The I Hate Breakfast Club

fitformidlife
fitformidlife Posts: 103
in Health and Weight Loss
I know I can't be the only member of the "I Hate Breakfast" club. I was indoctrinated with that "it's the most important meal of the day" all my life by the media, but no one ever ate it in my household. Literally, my mom fed me nothing before sending me off to school each day, so I grew up in the habit of not eating until lunch. Now, as I've tried to build healthy eating habits over the past year or so, I've tried to get in the habit of eating some sort of breakfast, but it's just not my thing.

Anyone else out there in the same boat? Do you try to get yourself in the breakfast habit, or have you just accepted that it's pointless? When I started healthier about a year and a half ago, I was drinking half an envelope of Carnation Instant Breakfast with almond milk, and sometimes a banana or other fruit, or a homemade fruit or green smoothie in the morning. I slacked off on that, but I'm starting my food tracking today now that I've signed up at MFP, so I'm restarting some sort of breakfast, too, even if it's just liquid.

I do tend to be ravenous by lunch time, so hopefully going back to something in the morning will help. I doubt I'll ever be the sort of person who can eat a massive full breakfast, though, even though I love breakfast foods. My stomach just says "no way." I just consume them at lunch time when I'm in the mood for pancakes, eggs, bacon, or whatever.
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  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    I rarely eat anything before lunch time, usually around 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. I do drink some caloric drinks before that though. I always start the day with a cup of soy milk because this helps me meet my calcium goal. And I frequently have a V8 around 11 a.m.

    But I don't hate breakfast, I simply am rarely hungry in the morning. On the occasions when I wake up hungry, I eat breakfast. I'm a big fan of eating when hungry, but not until hungry.
  • bumblebreezy91
    bumblebreezy91 Posts: 520 Member
    Ugh, breakfast. I wake up thirsty, not hungry, so I very rarely eat anything before 9am and I wake up at 5-6am. I've tried smoothies. In the summer, sure. It's -18 without wind chill in my part of Wisconsin right now, so I don't want a freaking smoothie, okay? I just eat my gummy vitamins before leaving my apartment and pack food items in my backpack to take to work with me so I can eat some cheerios when my body is ready for solid food.

    ETA: It's 10:17am and I'm eating breakfast now.
  • Escape_Artist
    Escape_Artist Posts: 1,155 Member
    Breakfast = Breaking the fast

    Eat when you are hungry
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    You don't have to eat first thing in the morning if you don't want to. It is NOT "the most important meal of the day".
  • MaryJane_8810002
    MaryJane_8810002 Posts: 2,082 Member
    I had snickers and reeses peanut butter cups for breakfast... These are facts.
  • jetlag
    jetlag Posts: 800 Member
    If you don't want breakfast, the don't eat it. Seriously, you don't have to eat when you're not hungry.
  • kjoy_
    kjoy_ Posts: 316 Member
    i don't eat breakfast at breakfast but i do love me some breakfast foods at dinner!
  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    INteresting
  • MiloBloom83
    MiloBloom83 Posts: 2,724 Member
    How can you hate "Breakfast Club"? Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald? It's a classic!
  • Kenazwa
    Kenazwa Posts: 278 Member
    Breakfast = Breaking the fast

    Eat when you are hungry

    Exactly. Your first meal of the day is breaking the fast, or breakfast, no matter what time of day you eat it or what type of food you eat.
  • FaylinaMeir
    FaylinaMeir Posts: 661 Member
    Breakfast = Breaking the fast

    Eat when you are hungry

    exactly. I also have this thing against it "being the most important meal of the day" yeah it probably is but if you think WAY back to hunting gathering times, we had to WORK for our food so it didn't come out of a cereal box within 20 mins of waking up. I personally eat around 9ish am every morning no matter if I wake up at 5am or 9am. that's when I feel hungry. I DO feel like you should drink around a quart of water or a liter after getting up. Water is more important than food early in the morning plus it kinda gets your system moving :D

    and the stress of always getting breakfast if you don't want to eat can hurt weight loss too. Just saying ;)
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    How can you hate The Breakfast Club

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I personally love breakfast...but there is nothing inherently "healthy" or "unhealthy" about having it or skipping it. If you don't like breakfast, don't eat breakfast and get your calories later in the day.
  • Laurayinz
    Laurayinz Posts: 930 Member
    How can you hate "Breakfast Club"? Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald? It's a classic!
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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I'm rarely hungry in the morning and I usually feel a little sick, so I rarely eat breakfast.

    I love breakfast foods, though.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    How can you hate The Breakfast Club

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    Also this.
  • jkwolly
    jkwolly Posts: 3,049 Member
    Breakfast = Breaking the fast

    Eat when you are hungry
    This!

    Do what works for you, not from what everyone else says! Find when you're hungry, and eat then.

    I am up usually around 5:00-6:00am, and usually don't eat breakfast till 7:00-8:00am.

    How can you hate The Breakfast Club

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    HAHA so true.
  • Libi_KK
    Libi_KK Posts: 572 Member
    How can you hate "Breakfast Club"? Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald? It's a classic!

    Best movie EVER!!!
  • Deadlay
    Deadlay Posts: 135 Member
    I have coffee first thing and "breakfast" around 11 am...or as I like to call it, meal 1.
  • CTCMom2009
    CTCMom2009 Posts: 263 Member
    I eat breakfast, but it usually isn't until around 10-10:30am. First thing, I have a glass of water and my coffee. My breakfast usually consists of 1-2 hard boiled eggs and a Greek yogurt. Then I eat at normal times during the rest of the day.

    If you don't want to eat first thing, don't... do what works for you!
  • BarbellApprentice
    BarbellApprentice Posts: 486 Member
    If I am hungry in the morning, I eat breakfast. If not, I don't. The only exception to eating in the morning when I am not really hungry is when I need fuel for the gym.

    Not sure it has to be more complicated than than in most cases.
  • MarlaVSings
    MarlaVSings Posts: 66 Member
    I'm usually not in the mood to eat until 10-11am, but some days I feel like I need to have something. I usually have a smoothie because it doesn't upset my stomach.
  • Mia_RagazzaTosta
    Mia_RagazzaTosta Posts: 4,885 Member
    I love breakfast at about 6pm
  • jackpotclown
    jackpotclown Posts: 3,275 Member
    The-Breakfast-Club-opt.gif \m/
  • jlar09
    jlar09 Posts: 99
    Yep! This is me! I really don't like most breakfast foods (except oatmeal), and I tend to want heartier meals than breakfast typically warrants. If I eat right after I wake up I feel sick to my stomach, so I will make my breakfast and eat it when I get to work. I wake up at 7 a.m. and eat sometime between 9 and 10 a.m.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    I used to skip it, now I eat it..

    one way or the other it has no impact on metabolism or fat loss...
  • ElizabethFuller
    ElizabethFuller Posts: 352 Member
    I leave for work just after 7 in the morning and I just can't eat at that time, it's too early! If I'm not working I'll get up later and I'm quite happy to eat around 9. Early eating just doesn't suit me at all so I have a cup of tea and then have an early lunch at about midday. Seems to work for me, I don't ever seem to have been hypoglycaemic, headachy or weak in the morning but the "most important meal of the day" stuff does get to me occasionally and I feel that I should eat breakfast. So glad I'm not alone after all :smile:
  • stpt_guy
    stpt_guy Posts: 7 Member
    I never was really a breakfast person either, but I have found that something as simple as a cup of Honey Nut Cheerio nock off and 2/3 of a cup of milk will get me started and is light but provides some grains and gave me a little boost of energy. I then graze on veggies/fruit in the morning at my desk until lunch and then will consume my lunch but it keeps me from being hungry by lunch and just devouring a ton of food which then results in me being tired because of an insulin rush.

    I try to consume at least 150-200 calories between breakfast and lunch then again between lunch and dinner. Overnight is where I seem to get myself into trouble with consuming the most calories.
  • btsinmd
    btsinmd Posts: 921 Member
    I do tend to be ravenous by lunch time, so hopefully going back to something in the morning will help.
    I think that this is where the problem lies, why people say to eat breakfast. Usually when you are ravenous, and not thinking, you make poorer choices. I would grab something in the morning like a couple of boiled eggs, or a healthy granola bar, or a bag of cereal, or a bag of nuts, or whatever, and then eat when you get hungry. If it's close to lunch time and you must eat lunch at lunch time, then eat very little, just enough to tide you over.

    I find eating healthy and staying under my calories to be easier if I just have healthy food with me and I eat my meals when get hungry throughout the day.
  • smiletime82
    smiletime82 Posts: 29
    I'm not a big breakfast fan either. I'm just not really hungry when I wake up, but I find that if I don't eat a decent breakfast, then I have trouble getting all my calories during the day, so I make myself. I have to cook for the kids before they go to school, so I just make myself something to eat with them. Today, I just had a quick bowl of oatmeal, or in the summers a smoothie. I have been trying. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just eat a protein bar. I get chocolate ones, so it's like eating a candy bar for breakfast!

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