Eating breakfast is making me hungrier

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.

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.

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).

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!

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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.