Breakfast when you're not hungry?

It's important to eat breakfast every day? Interesting.....

I have never been much of one for eating breakfast. My body is not generally naturally hungry until around 9:30 or 10 o'clock. I used to have my lunch around 10, but the way things are at work it just wont work that way for me anymore.

It is important to "break" the "fast" every day... what time you do that is up to you.

Indeed. Failure to break the fast results in death usually. :-D

Eating breakfast starts the metabolism engine. I would suspect the 1 meal eaters, don't burn as many calories throughout the day. So I support the eat light, like you did with the egg.

Eating breakfast starts the metabolism engine. I would suspect the 1 meal eaters, don't burn as many calories throughout the day. So I support the eat light, like you did with the egg.

Actually the metabolism engine doesn't need starting, it's always going unless you're dead (zombie apocalypse? ). I suspect we all burn at different rates for many different reasons but those who eat whenever they want with the same amount is no different than eating in a structured way, aside from personal satiety and adherence to diet.

Eat within your calories and whenever you feel is the best for you. I eat about 4 meals myself. My first meal isn't until almost noon on most days. I seem to burn calories just fine.

Eating breakfast starts the metabolism engine. I would suspect the 1 meal eaters, don't burn as many calories throughout the day. So I support the eat light, like you did with the egg.

WTH? Where did you pull it off from?

i never eat unless i'm hungry. My body clock tells me when to eat, not the man made time measuring clock

I very rarely eat breakfast. I have lost weight just fine, if you aren't hungry, and you are trying to lose weight, forcing food down your throat when you aren't hungry seems...counterintuitive to me.

So glad to find this post as this was exactly my question this morning.:huh: I DIDN'T eat breakfast with hubby today at the crack of dawn as usual and had a better walk time then ever, and finally ate after my shower. Could this make for a better workout too(granted I only walk at a slow pace)??? Any of you more athletic folks have an answer. I'm kinda thinking eat when hungry and there is no set rule, take it day by day??? BTW always looking for knowledgeable motivating friends to add :flowerforyou:

So glad to find this post as this was exactly my question this morning.:huh: I DIDN'T eat breakfast with hubby today at the crack of dawn as usual and had a better walk time then ever, and finally ate after my shower. Could this make for a better workout too(granted I only walk at a slow pace)??? Any of you more athletic folks have an answer. I'm kinda thinking eat when hungry and there is no set rule, take it day by day??? BTW always looking for knowledgeable motivating friends to add :flowerforyou:

I guess it depends on what you mean by "better"?

I can't workout within an hour of eating of we'll need a mop and a bucket in aisle 2. I'm just getting back into running again and usually have something light, let it settle a bit, and then get at it. I tried running in a fasted state a few times last year (right after waking up) and bonked big time. I barely made it two miles before practically collapsing.

I'm sure there are folks here that can house a huge meal and then hit the gym or the pavement - along with the folks that run forever on a completely empty stomach. I'm sure there are science-y reasons why one might be better than the other but I'm not even close to a top 5% elite athlete where that kind of thing matters. I just do what feels best for me.

Eating breakfast starts the metabolism engine. I would suspect the 1 meal eaters, don't burn as many calories throughout the day. So I support the eat light, like you did with the egg.

Nonsense...

I agree. This is what I've always read and been taught.

Breakfast doesn't mean you have to eat the minute you wake up. I do Shakeology for my breakfast meal because I'm not that hungry yet. Even protein in coffee would help. Eating or having a healthy boost for breakfast DOES speed up your metabolism though. That is why when you eat early you are hungry more often. This is why people are able to eat small meals throughout the day rather than large meals where they over-eat. The end result being significantly better because as you read in most fitness magazines "6 small meals or snacks a day is better than 3 large ones." We were even taught in the military starting in bootcamp to do that. We didn't come out tiny from lack of food or too much exercise. Fueling your body throughout the day helps you to have better workouts even if it is just a handful of nuts for protein.

But why??? Please state why eating breakfast is better for you?
And why is being hungry more often better?
And why are 6small meals better for you? Just because thats what you have readin fitness magazines doesnt make it true. Remember they write articles to sell magazines and they never give a balanced argument they look at scientific studies and pick out the results they wnt to use to prove their point.

Please dont reply with the 'scientific survey' that concluded that non breakfast eaters eat more calories later in the day because there is another which states that other non breakfast eaters tend not to eat back the calories missed from that meal. It comes down to will power if you miss breakfast and dont want to snack later you wont if you convince yourself that by missing it you will snack then hey Ho you will snack.

And in the military it is very different to real life, in real life you know most of your days plans and you know when you have time to eat and what you wil be getting and how much, when I was in training it was a case of eat as and when you can and eat as much as you can. Some lads were consuming 4000-5000 calories plus per day, now I wouldnt recommend that to many people would you? (they werent gaining)

In my experience it is down to personal preference. If you dont feel like breakfast then dont eat if you are hungry in the morning then eat. But not eating breakfast doesnt affect my training.

Finally, the point you make about boosting metabolism...
'There may be benefits to manipulating meal frequency and eating the same amount of food more often or less often, but metabolic rate is not one of them. There is no evidence to support the idea that multiple meals increases metabolic rate' sition. Am J Clin Nutr. (2008)
Weinsier RL, et al. (1995)
Saris WH. (1998)
Farshchi HR, Taylor MA, Macdonald IA.. (2004)
Farshchi HR, Taylor MA, Macdonald IA.. (2005)

This morning I woke up not hungry. I know it's important to eat breakfast every day. Is it better to force feed myself something or is it better to only eat when you're hungry? (Sidebar: I ended up force-feeding myself a hard-boiled egg just so I would have some protein in my belly to start the day)

Only eat when you are hungry.

Missing breakfast (if your not hungry that is) is brilliant for weight loss.

When you wake in the morning your body has been in a state of fast, the longer you can go without needing to eat the more your body will be burning body fat as fuel.

That being said if you have a relatively high carb diet, WHEN you get hungry do eat, as your body may not be as efficient at converting your stored body fat and may look to other sources (lean mass) for the liver to convert into glycogen.

If you're on a relatively low carb diet and are efficient at burning ketones for fuel - don't sweat it just eat when you're hungry.

Good luck.

I love all of what this guy said!