Breakfast is hard!

I would try a protein shake with some fruit added in, like a banana or strawberries or frozen berries, whatever you like. It would provide more nutrients (and most likely, less sugar) for you.

Have you tried normal porridge? Can be done in the microwave so nice and quick and will keep you full until lunch.

You could be eating worse things, but those are generally so processed that I would either suggest the natural oats, and then you can add a splenda, pinch of cinnamon, peanut butter etc.

Or you should try some power bars if you don't have a lot of time. I eat balance bars (peanut butter and chocolate YUM) with a glass of water and they fill me up until I can get a decent breakfast or lunch.

Breakfast isn't magical in terms of helping you lose weight. Granted, I'm a fan of it. But I know plenty of people who have reached amazing physiques without eating breakfast. For instance, check out the intermittent fasting website belonging to Marin Berkhan at www.leangains.com.

Breakfast is tough. I usually eat a couple of boiled eggs and some fruit. I think some sort of smoothie would be a great idea though.

i would suggest going a fruit smoothie route instead. my fav is 1 cup vanilla almond milk, 1/2 cup vanilla yogourt, 2/3 cup frozen wild blueberries, and 1/2 cup frozen spinach. i also add in 1/2 tsp of cinnamon. the colour...well, not so great, but the taste is so yummy. you can't taste the spinach at all. you can use any frozen fruit you like really. you can also switch out almond milk for soy, or even a pure juice. add a piece of toast on the side to get some good fiber too, and you are set.

i was not a breakfast person at all before this, but you would be surprised at how quickly your body realizes it's ok/good to be hungry first thing in the morning.

I feel your pain - I used to skip breakfast all the time too. I used to figure, if I wasn't hungry, I shouldn't eat. Then all of a sudden after lunch I'd be ravenous and would gorge myself with complete junk. Geez, no wonder I got so overweight!
But trust me, once you get into the habit of eating something and you stay within your normal calorie range for the day for a while, you will develop the habit and may even wake up hungry!

I'm a big fan of trying to eat more whole foods so if you're not going to go with the traditional cereal/oatmeal thing, how about eating a cup of yogurt and some berries and/or banana. And there's nothing saying you can't have a turkey sandwich for breakfast if that suits your tastes. People have breakfast food for dinner all the time, why not have lunch for breakfast?

I'm still not really hungry first thing unless I've gone under my calories the day before so I eat my breakfast around 9am most days and my bowl of Kashi oatmeal keeps me plenty full until lunch time.

I totally agree with some of the others in here in that you really have to LEARN to eat breakfast. I didn't eat it for years and years and felt sick whenever I did, the thought of breakfast foods made my stomach churn. But I forced myself to eat something (ANYTHING) each morning, a piece of fruit, moved up to a yoghurt, moved up to a fruit smoothie, moved up to now when I have either avocado and tomato or eggs on toast! And feel sick if I don't eat!

So find something, anything, you can stomach a little of and work from there Good Luck x

If I skip breakfast, I completely gorge at lunch time--and usually I'm so hungry, |'ll eat just about anything (including processed crap).

In elementary school, I remember the teachers polling everyone in their classes to see who ate breakfast on a regular basis. The kids that always skipped it turned out to always be more tired than everyone else in the mornings, as well as have a higher BMI

...I know that the whole BMI chart is just that...a chart, but these kids were rotund.

Perhaps it's just the fact that I was raised by parents who wouldn't let me leave the house unless I had food in my belly, but if I go without breakfast, I'm useless in the morning.

I never get to eat before I leave the house though anymore, so my breakfast usually consists of a bagel with pb & chia seeds, or a big bowl of organic oatmeal with fruit that I'll eat at work at my desk when I get the time.

On the weekends, I'll make scrambled egg whites with feta cheese and chives, side of turkey bacon. Just the thought of it is enough to get me out of bed!

If I skip breakfast, I completely gorge at lunch time--and usually I'm so hungry, |'ll eat just about anything (including processed crap).

Not quoting you to speak directly at you... but I'd like to use your statement as an example. In your case eating breakfast makes perfect sense. But that's you. Appetite patterns are individual. For instance, there is a large faction of people who do best (in terms of hunger control, calorie partitioning, etc) fasting the majority of the day. They eat all of their calories in the PM hours (see intermittent fasting). Which is why I said if she's able to hit her calorie and nutrient targets, why strong arm her into eating breakfast?

If she's not hitting those targets, in that she has trouble controlling hunger and intake later in the day when she skips breakfast... than some of these suggestions make sense. I just didn't see her claim to have this problem.

It's not as if metabolism crashes if you don't eat breakfast. Metabolic adaptations happen over MUCH longer time continuums.