Breakfast

How do you feel about smoothies? Do you have enough time in the morning to prepare? I have used Slim-Fast quite successfully as a meal replacement. I buy the dried version and mixed it up with unsweetened almond milk, banana and other good things. Then I throw it in a travel mug and head out into the world!

I'm about to head to bed, but tomorrow I can post my fav smoothie recipes for you if you like on my blog.

LMK

There are a lot of people who will tell you it doesn't matter if you don't eat breakfast.

Personally, I start the day with a coffee with cream and sugar. That's enough to get me going. Once my kids have gone to school I usually do my workout and then eat a real breakfast after. Sometimes my first real meal isn't until 10am. I think I'm pretty healthy with a decent metabolism. I'm losing weight eating 2000-2100 calories/day.

If you can't stomach breakfast, don't force yourself.

So I already know how important breakfast is, but I just find it incredibly challenging to eat early in the morning. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way. I just picked up some Carnation Breakfast Essentials to drink in the morning, because I figured it would be easier to down a chocolaty drink that seems like it's reasonably healthy than to attempt to eat a meal. So my question is, if it's actually good for you? Can you recommend any other meal replacement shakes that may be better than this one? The overwhelming large amount of sugar is what has me a little bit weary. I just want to know if this is going to end up being more of a curse than a blessing. I officially started dieting & exercising just about a month ago, and I've lost 7 lbs already! I don't want to take a chance that might ruin all my work!

Please help!

Actually it seems silly to eat breakfast if you are not hungry. That is how we got fat in the first place, eating when we didn't need to eat. Eating when we felt pressure from others to eat.

I just read this procedure from Rusty Moore on Fitness Black Book that says that heading to the gym fasted and skipping breakfast is the best way for your body to internally create HGH which gives you many health benefits including helping you lose weight and become stronger. So I tried it recently. I wrote about the experiment here --> http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/745151-i-got-a-compliment-from-rusty-moore-from-fitness-black-book

Anyway, now that I've lost 60 lbs and gone from being obese to super lean and fit at age 50 and maintained for over a year and now at almost 52, I will never again let anyone pressure me when to eat or what to eat. I decide. I own my body. I will skip what ever meal I want, eat when I want, or not eat when I want. I'm not paleo but they have something right about understanding we were designed to eat and not eat since we were hunter gatherers. Modern health has many myths.

I personally eat breakfast, I find if I dont I am running to the snack machine at 10am and eating rubbish. It works for me and I eat just before I rush out of the door. Its not a meal I enjoy but I eat it for the reasons above.

Your calories are like a bank balance and you get to spend them how you wish and when you wish. I know there are arguments for and against eating breakfast, on how it is supposed to kick start your metabolism etc, but what works for one wont necessarily work for another, as our lifesytles are all different and you need to do what you feel is right for you. If you dont feel like it dont do it?

I don't eat breakfast and feel great. I save all my calories for when I am actually hungry in the evening. Works for me.