I hate eating in the morning?

Force yourself. Make it a habit! You'll be so happy you did.

Trolling or for realsies? :noway:

LoLz ... The person that posted the original quote, just stated a thread about need help with her plateau ...

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1141769-how-to-kick-my-plateau

I hate to say this, but it is a bad idea to wait till 2 or 3 to begin eating. You really need to have eaten most of your daily intake of calories by 2 to 3 p.m., as a matter of fact. If you consider it, it makes perfect sense. You're active all day long, and you've got the chance to burn calories all day long. You slow down in the evening, and that's when you should taper off the eating. Of course, once you're home, it's hard to resist temptation, so don't buy yummy things and store them at home.

Everyone on here will tell you it is fine. No, it isnt. Studies have proven that eating breakfast revs meatbolism turns the furnace on. Read the studies, breakfast eaters are thinner and have 33 percent less waist circumfrence. So, you will hear ""time does not matter, IIFYM. Do some research google breakfast eaters vs non breakfast eaters. That being said, if you dont want to, dont.

peer reviewed journal articles that prove that the chemical reactions in our cells have an accelerator pedal and a furnace.... don't exist and won't ever exist

seriously.... revs the metabolism? It's not an engine. You can't rev it. There's no furnace that you can turn on. metabolism = chemical reactions in the body. There are some hormonal responses that slow the metabolism in response to inadequate amounts of calories, but they won't kick in after a few hours. After a few weeks of insufficient calories maybe...

Re studies showing breakfast eaters are thinner - that study was done on people who were not tracking calories. Skipping breakfast can lead to overeating later in the day because in some people it leads to more intense hunger, which leads to overeating, but if you're tracking calories and staying within your goal, eating breakfast or not eating breakfast makes no difference. Some people may find that eating breakfast makes it easier to stay on target for the rest of the day (i.e. they're the people who would overeat if they skipped breakfast and didn't track) but eating breakfast doesn't speed up the metabolism. Skipping it may heighten hunger signals in some people and lead to overeating, that is all.

Calories in, Calories out. Time does not matter. I have scientific proof given from my....scale...

report from USDA

http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/Publications/NutritionInsights/Insight45.pdf


"The report indicated that not eating breakfast has been associated with excess body weight, especially among children and adolescents. Consuming breakfast also has been associated with weight loss and weight loss maintenance, as well as improved nutrient intake. "

lol--- but again, how long did it take to figure out that trans fats were bad for you? And in listening to talk radio, that is highly debatable and you cannot trust anything coming from the government or universitities.

again... was that study done on people who were tracking calories, or people who were just eating whatever, whenever?

Skipping breakfast in some people leads to excessive hunger later in the day, which leads to overeating. Eating breakfast doesn't make your metabolism faster. If you are counting calories and staying within a calorie goal, then it does not matter whether you eat breakfast or not, in terms of whether you lose fat and how fast you lose fat. Some people will find that eating breakfast makes it easier for them to stick to their calorie goal, as it prevents heightened hunger signals later in the day. hunger = harder to stick to a calorie goal (but not impossible) - so it comes back to personal choice. If skipping breakfast makes you more hungry and it harder to stick to your calorie goal, then eat breakfast. If it doesn't and you don't want to eat breakfast, then don't.

Also, for a lot of people who skip breakfast, they get hungry around 10am. If you have a planned meal that fits your overall eating plan (calories, macros) at this time (or whenever they start to feel hungry) then that'll also usually stop heightened hunger signals later in the day. The people in studies that were fatter were probably hungry a couple of hours before their scheduled lunch break (especially the children and adolescents as they're at school and can't eat until the scheduled lunch break) so would either be snacking on vending machine food in their coffee break (or recess) or by the time it gets to lunch they're starving and overeat. There's a HUGE difference between someone who is planning their meals and sticking to a calorie goal and planning to eat when they start to feel hungry in the day rather than forcing themselves to eat first thing in the morning when they're not hungry, and someone who's just eating whatever, whenever and skips breakfast because they get up too late and had to rush out the door without eating anything.

I've heard eat within 2 hours of waking up. Whether you wake up at 6 am or 6 pm. That's just what I've heard. If eating how you do now is working for you, stick with it. I don't always eat within that time limit, actually, I've hardly eaten proper at all lately. There is truth to it not really revving you metabolism, but it helps keep it stable. As does the 5 meals a day eat every 3-4 hours blah blah.
But look, if three meals work for you, then go for it. Just like the breakfast thing

I hate to say this, but it is a bad idea to wait till 2 or 3 to begin eating. You really need to have eaten most of your daily intake of calories by 2 to 3 p.m., as a matter of fact. If you consider it, it makes perfect sense. You're active all day long, and you've got the chance to burn calories all day long. You slow down in the evening, and that's when you should taper off the eating. Of course, once you're home, it's hard to resist temptation, so don't buy yummy things and store them at home.

Math still applies here. If you ate all day long and tapered off in the evening (even if you were active all day) and the total calories were over maintenance, you would gain weight. It's still about total calories in a day.

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Breakfast is my favourite meal, how interesting that people differ in preferences. I would probably be very cranky and sleepy if I skipped breakfast.

I have one meal a day for the last 50 days and havent died yet so i think you will be fine lol

Everyone on here will tell you it is fine. No, it isnt. Studies have proven that eating breakfast revs meatbolism turns the furnace on. Read the studies, breakfast eaters are thinner and have 33 percent less waist circumfrence. So, you will hear ""time does not matter, IIFYM. Do some research google breakfast eaters vs non breakfast eaters. That being said, if you dont want to, dont.

My favorite part was when you posted the studies.

Force yourself. Make it a habit! You'll be so happy you did.

When I eat early in the day I feel famished within an hour. This leads me to consume more calories throughout the day than if I waited until the afternoon to start eating. Should I still force myself to eat early in the day? :huh:

This is precisely what happens to me when I force myself to eat early, too. When I wake up at 7 and eat at 8, I'm starving by 11, and again at 4, and then probably wanting a snack at bedtime... When I wake up at 7 and eat at noon, I'm hungry again at 6 or 7pm, and I'm good until bedtime. Plus, I'd much rather have a filling dinner than a huge breakfast and a salad for dinner, but that's just personal preference - too light of a dinner, and I wake up in the middle of the night with a growling stomach.

Depends on your body and your life.

I start to feel sick about an hour after I get up if I dont eat something. I stick with a fried egg and some nuts.
If you are exercising right when you get up, then I think eating is important. Food is fuel. Your body can only run so long on an empty tank. If you are only sitting around, then waiting until 2 or 3 pm probably wont hurt you but it also depends on when you actually got up.

When I skip breakfast I have a harder time resisting the junk in the evenings so its part of my weightloss strategy.

I don't like eating in the mornings either and at my age I've been able to maintain my weight, so I guess it depends on the person.

Everyone on here will tell you it is fine. No, it isnt. Studies have proven that eating breakfast revs meatbolism turns the furnace on. Read the studies, breakfast eaters are thinner and have 33 percent less waist circumfrence. So, you will hear ""time does not matter, IIFYM. Do some research google breakfast eaters vs non breakfast eaters. That being said, if you dont want to, dont.

For about 200,000 years, the human species did not consume 3 meals a day. We would eat when we had food, and eat all of it. We did not eat based on where the sun was in the sky. We did not eat based on how many hours since our last meal. We ate to survive. The amazing thing about us is our metabolism does not just shut down after 12 hours of not eating. If that were the case, you can rest assured that our ancestors would have died out while they were chasing down their next meal.

People need to break the habbit of eating at specific intervals of time. The human body needs fuel when it needs fuel, it doesn't care what time of day it is. Our metabolism will not shut down if we skip a meal or even multiple meals. It just doesn't work that way.

A cool little ancient history lesson. Before the invention of projectile weapons, humans used to hunt their prey in a way different from any other animal. We would target animals with fur (deer, caribou). We then waited for the hottest time of day when the animals were trying to cool off. Because we do not have fur, we can maintain our body temperature much easier in the heat than animals with fur. We would start chasing these animals for hours and hours non-stop until the animal fell over and died from heat exhaustion. Yup, our ancestors would run for 3-5 hours in high noon in the African sun nonstop to chase down one caribou to eat. Talk about a serious cardio workout. So lets be honest with ourselves here, if you skip breakfast and are more comfortable doing that, it really isn't that big of a deal.

No it's ok depends on habits and if you like to workout with empty stomach!