Morning eaters- a rare breed?

Mutant13
Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I notice a lot of MFP'ers saying that they save a bunch of calories for their evening meal or midnight snacks.

I'm the opposite. I wake up STARVING and eat a good portion of my calories before noon and am then pretty content to eat lightly for the remainder of the day. Anyone else like me?

NB- this isn't about debating what time you eat. I support the idea that meal timing is not important. I eat a big morning meal be aide that's when Mutant gets her hungry on.
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  • FitBlackChick
    FitBlackChick Posts: 215 Member
    Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day!
  • Jane_1705
    Jane_1705 Posts: 152 Member
    I'm with you on this one.
    I love breakfast and eat at least 400 cals every day for my first meal and I pack it with filling carbs :)
  • Willowana
    Willowana Posts: 493 Member
    I'm never hungry in the morning. I'm happy if I can force down a protein shake. I prefer to eat at noon and beyond. There's been a rare occasion I might actually wake up hungry. I'll eat a little something then, but nothing heavy. The thought of bacon and/or eggs in the morning makes my stomach flip...lol.
  • johnkernmusic
    johnkernmusic Posts: 91 Member
    I used to always eat a big breakfast. However, now I usually save most of my calories for dinner and beyond. I find this works great for late night hangouts/parties.
  • shiplizard
    shiplizard Posts: 20 Member
    Some mornings I'm starving, and it's always hard to say no to Biscuits and Gravy day at work. Other days I'm good on a coffee until lunch time... just a coin toss every day.
  • fitnessbuilding
    fitnessbuilding Posts: 25
    I'm not hungry in morning. I prefer to have more calories in night, because it helps me build muscles easily and quickly.
  • jbutterflye
    jbutterflye Posts: 1,914 Member
    I prefer eating evenings. Mornings just don't satisfy me. I also nibble on afternoons from time to time.
  • smoootka
    smoootka Posts: 67 Member
    I can't eat if it's really early. When I was still at school I never ate before I left home, but I had a sandwich at around 10am and even that wasn't every day. Now, I don't usually eat much before noon, it's fruit for me most of the days, every 2 hours till noon. When I'm on vacations somewhere else that seems to change - I could eat a bull in the morning then!! :laugh:

    I say if you can, go for it, I think it doesn't really matter when in the day you eat as long as it's not too late :)
  • 2013sk
    2013sk Posts: 1,318 Member
    I'm the same as you......i have always been a massive breakfast person!!!!!

    I could easily eat up to 600 calories for breakfast.....hearty oats, nuts, fruit etc.....lunch could be anything from soup/sushi/salad etc.....and a normal dinner!!!!

    Where I have such a big brekkie......I find it gets me til about 1pm, and I hardly graze of crap....ie biscuits/sweets/choc etc throughout the day
  • 2013sk
    2013sk Posts: 1,318 Member
    Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day!

    Snap!!!!!!!! : )
  • _Zardoz_
    _Zardoz_ Posts: 3,987 Member
    I notice a lot of MFP'ers saying that they save a bunch of calories for their evening meal or midnight snacks.

    I'm the opposite. I wake up STARVING and eat a good portion of my calories before noon and am then pretty content to eat lightly for the remainder of the day. Anyone else like me?

    NB- this isn't about debating what time you eat. I support the idea that meal timing is not important. I eat a big morning meal be aide that's when Mutant gets her hungry on.
    maybe the reason you're so hungry in the morning is you don't eat enough in the evening. Personally I think if you're as hungry as you say you are in the morning something is not quite right. For me I find spreading my calories pretty evenly means I'm never over hungry at any one point. Not debating just my observation.
  • MissMormie
    MissMormie Posts: 359 Member
    I cannot do anything without breakfast. I'll get dizzy cranky and can't concentrate. But I also don't need a very big breakfast, tend to get about 300 (carb heavy) calories in the morning. Which is good, I can then start the rest of my day.
  • shanster23
    shanster23 Posts: 144 Member
    I eat breakfast! Porridge and peanut butter is my favourite, delicious! That said though if I wake up and I'm not hungry, then I won't eat til later, and it just means that I get to eat a bigger dinner or bigger evening snack :)
  • Mutant13
    Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
    I prefer eating evenings. Mornings just don't satisfy me. I also nibble on afternoons from time to time.

    Heheh
  • cwaters120
    cwaters120 Posts: 354 Member
    I eat a much larger breakfast than any other meal - unless I KNOW I have something going on later that night. Often its just a loaded breakfast shake that ends up around 400 calories because I'm on the run, but I find I function better during the day and sleep easier at night. Since I go to work for 3 am and need to be in bed by 8 pm, my schedule is usually "off" anyway :blushing:
  • Jacqsie
    Jacqsie Posts: 51
    I love my early morning breakfasts! They used to be porridge oats with a piece of fruit and cinnamon but now its a nice bowl of mixed frozen berries, a diced up apple then I mash up two bananas to a lumpy liquid consistency to pour over it because I have this weird thing that I must eat with a spoon in the morning (I have my own favorite spoon and little bowl for my mornings :P) I'm just finished my breaky now and fueled for a nice fruity powered session at the gym :D
  • aalpass
    aalpass Posts: 124 Member
    I see so many dairies with their first entry at lunch. What the?! Ive consumed usually almost 1000 calories by then! Couldnt live without a decent breakie, morning tea, and lunch.
  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    If I'm hungry I eat it.

    If I'm not I don't.
  • sexymuffintop
    sexymuffintop Posts: 636
    If I'm hungry I eat it.

    If I'm not I don't.

    I've heard you love to eat it in the mornings...:wink:
  • MissFuchsia
    MissFuchsia Posts: 523 Member
    I'm usually hungry in the morning. I normally have a protein shake after my workout. Then after my shower I'll have a cheese omelette. When I get ino work I have a 2nd breakfast. Usually porridge or cottage cheese with nuts.
  • Xiaolongbao
    Xiaolongbao Posts: 854 Member
    I'm like you.

    Eat breakfast and then eat pretty much all day (I usually have around 800 to 900 calories in the day time, not counting breakfast). Dinner is often something small, fairly regularly toast. I never have a problem wanting to eat loads in the evening (although sometimes I choose to, like tonight because I'm going out).

    Works for me.
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,797 Member
    Oohh yes, 300 cal breakfast is delicious, muesli with loads of fruit. I count an extra 100 cals for the semi skimmed milk I consume in the day in UK tea. I love, love love my cuppas. But I do have to save 200 cals for a later night snack or I can't sleep. 200 cals does it, stewed fruit and a spoonful of homemade yoghourt. Cooking my own rhubarb for tonight. Yum!
  • rudarbe
    rudarbe Posts: 164 Member
    Interesting, because you're right now that you bring it up. All I do is drink my protein shake and on very rare occasions (when I'm really dying of starvation) I'll eat some fruit. Other than that I always like to have more calories during the night for some reason because I'm paranoid I might go over. I usually have a snacking problem at night -_-
  • carrietehbear
    carrietehbear Posts: 384 Member
    I've never been a big morning eater. My mother used to fight with in the morning over eating. I also used to gag eating right after I got up. Now I wake up hungry but I still can't eat a whole lot first thing so I split it into breakfast and then a morning snack a couple hours later.
  • nexangelus
    nexangelus Posts: 2,080 Member
    I eat brekkie anywhere between 7 a.m. and 12 noon. Depends on work schedule, shifts and days off (weekend). Times vary. Some days I do not feel hungry until lunchtime though, so eat then...other days I eat 500 cals just before sleepy time...I don't have a fixed eating schedule, although I do like to fit it all in. : )
  • ScottishMrs
    ScottishMrs Posts: 254 Member
    I eat when I'm hungry; that's the only constant in my eating schedule. I often don't eat breakfast though because I like to sleep in until the last possible minute before I have to leave (I stay up late so that I get to see my husband when he gets off of work). I'm not sure if it's a + or a - that my relationship outweighs my eating habits in the grand scheme of things. We do eat a meal late at night when he gets home though, so that pretty much replaces those cals I didn't get at breakfast.
  • notworthstalking
    notworthstalking Posts: 531 Member
    I always had trouble eating breakfast because I don't like cereals . With my schedule at the moment, I always make sure I eat something. It tends not to be high calorie though. But by the time we get our eldest ready for school and take her , would be really hungry and feeling sick. So I eat something while getting her ready, then after she is sorted I can do my workout or take my youngest out. Then get ready for work. I tend if I have breakfast to not have a snack, but have lunch. Then eat in the car or when I get to work at 2pm. A small meal at 4 ish and dinner at 7 ish. Most of my calories are in the pm.
  • ScottishMrs
    ScottishMrs Posts: 254 Member
    I always had trouble eating breakfast because I don't like cereals . With my schedule at the moment, I always make sure I eat something. It tends not to be high calorie though. But by the time we get our eldest ready for school and take her , would be really hungry and feeling sick. So I eat something while getting her ready, then after she is sorted I can do my workout or take my youngest out. Then get ready for work. I tend if I have breakfast to not have a snack, but have lunch. Then eat in the car or when I get to work at 2pm. A small meal at 4 ish and dinner at 7 ish. Most of my calories are in the pm.

    I also don't like cereals so when I eat breakfast I say screw "breakfast foods". Today I'm having a porkchop and a baked potato for breakfast!
  • HollyHobbitToes
    HollyHobbitToes Posts: 131 Member
    I used to swear by breakfast and made sure it was my biggest meal....would get the bulk of my fibre, protein and iron at that time as well, but lately I've just not felt like eating in the morning...so I get up around 6:30 and have coffee with flax and my vitamins and call it "breakfast", then have a morning snack around 9 which is my ACTUAL breakfast....it's worked out better for me in the long run so I'll probably continue it this way....sometimes I'll have a piece of fruit if I am actually hungry when I get up but that doesn't happen often...
  • durshley
    durshley Posts: 73 Member
    I usually can't even think about food for about an hour after I wake up or I feel kinda queasy. I am not a morning person :P

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