Hungry after eating breakfast than when I skip breakfast?

Jewbe
Jewbe Posts: 25 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I've always ate something for breakfast because from everything I've ever read, it stated it was more important to eat than to not eat. I've skip breakfast every morning this week and waited to eat until lunch which is 12:30 PM. I've felt a little hunger midmorning (10:30 or 11:00) but not starving.

This morning I decided to eat half a muffin and man I am starving. My tummy is rumbling and everything. It seems like since I ate something at 8:00 AM my stomach is more demanding now. I'm not sure if I'm making sense or not. Has anyone else experienced this?
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  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    This is a good read on the subject: http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html
  • sillyvalentine
    sillyvalentine Posts: 460 Member
    I am always hungrier if I eat breakfast too. As soon as the first drop of food touches my tongue, I gotta have it all.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Breakfast as the most important meal of the day has been debunked. For some people it keeps them fuller and gives them increased energy and concentration for the day. Others experience the opposite. It has little if any effect on weight loss and you should continue with whatever makes you feel best in this regard.
  • daisyverma
    daisyverma Posts: 234 Member
    I have not read anything saying that breakfast is not the most important meal.

    I am thinking the sugar and flour in the muffin may have spiked your hunger levels?

    Perhaps try eating more protein based breakfast? I do protein shakes in the morning, and then do fruit around 10 AM and so forth

    I have to eat every 2 hours or I will faint... :D So I do small healthy snacks..and a wee tiny bit of "junk" in the afternoon (like pretzels or plain popcorn)
  • sillyvalentine
    sillyvalentine Posts: 460 Member
    This is a good read on the subject: http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html

    Read the comment at the bottom of this article for the laugh of your day.
  • aubyshortcake
    aubyshortcake Posts: 796 Member
    I have the opposite happen..for example: last night before dinner I was not really hungry but decided to eat anyway, thinking there was no way I could eat it all. After I ate I felt STARVING and tried to wait it out but ended up going back for seconds! I have no idea why..
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    The bigger the breakfast, the hungrier I am at lunch.

    If I *skip* breakfast, I'll probably die before lunch. So I usually have a small to moderate kinda breakfast.
  • Greytfish
    Greytfish Posts: 810
    While you're fasting for a long period like overnight and into morning, your body is in a ketogenic fat burning state (unless you're diabetic).

    If you have a carby breakfast, your body will get a big blood sugar spike as it uses those carbs for fuel and stores the rest as fat.

    Instead, try a breakfast with protein and fats. Or a meal where you consume those first.
  • CulturedCowgurl
    CulturedCowgurl Posts: 136 Member
    The bigger the breakfast, the hungrier I am at lunch.

    If I *skip* breakfast, I'll probably die before lunch. So I usually have a small to moderate kinda breakfast.

    LoL!!...ditto what he said minus the Die
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    I have not read anything saying that breakfast is not the most important meal.

    There is no such thing as "the most important meal." Some people are happier, more alert, and more functional when they eat breakfast. Some people spend the rest of the day in a ravenous state when they eat breakfast. It doesn't matter when you eat. It only matters that you find something you can stick with long-term. If waiting until lunch helps her keep her hunger under control, then that's what she needs to do.
  • Gwen_B
    Gwen_B Posts: 1,018 Member
    That happens to me. I don't eat breakfast, but when I do I stay hungry!!
  • climbing_trees
    climbing_trees Posts: 726 Member
    Me too! I usually try to wait as long as possible until eating breakfast. (Most days it is around 10 or 11)
    Luckily I'm allowed to eat at work at my desk whenever I want.
  • Buckvarney926
    Buckvarney926 Posts: 9 Member
    If I eat breakfast, like a bowl of cereal I'm starving within an hour but if I skip breakfast I don't get hungry till between 10 and 11. It seems like if I eat a little bit I just get hungrier. I hate it. lol
  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    This is a good read on the subject: http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html

    Read the comment at the bottom of this article for the laugh of your day.

    I had this same spell cast on me and it totally didn't work
  • RickBoquist
    RickBoquist Posts: 2 Member
    This is a good read on the subject: http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html
    Pretty much this. Martin knows what's up.
  • GoreWhore72
    GoreWhore72 Posts: 190 Member
    I've always ate something for breakfast because from everything I've ever read, it stated it was more important to eat than to not eat. I've skip breakfast every morning this week and waited to eat until lunch which is 12:30 PM. I've felt a little hunger midmorning (10:30 or 11:00) but not starving.

    This morning I decided to eat half a muffin and man I am starving. My tummy is rumbling and everything. It seems like since I ate something at 8:00 AM my stomach is more demanding now. I'm not sure if I'm making sense or not. Has anyone else experienced this?

    Some of us are just intermediate fasters. I've always been a "non breakfast eater" even when I was an athlete. I didn't eat until at least 10 or 10 30 am. Even if I'm up at 5 am. Although this morning I had to have a shake at 9 am as I was hungry. Sometimes on the weekend on a cheat day I'll eat a huge breakfast, but it really messes up my energy levels. I think some of us just awaken with a lot more energy, and have yet to burn it off, but read on Intermediate Fasting, and you'll understand a little more.
  • awtume9
    awtume9 Posts: 423 Member
    I eat an english muffin and 2 whole eggs every morning around 6:30 and it holds me over until about 10am, small snack and I'm good until lunch
  • GoreWhore72
    GoreWhore72 Posts: 190 Member
    I have not read anything saying that breakfast is not the most important meal.

    There is no such thing as "the most important meal." Some people are happier, more alert, and more functional when they eat breakfast. Some people spend the rest of the day in a ravenous state when they eat breakfast. It doesn't matter when you eat. It only matters that you find something you can stick with long-term. If waiting until lunch helps her keep her hunger under control, then that's what she needs to do.

    I've actually realized I like to eat my main meal of the day at 3 pm. If I do this and not at Noon or Dinner time. I feel a lot better, and my energy levels maintain through to 8pm, but eating a breakfast at 10 am, and a shake or snack at noon. Then a snack in PM. I think it's about how you feel through the day that works for people. I wake up with energy, and food just makes me tired right away.
  • Masonless
    Masonless Posts: 139 Member
    Same problem with me. Thanks for posting this with feedback. It has helped.
  • sbarella
    sbarella Posts: 713 Member
    Same here... And it took 24 years to figure it out because of all the pro-breakfast terrorism. Having five small meals on a caloric deficit was a nightmare, sometimes I found myself thinking "how long until snack time?!". Now I just wake up, have a cup of coffee and I don't even think about food until lunch.
  • jess135177
    jess135177 Posts: 186 Member
    I have to eat breakfast otherwise I am very cranky. I typically have something small when I'm getting ready for work around 6:30 am and then have a banana at 10 am. That keeps me happy until lunch!
  • superfox12082
    superfox12082 Posts: 512 Member
    Doesn't seem to matter what I eat for breakfast, I am always hungrier than if I don't eat it. I don't eat things like cereal or pop tarts. It's usually fruit or eggs or the occasional bagel. ALWAYS growling by 10 am. :sad:
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    pro-breakfast terrorism

    Nice.
  • RaeLB
    RaeLB Posts: 1,216 Member
    You don't have to eat breakfast, there is no meal that's more important than any other. You can eat your calories whenever you want.

    I eat breakfast because I like to eat from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed :happy:

    My solution to the mid morning hunger is to eat another breakfast! I eat when I wake up and then eat again mid-morning, then lunch, then mid-afternoon, then dinner, then evening... it's awesome :drinker:
  • tedsmama
    tedsmama Posts: 178 Member
    I am the same way. If I force myself to eat breakfast I'm starving all day. I eat when I am hungry and that just happens to be around 1pm.
  • ilmb87
    ilmb87 Posts: 216 Member
    I'm the same, OP. I was always starving after eating breakfast (and that was even after switching to a very high protein/fat one of plain greek yogurt and hard boiled eggs). Now I don't eat till noon and feel MUCH better for it.

    Obviously it doesn't work for everyone, as seen by others posts. So if it works for you, keep doing it!
  • Jewbe
    Jewbe Posts: 25 Member
    This is a good read on the subject: http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html

    Read the comment at the bottom of this article for the laugh of your day.

    I tried reading that article but dang his writing style put me to sleep. He tries to sound smart but is just filling space rather than getting to the point. Also I did go back & read the very last comment which is troll level 10+++ LOL.

    I think I am just going to skip breatfast for right now. When I do eat break fast it is usually eggs, fruit or yogrut but I decided these blueberry muffins looked too good to pass up so I ate half.
  • Jewbe
    Jewbe Posts: 25 Member
    I'm the same, OP. I was always starving after eating breakfast (and that was even after switching to a very high protein/fat one of plain greek yogurt and hard boiled eggs). Now I don't eat till noon and feel MUCH better for it.

    Obviously it doesn't work for everyone, as seen by others posts. So if it works for you, keep doing it!

    I love eggs and Greek yogurt! But I find I'm not really hungry in the morning before I go to work. I usually get hungry around 10-11 AM. Which I might as well wait to lunch to eat something because by then it curbs my lunch apatite which I want to eat my whole lunch if possible so I can eat dinner later than earlier.
  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    I've found if I eat breakfast I'm hungry all day long, if I wait until the afternoon I feel great all day. It works well for me, trying to eat every couple hours was a nightmare. I want 1 or 2 large meals and dessert and I'm very content.

    So I wake up have my coffee around 1 or 2 I have something or if I know we're going out to dinner I just wait and eat 1 meal. Hasn't slowed my weight loss at all.
  • mereniecrosby
    mereniecrosby Posts: 4
    I followed all that advice and could not drop weight. Now I try to maintain at least a 12 hour fast from night to eating the next day and finally I am dropping weight! I am trying to put fewer calories in my body and when i do making sure they are good ... not sugar and garbage food and finally results ... about 2 inches of waist in 1.5 weeks... I don't own a scale... but I can tell. I am feeling better too.. go figure.

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