Do you like it in the morning?

jay_mcknight

Originally saw this in Mens Health;

Vanilla Whey Protein 22.5 g (1 scoop)
Plain (Non-Fat) Greek Organic Yogurt 150 g
California Walnuts, 1/4 cup (50 g)
Frozen unsweetened Blueberries (unthawed) 1 cup
Vanilla extract, 1 tbsp
Banana - Medium
Pomegranate Juice 300 ml (6 oz)

701 calories (59 carbs, 19 fat, 53 protein)

Since I freeze the peeled bananas before hand, the whole thing takes 2minutes to make. I find it easier to drink my breakfast then eat it. Plus it tastes awesome.

ki4yxo

Considering I wake up STARVING nearly every morning, I'm always amazed by people who don't need/want to eat until lunchtime. I would be dead on the floor with the most god-awful headache by 9:00 if I didn't eat a little something in the morning. For me it's shredded wheat bites with skim milk and a glass of juice with my vitamin. I do love breakfast food for dinner, though - pancakes, turkey bacon, eggs. Mmmm.

I didn't eat my first meal until 5:00 PM today. Was waiting on
someone to look at my motorcycle I had listed on Craigslist,
by the time it was all over with I was starving!

I'm gald I drank my low sodium V8 in the morning! Like someone
else posted, I usually eat twice a day with small snacks here
and there. Then again, I don't usually eat dinner until midnight.
Maybe that's why I'm not starving in the morning. LOL

firesoforion

I'm rarely hungry in the morning, but I was eating anyway because of this whole metabolism thing. Recently I've started intermittent fasting, though, and that has me eating all my food in a 6-8 hour time frame per day. For me, that doesn't include the morning.

bushidowoman

Food, that is!

I've often heard people say that skipping breakfast isn't good for your metabolism. Contradicting that, for me and for many others, is the belief that you should only eat when you're hungry. So, what if I'm just not hungry in the morning? What if I don't feel the slightest pang of hunger until closer to lunch time? If I don't eat until I am actually hungry, am I messing up my metabolism? What if my body just prefers to eat later in the day and I'd rather save up my calories to satisfy what my body is communicating to me? Is anyone else struggeling with this? Should I force myself to eat when I'm not hungey only to make myself not eat when I am? That just doesn't make any sense to me....

Thanks, in advance, for your input.

I also am not hungry in the mornings, and I've skipped breakfast most of my life. I've always read/heard the same thing about how it's not good to skip breakfast, and I finally decided to give it a shot. I now eat a boiled egg and either a piece of whole wheat toast or an orange pretty much every morning before my workout (something light and simple that I don't have to think too much about). I dunno if that is what has made the difference in my weight loss success or not, but it hasn't hurt me any.

ConnieM20

I like it anytime

Amen.

Pohudet

I like to eat a breakfast. If it is small, under 3oo cal, I am fine. If I eat more, everything gets skewed.

I dont like to eat snacks between meals, I feel much better if I do without them. So even if there is a lot of advice along the lines of "eat more often, eat small healthy snacks between meal", I feel I am better off without them.
ISo, if I felt like, no, I don't want breakfast, I would not eat it.
You lucky girl! You coulkd just eat a controlled calorie dinner, and that would be all! That would make it much easier to lose weight, based on my own experience.
Good luck to you! Follow what your body tells you.

Skinny100

Look into intermittent fasting. It might work for you. I've personally noticed that I eat waaay more throughout the day when I have breakfast and it's just not worth it for me. I gained weight when I started forcing myself to eat breakfast. It seems to trigger me to eat more all day for some reason.

Daydreams406

I was just reading about this today....I have been skipping my breakfast lately, because I am not hungry. I am just not a breakfast person. I was thinking in terms of what has been around for soooo long, that breakfast is the most important meal of the day....that in order to lose weight you can't skip breakfast...blah blah blah....I just don't feel like eating breakfast most mornings.
I think I am ok skipping breakfast. I still get my calories in for the day so I don't see what the problem would be.

jay_mcknight

This topic highlights a serious problem in society. The phenomenon for which people tend to be irrational even when confronted with proof. If the consensus says that breakfast is important for reaching and maintaining a health BMI and yet people refuse to accept it because of their own ill-informed bias (I assume because of ones inability to accept ones own fallibility). I understand you may not eat breakfast and "think I am ok skipping breakfast" it does not take away from the fact that you are wrong. Rather than listen to random people's testimony who have no authority read up on the scientific research and make an informed opinion.

Here are 17 studies showing why it is important to eat breakfast:

http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v57/n7/abs/1601618a.html
http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v57/n7/abs/1601618a.html
http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/yjada/article/S0002-8223(05)00151-3/abstract
http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/yjada/article/0002-8223(93)91527-W/abstract
http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/9565828/reload=0;jsessionid=UZnakzZpsD9yfL6XtadG.2
http://www.jacn.org/content/5/6/551.short
http://www.ajcn.org/content/67/4/748S.short
http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v10/n2/abs/oby200213a.html
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/143/10/1234
http://www.ajcn.org/content/67/4/804S.short
http://www.ajcn.org/content/49/4/646.short
http://www.ajcn.org/content/67/4/772S.short
http://www.jacn.org/content/22/4/296.short
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/030105119290032P
http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v57/n7/abs/1601618a.html
http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v27/n10/abs/0802402a.html
http://www.ajcn.org/content/55/3/645.short

Dr. Seuss
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

Sheila1968

I didn't eat my first meal until 5:00 PM today. Was waiting on
someone to look at my motorcycle I had listed on Craigslist,
by the time it was all over with I was starving!

I'm gald I drank my low sodium V8 in the morning! Like someone
else posted, I usually eat twice a day with small snacks here
and there. Then again, I don't usually eat dinner until midnight.
Maybe that's why I'm not starving in the morning. LOL
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Well, eating dinner at midnight certainly puts you in a different position than I am in, which is eating dinner at 7:00. For me, after 12 hours with no food, I am READY for breakfast! That said, I do better eating smaller amounts all day. 7:00 breakfast, 10:00 snack, 12:30 lunch, 3:00 snack, 5:30 snack, 7:00 dinner. And I do keep to my 1500 calories or less, before everyone jumps on me. I just function better with a steady blood sugar level, I guess.

seoid

Eating breakfast tends to make me more hungry throughout the day...so I try and avoid it.

ki4yxo

Well, eating dinner at midnight certainly puts you in a different position than I am in, which is eating dinner at 7:00. For me, after 12 hours with no food, I am READY for breakfast! That said, I do better eating smaller amounts all day. 7:00 breakfast, 10:00 snack, 12:30 lunch, 3:00 snack, 5:30 snack, 7:00 dinner. And I do keep to my 1500 calories or less, before everyone jumps on me. I just function better with a steady blood sugar level, I guess.

Don't get me wrong, by that time I was ready to
pounce on anybody like a bear addicted to crack!
I was starving, and the blood sugar was a little
low.

I can be a breakfast person, as long as it involves
biscuits and sauage gravy, with eggs, and hash browns!
Unfortunately, I'm now stuck eating a salad with vinegar for
dinner. :laugh: I like breakfast, but the foods I eat are full
of cholesterol, and sodium.

I just try and limit myself, and it seems to work. I'll stick with
a low sodium V8, and my Omega-3 fish oil horse tablet.

KXanthos

This topic highlights a serious problem in society. The phenomenon for which people tend to be irrational even when confronted with proof. If the consensus says that breakfast is important for reaching and maintaining a health BMI and yet people refuse to accept it because of their own ill-informed bias (I assume because of ones inability to accept ones own fallibility). I understand you may not eat breakfast and "think I am ok skipping breakfast" it does not take away from the fact that you are wrong. Rather than listen to random people's testimony who have no authority read up on the scientific research and make an informed opinion.

Here are 17 studies showing why it is important to eat breakfast:

http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v57/n7/abs/1601618a.html
http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v57/n7/abs/1601618a.html
http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/yjada/article/S0002-8223(05)00151-3/abstract
http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/yjada/article/0002-8223(93)91527-W/abstract
http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/9565828/reload=0;jsessionid=UZnakzZpsD9yfL6XtadG.2
http://www.jacn.org/content/5/6/551.short
http://www.ajcn.org/content/67/4/748S.short
http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v10/n2/abs/oby200213a.html
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/143/10/1234
http://www.ajcn.org/content/67/4/804S.short
http://www.ajcn.org/content/49/4/646.short
http://www.ajcn.org/content/67/4/772S.short
http://www.jacn.org/content/22/4/296.short
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/030105119290032P
http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v57/n7/abs/1601618a.html
http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v27/n10/abs/0802402a.html
http://www.ajcn.org/content/55/3/645.short

Dr. Seuss
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

One of my favorite quotes! Thanks for the links.

onequirkygirl

Yes.

drewbird911

For me if I skip breakfast then I eat badly/Crave all day. If I'm not hungry when I wake up it means I'm eating too much the night before. I Try not to eat after 7:00 or 8:00

UponThisRock

Short term fasting (<48 hours) increases metabolic rate:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2405717

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10837292

I am not sure what you are trying to advocate with these links. Both are talking about 48hrs - 84hrs starvation. Neither even mentions breakfast. Both are irrelevant to this discussion.

Eating breakfast has a direct correlation to a healthy BMI and cognitive function.

References:
http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v57/n7/abs/1601618a.html
http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v57/n7/abs/1601618a.html
http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/yjada/article/S0002-8223%2805%2900151-3/abstract
http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/yjada/article/0002-8223%2893%2991527-W/abstract
http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/9565828/reload=0;jsessionid=UZnakzZpsD9yfL6XtadG.2
http://www.jacn.org/content/5/6/551.short
http://www.ajcn.org/content/67/4/748S.short
http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v10/n2/abs/oby200213a.html
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/143/10/1234
http://www.ajcn.org/content/67/4/804S.short
http://www.ajcn.org/content/49/4/646.short
http://www.ajcn.org/content/67/4/772S.short
http://www.jacn.org/content/22/4/296.short
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/030105119290032P
http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v57/n7/abs/1601618a.html
http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v27/n10/abs/0802402a.html
http://www.ajcn.org/content/55/3/645.short

Correlation does not equal causation.

My point in posting the studies that I did was to illustrate the point that if people can fast for 48 hours and not see a metablic slowdown (actually a slight increase), then surely going without food for a few hours in the morning is not going to slow your metabolism down.