Eating early breakfast. Starving throughout the whole day

i eat a small snack before breakfast usually and then have my oatmeal or whatever and then 2 hours later i eat another snack. if you're hungry you should eat! prep snacks/meals ahead of time and bring em with you. i eat like every 2 hours, smaller portions in frequent amounts is what my body loves. find what was working for you, timing has no effect on weight loss as long as you're watching the calories you consume. snacks are my fav thing about each day lol

If you're not hungry for breakfast, don't eat it. Eat breakfast when you are hungry even if it needs to be a cereal bar or something else portable because you can't sit down to eat when you do get hungry. Me, I'm starving when I wake up in the morning and eat smaller meals with lots of snacking inbetween to control hunger.

Check out intermittent fasting. There are even potential benefits from going a little more than 12 hours fasting every day, and there are many adherents of 14:10 (14 hours fasting, 10 hours eating) or 16:8 (16 hours fasting, 8 hours eating) fasting each day.

People can decide for themselves if there's any real benefits for them through such protocols, but having dabbled with a little 16:8 recently, I actually found I had increased focus in the mornings when I went without food until midday. Others find it helps with adherence to their daily intake. I didn't find that myself, but generally its supposed to take about 2 weeks to re-align eating patterns, and I only tried it for 3 days.

Personally speaking though, its something I will try again in the future, and the only reason I gave it three days, was that I needed to focus on getting other things in my diet and intake right, before throwing IF into the mix too.

Bottomline - skipping breakfast won't kill you, and may even have benefits you like

I have a 1.5-2 hour commute to work too. I have a similar schedule, so I eat 6 small meals a day. My eating schedule looks like this:
Meal 1 @ 6:30 am
Meal 2 @ 9:00 am
Meal 3 @ 12:00 pm
Meal 4 @ 2:00 pm
Meal 5 @ 4:00 pm
Meal 6 @ 6:30 pm

Kimmiebatchy wrote: »

fitcrt wrote: »

Eat a small breakfast - say 200 calories (1 egg & low carb toast) & then have a snack for around 100 calories (yogurt, nuts or jerky).

I agree with this, eat something smaller and then have a snack later when you are hungry. Breakfast is essential to kick start your metabolism and start your body burning those calories!

NO. Your metabolism does not need to be "kick-started." Eat when works for you. Usually, I am hungry at breakfast time (after 7am) so I eat something high in protein (and fat, like eggs). That and fiber will help you feel full longer. But don't feel obligated to eat if you're not hungry!

zenner22 wrote: »

Don't eat your first meal of the day until you are hungry. Regardless of what time it is. I dutifuly ate my "most important meal of the day" breakfast first thing in the morning for years and I'm fat. I no longer think its wise to eat at prescribed times.

Yep! Lots of us "fat" people on here prescribed to the breakfast being the most importany meal idea. Sure it is! Because it's still called "breakfast" Whatever time you eat it. I put mine off as late as possible. I used to say "I don't eat breakfast." I've since realized that your first meal of the day is called "breakfast" So unless you never eat, you do eat breakfast! lol. So when well intentioned people tell me I should eat breakfast, I say I do! Sometimes it's just at 2:30 pm!

You don't have to eat an early breakfast. Time your meals to when it fits your schedule and your stomach best. Plus, you'll get to sleep more if you eat breakfast around 9:30 at work (when your stomach wants it) instead of getting up and cooking at 6. Everybody wins!

Either eat a snack between your meals or don't eat breakfast so early. Some days I split my breakfast in two and eat half at 7:30 just before I leave for work and the rest at my desk at 9am, or I eat the entire thing at my desk at 9. It simply depends on how I'm feeling at 7:30. Listen to your body - it knows what it needs.

You might want to incorporate protein in your breakfast (like eggs) - this will keep you full for hours. Also - incorporate snacks to tide you over before lunch - again, think protein - to keep you full.