Breakfa-what?!?

Ok, so I can't totally relate since I do feel semi-hungry at 7 am after waking at 6 and getting ready. But I find that having a breakfast "plan" reallllly helps me eat a good, sensible breakfast. Even if that meant the same rotation of egg taco, yogurt, French toast and sugar free syrup, repeat. In fact I have an egg taco almost every morning when it's a work day. If I let myself just kinda think "ooh what sounds good for breakfast?" I'd probably wind up eating a gigantic brownie or something!

It doesn't matter. Eat when you're hungry. Yes, you may find you need to tweak certain *types* of foods you eat in order to meet your macro or calorie goals and it may take a little time to figure out what works for you (so you may not be perfect right off the bat, and that's ok), but there's absolutely no need to either force yourself to eat when you're not hungry OR not to eat when you're starving. You can always make it up the next day or over the next few days, too, if you're significantly over or under for a day. But...to get back to your question, meal timing does NOT matter. Eat your breakfast when you want.

I used to not be too hungry in the mornings until i started eating reasonable dinner portions. Once I got my dinner portions under control and normal, I was always hungry in the morning. Are you having problems with night binges?

That being said, do what works best for you.

Don't eat breakfast. Not important.

I agree with everyone else, eat when you're actually hungry. I usually don't eat until noon, today I was hungry at 11am so I sliced off a few pieces of cucumber to hold me over. If I eat breakfast I find the same thing as you, it kick starts my eating and I'm just as hungry at lunchtime as when I skip breakfast. And I'm an evening snacker, so I like to have my breakfast calories then.

agree but if you are diabetic or have other blood sugar issues you need to keep things stable, so not good to go too long without eating.

Just eat when you are hungry (unless you have a medical condition) it doesn't matter.

I get up around 5am and don't eat until 1:30pm.
I hate eating ''breakfast'' it's like it makes me so hungry the rest of the day :embarassed:
So I skip it altogether and go straight to lunch (which is normally a huge nom fest lol)

I'm terrible at breakfast. I usually eat in the morning because I get a little woozy if I dont, but if I dont eat at home, I make TERRIBLE choices (like those lovely malorca sweet breads from Starbucks grrrrrr :mad: )
I actually love "breakfast" food (eggs, pancakes and bacon are my top fave foods) and if I got up early enough, I would make breakfast for myself every day. When I am awake, I love egg white sandwiches/wraps with spinach and bacon or oatmeal with fruit and raisins or cream of wheat, but I am one of those, roll out of bed 10 minutes before I have to leave the house and I am running like the white rabbit in alice in wonderland

So I tend to make myself a protein shake or getting a pick up meal from a restaurant. And by lunch time (12-2pm) I am starving! AND craving sweets
Still trying to find a good balance and I am going to try some methods from this thread...maybe just grabbing a protein bar in the morning and saving the big cals for lunch and dinner...

There's no universal right or wrong here. What works for some, won't work for all - don't try to force yourself to eat because someone said it's what you should do. A lot of people do Intermittent Fasting, which mean you only eat for a certain amount of hours during the day, other people eat anytime, do what you want.

Long story short - timing of calories doesn't matter, amount of calories does.

This!

It's after 12pm here and I'm just breaking my fast now with a sweet potato and dinner plate sized salad. I also ran two miles this morning and felt great! Do what works for you and your lifestyle and just aim to have your calorie allotment eaten by the time you go to bed at night.

I know that eating in the morning is important. But I've also heard that one shouldn't eat when they aren't hungry.

Neither of those are true. Meal timing and frequency has no (any amount worth worrying about) impact on weight control (loss, gain, whatever).

I know that eating in the morning is important.

Eating is important. When it happens during the day or night is in most cases inconsequential. I haven't eaten "breakfast" in months.

I am no doctor or expert but my husband is diabetic and I remember being told that if you don't breakfast, if your fast is long, your liver will produce glucose so your blood sugar stays within a certain range. It is its job to automatically do so in order to keep your brain productive. However, if for any reason it gets "tired" or "lazy", you could eventually get diabetes. I wouldn't take a chance overtaxing such an essential organ, would you?
Now as to being hungry, maybe you should modify your breakfast including more proteins AND fibres. I don't know what you usually do but trying new routines will help you to find what is good for you in terms of healthy lifestyle. Good luck!

Wow, I've seen a lot of things... but fasting causing diabetes?! NO. NO. And NO. Fasting was a normal state for our human ancestors and they had no diabetes until.... we started eating processed, carb dense foods.

I don't like breakfast. I don't eat it. When I used to try to force myself (under bad advice) then it would set me up to over-eat all day. Except, on mornings that I do my strength training I must eat a small amount of something with protein. If I don't eat something before going to work I experience nausea 1 to 2 hours before lunch.