Coffee is not breakfast.

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  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,564 Member
    Interesting article from Martin Berkhan, creator of Leangains.com

    http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html

    Discuss....
  • Bonny619
    Bonny619 Posts: 311 Member
    ABSOLUTELY. All of that holds true for me. When I eat a "healthy, substantial" breakfast...I ALWAYS end of overeating later in the day. I actually feel pretty damn good when I don't eat until noon or later.
    Interesting article from Martin Berkhan, creator of Leangains.com

    http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html

    Discuss....
  • drmerc
    drmerc Posts: 2,603 Member
    You are totally correct. In an ideal world, breakfast would be your biggest meal of the day, and meals would decrease in size as the day goes on.

    Breakfast jump-starts your metabolism and gets it working, as does eating regularly (snacks and meals spaced out by 3-4 hours).
    You will find this information in practically every diet, fitness, nutrition, etc. book you pick up.

    More than that, a good, healthy, substantive breakfast with plenty of protein sets you on the right track for success later on in the day. Countless studies have shown that people who eat breakfast are less likely to binge later in the day and are likely to lose more weight. You do not do yourself any good by cutting calories in the morning and saving them for dinner, when your body needs them less.

    I used to have whimpy 150-cal breakfasts when I first started. I did this in order to save up calories for later in the day, because that's when I was always hungrier (I was never that hungry in the morning, so I figured why "waste" calories then?). Something along the lines of 1/2 a cup of cheerios and 3/4 a cup of nonfat milk. I always went over my calorie count and constantly snacked throughout the day. I was also really tired in the morning.


    A few months ago, I started eating more for breakfast...I have about a 300-calorie breakfast: a banana with either a big bowl of oatmeal (with pecans) or a bowl of cereal. I feel less hungry at night and during dinner. I actually am less hungry in the evening and more hungry in the morning...I guess this is something along the lines of "form follows function" :P.

    To sum it up, stick to breakfast. It is the most important meal of the day, and studies continue to show overwhelming amounts of evidence that it is linked to good health and weight loss. Your body needs fuel most in the morning and burns it up quicker than in the evening :)

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  • ToughTulip
    ToughTulip Posts: 1,118 Member
    ABSOLUTELY. All of that holds true for me. When I eat a "healthy, substantial" breakfast...I ALWAYS end of overeating later in the day. I actually feel pretty damn good when I don't eat until noon or later.
    Interesting article from Martin Berkhan, creator of Leangains.com

    http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html

    Discuss....

    That's me too. I am more productive in my morning hours, and can have much bigger meals later.
  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,564 Member
    ABSOLUTELY. All of that holds true for me. When I eat a "healthy, substantial" breakfast...I ALWAYS end of overeating later in the day. I actually feel pretty damn good when I don't eat until noon or later.
    Interesting article from Martin Berkhan, creator of Leangains.com

    http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html

    Discuss....

    That's me too. I am more productive in my morning hours, and can have much bigger meals later.

    Welcome back sexy *****!
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  • weighlossforbaby
    weighlossforbaby Posts: 847 Member
    I don't think coffee is food so it's not breakfast.
  • mrskatie80
    mrskatie80 Posts: 133 Member
    Interesting article from Martin Berkhan, creator of Leangains.com

    http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html

    Discuss....

    Amen.
    That's all :drinker:
  • DollyMiel
    DollyMiel Posts: 377 Member
    If I eat after getting up, I feel like puking. I eat when I'm hungry. Time doesn't matter.

    That said, I don't think coffee is an adequate meal at any time of the day.
  • mustgetmuscles1
    mustgetmuscles1 Posts: 3,346 Member
    My first meal of the day is around 2pm. You can call it breakfast if you want. Has zero effect on my "metabolism".
  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,564 Member
    I don't think coffee is food so it's not breakfast.

    Cheapest supplement available!
    Well...unless you go to supplement stores like Starbucks....
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  • Laddiegirl
    Laddiegirl Posts: 382 Member
    I had to train myself to eat breakfast (I was rarely hungry when I woke up prior to that) and I found that I had so much more energy for the start of my day and at my current job I wake up at 7am and am lucky if I get my lunch break at 3 or 3:30, without breakfast by then I'd be starving and would definitely overeat. Eating breakfast definitely works for me.

    I'm not sure how her morning coffee works with her lack of weight loss, like others suggested she might be snacking more than she thinks or eating a lot more at lunch/dinner because she's hungry.
  • ang3h
    ang3h Posts: 185 Member
    Coffee is breakfast when it's in a protein shake! Well, breakfast for me :)
  • dreamsofescaping
    dreamsofescaping Posts: 206 Member
    I am speaking from personal experience. It started in jr. high I stopped eating breakfast and lunch and would only eat supper after high school coffee was my breakfast and lunch for years until very recently when I started on MFP. My pals would tell me eat breakfast and so not alot (I am still working on this) but I would eat something even if it was little then one morning about 3-4 weeks ago I woke up and my first thought was not coffee but "I am hungry!" I couldn't wait to eat breakfast, then the same thing started happening with lunch I was STARVING by the time my break comes around at work. You know what has happened in the last month months I have dropped around 8 pounds I think because now my body is no longer in "starvation mode" it knows I am going to feed it something that is since july 2 and technically it is more because I gained 5 back on my vacation and had to lose what I had already lost. EAT!!! She needs to eat. The bottom line to my success the past few months (24-28 pounds because I wasn't really tracking at first) is 2 simple things diet, and exercise.
  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
    I will hardly every have breakfast, never have the time to get it done. Coffee yes, but for me its a green coffee so it's actually good for me.

    Coffee is NOT breakfast though
  • Need2bfit918
    Need2bfit918 Posts: 133 Member
    I rarely eat breakfast before 10 or 11 and i only eat 2 meals a day. Now that I removed the sugar and grains from my diet Im also never very hungry . The reason all the books and magazines want you to eat constantly is because they are peddling supplements, nutrition bars, and protein drinks.
  • clobercow
    clobercow Posts: 337 Member
    I got into a rather heated conversation (if you will) with a coworker who continues to complain about not being able to lose weight. I asked her to tell me what she eats during the day and the first thing I noticed was that she didn't eat breakfast. But debated with me about the fact that coffee is a perfectly acceptable breakfast and that would be enough to "jump start" her metabolism.

    So, wondering what MFP's thoughts are on breakfast? Yay? Nay?


    Meal frequency generally doesn't matter and when you eat even less so.

    That metabolism thing you said is a myth.
  • Pepper2185
    Pepper2185 Posts: 994 Member
    If what she's currently doing isn't working for her, she should stop complaining about it and find a solution.

    I say YAY breakfast - I know it works for me.
  • TheVimFuego
    TheVimFuego Posts: 2,412 Member
    I'm not hungry until about 11am, coffee and heavy cream starts my day.

    If I have a latte I count it as a meal.

    Fair enough, I don't even log my copious cream, I've just got to the point where I know what works for me.

    I don't log alcohol or exercise either, I'm just doing it Zen style ;)

    I may as well forget the food logging come to this ... I don't quite trust myself yet though ;)
  • magj0y
    magj0y Posts: 1,911 Member



    I don't log alcohol or exercise either, I'm just doing it Zen style ;)

    I may as well forget the food logging come to this ... I don't quite trust myself yet though ;)

    haha, love some zen. I have read several threads and what I am hearing is 'everybody is different' 10th grade I ate a can of (cheap) chicken noodle soup after school and whatever was on the table at dinner. rarely lunch or breakfast. I did just fine. I was in top shape and running several mi. a week plus the 2 mi walk to/from school.

    When I was very very underweight, less than 100lbs at 5'8, It didn't matter how much food I ate, I could barely gain a pound. I was eating 3 meals (including breakfast) a dzn donuts and a high protein snack every day. I still don't like donuts too much.

    It wasn't until I was eating a mostly healthy diet, (rarely breakfast) and less stress did I gain weight. Didn't notice til 3 days before the wedding when I went to pick up the dress. could barely breath!

    Some people perform better on a keto diet (not one I could do!) some people perform with more calories. We're not robots with the same design. I think it's a personal journey you can share with others, but every journey can be vastly different than others.

    I was checking out my military friend one sunday who started working out every day for the last six months. (I used to do weight training, so I like to check out how is definition is coming and the evenness of it) And wow, one week I noticed his biceps were noticeably different, bigger, more defined. "Yeah mags, finally figured out if I curl a specific way, my biceps improve better" we're not cookies cutters, inside and out and we can't expect results if we treat ourselves as such. It's so damned funny watching him "show off his guns" hahaha
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
    My whole milk lattes count as breakfast
  • Joannie30
    Joannie30 Posts: 415 Member
    I have to admit, i'm guilty of this one. I don't tend to eat breakfast- not because i think it will help me lose weight, but just because i really don't seem able to face food of any sort until at least 11am. I get up at 7am every day and as soon as i get up I MUST have a coffee with a small amount of semi-skimmed milk. If i don't, i find it hard to function (also, i enjoy it)

    I understand both sides of this debate. Breakfast is important whether trying to lose weight or not, but personally, i feel sick if i even think about eating first thing, though i do give it a try sometimes.
  • ishallnotwant
    ishallnotwant Posts: 1,210 Member
    Coffee is totally breakfast. I have my coffee in the morning and usually don't eat solid food for at least 2 hours after I get up...often I don't have my "breakfast" until noon. Most of the time I just don't have an appetite in the early morning.

    The problem I used to have is that I wouldn't eat much during the day and then in the late afternoon/evening i'd go to town on food. Perhaps that is one of the problems your friend is having. If she isn't losing, point her to MFP and tell her to start logging her foods and counting her calories. It doesn't really matter *when* she eats, it's the amount she is eating that is probably the problem. Tell her to get out and get some activity, too, if she doesn't work out on a daily basis-it might help her "jump start" things.
  • sandiki
    sandiki Posts: 454
    The he'll it ain't. Ha
    It is for me.
  • epmck11
    epmck11 Posts: 159 Member
    I'm not that big of a guy and I've lost like 20lbs in the last few months by drinking coffee first thing in the morning and then not eating until 2-4pm or so. If only I ate breakfast to "jump start my metabolism" I could've lost 40lbs!

    Or, there's no such thing as jump starting your metabolism and eating breakfast is irrelevant as long as you consume the same amount of calories.
  • deviantcupcake
    deviantcupcake Posts: 136 Member
    I have difficulty eating or drinking anything first thing.
    I've usually been up for about an hour before I'll have a drink (generally water or coffee), and it's a while after that before I can face food without feeling nauseous.

    I love food, but I see little point in forcing myself to eat when I don't want to because it doesn't satisfy me and an hour or so later I'll go looking for something else to eat so I can enjoy that. I just end up eating twice as much.

    Whatever works best for you as an individual, I suppose.
  • Sister_Someone
    Sister_Someone Posts: 567 Member
    I feel horrible if I eat in the morning. I've tried every single suggestion or advice I've ever got, and didn't like any of them one bit. A few months go I've decided to simply stop eating in the morning because it makes me feel sick, period. It's rather simple - I love food, but I don't enjoy it first thing in the morning. Since I already have only so much calories to work with, no point in wasting them on food I don't enjoy.
  • bubmaster
    bubmaster Posts: 90
    each to their own :smile:
  • vintagesquirrel
    vintagesquirrel Posts: 190
    Coffee is a perfectly acceptable breakfast. I haven't eaten breakfast in years. Only drank it in some form or another.
  • SugarNtheRaw
    SugarNtheRaw Posts: 191 Member
    Breakfast is the most important (And my favorite) meal of the day. I grew up with my Grandparents, who were old school, and breakfast was always a big to-do. I rarely remember eating cereal until I was in my teens years, and by that time I told Nana (Papa had passed away by this time) that she didn't have to stand in front of a hot stove, and that I'd just eat Cheerios. :heart: breakfast, and Nana still kicks *kitten* :happy:
  • mikejacobs1958
    mikejacobs1958 Posts: 128
    For most of my life, I haven't eaten breakfast, normally up early for a run then off to work, but I do have some fruit before lunch time.

    Admittedly once a month I will treat myself to a huge fry up, consisting of all the "bad" things..... bacon, eggs, sauasage & beans etc around Brunch time.

    Black coffee and water keeps me going !

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