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I know everyone does it differently, but how does everyone feel about breakfast? 

 

I've been finding if I eat breakfast, my whole day is caputs. It has happened consistently the past few days I've been eating breakfast, and I know it's happened in the past, too. When I skip breakfast and eat lunch around 2, I just feel like I've already accomplished a lot in my day. It's so hard to stop once the eating gets started. It makes me happier to not start till later. 

Granted, I drink my coffee throughout the morning.

ETA: I also find that my mood is elevated a little if I fast for breakfast. It's almost like -- I'm almost afraid to say it -- having a drink. It's weird! 

I am that way too Bonnie, once I start I keep on. I usually don't get hungry until around 11am. If I have something planned for lunch I wait, if at home I go ahead and eat then. Sometimes I get a hungry feeling early in the morning if I eat a lot of carbs late the night before, but if I drink water and wait it out, it passes. The hunger at 11am is a different hunger to me that says yes this is real hunger and its time to eat. That pacing stuff in the kitchen is so familiar and I did it often when I was stressed with school. 

I go through phases. It also depends on my schedule. Today, I ate about two hours after getting up because I knew after that I would have a really busy day and wouldn't have the opportunity for a meal till around 7pm. However, occasionally I will go a week or so when I skip it entirely and eat my first meal at like 3:30. 

Also-- I don't know if coffee with half and half counts as a meal, but I usually end up having one of those mid-morning 3-4 days a week. 

Basically, for me breakfast is dependent on my schedule; but I can also kind of "train" myself to eat earlier or later in the day. If I have breakfast at 10am for five days straight, I'll be hungry at 10-- but if I don't eat till 3pm for five days, I won't be hungry till mid afternoon.

I don't think it matters whether you eat breakfast. I get riled when I see articles saying you should always eat breakfast or you'll be fat, stupid and malnourished. I know plenty of ripped, brilliant, fit people who regularly skip it. I know others who dutifully eat "the most important meal of the day" and it's like releasing the hounds. They're hungry and searching for food all day. I think it's a personal thing, and one that changes with your schedule and mood.

I did 2 meals per day for quite a while at around 11am and 6pm. As soon as I started thinking of it as a rule ("I don't eat before 11am"), I started getting squirrely about it, resenting it, and missing breakfast foods. So, I put breakfast back most of the time. I still eat 2 meals a couple of days per week but I'll often have the first one earlier than that, so it's more like skipping lunch. 

Whatever works. And as soon as it doesn't work anymore, change it.

 

 

I eat breakfast every day! I love breakfast.  However, I don't eat it the minute I get up, but usually within an hour or 2.

 

mmmm bacon!

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I very seldom skip breakfast, but I find that WHAT I eat impacts how the rest of the day goes. If I eat a high protein/fat breakfast about 1.5 hrs after getting up, I feel great for the rest of the day and have no problem not over-eating. But if I have something carbs instead, even if it's healthy, it throws the entire day off, and I'll end up grazing/binging all day.

By the way, I get that mood-enhancing feel from coffee in the morning, even decaf, so it could be the coffee on an empty stomach, not fasting, that gives you that lift.

I love breakfast and eating breakfast food but thinking back, when I was "naturally thin" and didn't have disordered eating patterns, I actually skipped breakfast mainly because I didn't feel like eating so early in the day and wasn't really hungry.

I did IF for a wee while and felt great on it, but that said, it came to a point where skipping breakfast was torture, especially if I've had an active morning and it was a disaster waiting to happen by the end of the day. I'd get really hungry and eat whatever I can find.

So my plan at the moment is to eat breakfast ONLY when I'm physically hungry. If I don't feel hungry then it's fine to skip it. I find that my stomach grumbles at 10am and 5pm regardless if I had something before those times.

I think when I do IF, I'm in a "fasting" mindset which kinda backfires because I can only eat in a time window and I'd be starving by then. And Leigh Peele said it best when she said IF is just another meal timing and people are making it such a big deal.

Not a breakfast person at all, meaning I get super bored of breakfast foods, the typical eggs, bacon, cereal, etc. But any time I tried to skip it, I never lasted. My alarm goes off at 5:45 am on work days and I'm usually out of bed by 6, sometimes 6:20. :) By the time I get to work, it's about 8 and I'm starting to get hungry. Snacking just doesn't cut it and with preschool students, I just don't have time to sit and eat anything, especially with the recent schedule changes. A former coworker would make a green smoothie and drink it all through the morning and just last week I got brave enough to try one. I actually enjoy it and it keeps me full/satisfied until lunch time (which I recently started making earlier, but I'm thinking about going back to my 12:45, 1:00 lunch time now. I played around with the smoothie recipe I found and finally I'm at a point where I like what I'm making. I just need a better blender or new blade to really blend up the kale rather than leaving it kind of chunky (think small pulp or seeds). But taste wise, I'm actually enjoying it and it's WAY healthier than what I was doing before, which was typically Chick-fil-a or McDonald's.

I did the IF thing with breakfast, but found that I was forcing myself to do it every day and until a specific time. While I lost 6 lbs the first week I did that, I nice little whoosh there, I couldn't keep it up. I would be starving and grumpy and sometimes lightheaded by the time my eating window started and I just couldn't keep up IFing when I knew that feeling was coming. That said, if I'm waking up later on the weekends, it's MUCH easier to either skip breakfast or eat a small snack at 10:30 or 11, depending on my workout schedule. I do think part of the issue I was having was with caffeine. I recently tried Atkins, thinking it'd help with blood sugar issues, and it did later in the day, but the mornings still had me feeling shaky, despite eating eggs, sausage or bacon, and cheese, all with a good amount of fat. I read up on it and learned that caffeine can mess with blood sugar levels (the things you don't know that could make a big difference!). I refuse to give up my coffee though, so I lightened up on the amount, just 9 oz in my Keurig, compared to the 12-14 I was getting before. I drink that while I'm getting ready, then start on my smoothie when my stomach starts growling. Right now I'm happy with that and hoping this will become a "boring" eating habit for me. We shall see. 

I was never a big breakfast eater. I was never hungry for it but I ate because that's what you do - you eat breakfast. Once I read about IF and that it was actually okay to not eat breakfast, I stopped. I haven't been a regular breakfast eater in about 2 years. There have been times that I've eaten breakfast (for example, on weekends when I visit my bf we usually have brunch), but generally I don't. 

I am going to start a blog and title it: "Breakfast, Work/Life Balance, and Other Myths"

I recently stopped eating breakfast.  Between my coffee (with hershy's syrup and whole milk) and a couple eggs with cheese on bread - I was blowing through 600 + calories before 9am.  Then I spend the rest of the day trying to balance out the rest of my food.  I have been drinking my coffee (I like the strong stuff that puts hair on your chest) with Hershy's syrup only... b/c that is what I really like.. the bit of chocolate.  And I sip that throughout the morning.  Then I have my morning snack.  Sometimes an apple and a cheese stick.  Sometimes my 10 olive, food should taste good chips with my 100 calorie pack of wholly guacolmole.  And by the time I am done with my coffee and snack - it is already nearly lunch time.

On the weekends, I never eat before noon-ish.  I would like to lose about 60 lbs.  So I know I am going to have to be hungry at some point during the day.  Snacking in the evening has been VERY hard for me to kick.  Now that I just skip breakfast, I can eat a little more in the evening - which is when I really WANT to eat.  AND if I have to be a little hungry at times to lose weight, I would really rather be hungry-ish in the morning than in the evening.  I have gone to bed hungry many times and that just DID NOT work out for me.