »The only thing that annoys me about people saying they skip breakfast is it's impossible to skip breakfast unless they don't eat at all that day. Breakfast is simply the first meal of the day, be it as soon as you get out of bed or 5 hours later. What people actually mean is they don't eat as soon as they get up, or they don't eat what is considered a breakfast meal.
While this is the true definition of breakfast, I don't believe society holds it to this definition. It's like an unspoken acknowledgement that breakfast has the definition of "A meal eaten in the morning."
Be annoyed or not..this is what the majority of society thinks.
Thankfully I'm not a sheep and don't always think what society says I should.
That is a wonderful thing.
However, it's not about following the majority. It's about being aware of and understanding how the majority thinks.
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In Spain most people have just coffee for breakfast, and then we have a mid-morning break where we eat something - usually a small sandwich-, because we have lunch very late. I still remember the first time I went abroad and explained it to my host family (whose daughter was coming to my house later on); they looked at me as if I came from Mars, and then told me that was soooooooooo unhealthy. No breakfast! Lunch at 3 o'clock! It got to a point when I feared they wouldn't allow their child to come to my house, just in case she died from starvation ;-)
But you guys have late dinners too.
Still curious about what time people go to work/school over there when they end up having dinner after my bedtime, lol.
I work in a high school, and classes start at 8. Most people start working between 8 and 9. Then there are two main timetables: in one of them you work until about 3, and eat your lunch later, and in the other you have a lunch break at about 1:30-2 and then you go back to work. The problem is that this lunch break is usually very long (in some places they don't go back until 5 in the afternoon), because most people go home for lunch, so they finish work quite late in the afternoon (around 7). Most business close at 7, some shops at 8, and big chains and supermarkets are open until 9:30-10. Most families have dinner around 9:30.1 -
In Spain most people have just coffee for breakfast, and then we have a mid-morning break where we eat something - usually a small sandwich-, because we have lunch very late. I still remember the first time I went abroad and explained it to my host family (whose daughter was coming to my house later on); they looked at me as if I came from Mars, and then told me that was soooooooooo unhealthy. No breakfast! Lunch at 3 o'clock! It got to a point when I feared they wouldn't allow their child to come to my house, just in case she died from starvation ;-)
But you guys have late dinners too.
Still curious about what time people go to work/school over there when they end up having dinner after my bedtime, lol.
I work in a high school, and classes start at 8. Most people start working between 8 and 9. Then there are two main timetables: in one of them you work until about 3, and eat your lunch later, and in the other you have a lunch break at about 1:30-2 and then you go back to work. The problem is that this lunch break is usually very long (in some places they don't go back until 5 in the afternoon), because most people go home for lunch, so they finish work quite late in the afternoon (around 7). Most business close at 7, some shops at 8, and big chains and supermarkets are open until 9:30-10. Most families have dinner around 9:30.
When do you sleep? Lol. Serious question. Do people just nap during their lunch break?2 -
My breakfast is normally a handful of sunflower seeds, but I love breakfast foods. I will eat eggs anytime lunch or dinner. But when I get to the gym at 5am I really can’t stomach food and I’m never hungry when I get home.1
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I rarely eat “breakfast”. I do fasting morning workouts with BCAA’s. Then I usually have a protein shake about 4 hours after getting up and then “lunch” 3 hours after that.0
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day ..... if it means you are the sort of person who will overeat during the day without it.
Breakfast is the least important meal of the day for those that find they overeat if they have it.
I really wish people would realise that there is no one size fits all. What works well for me will not work well for others. Meal timing and meal frequency are largely irrelevant except for satiety.10 -
I know crazy, I have more than enough energy to do my workout on an empty stomach in the morning as well the point about eating breakfast will make you less hungry during the day...ummmm...never worked for me.
Same for me. When I eat breakfast early in the morining I can't stop eating all day long. I'm usually fine without breakfast for a 2-4 hours after I wake up, and I'm less hungry those days...4 -
I don't think whether I eat breakfast or not has ever really come up too much with anyone other than my RD when I was seeing one. Admittedly, i'm not doing IF anymore (I have a protein shake in the morning and afternoon in addition to my normal evening eating).0
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I used to be all about eating a bigger breakfast. But that was when I rarely ate anything after supper the night before. Now I have a coffee when I get up and I don't feel hungry for about an hour and a half later. Then I usually only eat a boiled egg.
Then I have a bit of lunch, a bigger supper and more snacks in the evening. I like to have lots of calorie room left for after supper.
Some days I don't even really eat meals, just snacks all day long. Except yesterday...I ate ice cream for lunch.☺☺☺5 -
For the longest time, I bought into the whole "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" hype. I would actually force myself to eat first thing in the morning, even when I wasn't the slightest bit hungry.
Once I realized how ludicrous it was to eat food when I wasn't actually hungry, I simply stopped doing that. I also found that the first food of the day (regardless of when consumed) seems to wake up my internal "Feed me!" monster, which can then nag me for the rest of the day.
In the morning, I have my coffee, vitamins and supplements. I find I don't usually get genuinely hungry until at least noon. Skipping breakfast allows me to have a good lunch and dinner, plus a few snacks and treats, and stay within my calorie budget for the day.6 -
who knows. I don't eat breakfast first thing in the morning because eating so quick after waking up makes me want to barf. I tend to eat a small snack around 10/1030 at my desk, so I guess that would be my breakfast.0
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I don't skip breakfast so much as I eat it at 1:00 pm instead of when I wake up at 6:00 am 3
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I tend to just have a snack in the morning because I'd rather sleep in then have to wake up and prepare something for myself. I'm also generally not that hungry in the morning and a simple snack suffices.0
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I've always been told it is good because it jump starts your metabolism, I don't know how true that is, but there are several doctors that have told me that. I can't eat very early in the morning without feeling gross, so I do a quick protein shake.7
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ashxtasticness wrote: »I've always been told it is good because it jump starts your metabolism, I don't know how true that is, but there are several doctors that have told me that. I can't eat very early in the morning without feeling gross, so I do a quick protein shake.
Not true at all. You can't "kickstart" your metabolism. You can't do much of anything to affect your metabolism (except in extreme cases or medical issues). Your metabolism is what it is.7 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »For the longest time, I bought into the whole "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" hype. I would actually force myself to eat first thing in the morning, even when I wasn't the slightest bit hungry.
Once I realized how ludicrous it was to eat food when I wasn't actually hungry, I simply stopped doing that. I also found that the first food of the day (regardless of when consumed) seems to wake up my internal "Feed me!" monster, which can then nag me for the rest of the day.
In the morning, I have my coffee, vitamins and supplements. I find I don't usually get genuinely hungry until at least noon. Skipping breakfast allows me to have a good lunch and dinner, plus a few snacks and treats, and stay within my calorie budget for the day.
It's one of the reasons I force myself to eat breakfast sometimes... vitamins and some medicine on empty stomach do not agree with me.3 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »For the longest time, I bought into the whole "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" hype. I would actually force myself to eat first thing in the morning, even when I wasn't the slightest bit hungry.
Once I realized how ludicrous it was to eat food when I wasn't actually hungry, I simply stopped doing that. I also found that the first food of the day (regardless of when consumed) seems to wake up my internal "Feed me!" monster, which can then nag me for the rest of the day.
In the morning, I have my coffee, vitamins and supplements. I find I don't usually get genuinely hungry until at least noon. Skipping breakfast allows me to have a good lunch and dinner, plus a few snacks and treats, and stay within my calorie budget for the day.
It's one of the reasons I force myself to eat breakfast sometimes... vitamins and some medicine on empty stomach do not agree with me.
I divide my supplements into "take with food" and "take on an empty stomach" according to what it says on the bottle.1 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »For the longest time, I bought into the whole "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" hype. I would actually force myself to eat first thing in the morning, even when I wasn't the slightest bit hungry.
Once I realized how ludicrous it was to eat food when I wasn't actually hungry, I simply stopped doing that. I also found that the first food of the day (regardless of when consumed) seems to wake up my internal "Feed me!" monster, which can then nag me for the rest of the day.
In the morning, I have my coffee, vitamins and supplements. I find I don't usually get genuinely hungry until at least noon. Skipping breakfast allows me to have a good lunch and dinner, plus a few snacks and treats, and stay within my calorie budget for the day.
It's one of the reasons I force myself to eat breakfast sometimes... vitamins and some medicine on empty stomach do not agree with me.
This is why I take my vitamins at bedtime.0 -
Breakfast is kinda relative too. I'd say that as long as it's Before 10am, it counts as breakfast. Now I dunno about other people, but I know that when I wake up, I usually feel kinda bloated. And that puts me off eating until it's got time to settle. So I don't really eat until after 9am. And by then I usually think to myself, if I can hold off for like 2 hours, I can have a big early lunch. And that usually works for me. It'd be different if I worked out in the mornings though, then I'd have at least some fruit afterwards. No need to get low blood sugar.0
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Not sure. I only eat when I'm hungry. Sometimes after I get up, I don't get hungry til 11am. No reason to force feed myself.1
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In Spain most people have just coffee for breakfast, and then we have a mid-morning break where we eat something - usually a small sandwich-, because we have lunch very late. I still remember the first time I went abroad and explained it to my host family (whose daughter was coming to my house later on); they looked at me as if I came from Mars, and then told me that was soooooooooo unhealthy. No breakfast! Lunch at 3 o'clock! It got to a point when I feared they wouldn't allow their child to come to my house, just in case she died from starvation ;-)
But you guys have late dinners too.
Still curious about what time people go to work/school over there when they end up having dinner after my bedtime, lol.
I work in a high school, and classes start at 8. Most people start working between 8 and 9. Then there are two main timetables: in one of them you work until about 3, and eat your lunch later, and in the other you have a lunch break at about 1:30-2 and then you go back to work. The problem is that this lunch break is usually very long (in some places they don't go back until 5 in the afternoon), because most people go home for lunch, so they finish work quite late in the afternoon (around 7). Most business close at 7, some shops at 8, and big chains and supermarkets are open until 9:30-10. Most families have dinner around 9:30.
When do you sleep? Lol. Serious question. Do people just nap during their lunch break?
I go to bed early, at about 10:30-11. And yes, I have a little nap after lunch, about half an hour makes you feel great. Many people do, especially in summer.0 -
In Spain most people have just coffee for breakfast, and then we have a mid-morning break where we eat something - usually a small sandwich-, because we have lunch very late. I still remember the first time I went abroad and explained it to my host family (whose daughter was coming to my house later on); they looked at me as if I came from Mars, and then told me that was soooooooooo unhealthy. No breakfast! Lunch at 3 o'clock! It got to a point when I feared they wouldn't allow their child to come to my house, just in case she died from starvation ;-)
But you guys have late dinners too.
Still curious about what time people go to work/school over there when they end up having dinner after my bedtime, lol.
I work in a high school, and classes start at 8. Most people start working between 8 and 9. Then there are two main timetables: in one of them you work until about 3, and eat your lunch later, and in the other you have a lunch break at about 1:30-2 and then you go back to work. The problem is that this lunch break is usually very long (in some places they don't go back until 5 in the afternoon), because most people go home for lunch, so they finish work quite late in the afternoon (around 7). Most business close at 7, some shops at 8, and big chains and supermarkets are open until 9:30-10. Most families have dinner around 9:30.
When do you sleep? Lol. Serious question. Do people just nap during their lunch break?
I go to bed early, at about 10:30-11. And yes, I have a little nap after lunch, about half an hour makes you feel great. Many people do, especially in summer.
What is considered going to bed late?
(Asks the person who is in bed by 8:00 p.m. and up at 3:45 a.m.)
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ashxtasticness wrote: »I've always been told it is good because it jump starts your metabolism, I don't know how true that is, but there are several doctors that have told me that. I can't eat very early in the morning without feeling gross, so I do a quick protein shake.
Your metabolism doesn't need jump-starting. It works 24/7. If it didn't, you'd be dead.
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In Spain most people have just coffee for breakfast, and then we have a mid-morning break where we eat something - usually a small sandwich-, because we have lunch very late. I still remember the first time I went abroad and explained it to my host family (whose daughter was coming to my house later on); they looked at me as if I came from Mars, and then told me that was soooooooooo unhealthy. No breakfast! Lunch at 3 o'clock! It got to a point when I feared they wouldn't allow their child to come to my house, just in case she died from starvation ;-)
But you guys have late dinners too.
Still curious about what time people go to work/school over there when they end up having dinner after my bedtime, lol.
I work in a high school, and classes start at 8. Most people start working between 8 and 9. Then there are two main timetables: in one of them you work until about 3, and eat your lunch later, and in the other you have a lunch break at about 1:30-2 and then you go back to work. The problem is that this lunch break is usually very long (in some places they don't go back until 5 in the afternoon), because most people go home for lunch, so they finish work quite late in the afternoon (around 7). Most business close at 7, some shops at 8, and big chains and supermarkets are open until 9:30-10. Most families have dinner around 9:30.
That's it. I want to move to Spain.2 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »For the longest time, I bought into the whole "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" hype. I would actually force myself to eat first thing in the morning, even when I wasn't the slightest bit hungry.
Once I realized how ludicrous it was to eat food when I wasn't actually hungry, I simply stopped doing that. I also found that the first food of the day (regardless of when consumed) seems to wake up my internal "Feed me!" monster, which can then nag me for the rest of the day.
In the morning, I have my coffee, vitamins and supplements. I find I don't usually get genuinely hungry until at least noon. Skipping breakfast allows me to have a good lunch and dinner, plus a few snacks and treats, and stay within my calorie budget for the day.
It's one of the reasons I force myself to eat breakfast sometimes... vitamins and some medicine on empty stomach do not agree with me.
This is why I take my vitamins at bedtime.
My mother was told by some unknown "they" you should take vitamins at night so that by the time you wake up they'll be digested and already at work in your body. I'm not inclined to believe this theory.
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While I understand that breakfast can be an important meal for many, it isn't for some of us. I am not a breakfast eater, either. I have always worked evenings and I get home after midnight and by the time I do a few things and get to bed and to sleep, it's a sure thing I am going to sleep in until 9-10. I will get up and have coffee, then go about showering and getting ready for the day. Then I will prepare a normal lunch. If one is not hungry, there is no point in eating just to satisfy the clock. On special days or if I am up very early, I will likely eat a small breakfast that will include protein and some fruit. Don't let anyone tell you how to manage if you are comfortable with skipping breakfast. If you are skipping it and then eating breakfast or protein bars instead, it might not be the healthiest thing.0
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I like this thread! I personally have found over many years, that regardless if I eat “breakfast” or not, I’m still really hungry at 10:30 am. Like clockwork. I wake up daily at 5 am and sometimes eat a bowl of cereal, or something more substantial with my kids... but I’ve found that I’m still hungry at 10:30 when I do that, so lately I’ve been purposely skipping it instead of eating based on convenience (aka when I’m not pressed for time) in the morning. I just have a natural clock and have to plan to have a healthy meal available to me at 10:30 to avoid scrounging and eating junk food!1
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quiksylver296 wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »For the longest time, I bought into the whole "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" hype. I would actually force myself to eat first thing in the morning, even when I wasn't the slightest bit hungry.
Once I realized how ludicrous it was to eat food when I wasn't actually hungry, I simply stopped doing that. I also found that the first food of the day (regardless of when consumed) seems to wake up my internal "Feed me!" monster, which can then nag me for the rest of the day.
In the morning, I have my coffee, vitamins and supplements. I find I don't usually get genuinely hungry until at least noon. Skipping breakfast allows me to have a good lunch and dinner, plus a few snacks and treats, and stay within my calorie budget for the day.
It's one of the reasons I force myself to eat breakfast sometimes... vitamins and some medicine on empty stomach do not agree with me.
This is why I take my vitamins at bedtime.
The main issue is for Advil or throat lozenges when I'm getting sick. Sometimes there's no 'just wait until later to take it' option, lol.0
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