Breakfast is evil

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  • mfp2014mfp
    mfp2014mfp Posts: 689 Member
    I have breakfast at about 9am, I wake up at 6:30 by that time I'm ready to eat. My breakfast is usually about 450 cals.
  • Reagan89
    Reagan89 Posts: 40 Member
    Yay it's not just me if I eat before I have been awake for a few hours I feel sick and have to force it down.
  • Vex3521
    Vex3521 Posts: 385 Member
    I think whatever works for anyone is all that matters. I work a graveyard shift so "breakfast" time for most normal people is like dinner or a late lunch for me lol. Some folks get by on a huge full plate early... others like a more "snack" type thing, figure long as you're eating when you're hungry and being healthy with your choices weight is going to come off =)
  • ingraha
    ingraha Posts: 99 Member
    I always go over whenever I eat breakfast but I think it's because I like cream in my coffee if I just count the cream as my breakfast and then don't eat until later in the morning I do okay
  • lexbubbles
    lexbubbles Posts: 465 Member
    I eat a large breakfast (400cals) but I skip lunch. In fairness, I work from home and my breakfast is SO large (large plate of fruit, small bowl of greek yogurt and honey) that I tend to pick at it throughout the morning and it takes me about 3 hours to get through it most days. So I'm not really sure if it can be considered 'breakfast' in the traditional sense. Maybe like an extended snack? Morning grazing?

    But yeah. No lunch for me most days. By the time I'm done with the fruit I'm good until about 6/7pm.
  • abadvat
    abadvat Posts: 1,241 Member
    Eat when you want. Meal timing makes no difference.

    I beg to differ - after an average sleep of 8 hours timings will make a difference unless you have conditioned your organism and metabolism differently (IF as an example).
    OP 300 or more calories and it offsets your calories for the rest of the day? how many cals are you on?
  • rainbow198
    rainbow198 Posts: 2,245 Member
    I eat when I am hungry. I don't have my first meal until 11am or noon and when I eat I eat. I never enjoyed eating small snacks every hour or two.

    A couple of weeks after I started logging everything I ate I noticed the days when I ate as soon as I woke up I overate. Also I wasn't even hungry that early. I thought it was the thing to do because it helps the metabolism, it's the most important meal of the day etc. plus I really wanted to lose weight.

    I'm not a follower so I decided to try eating as soon as I get hungry for a week and see how that goes. 80 lbs. lost and almost one year of maintaining it's still working really well.

    Now if I am hungry in the morning I eat. If I had an intense workout the night before like an hour of brisk ice skating if I probably be hungry earlier the next day so I eat.

    You have to try different things do what works for you body and lifestyle.
  • amwoidyla
    amwoidyla Posts: 257 Member
    I feel like what I have for breakfast sets me up for the entire day.

    My problem with breakfast is that I always want something carby, but I find that if I have oatmeal or an english muffin that I'm playing catch up the rest of the day to get my macros right. If I have eggs or greek yogurt, I have more wiggle room with food choices.

    Is it obvious that I struggle to meet my protein macro everyday?
  • sherrians
    sherrians Posts: 6
    i usually have some fresh vegetable juice with an orange. It keeps me from getting too hungry before lunch. Sometimes I just have another juice for lunch, then a snack then a huge salad for dinner. I have tried eating my salad for lunch, but then I get too hungry in the evening, when I don't have work to take my mind off being hungry. If I swim at noon, then I just eat an extra snack during the day.

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