For those that do not eat breakfast? Explain how you do it?

I get up at 6:15, have coffee, and eat lunch at noon. (on work days). I do drink a lot of water, sometimes I snack, sometimes I don't. My lunch is small (less than 500 calories) and I save most of my calories for dinner. I don't generally eat late night snacks.

I never eat before 11 and sometimes I don't eat before 13 or 14.

I am also hypoglycemic and I have low blood pressure. I do just fine, I don't feel too hungry nor fatigued. I also stop eating at 17.

I'm a natural no-breakfast eater. But I do drink coffee, so that probably takes away any appetite I would have.

I'll have a cup of mid-morning tea sometimes. I'm just not hungry in the morning, but I do eat a larger dinner and leave room for dessert, so I fill up pretty good at night.

Up at 6. Diet soda or 0 cal energy drink on my way to work.
3 cups of coffee before noon with 1 splenda a 1 tablespoon fat free half and half per cup.

Wake up at 5:30am, just water or diet soda, workout, eat after 12:00, some snacking, eat dinner, snack how I feel till 11:30pm. Last night it was raw almonds.

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_benjammin wrote: »

Artemiris wrote: »

I never eat before 11 and sometimes I don't eat before 13 or 14.

I am also hypoglycemic and I have low blood pressure. I do just fine, I don't feel too hungry nor fatigued. I also stop eating at 17.

First time I've seen someone us Military/24-hour time on MFP, I like it.

I feel it's easier to discuss different times of the day when using a 24 hours clock. Or maybe it's simply because in Europe we are used to it. Hope it's not confusing.

Wake up at whatever brutal hour the kids decide (usually between 5-6am) then I drink tea and water until I break my fast at 10am. Dinner is at 5:45 and I don't eat after that usually.

I get up at 5:15am and eat about meal 1 at 12:00 Mon-Fri, Sat & Sun I may eat as early as 11:00. Meal 2 is between 4:30 and 7:00, but I try to never eat after 7:00. So my fasting/feasting schedule ranges between 18/6 and 19/5. I only drink water when I'm fasting, but many people like coffee because it's an appetite suppressant.

I consume about 20% of my daily calories for meal 1 and the remaining 80% for meal 2 Mon-Fri and then 35% for meal 1 and 65% for meal 2 on Sat & Sun. It's much easier to restrict what I eat when I'm at work Mon-Frie because I only eat what I bring and there isn't a refrigerator and pantry full of food at my office to temp me.

A good website to read about the benefits of Intermittent Fasting is leangains.com. The guy who runs the site is a body builder and maintains a single digit body fat percentage year round using Intermittent Fasting. He explains why the old adage of "breakfast is the most important meal" is a bunch of crap. He's actually a proponent of lifting while in a fasted state, I usually don't do that because of my schedule, but when I can, I do, and I've seen no ill effects.

Do I get hungry when I'm fasting, sure sometimes, but not too often. It's just mind over matter... but it does help to stay away from the aroma of food and avoid looking at it as well.

catscats222 wrote: »

Ex: you wake up at 6 am
And you eat nothing until noon?
Just water?
Curious - not bashing.
At what time do you eat dinner? Do you eat late-night snacks?
I have a bit of hypoglycemia, so this is interesting.
People can really go that long without any food?

On those days, I get up and I don't eat until lunch or whenever. Dinner is probably around 6:00 PM depending on traffic and activities.

I can easily go six hours without eating if that's what I want to do.

I was a non-breakfast eater and then encouraged by incorrect dieting advise that I need to eat it and I forced myself. So now after many years, my body expects it, especially on work days. Since I don't particularly like breakfast foods and have found some foods eaten too early give me heartburn, I now just listen to my body. I get up at 5:30 weekdays and typically eat breakfast around 7:30, when I feel hungry. On the weekend, get up between 7 and 8, have coffee, and I don't eat until I feel hungry, typically 10-11.

At work by 8, coffee with creamer until usually 12-1pm, unless I am really hungry I will eat a snack before, but that then pushes lunch out till even later.

Dinner is at different times depending on schedule, but usually between 7-830pm.

I found when I ate breakfast at 8am, I still felt the need to eat lunch at the same time. So I just stopped forcing the breakfast.

I never eat before 11 or so - I have no hunger at all when I wake up. Between 11 and 4 I usually just eat two granola or protein bars. At around 5:30 I eat my one big meal, sometimes split into two parts. I usually have about a 200 calorie snack at 9 PM or so.

Generally, I eat one egg for breakfast. Sometimes I blow it off. I always have coffee though. It's my special thing I refuse to give up. And as long as I'm keeping my caloric deficit..... But on the days I don't eat breakfast, I usually get up at 7/730 and eat around 1030/11. On days when I have the egg about 730/745, I don't eat again until almost 1. Cause I get side stitches if I eat before cardio, which I do during baby naptime at 1230.

I think it's just what feels natural for some people. I do tend to prefer later dinners and evening snacks. I also find coffee tides me over. Sometimes I have a small breakfast around 9:00. Examples would be an apple or a yogurt cup. Maybe cottage cheese. One of those, not all at once.

I'm just used to it since way back in high school. Get up, get ready, and out the door. So I get hungry around 5-6 hrs after I'm up.