Mid-morning hunger

This may not be what you're looking for, but I generally eat two small breakfasts to get me through, plus drink a bunch of water. Like this morning, I was starving so I ate a greek yogurt before 7am. Then I ate some oatmeal around 9 and I should be good until lunchtime. If I had eaten it all at once, I would have gotten hungry again anyway. But this way I'm not hungry even though I've eaten the same amount of food.

Edit - I also eat lunch around 11 or 11:30, so that helps, since I start my day really early (at work at 6:30).

Anyone else deal with mid-morning hunger? I feel like I could eat a whole meal at 10 AM. Basically, I'd like some people's meals that they really feel like get them all the way to lunch.

My diary is public so feel free to take a look.

Note: Today's breakfast is not typical. I had forgotten my baggy of hard-boiled eggs for the day. :frown:

I pre-plan my meals a week at a time, so look at the other days. I eat the same thing for breakfast every morning.

I seldom have any hunger during the morning since I started skipping breakfast. Hunger signaling is somewhat adaptive to feed patterns.


I'm not suggesting this as a tool for everyone, but for some, it works very well.

Everything I've read says "do not, under any circumstances, even if you are really busy, ever for any reason skip breakfast, because your metabolism will be sluggish all morning and you will snack later on during the day."

I like the strategy for splitting my breakfast into two parts. Eating two very tiny breakfasts instead of one bigger breakfast. Still, I only allow myself 300 calories for breakfast. It's hard to break this down into two breakfasts--maybe 1 egg and piece of fruit at 6, and a greek yogurt at 9....

Jumpstarting metabolism is BS. Your body takes in a certain number of calories, and uses a certain number of calories. You can spread them out, or eat them all at 10pm. The primary difference is what is mentally best for you. You just have to find what you can make a healthy, happy, long-term routine, and stick with it

What has been working for me lately is I wake up and eat some oatmeal with blueberries around 8am. I get to work, work for two hours and then eat a banana. Two hours later I'll have whatever I brought for lunch. Two hours after that I'll have a cheese stick or something similar and then two hours after that, I'm heading home for dinner. :P

Breaking my food up like that has helped me a lot.

I think the whole "DO NOT EVER SKIP BREAKFAST" thing is ridiculous. Eat when you are hungry. For me, if I eat an early breakfast around 6-8am then I am hungry again at 10. But I was never actually hungry that early in the morning anyway. I have 2 cups of coffee around 7am then I just eat my breatfast every morning at 10 at my desk at work. I eat oatmeal (every single day).

I experience this the most on days I work out in the morning or on days when I have to get up really early. For a while I was eating breakfast at six am, and not eating lunch until noon, and then was wondering why I was so hungry. But I then I realized I tend to eat small meals every three or so hours, and so the simple bowl of oatmeal I was eating just couldn't sustain me for six hours. So I started having myself a little mid morning snack, problem solved.

I find it much easier to just eat when I get those cravings rather than starve until lunch and possbily make a bad decision. Pack snacks to bring with you if you can so that you can combat this hunger. Also high protien for your snacks or even your breakfast will keep you fuller, longer.

Start eating 5 small meals a day instead of the the more normally accepted 3 meals a day (I wonder who decided that 3 meals a day is the norm?). Your body will thank you as it is getting nutrition on a more consistent basis and process the food a lot easier.

I have a snack in the moring. Usually it's a 90 calorie greek yogurt but some days it's some Almonds. I have found that if I have little snacks between meals I'm not hungry and if I'm not hungry I don't feel a need to pig out.

Also, drink water, are you sure you're not just thirsty?