How Long After You Wake Is Your First Meal Breakfast?

a59feline
a59feline Posts: 11
in Health and Weight Loss
I know that breakfast is important, but I love to lounge in the morning and enjoy my coffee(s) and cigarettes (sorry). I’m up between 6-7 a.m. but usually don’t have my first meal until 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Ya think I can consider that breakfast....or am I just kidding myself?
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  • uwdawg07
    uwdawg07 Posts: 372 Member
    I eat as soon as I wake up - I'm always starving! The longest I can make it is an hour. I think I read you should eat within an hour of waking...but I can't remember where I read that. Sorry!
  • LottieLou13
    LottieLou13 Posts: 574 Member
    I'm up at 7am every morning and have my first meal at 12pm.

    You can call if breakfast if you like....you are breaking the fast.
  • ellenxmariex3
    ellenxmariex3 Posts: 165 Member
    As long as it's my first meal of the day, I call it breakfast.

    Personally, I eat breakfast within 30 minutes of waking up on weekdays. That timing works for my schedule and I'm always starving when I wake up anyway.

    On weekends, it varies. I sometimes don't eat until what people normally consider lunch time. Mainly because I'm too lazy to get out of bed....
  • LesliePierceRN
    LesliePierceRN Posts: 860 Member
    I'm a runner, and I have to run fasted.. on run days, I get up at 5 am to get the kids off to school and run from 8-9. I'm not actually eating breakfast until 9:30 or so.. almost five hours after I got up. Time is arbitrary.. I'm a midnight shift worker too, so sometimes my first meal (logged as breakfast) is at midnight.
  • cramernh
    cramernh Posts: 3,335 Member
    Within the first 20 minutes of waking, I grab two cups of water and a cup of coffee. I cant eat food otherwise Im just going to vomit it back up... my body does not like eating food after waking up.

    I usually will have a protein-shake after working out because I workout at 4:45am and dont finish until 6:00am. Within 2-3 hours Ill have an actual food item to eat because at that point, Im fully awake and capable of eating solid foods.
  • AGreen54
    AGreen54 Posts: 100 Member
    I eat as soon as I wake up - I'm always starving! The longest I can make it is an hour. I think I read you should eat within an hour of waking...but I can't remember where I read that. Sorry!

    I do the exact same thing
  • eduardoschoen
    eduardoschoen Posts: 56
    Right after I pee and wash my hands. :)
  • Lyra89
    Lyra89 Posts: 674 Member
    Upon waking, I have a tall glass of water, followed by breakfast & another tall glass + a green or black tea, sometimes a coffee. All within the first hour of waking up. I've read over and over that this is best for the metabolism + fat loss, & I've lost 50lbs doing this, now on the last 10!
  • skylark94
    skylark94 Posts: 2,036 Member
    I do not eat until I am hungry. Sometimes that's 7am, sometimes it's closer to noon. The only time I will consume calories even when I'm not hungry is for a protein shake after my morning workout.
  • aholly70
    aholly70 Posts: 577 Member
    I eat between 10:30 and 12:00 i never was a breakfast person even when i was young,i might on weekends when i make a huge breakfast but that's not till 10:00 or so.
  • mrsmerrithew
    mrsmerrithew Posts: 74 Member
    I'm up at 7am every morning and have my first meal at 12pm.

    You can call if breakfast if you like....you are breaking the fast.

    What she said.

    As long as you aren't skipping breakfast to eliminate calories, then I don't think it matters. A days worth of calories is a days worth, whether you start your first meal at 7 am or 11am or 1 pm.
  • mcpjan
    mcpjan Posts: 76 Member
    I get up before 5 AM everyday, but I don't eat for at least an hour as I take medication that I can't eat for an hour. So I workout during that time with my water. Then most days I eat between 6 AM and 7 AM.
  • fatboy235
    fatboy235 Posts: 147 Member
    I get up at 0515 and eat around 0700.
  • Rain36
    Rain36 Posts: 9 Member
    I'm up at 6:30 but don't have breakfast until I get to work, usually eat around 9.30. I wish I could eat earlier but time just doesn't allow.
  • tnjackso1
    tnjackso1 Posts: 312 Member
    within 30min of getting up...I'm always so hungry when I wake up, but I only have a protein shake then because I'm off to the gym for some insane workout...
  • NINtoTheVoid
    NINtoTheVoid Posts: 31
    Honestly, I'm lucky if I get breakfast because I'm lazy (I'll admit it) and wake up only 30 minutes before I need to be into work :P

    I'll take my daily cup of coffee to go and if I have time, I'll have a bowl of cereal.

    I usually do make some decent breakfast meals on the weekends though.
  • Cnborro
    Cnborro Posts: 7
    I eat at 6:30. Half hour after i wake, get kids up, clean kitchen and make coffee. Then the kids and i eat breakfast together
  • kit8806
    kit8806 Posts: 222 Member
    I'm usually up around 530-600am. I get ready for work and if I have time, I'll eat before I wake up my daughter (she gets breakfast at school), otherwise I eat when I get to work, but I almost always eat before 8am. I read somewhere, can't remember where, that you should eat within the first 2 hours of waking up or your body can go into "starvation" mode and will store everything it can because it thinks you won't feed it.. I know I feel so much better eating within those first 2 hours, otherwise I get very nauseous! But hey, eating right when you wake up isn't for everyone! I used to just not eat breakfast at all because I felt sick at the thought of food that early!
  • JimFuhrman
    JimFuhrman Posts: 2
    I try to get in 30gms of protein in the first 30 min after waking, Usually a protein shake or muscle milk.
  • jfinnivan
    jfinnivan Posts: 360 Member
    Up at 4:15, drive, working out by 5:15, eat anywhere from 6:30 to 7:00.
  • Bronx_Montgomery
    Bronx_Montgomery Posts: 2,284 Member
    Breakfast is very very important...you need to get something in your stomach in the first 60 mins after you wake up. Its essential
  • ash190489
    ash190489 Posts: 587 Member
    I wake up between 6 - 6:45am and usually have breakfast within the first hour after waking up as I wake up hungry too and usually if I don't eat within that hour I feel really really unwell & ill. :smile:
  • LLEB92
    LLEB92 Posts: 21
    I never want anything when I wake up but I force myself to have something because I read somewhere you don't lose as much weight if you skip breakfast.
  • WendyFitMomCHANGED
    WendyFitMomCHANGED Posts: 311 Member
    I eat within the 1st hour after waking and eat 6 times a day.
  • annabell48
    annabell48 Posts: 42
    Depending. I have heard/read, that you should eat breakfast within the first 30 minutes, as well as eating your breakfast within the first hour after getting up in the morning. Yes, two different time frames, I know. I'm the same way as you, I want to lounge a little bit prior to starting my day.
    I make some lo-cal Blueberry Mini Loaves and try to eat 1 within the first 30 to 60 minute to start fueling my body, get my Wii workout done then finish eating breakfast in beteween finishing up my workouts by doing 30 minutes on the treadmill. That way, I have consumed almost one-quarter of my caloric intake withing the first 4/4 1/2 hours of my day.
  • LottieLou13
    LottieLou13 Posts: 574 Member
    I read somewhere, can't remember where, that you should eat within the first 2 hours of waking up or your body can go into "starvation" mode and will store everything it can because it thinks you won't feed it..

    I'd love to know where you read that because its a load of old tosh. Someone else on this thread has said something similar and can't remember where they read it either....strange.

    However...
    http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html
    http://stronglifts.com/7-reasons-why-you-should-not-eat-breakfast/
    http://www.theiflife.com/why-you-shouldnt-eat-breakfastagain/

    I'm not saying this is correct for everyone. Just if you say something like you should eat within x amount of time from waking up...then please....back it up.

    :smile:
  • Iceman1800
    Iceman1800 Posts: 476
    Breakfast is very very important...you need to get something in your stomach in the first 60 mins after you wake up. Its essential
    absolute bullish*t. Not a single shred of science to back this up
  • MinnesotaManimal
    MinnesotaManimal Posts: 642 Member
    Most days I work out (weights and running) around 6 am and eat my first meal around 12 or 1 pm other days I wait and eat all my calories starting at supper. Works well for me, I enjoy large meals and it has not affected weight/fat loss a bit. Im eating 2500 a day to lose right now so that makes for some awesome dinners :-)
  • jenneal89
    jenneal89 Posts: 243
    I eat within an hour of waking to get my metabolism going for the day.
  • cramernh
    cramernh Posts: 3,335 Member
    Breakfast is very very important...you need to get something in your stomach in the first 60 mins after you wake up. Its essential
    absolute bullish*t. Not a single shred of science to back this up

    Sorry but with that way of thinking, you would need to come over to my place and help me clean up the vomitous mess I leave if I even dare eat anything solid first thing in the morning...

    I also work with physicians for a living.. over 300 of them... and the ones I have direct contact with would greatly differ.

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