Breakfast? Not hungry/nothing sounds good ...
MrsLeibas
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Ok ... So I know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day but my question is ... what do you do when you wake up and you're not hungry and/or nothing you have in the house sounds good?? I'm seeming to struggle with this more and more lately ... so then I just force myself to eat something with a moderate amount of calories to get me through until lunch even if I don't really want it. Any advice or suggestions?
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I love eating those Belvita breakfast biscuits. They are packed with fiber, and only 230 calories. My favorite kind is Apple Cinnamon.0
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don't eat breakfast,
it's not the most important meal of the day. total kcals and macros for the day is only thing that matters0 -
don't eat breakfast,
it's not the most important meal of the day. total kcals and macros for the day is only thing that matters
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If you are not hungry in the morning then don't eat0 -
I used to never eat breakfast for that reason. Most days I wouldn't feel hungry until about 2-3pm so I'd eat a big lunch, then big dinner, then bed. I feel so much better eating throughout the day and keeping my lunch lighter. No more whining for an afternoon nap at work
For breakfast I've been loving hard boiled eggs with a pinch of salt. I just make a bunch every couple days. They are quick, delicious, and really good for you. The protein in the morning definitely keeps me going until lunch. So even if I'm not hungry in the morning, I just grab one egg, because it's small and easy to eat. After awhile you will adjust and start to feel hungry in the morning, just have to let your body adjust to your new eating schedule.0 -
If you aren't hungry, and it doesn't bother you to skip breakfast then I wouldn't force it down. If it's the "breakfast food" choices that are turning you off, maybe try eating something else. Hummus on an apple, leftovers from the night before, or even a healthy smoothie. Do what's comfortable to you.0
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don't eat breakfast,
it's not the most important meal of the day. total kcals and macros for the day is only thing that matters
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If you are not hungry in the morning then don't eat
Completely agree. No need to force yourself.0 -
Ok ... So I know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day but my question is ... what do you do when you wake up and you're not hungry and/or nothing you have in the house sounds good?? I'm seeming to struggle with this more and more lately ... so then I just force myself to eat something with a moderate amount of calories to get me through until lunch even if I don't really want it. Any advice or suggestions?
An apple a day keeps the doctor away too.
Breakfast is not the most important meal of the day. They are of equal importance.
I have never eaten breakfast, I can't face it.
Some people cant skip it without feeling lethargic or light headed but I don't miss it at all. On the odd occasion I do eat before 10am I am usually ravenous by midday.0 -
I just eat anyway.
Breakfast is an important meal, and when I skip, I end up pigging out later.0 -
When I'm not hungry or nothing sounds good, I make a fruit smoothie or if I'm in a rush, I have a bowl of cereal. Both are under 300 calories and are enough to get me through until lunch. But I am not guaranteed a break at my job so like yesterday, I went in for 9 AM and couldn't eat until 2:30 PM. If I hadn't eaten before work, I would have been famished. I usually bring yogurt or almonds to snack on before lunch, but if we're busy (like we were yesterday) I don't have time to eat.0
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It jump starts your metabolism and gets your body in gear. Now...with that being said, eat something. ANYTHING!0
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If I do not fancy food I eat two rice cakes, thin amount of spread and some peanut butter - not loads of cals but keeps me going until I fancy something more x0
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don't eat breakfast,
it's not the most important meal of the day. total kcals and macros for the day is only thing that matters
This. I didn't eat till almost 2 pm yesterday. Not something I do everyday but just wasn't hungry yesterday. Down 1.5 lbs. today. What matters it your average at the end of the week.0 -
I usually don't have anything more for breakfast than coffee because I do not feel hungry for several hours after I wake up. One of the most important weight loss lessons I learned was to not eat unless I was actually feeling hunger. Lots of people want to talk about kick starting your metabolism for the day or whatever. My feeling is, listen to your body -- feed it when it is hungry.
This is what I can tell you about me personally - no matter what I ate (heavy carbs, heavy protein, lots of fiber -- completely balanced meal) I would feel sick for several hours if I did and I'd end up skipping lunch because I would feel very full and bloated (I would have been eating 300-400 calories at breakfast) -- only to come into a hunger headache around 3 when my tummy settled down.
Now, I eat 4 times a day "lunch" between 11am-12pm, snack between 2-3pm, dinner around 6pm, snack around 8 pm -- none of my snacks or meals are particularly large. I've been doing this for 8 years, I've lost 55 pounds and I feel fantastic.
That might not work for you -- but forcing breakfast might not either. It is all trial and error.0 -
You don't have to force yourself to eat first thing. I usually eat a couple hours after I wake up. Sometimes it makes me physically ill to smell or think about food too early in the morning. Maybe try a piece of fruit midmorning. I like to have 1% chocolate milk and fruit, protein and carbs, so it keeps me satisfied until lunch without overdoing myself too early. Protein smoothies are good too. I use a scoop of protein powder, a cup of milk, and a tablespoon of peanut butter with 2-3 cups of ice and sip on it all morning. A bit higher in calories, but worth it when you're working out.
Find something, anything, that is a good combo of protein and carbs to jumpstart your day. Eat it as soon as your feel able even if it isn't until 10 or 11 a.m.0 -
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It jump starts your metabolism and gets your body in gear. Now...with that being said, eat something. ANYTHING!
Jump starting your metabolism, eh? How do you feel when you eat when you're not hungry?0 -
don't eat breakfast,
it's not the most important meal of the day. total kcals and macros for the day is only thing that matters
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If you are not hungry in the morning then don't eat
Completely agree. No need to force yourself.
I agree with this as well. I'm not usually hungry right when I get up, so I will pack some hard boiled eggs and fruit to bring with me. I go on my run and get myself to work and eat the eggs and fruit around 9:30, which is at least 4 hours after I wake up.0 -
I usually either have a fiber one bar or 3 plain eggo waffles so I have something to get me through my workout. Then its a shake after...I usually don't have "real food" til about 11 or so.0
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I'm never hungry and eat. Eating when I'm hungry is part of what caused me to be on this site in the first place.
I was a breakfast eater for years. Then, I stopped getting up early enough to eat. I was always in a rush. Guess what? I was getting hungrier and hungrier as lunch approached that I overate during lunch. Then, after being out in the sun all day at practice, I'd come home and overeat at dinner. Snacks before bed were necessary...as I was hungry.
Now that I've started eating breakfast again, my body start is more energized and I'm not as lethargic as I was during the day. Not by lunch time or dinner time. I'm not longer "hungry". As a matter of fact, I come home and I don't want dinner. I'm just not hungry enough to eat, but I do because the body needs the calories.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day...FOR ME. It may not be for you or for anyone else.0 -
I have changed over time, I used to wake up at 6:30 and not eat breakfast until after 9 because I didn't feel hungry. Now I want to eat somewhat quickly after waking up. Not really sure what changed it. That said, eat whatever you want for breakfast...if breakfast foods don't appeal to you, don't eat them. I've had turkey sandwiches for breakfast or leftover pasta. As long as it fits into your calorie/macro goals for the day eat whatever you want whenever you are hungry for it! I personally just ate one of my favorite breakfasts, a toasted light multigrain english muffin, 1 pan fried egg with a spritz of Pam, 1 Tbsp. of light garden vegetable cream cheese and a drizzle of Sriracha sauce.0
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It jump starts your metabolism and gets your body in gear. Now...with that being said, eat something. ANYTHING!
Totally agree........ get that engine stoaked for the day, if there's no fuel for the fire in the oven it wont burn baby!
eat protein in the morning, need that metabolism pumping to burn fat!0 -
Smoothie also works for me. I have a lot of days I can't face eating something first thing in the morning, but I can drink a fruit smoothie (after I've had some coffee, of course). I might experiment with making a coffee frozen smoothie and eat some fruit too when I get sick of my fruit smoothies, but for now, I don't have them too frequently because I quite like breakfast and I'm usually hungry in the morning now that my metabolism is revved up.When I'm not hungry or nothing sounds good, I make a fruit smoothie or if I'm in a rush, I have a bowl of cereal. Both are under 300 calories and are enough to get me through until lunch. But I am not guaranteed a break at my job so like yesterday, I went in for 9 AM and couldn't eat until 2:30 PM. If I hadn't eaten before work, I would have been famished. I usually bring yogurt or almonds to snack on before lunch, but if we're busy (like we were yesterday) I don't have time to eat.
An alternative for me is a yogurt, sometimes with some nuts thrown in for texture. It's easy going down like the smoothies.0 -
All of the people telling you to not eat are scaring me a little. I don't believe that you should force yourself to eat, but if you don't eat beakfast you're actually going to hurt yourself in the long run. You don't have to eat immediatly when you wake up, or even eat a lot, but you need something to kick-start your metabolism.
Let me put it this way, if you don't eat little meals throughout the day, and only eat one-to-two big meals later on in the day, you are teaching your body that it needs to eat a lot at one time, and then store all of that energy for later when you won't be eating. That makes it really hard for you to loose weight; you have to burn the energy that's already stored in your body instead of using up some of your readily available energy, and then your body moving to the fat deposits you have and need to get rid of.
A lot of people are also not hungry in the morning for one of two reasons; one, they're over-tired: try catching up on some Zzz's. Or two; they ate late the night before. Try not eating 4 hours before you go to sleep and see what happens when you wake up.
You can also train your body to eat in the morning. Start out small, with a handful of strawberries/cherries, then maybe a granola bar or some high-fiber cookies. At work in the morning I like to drink my coffee with a small breakfast: a serving of fruit (cherries, raspberries, etc) and a 30g pack of Preventia cookies (high fibre, high protein, low cal, and fill you up).
Hope this helps!!0 -
I'm never hungry and eat. Eating when I'm hungry is part of what caused me to be on this site in the first place.
I was a breakfast eater for years. Then, I stopped getting up early enough to eat. I was always in a rush. Guess what? I was getting hungrier and hungrier as lunch approached that I overate during lunch. Then, after being out in the sun all day at practice, I'd come home and overeat at dinner. Snacks before bed were necessary...as I was hungry.
Now that I've started eating breakfast again, my body start is more energized and I'm not as lethargic as I was during the day. Not by lunch time or dinner time. I'm not longer "hungry". As a matter of fact, I come home and I don't want dinner. I'm just not hungry enough to eat, but I do because the body needs the calories.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day...FOR ME. It may not be for you or for anyone else.
FOR YOU -- that's the point I was trying to make in the first place, don't hop on a message board and blindly tell people that breakfast is the most important meal of the day based on your personal experience.
Honestly, if you go from NOT hungry to out right ravenous, you're likely missing/ignoring more subtle hunger cues. For lots of people, how they gained weight was eating when they didn't need to (ie when they were NOT HUNGRY) and their brains stopped interpreting hunger cues correctly. Welcome to the foundation of emotional eating.
It's great you can eat when you are not hungry, a lot of people cannot do that without physically getting sick.
I'm not trying to pick on you or be rude, I'm just saying that all these "rules" (ONLY CLEAN FOODS, NO EATING AFTER 7 PM, YOU MUST EAT BREAKFAST TO GET YOUR FURNACE BURNING) for losing weight are likely what causes people to fail at long term lifestyle changes.0 -
I love to have a pear ,apple, & a banana with a tablespoon of either sliced almond or walnuts, it's like a dessert,I peal the skin off everything,I hate skin...lol. Btw, Eating good fats such as nuts help you get rid of the bad fats your body stores. Hope you helped.0
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All of the people telling you to not eat are scaring me a little. I don't believe that you should force yourself to eat, but if you don't eat beakfast you're actually going to hurt yourself in the long run. You don't have to eat immediatly when you wake up, or even eat a lot, but you need something to kick-start your metabolism.
Let me put it this way, if you don't eat little meals throughout the day, and only eat one-to-two big meals later on in the day, you are teaching your body that it needs to eat a lot at one time, and then store all of that energy for later when you won't be eating. That makes it really hard for you to loose weight; you have to burn the energy that's already stored in your body instead of using up some of your readily available energy, and then your body moving to the fat deposits you have and need to get rid of.
A lot of people are also not hungry in the morning for one of two reasons; one, they're over-tired: try catching up on some Zzz's. Or two; they ate late the night before. Try not eating 4 hours before you go to sleep and see what happens when you wake up.
You can also train your body to eat in the morning. Start out small, with a handful of strawberries/cherries, then maybe a granola bar or some high-fiber cookies. At work in the morning I like to drink my coffee with a small breakfast: a serving of fruit (cherries, raspberries, etc) and a 30g pack of Preventia cookies (high fibre, high protein, low cal, and fill you up).
Hope this helps!!
How is it hurting anyone in the long run? Maybe you lose weight slower -- but it's not like skipping breakfast because you are not at all hungry is going to stop weight loss or cause you to gain in and of itself. What hurts in the long run is attempting lifestyle changes that do not work for your body.0 -
FOR YOU -- that's the point I was trying to make in the first place, don't hop on a message board and blindly tell people that breakfast is the most important meal of the day based on your personal experience.
How dare you tell me what to do and not to do. I will blindly tell people that breakfast IS the most important meal of the day. I don't care if it's based on my own personal experience or not.
BTW - breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Just for the record: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! I even closed my eyes when I typed this because I wanted to make sure I said it "blindly".0 -
All of the people telling you to not eat are scaring me a little. I don't believe that you should force yourself to eat, but if you don't eat beakfast you're actually going to hurt yourself in the long run. You don't have to eat immediatly when you wake up, or even eat a lot, but you need something to kick-start your metabolism.
Diet induced thermogenesis is based on calorie total and macronutrient composition. It is not frequency based. Consequently, breakfast does NOT kickstart your metabolism.Let me put it this way, if you don't eat little meals throughout the day, and only eat one-to-two big meals later on in the day, you are teaching your body that it needs to eat a lot at one time, and then store all of that energy for later when you won't be eating. That makes it really hard for you to loose weight; you have to burn the energy that's already stored in your body instead of using up some of your readily available energy, and then your body moving to the fat deposits you have and need to get rid of.
All that matters is that over the course of time, fat oxidation exceeds fat storage. This occurs as long as the individual eats at a calorie deficit regardless of meal size and frequency .0 -
FOR YOU -- that's the point I was trying to make in the first place, don't hop on a message board and blindly tell people that breakfast is the most important meal of the day based on your personal experience.
How dare you tell me what to do and not to do. I will blindly tell people that breakfast IS the most important meal of the day. I don't care if it's based on my own personal experience or not.
BTW - breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Just for the record: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! I even closed my eyes when I typed this because I wanted to make sure I said it "blindly".
BREAKING NEWS: EATING BREAKFAST ALSO MAKES YOU A COMEDIAN!:laugh:0 -
I personally try not to wait until I'm "hungry" to eat. When I do, I tend to grab quick to eat stuff and unless I've taken the time to prepare stuff in advance or have bought "healthy convenience" food (which I'm trying not to do) I end up eating stuff I'd rather not eat and tend to overeat too. It's a trigger for me, I recognize it and avoid it now. I actually like taking the time to prepare food for myself, exactly the way I want it. Doing that when I'm not ravenous allows me to take my time and make really good food that isn't prepared in haste. At breakfast time, that is especially true. My favorite b'fast is oatmeal with plain greek yogurt over the top and then covered in fruit (peaches, berries, bananas, apples, etc). It's about 400 calories in all, but it keeps me full until lunch w/no snacking and it's nutritionally dense and cheap too.
I am of the school of thought to keep your body fueled at all times, not just eat when you are running on empty. Again, for me it works and it's just my opinion. Another thing that helps me eat breakfast everyday is that I work out first thing in the morning (5:30-6:30), so by the time it's breakfast time I am ready to eat.0 -
All of the people telling you to not eat are scaring me a little. I don't believe that you should force yourself to eat, but if you don't eat beakfast you're actually going to hurt yourself in the long run. You don't have to eat immediatly when you wake up, or even eat a lot, but you need something to kick-start your metabolism.
Diet induced thermogenesis is based on calorie total and macronutrient composition. It is not frequency based. Consequently, breakfast does NOT kickstart your metabolism.Let me put it this way, if you don't eat little meals throughout the day, and only eat one-to-two big meals later on in the day, you are teaching your body that it needs to eat a lot at one time, and then store all of that energy for later when you won't be eating. That makes it really hard for you to loose weight; you have to burn the energy that's already stored in your body instead of using up some of your readily available energy, and then your body moving to the fat deposits you have and need to get rid of.
All that matters is that over the course of time, fat oxidation exceeds fat storage. This occurs as long as the individual eats at a calorie deficit regardless of meal size and frequency .
worth quoting/repeating.0
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