Skipping breakfast...thoughts?

Meal timing doesn't matter at all, eat when you want.

There are a lot of threads on this.

"Jumpstarting metabolism" is silly broscience, quite frankly.

Eat breakfast if you want to and if it helps you make smarter choices for the rest of the day. Don't eat breakfast if you don't like it, don't miss it, or would prefer to eat those calories at another point in the day.

It's up to you and it will only make a difference to your weight loss if it affects the choices you make for the rest of the day. If you're logging your calories correctly you can track that and see.

I never used to eat breakfast and it made literally no difference to weight loss or gain; however, I find that I feel more alert in the morning if I've eaten something, so now I have a protein bar with my coffee. Whether or not I eat breakfast, I still track my daily calories so I don't eat more than I should.

I'd say you should eat something in the morning. Most things I've read say that breakfast is important

Because I have a desk job so I eat on a pretty regular schedule but what I eat varies a lot. Sometimes, I try to consume everything and other times, I'm just not hungry. My advice is, eat when you're hungry and make better food choices overall and you'll be fine.

idrinkalotofwater wrote: »

I'd say you should eat something in the morning. Most things I've read say that breakfast is important

Eating breakfast is generally recommended to try to stop people from snacking later on and eating more calories. If you're calorie counting, this is irrelevant.

I only eat breakfast when I am on day shift for my job because I have to be up around 5:30am to be ready at work for 6:45 start. This is because otherwise I am ready to eat my arm by lunchtime. I have day shift twice every ten days, so j have breakfast twice every ten days. Otherwise it's just lunch and dinner with some snacks, or brunch and dinner with snacks. I say do whatever works for you. If you like it and have no problem fitting it in calorie wise then no issue, but if you want to stop them go for gold

Personally, I try to eat something even if I'm not super hungry. If I end up getting full, I just stop eating and pack my bfast, or I keep going. I like to eat something because if I wait too long, I might get way too hungry and if I don't have access to lunch at that very moment, I get hunger headaches and may feel inclined to eat past my hunger levels once I do eat lunch! Try it out, experiment a little and find what works for you!

Eat if you are hungry. I don't tend to eat until I have been up for about 3-5 hours. I found if I eat too early I end up eating way more in the day or sometimes it makes me feel ill. I've never been big on breakfast though either. Weekends I rarely eat until after 1 regardless of what time I get up

So, breakfast is something I think many have assumed is important because people who eat breakfast tend to be thinner than those who don't. However, causality (i.e., eating breakfast MAKES you thinner) isn't actually well established in the literature. But, from what I know about circadian rhythms and the chronobiology of obesity, I think it's likely that eating breakfast is a helpful practice. But it's a little bit like majoring in the minors - the main thing is to have a calorie deficit and have a good balanced intake. Work on those first. If eating breakfast fits with that for you, go for it, on the other hand, if skipping breakfast works for your lifestyle right now, probably should not be your first focus. Either way, I'd recommend if you have breakfast it be a bit more substantial and have some fat, protein, carb mix (a granola bar will be mostly fairly refined carbs, perhaps not the best start to the day). Good luck!

I don't often eat breakfast anymore. When I did it was a 100 calorie thing of oatmeal, a teaspoon of sugar, sprinkle of cinnamon, and typically would also have 24ooz of coffee with a 1/3cup whole milk in it, so breakfast ended up being like 190 calories. I found that I wasn't significantly fuller, and was actually more hungry by lunch time, I take lunch about 1130, so I stopped eating breakfast.

Much to my surprise I was fine. Wasn't starving all morning, didn't need a huge lunch to compensate, and it enabled me to have a decent snack in the evening, so it just worked out better for me that way. Sometimes if I wake up and I'm oddly starving I will eat some oat meal or something, but thats happening less and less.

I do eat breakfast, pre-diabetic here. It is definitely my smallest meal, sometimes lower calories than my bedtime snack. I am not hungry in the morning, and like eating more in the late afternoon and evening. I was so relieved when the research showed that it doesn't matter for weight loss if you skip breakfast or eat right before sleep!

Nope, not necessary. My breakfast is literally a glass of orange juice. Then I have a nice big lunch, and a medium sized dinner. It took a lot of adjustment for me to figure out the best way to not be ravenously hungry, but this is what I ended up with.

I like breakfast on Sundays and sometimes for dinner. Otherwise, I find most days, I wake at 3:30ish, gym at 5 and eat usually around 10:30ish.

I've found I tend to get hungrier more often, and for more food, on days when I have breakfast. I don't usually feel hungry until after I've first eaten something, so holding off until lunch is no issue and then I enjoy bigger lunches and dinners, and don't feel as snackish in the evening.

It keeps me on track better if I skip, and medically there's no reason not to, so as long as there aren't any issues pressing you to eat breakfast/you don't wake up ravenous, just do what works best for you.

I never skip breakfast, not because it's "the most important meal of the day" or because it "jump starts your metabolism" or any other myth. I just love breakfast! It's my favorite meal of that day and the one I spend the most calories on.

Having said that....if you don't want to eat breakfast, don't. It doesn't matter at all.