I'm ditching breakfast...

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  • brosis85
    brosis85 Posts: 114 Member
    I love breakfast! I wake up at 430 in the morning... and am not usually home from work until six at night ... in bed by 1030.

    I was a religious breakfast eater, before and after my workouts ... and then when I got to work. The challenge was by 10 I was ready to eat my arm off ... again! So I would be almost through my calories by lunch time and have not much left for the rest of the day.

    Started intermittent fasting and now I dont eat until 1130 on weekdays and have one to two fast days a week and have noticed I have more energy and solid workouts! Plus I get to eat a bit larger meals at lunch and supper keeping me satisfied longer!

    Everyone is different! No harm testing things out to see what works for you and what doesnt!
  • ilex70
    ilex70 Posts: 727 Member
    Just another no breakfast here...or late at least. Coffee in the morning until around 10 or so, then a whey protein shake. After that eat about every 2 hours small amounts. If I eat first thing, even the protein shake, it kicks off my hunger sooner and it is harder to make it to the end of the day.
  • FitnessLover001
    FitnessLover001 Posts: 188 Member
    I actually have found it better for me to eat a HUGE calorie breakfast and small lunches and dinners. For breakfast before I workout I eat two slices of toast with pb and a banana, and then after I workout, I drink a protein shake.. It adds up to about 770 calories.

    For lunch and dinner, they are usually about 350 calories give or take.

    I have seen a great amount of progress by doing this!
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,989 Member
    It's preferential. Personally I skip it.


    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness industry for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
  • ardorrequiem
    ardorrequiem Posts: 70
    It's preferential. Personally I skip it.


    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness industry for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

    As someone who has studied nutrition, is it really ok to skip? I often feel icky first thing in the am and I'm not super keen on breaky...
  • ardorrequiem
    ardorrequiem Posts: 70
    I actually have found it better for me to eat a HUGE calorie breakfast and small lunches and dinners. For breakfast before I workout I eat two slices of toast with pb and a banana, and then after I workout, I drink a protein shake.. It adds up to about 770 calories.

    For lunch and dinner, they are usually about 350 calories give or take.

    I have seen a great amount of progress by doing this!

    do you find that eating like that before a workout gives you cramps, or do you wait? If yes, how do you deal with that?
  • FitnessLover001
    FitnessLover001 Posts: 188 Member
    I actually have found it better for me to eat a HUGE calorie breakfast and small lunches and dinners. For breakfast before I workout I eat two slices of toast with pb and a banana, and then after I workout, I drink a protein shake.. It adds up to about 770 calories.

    For lunch and dinner, they are usually about 350 calories give or take.

    I have seen a great amount of progress by doing this!

    do you find that eating like that before a workout gives you cramps, or do you wait? If yes, how do you deal with that?

    I wait about 45 minutes before I go workout! I haven't had cramps. I let the food settle before I go! I used to not eat breakfast before I went, but I felt fatigued. Now I feel better and more energized when I eat something before, and then after I come back and finish breakfast off with my protein shake
  • GretaGirl8
    GretaGirl8 Posts: 274 Member
    part of my problem is that I am one of those people who donate money to the gym each month. yes, donate...meaning I don't ever go! I haven't made the commitment to get off my butt and exercise. I have a million excuses...from the ever so popular "i'm too busy" to the more sympathetic "i am too self-conscious." so...

    my goals for may:
    gym twice a week--minimum of 30 minutes (baby steps here);
    cut breakfast (at least see how it goes);
    cut out the soy in my tea when I order;
    log everything.

    next month...perhaps I tackle weighing of food.

    thank you to all for your input. it has been helpful.
  • midwestspitfire
    midwestspitfire Posts: 46 Member
    OP, just out of curiosity, how many calories are you typically netting per day?
  • GretaGirl8
    GretaGirl8 Posts: 274 Member
    OP, just out of curiosity, how many calories are you typically netting per day?

    well, there remains some ambiguity on this point right now. I thought I was netting no more than 1200, but with more accurate logging and weighing versus measuring of foods...I am probably eating anywhere from 400-800 calories more a day. I just don't know. I didn't realize the weighing of food was such a significant difference from measuring food based on the nutritional label serving size. also, my liberal use of milk in my tea, lots of sugarless (not calorie free) gum wasn't being logged entirely accurately (though I didn't completely ignore those calories). I guess once I get my act together we will see just how much I am consuming per day. I may be in for a rude awakening.
  • FitnessLover001
    FitnessLover001 Posts: 188 Member
    part of my problem is that I am one of those people who donate money to the gym each month. yes, donate...meaning I don't ever go! I haven't made the commitment to get off my butt and exercise. I have a million excuses...from the ever so popular "i'm too busy" to the more sympathetic "i am too self-conscious." so...

    my goals for may:
    gym twice a week--minimum of 30 minutes (baby steps here);
    cut breakfast (at least see how it goes);
    cut out the soy in my tea when I order;
    log everything.

    next month...perhaps I tackle weighing of food.

    thank you to all for your input. it has been helpful.

    Do you have a weight scale? That will definitely help you in knowing your exact calorie intake.
    But you are doing a great job by taking baby steps and cutting out in certain areas, every little bit counts!

    As for the gym, if you don't like it, you don't have to go! The roads are free, and you can run/walk all day with no closing time! Find a certain exercise you actually enjoy doing, and that may motivate you a little more!
  • steve2kay
    steve2kay Posts: 194 Member
    I skip breakfast most of the time - I only used to eat it because I thought I should but I find I'm starving by lunchtime if I do, then I eat loads at lunchtime. I also find if I have a high protein breakfast I don't enjoy cycling to work so much and so sometimes I don't cycle.
    So eating breakfast costs me probably 300 calories, + 400 I don't burn by cycling, + 100 more at lunch than I'd normally eat.

    I don't miss it.

    Having said that I haven't noticed 800 calories a day worth of weight loss because:
    1) I've only been doing it a few weeks
    2) I look at all my calories left at about 6pm and decide to eat rubbish.
  • 2013sk
    2013sk Posts: 1,318 Member
    You gained weight because you were eating more than you were burning.

    If you like eating breakfast, then start logging your food and make it fit into your day.

    I am on an IS plan... It's called Intermittent Snacking... yes, I just made it up (well, it's new to me).

    I snack on little stuff almost hourly, and try to make it so that I have about 1000 left by supper time. (I eat 2000 in a day).
    This is because I love late night IS. LOVE IT. LOOOOOOOOVE IT. And if I don't have enough calories to allow me to ISAN (IS at night), then I will go over.

    I often exercise so I can eat more. Yep. That's me.


    TLDR: Find what works for you. And log your food. The End


    eta... 2000/day PLUS exercise cals... I can easily put back over 3000 a day when my exercise supports it. :smile:

    ^^^^^^^^^ I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I LOVE NIGHT TIME EATING TOO : )

    I might start doing little snacks throughout the day, I am going to try it, and save more for later, I also do some good exercise burns too (Excuse the past week)

    OP - I don't know how you can sleep for say 7/8 hours a night, then wake up, have NO breakfast then only eat at lunch time and so on! I personally love breakfast, and its fuel me for me day - If I haven't had my porridge & peanut butter fix... MY OH MY.... I am one B##CH all morning ....

    I SAY EAT BREAKFAST : )
  • danagisana
    danagisana Posts: 43 Member
    Breakfast makes me hungrier. Especially if I eat something like oatmeal.
    So I am in my mid-40s and I have experimented with every type of eating plan, and now I am at the point where I will eat it if I am hungry and not eat it if I am not. Food as fuel
  • skylark94
    skylark94 Posts: 2,036 Member
    If I'm hungry in the morning, I eat breakfast. If I'm not hungry, I don't. I like to keep it simple.
  • 12by311
    12by311 Posts: 1,716 Member
    It's preferential. Personally I skip it.


    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness industry for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

    As someone who has studied nutrition, is it really ok to skip? I often feel icky first thing in the am and I'm not super keen on breaky...

    It's fine. That's why he said it's preferential. "They" used to say "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" and not to eat before bed. It doesn't matter what time you consume your calories for weightloss or maintaining, as long as it works for you. Personally I do not eat breakfast, I eat a small lunch, have a small snack, then eat a bunch of calories between the time of 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
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  • lili61
    lili61 Posts: 231 Member
    I don't typically eat breakfast because I do feel hungrier faster and feel easily nauseated in the morning (not pregnant--always been like this!). Sometimes I will eat it on weekends. I prefer to eat two big meals--lunch and dinner--with a small afternoon and nightly snack. If you don't want to eat breakfast, don't eat breakfast, but if you were still eating at a deficit, eating breakfast shouldn't have caused a gain.
  • scolloby
    scolloby Posts: 22 Member
    Like a couple of the other respondents, breakfast is my favourite meal of the day - the fruit, yoghurt, nuts and seeds - I always feel like i'm staying in a hotel when I just sit and enjoy it. Without breakfast I am lethargic,I get headaches, I'm not intellectually functioning on all cylinders. I haven't been conditioned by modern society (whenever that began), I just need and want food following the fasting period of the night before and the food I have lasts me through to lunhctime admirably. When I eat the more commercial cereals, I'm hungry by 10.30, but my cornacopia of fruits, etc, or alternatively porridge, fills me up just fine. So it comes down to what ever works for you, listen to your body.

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