Mid-morning hunger

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  • hiawathaperez
    hiawathaperez Posts: 71 Member
    I ration caloires to allow for an Adkins....160 or half of a Muscle Milk 110.
    Both are low carb with Atkins being the lowest.

    That'll hold you till lunch.

    Lisa
  • Martucha123
    Martucha123 Posts: 1,089 Member
    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.

    this,
    eating breakfast first thing in the morning can actually increase hunger, you might want to try delay your breakfast to 10 am, or skip it completly. Once I started skipping, I stoped being hungry, before I was starwing around 11 am (I had breakfast at 8, lunch at 14)
  • Martucha123
    Martucha123 Posts: 1,089 Member
    I totally agree with the breakfast skippers. My calories and hunger are much better controlled with this approach.

    If you look at some of the leanest people on the site, many are breakfast-skippers and/or intermittent fasters (not me yet, but I hope to be among them soon!).

    You have to do what works best for you and your body.
    http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html

    oh and this, I was looking for this link :)
  • XaviAvant
    XaviAvant Posts: 20 Member
    Usually I have to force myself to eat something, because I know if I don't eat when I get off work (I don't eat lunch at work btw) I'm gonna be REALLY hungry throughout the day no matter what I eat. Usually a bowl of cereal or a PB&J on Double-fiber wheat holds me until dinnertime.
  • mama2mila
    mama2mila Posts: 92
    I break up my meals as well, but when I drink a green monster smoothie, I can usually stave off eating until lunch! Its 2-3 cups fresh baby spinach, 1 frozen banana - sliced into chunks, 1 Tbsp natural peanut butter, 1 Tbsp ground flax, 1/2 cup vanilla nonfat greek yogurt, 1/2-1 cup unsweetened almond milk. Seriously delicious, filling, and lots of protein. I have one 2-3 times/week!
  • Sidesteal
    Sidesteal Posts: 5,510 Member
    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 understand. But this doesn't mean what you've read is correct.
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/529025-a-compilation-on-meal-frequency


    The above is referenced with external links and studies, please take a look and then view the sites it maps to.
  • LowcarbNY
    LowcarbNY Posts: 546 Member
    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.

    The best way I found to make it all the way to lunch (or further) is to not eat breakfast at all. When I ate breakfast I was digging into my lunch bag by 10am. Now I just have black coffee.

    I follow Fast-5. There ARE physiological reasons why eating leads to more hunger and not eating leads to less.
    Reading the overview and/or the booklet at www.fast-5,com explains a lot, even if you don't decide to do any form of IF at least you will understand what is driving your hunger.
  • LowcarbNY
    LowcarbNY Posts: 546 Member

    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."

    WDR you could expand your reading list. That breakfast is the most important meal of the day is "brought to you by the good folks at Kellogg's" and their friends in the food industry.
  • Iceman1800
    Iceman1800 Posts: 476
    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....
    there is zero scientific evidence that says you need to eat breakfast. Total daily calories throughout the day is what matters, timing of them is not important
  • MelanieAG05
    MelanieAG05 Posts: 359 Member
    bump to read later as I have the same problem regardless of how much breakfast I eat!
  • drmikej1008
    drmikej1008 Posts: 3
    For my breakfast today, I had 2 Chobani Black cherry yogurt cups, and 1 1/2 cups of black cherries, plus 8 oz of cranberry juice cocktail, and a glass of water. I did not get the mid-morning munchies due to the amount of protein in the non-fat yogurt. If I had, I would have had a small piece of fruit and some water.

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