Not eating Breakfast??? Over 50 please.

Jemmuno

When I have time I'll make myself breakfast usually something quick, like a bowl of cereal or a bagel with hummus, but since its the end of the school year and oober crazy I usually just make a chai tea. I'll by soy milk and oregon chai and heat that up really quick put it in my mug and go. I find this gives me just as much energy as a cup of coffee and it has more protein and doesn't leave you tired after a few hours.

as for lunch if I'm really busy I'll just have another chai tea, if I have time, I make a morning star veggie burger or spicy black bean burger with a whole grain bun, and some chips and salsa, a salad, a banana, an apple, or some combinations of these.

Then for dinner I usually eat a lot a big of anything, because by then I usually still have 1000 calories to eat so I'm not too picky about it and I don't go to bed till like 4 or 5 hours after I eat dinner and it hasn't affected my weight loss. I still consistently lose about a pound a week. I also drink a lot of water through out the day.

tikikris

No offense, but I'll be 65 next month, and I've reinvented myself a couple of times since I turned 50 including going back to graduate school to get an MS in clinical psych at the age of 53. If you choose to believe that change is more difficult when you get older, well, that's your choice and it will be your reality, but it's not fate written in the stars or a "life rule" or anything like that. I guess I missed the Old Fogies Manual they hand out when you turn 50. When I was attending a job search group at a local community agency a couple of years ago, the advice given included getting retraining and a number of guys in their 50s said they wouldn't or couldn't do that because of their age. They didn't seem to see that it was their choice to believe this, nothing more.

Bravo!:happy:

FaithHopeBELIEVE

The thing is, breakfast is an important meal for a reason. Ideally, to lose weight, you need your metabolism CONSTANTLY going. And what makes your metabolism move? Food.
You have to think of your body as a car. If there's no gas, is it going to go anywhere? And if there's a little in, it'll stop in the middle of the road somewhere!

When it comes down to it, if you really want to lose some weight, you need to eat multiple small meals and snacks a day. You need to fuel your body to lose weight becuase right now it seems to be running on little to nothing.

I would suggest getting meal replacement bars so that instead of sitting down and cooking or taking time to put together some cereal, you can just take that and a bottle of water on the go.

But in the end, you really need to want this for it to change. You can do it!

You DO NOT need to eat multiple small meals a day to lose weight. This is still one of the biggest myths in the fitness world.

Thankyou!!! :drinker:

summalovaable

The thing is, breakfast is an important meal for a reason. Ideally, to lose weight, you need your metabolism CONSTANTLY going. And what makes your metabolism move? Food.
You have to think of your body as a car. If there's no gas, is it going to go anywhere? And if there's a little in, it'll stop in the middle of the road somewhere!

If your body is a car, you must waste a lot of time in the day filling up your vehicle. I'm a fan of filling up all at once and waiting until it runs low. In terms of weight loss, i believe thats called intermittent fasting. Which many people have had success with.

Personally, I experiment with what works for me. And so far thats been eat when I'm hungry stop when I'm not. Its worked well so far

Inebriated

I rarely eat breakfast because I'm generally just not hungry before 11 or noon and I haven't had any problems losing weight. I agree with the poster who said eat when you are hungry.

This. I lost 57lbs without eating breakfast.