HELP!!! - Breakfast (or lack thereof) is killing me.

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Well recently I have 700-900 kcal breakfast as it makes me have more energy as well as feeds my muscle ASAP after waking... Note my goal is 1600 so breakfast does take a huge chunk out of my daily eat, but then I do weight lift / do some form of cardio 2/3 hours after consuming breakfast!

I had a real hard time getting breakfast in until about 10:00am, -just did not want to eat, did not feel like eating and did not have time to sit down and eat. My trainer suggested a protein shake before my feet hit the floor. So, I have it on my bedside table, it mixes with water (I have a special cup that keeps liquid and powder separate until you twist the lid). After I had been doing this for a couple of weeks my engine did start to work a lot better and I was hungry for some eggs w/ egg whites and toast after my shower...

I use to be that way, now I find myself if I am late just taking my cereal bowl and a cup of milk with me to work and eat it as soon as I get in because I am always rushing in the morning but if you dont eat it slows your metabolism down and it goes into fat storage mode. Do what works for you but remember you have to eat

I had a friend who was an avid gym rat and she once told me that you should eat something, anything within the first 30-60m after you wake up to jump start your metabolism for the day . I was never a breakfast person either but I started to force myself to have a banana or yogurt or something small as soon as I woke up, and it def made a difference. I found I wasnt over eating when I finally did get around to eating (usually 3-4hr after I woke up). Waiting to eat when you think you're hungry, if you're waiting too long, can actually put your body into "storage/hybernation mode". Your body will think you are in starvation move and turn the food you are consuming into fat bc its storing it for later, when you get your metabolism going right off the bat its going all day. I have also found that I dont eat as much in a sitting, and I've started to get hungry @ b-fast, lunch, and dinner time... with a few easy snacks in between. Im so used to eating something as soon as I wake up I get frustrated at myself if I dont because I can feel it with every meal after and I can tell I dont have as much energy throughout the day.

I had a friend who was an avid gym rat and she once told me that you should eat something, anything within the first 30-60m after you wake up to jump start your metabolism for the day . I was never a breakfast person either but I started to force myself to have a banana or yogurt or something small as soon as I woke up, and it def made a difference. I found I wasnt over eating when I finally did get around to eating (usually 3-4hr after I woke up). Waiting to eat when you think you're hungry, if you're waiting too long, can actually put your body into "storage/hybernation mode". Your body will think you are in starvation move and turn the food you are consuming into fat bc its storing it for later, when you get your metabolism going right off the bat its going all day. I have also found that I dont eat as much in a sitting, and I've started to get hungry @ b-fast, lunch, and dinner time... with a few easy snacks in between. Im so used to eating something as soon as I wake up I get frustrated at myself if I dont because I can feel it with every meal after and I can tell I dont have as much energy throughout the day.

First of all, you can't "jump start your metabolism". It only shuts down when you're starving to death, which brings me to my second point; the body doesn't start to act like it's starving because you don't feed it for 12 hours or so. It takes A LONG time for fasting to have any effect on you metabolism. You could skip eating for a whole day, and it wouldn't make much of a difference.