Breakfast

AbbyMchappy
AbbyMchappy Posts: 12 Member
edited December 21 in Food and Nutrition
Should I eat breakfast? I usually have a coffee and have found i am much more hungry during the day if i do eat breakfast but I don't know what to believe about it getting my metabolism going?

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  • pierinifitness
    pierinifitness Posts: 2,226 Member
    edited June 2019
    Eat the number of calories needed to help you accomplish your fitness, health and wellness goals. Then, time your meals to align with your appetite, lifestyle and fitness activities and the times those who are part of your life eat. Breakfast may or ma not make the cut.

    Nothing else matters.
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    I happen to love breakfast and get cranky if I miss it.

    It does get my juices flowing. If I have decent fat with breakfast, like avocado, I won't get hungry for quite some time.
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    your body doesnt care if you break your fast -breakfast- at 6 am or 6pm...Aslong as you hit your caloric goals at some point in your day -I eat mostly at night- your fine. No magical properties to eating early especially if you prefer to eat at night. Its fine to eat at night.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,600 Member
    The whole "breakfast jump starts your metabolism for the day" idea has very little scientific basis. If you, personally, feel fine and have a good energy level when you wait until later to eat, you'll be fine. Our metabolisms run all day and night long (or we wouldn't be alive ;) ). Moving more (exercise or daily life stuff) increases our calorie expenditure, but that's on top of the metabolic processes just humming away there in the background.

    Eat to your calorie goal, and get adequate nutrition, sometime during the day, and you'll be fine. Details of timing are about personal performance and preference.

    Breakfast is important to me (helps me emerge from my night owl's traditional AM semi-comatose state ;) ), but I'm not going to suggest that what works for me is going to work best for others. Humans are individuals, and very adaptive by nature.

    Best wishes!
  • AbbyMchappy
    AbbyMchappy Posts: 12 Member
    Thanks!!! Very interesting
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