Do you eat breakfast

Francl27 wrote: »

The whole thing about breakfast is this -

Someone can have a 10pm snack then skip breakfast and have lunch at noon. That's 14 hours without eating.
Someone can have dinner at 6pm and have breakfast at 8am - still 14 hours without eating.

So I really don't understand the whole 'must eat breakfast' thing. Naturally, you'll be less hungry for breakfast if you eat more/later at night. That's all there is to it.

I have breakfast when I'm hungry, whether it's 5am or 11am.

Pretty much me here. I eat late into the night so breakfast isn't needed.

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Everyone is different. One of my issues getting started on this journey to a healthier self was that I tended to eat until full. That usually meant eating too much and being lethargic afterward for hours. I skipped breakfast, ate a big lunch and fell into the trap of eating a "sensible dinner". Problem was, I ate the big (lets say huge) lunch, then tried to eat a sensible dinner, and ended up snacking later which blew the sensible dinner out the window. Once I started logging and figured out what I was doing I found the error of my ways.

It took me a while to get used to eating breakfast instead of just slamming coffee all morning. But once I found out that smaller meals more often worked better for me (everyone is different) I was able to control my calories easier without being hungry all the time. I now eat 3 meals a day with 2 snack periods, one snack mid-morning and one snack after dinner at night (if there are calories left). So for me, that ends up being more or less five meals. Breakfast is usually 400ish calories, mid morning snack is around 400 calories, lunch is around 500 calories, and dinner is usually around 800 calories or a tad higher. Then my late snack is up to 400 calories. I work out five days a week for about 1.5 hours and have been in maintenance for a while, so my daily average calorie intake being 6'2" tall is around 2500 calories to maintain my weight. I'm sure someone in a deficit would be lower, and may have to lower the calories of each meal, but you get the idea. Since I've been eating like this for the last year I have found I am unable to gorge myself like I used to do at meals, which is a good thing. I get full much faster and it makes it even easier to control calories at each meal/snack.

A small amount of fat and protein helps keep me from being starvinng and eating crap at work later in the day.

About 3/4 cup of full-fat cottage cheese and a cup of coffee will keep me going all morning.

jenbeck18 wrote: »

I hear so many different things how not eating breakfast makes you less hungry. Do you find this true anddo you eat breakfest?

Don't go buy things you hear or whatever...go by what works for you. Yes, I eat breakfast...I love breakfast.

mlcollins89 wrote: »

I've started eating breakfast at work at about 10am (wake up at about 6:30). I'm finding if I push back breakfast and lunch and I'm not getting that afternoon sluggish feeling before going home.

This!
When I skip breakfast and lunch, I'm burning fat and I have a steady energy level unlike if I eat breakfast and then get real hungry for lunch then have a crash after lunch and need something to keep going. All that blood sugar roller-coaster has gone away and I feel like exercising (fasted) after work whereas before when I would eat break and lunch I would not feel like working out.

I think it's an old fashion saying about breakfast being most important meal of the day. Maybe for young kids but lots of adults do ok skipping it
I like eating breakfast but I do have my dinner early so really hungry first thing

If I don't eat breakfast I'll hurt someone