To breakfast or not to breakfast?

Kirstroeg
Kirstroeg Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm not really a Breakfast person and feel better on the days I skip it or have only a cup of black tea. If I eat breakfast it makes me want to snack all day from that point!
Is it recommended to eat a healthy breakfast or ok to start each day fasting until lunch?

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  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 3,603 Member
    I used to have the same problem. Through trial and error and advice from a great dietician, I found I do better overall with almost straight protein for breakfast. It makes me continue to want protein every 4 to 5 hours, but not sugar. But I also agree that you have to find what works for you.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,928 Member
    This is a very old thread and I'm not sure TO is still around.

    Overall it doesn't matter whether one eats breakfast or not. Everyone should eat how it works best for them, provided basic nutritional needs are met.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,319 Member
    edited October 2023
    naylorandrew890 wrote: Ā»
    I think we must eat breakfast because it is essential food to kick start your day. If you eat healthy food then your whole day remains good.

    It makes absolutely no difference. I have not eaten until noon or later for years if not decades, and like the original poster, it helps me control how much I eat because when I eat breakfast in the morning I want to eat all day. Your body doesn't need to be kick started in the morning. The whole, "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" thing is something put together by marketers to sell their foods, not any sort of rigorous randomized control studies. Do what works for you. If you find eating first thing in the morning is beneficial, eat. If you don't, don.t
  • loulee997
    loulee997 Posts: 273 Member
    Then just have tea.

    As long as you get your calories for the day, it doesn't matter when you eat them. You are basically doing a breakfast 'fast'. Many people do that on purpose.

    True breakfast always sounds awful to me--sinus drainage. When I say breakfast, I always am referring to my 10 AM EST snack. It can be anything from a piece of sausage to five crackers.

    Tea works.
  • lifesnotfare1
    lifesnotfare1 Posts: 7 Member
    I know this is an old post. But it somehow got bumped towards the top. So, I figured I'd share and agree with the first and second responses here.
    1. Do what works for you!
    2. Protein for breakfast. I've read quite a few studies that show high-carb breakfast eaters are generally hungrier, more quickly. I've also read a few studies on why this might be. It would seem that the carbs quickly breakdown to sugars and spike your insulin which wears of quickly and triggers your body to think it needs food again.
    I'm not a smart man, but I thought I might share anyway.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,972 Member
    Not a breakfast eater. Will eat on occasion if on vacay or if I'm really hungry. And it's usally just eggs. But normally I won't eat until after 12pm on almost all days of the week.


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  • k_moseley
    k_moseley Posts: 5 Member
    I like breakfast because then I don't overeat at night but that's me. I ate breakfast today and felt full up until lunch.
  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,300 Member
    I don't enjoy eating breakfast. I am rarely hungry in the mornings and I feel like when I do eat it, I am more hungry the rest of the day. Currently though I am on a medication that I need to have food with it, so I have to eat something in the mornings. Otherwise I get super nauseated. Once I am done with this though, I am going to go back to just not having anything.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Kirstroeg wrote: Ā»
    I'm not really a Breakfast person and feel better on the days I skip it or have only a cup of black tea. If I eat breakfast it makes me want to snack all day from that point!
    Is it recommended to eat a healthy breakfast or ok to start each day fasting until lunch?

    Whatever floats your boat...it doesn't matter and is 100% personal preference. Weight management ultimately comes down to calories in vs calories out over time. I'm personally a morning breakfast person, but "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" was just a Kellogg marketing ploy to get people to buy there new cereal back in the day.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Food traditionally considered "Breakfast" like cereal, toast, muffins, bagels, pancakes (high carb / high carb and fat) will spike my appetite but higher protein meals do not. I'm always ravenous after "nature calls" in the AM so do plan on a higher protein meal immediately afterwards. This time of year I like warm foods so it might be a variety of egg-based dishes. In the warmer months, it's high fiber cereal, Greek yogurt, and berries.
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,225 Member
    I agree to do whatever you feel right. My daughter has to eat breakfast every morning asap before doing anything else, and stays slim.
    I've never liked breakfast, even as a kid, and prefer coffee until 10 or 11am.
  • Melwillbehealthy
    Melwillbehealthy Posts: 894 Member
    In the past I never ate until noon or even later. However, due to getting diabetes, and feeling very lightheaded, and nauseous when I wake up, my doctor told me to eat a tablespoon of peanut butter in the morning It certainly does the trick. I feel fine now.
  • emmaseth
    emmaseth Posts: 1 Member
    I NEVER ate breakfast till 11am-ish but learned that eating 30g of protein at each meal, especially breakfast, promotes fat burning & muscle growth rather than glucose storage (bellyfat). And give your metabolism an extra boost by eating within the first 30 minutes of waking. Choose your foods thoughtfully tho, slow carbs take longer to digest so you're full for longer, Fast carbs will only spike your insulin levels and make you hungrier sooner. Carbs are not out but eat the right ones at the right time of your day. Skipping breakfast is linked to overeating in the evening too. Ive been livng this theory for 3 wks now & it's working! I eat a 3 egg salmon omelette for breakfast 7am-ish & I'm still full until 1-2pm, I don't snack anymore & I'm losing weight. Simply put, if you're hungry all the time, you're not eating enough! When I was younger I was unknowingly fasting (before it was a thing) but that doesn't work so well when you're 52 & perimenopausal ... so you do you boo, if it works for you like it used to for me don't change it. For me now, turns out breakfast is my game changer.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,928 Member
    Per definition, the first meal after a fast is the breakfast. So yeah, Iā€™m having that šŸ˜…šŸ™ˆ
  • evileyefirefly
    evileyefirefly Posts: 322 Member
    k_moseley wrote: Ā»
    I like breakfast because then I don't overeat at night but that's me. I ate breakfast today and felt full up until lunch.

    I'm 100% the opposite. If I eat breakfast I get absolutely ravenous a few hours later. But I also get up at 4am and don't eat lunch until around 11am. If I skip breakfast and drink a cup of coffee and a bunch of water I just start to get hungry around lunch time.

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