Eating breakfast is making me hungrier

RobinSchneid

You hear it everywhere that you should eat breakfast everyday and perhaps even make it your biggest meal. For me I've noticed that if I eat breakfast I'm hungrier all day and I'm hungrier in the mornings as well. Any tips or can you relate?

Another weird thing is that if I just have coffee in the morning I'm fine and not hungry until lunch.

noobletmcnugget

I have the same problem! If I have breakfast then I'm ridiculously hungry by about 11am. If I don't eat lunch then I can be perfectly fine until like 3-4pm...

PS: I don't really see how breakfast supposedly 'kick starts' your metabolism... as if it stops during the night!? Hmmm no. You'd be dead.

momzeeee

The whole 'breakfast is a must' thing is a myth. If you don't want to eat breakfast, then don't eat it I usually break my fast at 11am and that schedule works great for me.

MissDana1105

It gets your metabolism going, which is something we all want when we want to lose weight! I would still suggest eating breakfast, maybe something heavier if you can. Oatmeal, a banana and a protein?

Meg_Shirley_86

The whole 'breakfast is a must' thing is a myth. If you don't want to eat breakfast, then don't eat it I usually break my fast at 11am and that schedule works great for me.

THIS. Absolutely. I am actually hungry for breakfast since I am far along in my pregnancy, so I eat. However, not pregnant Meg is not ever hungry for brekky and is ravenous by 10:30 am if I eat breakfast. No thank you! It doesn't effect your metabolism one way or another, so do what makes sense for you and your nutritional goals.

ali_b83

Breakfast makes me hungry all day. That's why I haven't eaten it in over 6 months. Look into intermittent fasting.

jzammetti

I don't eat breakfast or two reasons:

1. Not hungry
2. makes me hungirer all day (at least it seems to)

Coffee for breakfast works fine for me - the caffeine is a bit of an appetite suppressant, I think, because i feel no hunger at all until sometime around noon (but i also eat late at night).

athenalove46

Eating breakfast IS important and the fact that you're hungry shortly after means you didn't have enough fat/protein with your breakfast or that your metabolism has kicked in and is telling you that it NEEDS food. Food is your friend, not your enemy.

Meg_Shirley_86

It gets your metabolism going, which is something we all want when we want to lose weight! I would still suggest eating breakfast, maybe something heavier if you can. Oatmeal, a banana and a protein?

Respectfully, while that theory is very popular, it has been disproven. I don't have the links to the (scientific) sources offhand, but I know someone on here will!

jzammetti

It gets your metabolism going, which is something we all want when we want to lose weight! I would still suggest eating breakfast, maybe something heavier if you can. Oatmeal, a banana and a protein?

This is patently untrue. The only thing that makes your metabolism faster is increasing lean body mass.

lewcompton

Simple rule if it isn't broke don't fix it... Breakfast works for me... If it doesn't work for you don't try to make it! Own the truth of who you are and how your body works... Figure out what works and what doesn't work for you and keep doing the things that work and adjusting things that don't work.

Stacemace83

bump

TX_Aggie_Dad

I'd be interested to know what the broscience debunkers have to say on the topic. It seems logical that not eating until 3-4pm in the day, everyday (not intermitent fasting) would have a negative impact on metabolism but that could be all broscience for all I know. Personnaly, I know that if I don't start eating early in the day, I'd never get all my calories in as I don't like to eat big meals later in the day.

I do believe that I've read about correlation between being overweight and not eating breakfast. Not sure whether there is causation there or not.

ali_b83

It gets your metabolism going, which is something we all want when we want to lose weight! I would still suggest eating breakfast, maybe something heavier if you can. Oatmeal, a banana and a protein?

EmmaH14

I'm ok if I have a high protein breakfast but if I have cereal or toast I'm hungry again an hour later. I will admit that I'm not hungry when I first wake up but I'm lucky that I stay at home with my young children so I tend to feed them first thing and then eat my breakfast around 9-9.30am and that keeps me going until lunch.

RobinSchneid

Thank you for all the posts and for letting me know that eating breakfast is not so important. What I have been eating the last few days is wheat free toaster waffles with peanut butter and reduced sugar jam. It just makes me want MORE! I know that basically weight loss is calories in, calories out and that I do tend to eat late at night (very difficult not to do). I think really what I want to do is try my best to eat only when I am hungry. Sometimes I am really hungry all day, just gotta take advantage of the days I'm not.

jzammetti

It seems logical that not eating until 3-4pm in the day, everyday (not intermitent fasting) would have a negative impact on metabolism but that could be all broscience for all I know.

Not eating until 3 or 4 every day IS intermittent fasting...

ShaunaMcMac

I don't think breakfast makes me hungrier, but it definitely doesn't make me less hungry. I have a cup of coffee and toast and PB every morning and that will get me through lunch. My best situation is when I eat light and often in the morning, med size lunch, big 3pm snack, then light dinner. You should try different combos to see what works for you ????????

klappeh

I know exactly whst you mean--the same happens to me. I have been doing the 16:8 intermittent fasting (google it). I haven't eaten breakfast in 2 weeks and I'm fine. I wait to eat lunch at 12 and then dinner when i get home from work. That way I don't feel hungry all day and can have larger meals later, which I prefer. Good luck !

Oh also, a tip I've heard works is to put a tablespoon of coconut oil with your coffee in the morning if you drink it--it's supposed to curb hunger.

mdcoug

Have you tried decreasing the amount of carbs you eat and increasing the protein? Not that I'm any better at it, but I do find that breakfast helps me out. I do usually end up eating a mid-morning snack, so breakfast certainly doesn't keep me satisfied until noon.

melmckay99

I wouldn't say that eating breakfast makes me hungrier throughout the day, but I do find that whether I eat it or not, I start to get hungry again around 10:30-11am. This has lead me to start skipping breakfast more often these days since it leaves me with more time in the mornings and also I have one less meal to worry about throughout the day. More time + less stress = happy me!

Andrew_peter

Never hungry in the mornings anyways and would rather have a light lunch and large supper instead anyways. The odd time I eat breakfast I find I just get really hungry too right around 1030-11am.

Meg_Shirley_86

I'd be interested to know what the broscience debunkers have to say on the topic. It seems logical that not eating until 3-4pm in the day, everyday (not intermitent fasting) would have a negative impact on metabolism but that could be all broscience for all I know. Personnaly, I know that if I don't start eating early in the day, I'd never get all my calories in as I don't like to eat big meals later in the day.

I do believe that I've read about correlation between being overweight and not eating breakfast. Not sure whether there is causation there or not.

You are correct that there is correlation. People who don't eat breakfast are often very hungry by lunch and even hungrier by dinner and make unwise food choices. Food timing has been proven to have a negligible effect on your metabolism. Since you don't like to eat much later in the day, and you are probably hungry for breakfast, more power to you. Breakfast is by no means bad. Some of us just can eat a perfectly balanced, healthy breakfast, without added sugar and with plenty of healthy carbs and protein, and still be starving well before lunch. For people like that, it makes it much harder to fit your calorie goals the rest of the day if you are trying to lose, and it isn't worth it for a meal you probably were not hungry for in the first place.

AbsoluteNG

These guys don't eat breakfast and they seem pretty fit. They eat a late lunch and dinner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emImqsdov6s

1BRINKLEY

Me too. So I just don't eat breakfast. Everyone is different. Do what works for you!!

autumnrunning

What?

How can some people say breakfast is not important???

It is the best thing ever!!! Ok, it's your own choice but you don't know what you're missing...

chatogal

I have the same problem! If I have breakfast then I'm ridiculously hungry by about 11am. If I don't eat lunch then I can be perfectly fine until like 3-4pm...

PS: I don't really see how breakfast supposedly 'kick starts' your metabolism... as if it stops during the night!? Hmmm no. You'd be dead.

lol....love your reply...I think people get confused...umm maybe eating breakfast kick starts your gut...but then again so does lunch..and actually (not wanting to be too gross here) a cup of tea kick starts mine just fine

KANGOOJUMPS

nah,

SideSteel

If you prefer skipping breakfast and you're still able to meet you calorie and nutrient needs by the end of the day in doing so, then just skip breakfast.

TX_Aggie_Dad

If you don't eat breakfast, when do you eat pancakes? And bacon? Sounds like a horrible existence. ;-)

EmilyOfTheSun

You'll be find just waiting till lunch if that's when you normally first get hungry. Don't worry too much about meal timing. I usually consume the majority of my calories in the evenings.