Do you think skipping Breakfast is really all that bad?

I can say with 100% certainty that it is not bad for me. I've been skipping it for most of my adult life with no health problem.

KeepingFit4Me wrote: »

I must admit I'm the same as you! I struggle to eat breakfast before 10.30am. I have a busy morning and don't feel ready to sit down and eat a breakfast until midmorning! The trouble is it pushes everything back! Lunch is around 2.30/3pm and then I'm eating my main meal 6/7pm.

I saw a dietician yesterday and one of the things she said was that I should eat more in the day and less at night (especially less carbohydrate). She said that I was eating most of my calories in the evening and then not burning them off! She recommended having a snack midmorning - I'm only having my breakfast then!!

Hope this helps!

Wow. Wow. This woman gets PAID for this kind of advice??!

OP, I rarely eat breakfast these days and it hasn't hindered weight loss. If anything, eating breakfast just makes me hungrier later in the day. So if that's my metabolism getting kick-started in the morning you can keep it. Eat when you're hungry, like a normal person.

Yesterday I had a 1500cal breakfast, today I had an 81cal breakfast.
Not dead yet.....

I don't have anything but coffee in the morning. Sometimes a cup of tea mid-morning. Never been a big breakfast eater and when I started forcing myself to eat in the morning because I kept being hammered by my mother and friends with how important it is, that's when I started gaining weight faster. I find if I do eat breakfast, my appetite takes on a life of it's own for the rest of the day.

I do eat it sometimes on the weekends. It's usually big and consists of bacon and pancakes.

I get up at 6am, and drink coffee and water until whenever I get hungry, usually between 12 and 1:30. then I eat my lunch, usually chips and a sandwich (I pack cereal every single day) and then if I get hungry before I get off work (6pm) I eat my cereal. I eat it about half the time. then I go home and eat dinner. If i didn't eat my cereal I get a snack, i'm not going to eat calories just to eat them, so If I am hungry..I do, if I am not, then I don't. wasted calories are for candy.

I get up Mon - Fri at 4:30 am and have coffee. I'm at work by 6:30 am and have either coffee, tea, or water. I usually will eat something starting at 10 am and sometimes even wait until around 11:30 am. I like it because it enables me to eat a larger dinner after working all day.

It is personal preference in my opinion. I am up at 6:15 every morning and don't eat until 9 or 10 AM depending on the day. It works for me because I find that I don't get as hungry in the afternoons this way. If I started eating when I got up, I would be eating all day long.

I think it's only bad if you are hungry. If you aren't a "breakfast" person, there's nothing wrong with that at all.
I read a study not long ago, can't remember where so no link, but it discredited a lot of the myths behind 'needing a solid breakfast' for those who weren't inclined to be hungry in the AM.

I'm on a fasting diet and only eat from about 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 pm. Ive lost 21 lbs in seven weeks (6' 1" male, sw 250, cw 229).

I used to try to eat big breakfasts with lots of protein so I wouldnt crave junk later. My normal routine was break, lunch (always still hungry after unless eat very large amounts), junk snacks in afternoon to keep me going, feel bad at end of day, try to workout, feel bad into evening, dinner, snack, bed.

I like to eat tell full and once I start eating, I want to keep eating or I get really hungry. With fasting, I dont get that hungry.

My energy level is good now, I dont have afternoon crashes, I dont eat aftenoon junk, I exercise after work with lots of energy, and feel good into the evenings. In the evenings, I eat tell I'm full, which is what I like to do, and consume about 1800 to 2400 calories (I take vtamins and protein supps). This has been way easier for me than spreading the calories out and eating small meals and never getting full or satisfied. I dont limit any food types and will have some junk treats after dinner.

So, I now think it is fine to skip breakfast AND lunch.