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Breakfast....when?

btmixon
btmixon Posts: 55 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I know how important it is to eat breakfast. My question is how soon after waking up should you eat? I mean, if you don't eat your first meal for 3 or more hours after waking, is it still considered breakfast?

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  • evseqvar
    evseqvar Posts: 51 Member
    As soon as you wake up, so your metabolism starts kicking.
  • sweetiepie31612
    sweetiepie31612 Posts: 240 Member
    The sooner the better, but I'd try to eat at least SOMETHING within the first hour after waking up.
  • amaried621
    amaried621 Posts: 260 Member
    I would go based on when you normally eat lunch. If you eat lunch at 12 then I would shoot for 8. I try to eat every 2 hrs. Breakfast around 8, snack at 10, then lunch at 12. It works for me and keeps me from overeating.
  • butterfly_lvr
    butterfly_lvr Posts: 88
    same here; I never used to be a breakfast eater - I would be up for hours before deciding to grab something. Now within an hour of getting up I have a full breakfast and that is a huge accomplishment for me :-)
  • amymeenieminymo
    amymeenieminymo Posts: 2,394 Member
    I know there is a reccommended time period, like within an hour of waking, but you have to go by your individual self as well. If I don't work out in the morning, I do generally eat within an hour of waking because I get up insanely late (wake up at 7, hit the road by 7:30, at my desk by 8 and eat breakfast). But if I work out, I am up at 5:30 but don't end up eating until 8:15 ish.....that's probably too long, but I just don't have time to squeeze in breakfast until I get to work, and it's got to be better than not eating at all.
  • AllyS7
    AllyS7 Posts: 480 Member
    Not sure if it is accurate, but I've seen a lot of eating breakfast within 30 min to an hour of waking up to fuel your metabolism.

    I'd love to hear more information on it though.
  • foxxybrown
    foxxybrown Posts: 838 Member
    Whenever you feel like eating. I wake up at 5:30 and workout but I don't eat until I get to work at 8.
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,171 Member
    I'm the odd one. I've never liked eating breakfast. I'm never hungry in the mornings. Ever since I was a child and would get in trouble for lying to my mom about eating breakfast. I tried for a while, eating breakfast, but it wasn't giving me positive results. I'd be starving still by dinner but with fewer calories to play with. So I just have a coffee in the morning, and I'm set.
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