Do you eat Breakfast?
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BREAKFAST IS FOR LOSERS. GIVE ME CAFFEINE0
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WHERE MY NDJ1979 NUUKKKAAA AT WHEN I NEED HIM?????0
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When I first started changing my diet, I bought in to the belief that eating breakfast kicks-starts your metabolism and you burn more calories throughout the day. I was never a big breakfast eater, but I sure gave it a fighting chance. I tried oatmeal, eggs, a little toast, etc. I noticed that it made me hungrier throughout the day, I thought about eating more, which made the whole process more of a chore. I decided to stop eating because I felt I had to, and eat when I felt hungry. I'm simply not hungry in the morning, and forcing calories down my throat just seemed counter-intuitive to what I was trying to retrain my brain to want to do.
Now I have my morning thermos of coffee with a half-cup of milk and I get my day started. I find myself feeling hungry usually around 11am (I wake up around 6:30 each day) when I'll have some type of vegetables with a protein (usually ~400calories). I'll then get a bit hungry at around 1-2pm and then again around 4-5pm where I'll have a snack, usually around ~150ish calories each. After that I'll eat dinner around 6, usually 5-600 calories. I'll have a "snack" after that, which usually totals around 300 calories.
I'm usually eating around 1550 calories a day, and the above process really works for me. I don't spend the day thinking of food, or feel like I'm missing out on anything. I fill as much of my eating time with nutrient-dense foods, but don't fear adding a little treat now and then, as long as it doesn't throw off my daily goal.
On the other hand, my wife and son both eat breakfast daily, and I know my wife couldn't skip breakfast if she wanted to without it throwing her completely off balance.
I think it's just another case of to each his own.0 -
Yes, I eat breakfast. I also have lunch, dinner and two snacks. I have lost 5 lbs so far in 3 weeks. I also cycle 40 minutes 6 nights a week after dinner. Low blood sugar is the reason. I feel better and have more energy. I went to a dietician who helped me with food combinations. Carbs/Protein/Fat/Sodium/Sugar. My diary is open if you would like to look. Before I started using this site I lost 5 lbs. So I am at 10 lbs lost in 4 weeks. This I owe to my exercise and dietician. Breakfast really is the most import meal of the day. Have something you like even a simple as a piece of fruit and yogurt or whole grain toast with 2 tsp. almond or peanut butter. Eating something every 3 to 3-1/2 hours really helps. Good luck to you.
breakfast is the most unimportant meal of the day.....
meal timing and metabolism are irrelevant...0 -
Tons of breakfast skippers here. Glad to know that skipping breakfast won't derail any effort to get fit.
But me, I love breakfast. It's the easiest to prepare for me, and it seems that I could go for hours without eating anything else. So yeah, in terms of prepping effort vs. mileage, BREAKFAST IS BEAST. On a side note:
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WHERE MY NDJ1979 NUUKKKAAA AT WHEN I NEED HIM?????
in...for the breakfast...0 -
I like to follow most days the "eat like a queen for BF, like a princess for lunch, and a peasant for dinner" so after sleeping about 6-8hrs I an SUPER hungry so I NEED to eat as soon as I wake up.
Studies have shown that from all those diets out there following that 1 (women) lose more body fat, and thats the weight we need to lose.
what studies?
Again, meal size and timing have nothing do with weight loss. you could eat like a queen for dinner and still lose...0 -
Hollie, here is what I have learned over the years. If dinner is the last thing you had at night, then your body is doing something with that food and calories. All night long it is still doing its job, does not know if it is a weekend, etc. the only thing it knows that it is looking for something to eat, because your body it still working all night long. First thing it looks for is protein and that is going to come from muscle and it storing the fat and turning the carbs into sugar for storage, because it needs to be fed. Ok now you wake up in the morning and you expect your engine to take off and be revved up, but you have not given it any fuel to burn, so it going to good storage and still storing fat, because you are starving it and it is holding on to everything you have given it. If you feed it protein in the morning, now it has fuel to burn and get the engines burning fat and not muscle. energy is up and your Porsche body now has Premium fuel to make it perform.
Here is a little graphic that you can save for use in travels
this is the biggest load of crap I have seen on MFP in a long time...
you do realize you totally contradicted yourself, right? You say that your body works at night, but then you say that your body is going to store fat over night, but then somehow it is going to turn to muscle for energy at the same time??/
You can't be in starvation mode from eating dinner and then not eating breakfast..and there is no way that your body is going to turn to muscle for energy with a 16 hour fast; you would have to eat nothing for 72 hours for your body to even start to go into starvation mode....
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Eat breakfast everyday...same time everyday...damn near the same exact thing everyday. Really the only meal I look forward to daily, especially if bacon peaks its beautiful self in there.0
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Hollie, here is what I have learned over the years. If dinner is the last thing you had at night, then your body is doing something with that food and calories. All night long it is still doing its job, does not know if it is a weekend, etc. the only thing it knows that it is looking for something to eat, because your body it still working all night long. First thing it looks for is protein and that is going to come from muscle and it storing the fat and turning the carbs into sugar for storage, because it needs to be fed. Ok now you wake up in the morning and you expect your engine to take off and be revved up, but you have not given it any fuel to burn, so it going to good storage and still storing fat, because you are starving it and it is holding on to everything you have given it. If you feed it protein in the morning, now it has fuel to burn and get the engines burning fat and not muscle. energy is up and your Porsche body now has Premium fuel to make it perform.
Here is a little graphic that you can save for use in travels
this is the biggest load of crap I have seen on MFP in a long time...
you do realize you totally contradicted yourself, right? You say that your body works at night, but then you say that your body is going to store fat over night, but then somehow it is going to turn to muscle for energy at the same time??/
You can't be in starvation mode from eating dinner and then not eating breakfast..and there is no way that your body is going to turn to muscle for energy with a 16 hour fast; you would have to eat nothing for 72 hours for your body to even start to go into starvation mode....
wow....
no no no. you're wrong its only the carbs that turn directly to fat overnight.0 -
yup I drink a shakeology shake or I'll have shakeology and a bowl of steel cut oats..
Right now I'm combining my shakeology and a cup of coffee.. Breakfast and a cup of joe combined.0 -
I like to work out in the morning and I find that I have more energy to work out even harder if I have eaten something before hand.0
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I was always a huge breakfast eater. As a little eenie weenie kid, my family aside from my dad would leave the travel diner while he ordered a second French Toast order for me.
Fast forward to the teen years and I cut it all out.
Coffee could hold me off till 2 pm. A little salad, a little dinner, and I thought I was good to go on the low carnival calorie ride.
Now, I love a thick sirloin steak. Or three or four eggs scrambled topped with an avocado and a side of bacon. Takes me to 2 pm or so with all kinds of energy.
We're all different at all different times of our lives. I try not to live out of platitudes. They can kind of mess me up cause they're from the mind and not the body.0 -
i would like to eat breakfast, but I don't feel like eating when i wake up. Plus, as others have observed, if I do eat a breakfast, i tend to overeat that day.0
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Always. And lately I'm addicted to oatmeal. Refrigerator oatmeal mornings I work, hot oatmeal when I'm off.0
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Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day! When I've had my little porridge pot and a cup of tea I feel happy and satisfied, ready for my day. I guess everyone is different but I love breakfast!0
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I eat breakfast because I like to eat breakfast, no other reason..... ...
I should also add that I usually exercise in the AM and will expend anywhere from 500 to 1000 cals so breakfast also helps me replenish glycogen stores....0 -
I LOVE breakfast but I don't eat it until after fasted cardio. So by the time I'm done with cardio its almost like my treat for a great workout! I do eat the same things most all days so breakfast for me is black coffee, greek yogurt or a Quest bar and a protein shake.
I do eat every 2.5-3 hours per day and this works for me. However I do know many people who skip breakfast and only 3-4 meals per day works.
Everyone is different and science or not its your choice. Do what works for you.0
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