Do you eat breakfast?

[Anonymous]

Not in the traditional sense, no I do not. I try to take a break from food i.e., nothing but water, for 13-14 hours. I stop eating around 6pm. Wake up and have coffee + cream to break my fast "break-fast". Then I work out. I don't eat actual food till around 10:30am-11am. First meal is protein heavy - 2 eggs with berries. last meal is always a salad with protein.

[Anonymous]

I always eat breakfast. Eggs with vegetables and a piece of fruit. Coffee later. I'm overweight. By about 20 lbs.

[Anonymous]

I have coffee with half and half but usually eat meal #1 between 11-1 pm, and dinner between 6-7 pm. I sometimes have a snack between ,depending on appetite. However if for some reason I am hungry (which is rare, but if I skipped dinner for example) or I'm meeting people for early brunch I will eat. THen I usually skip lunch and have an early dinner.

[Anonymous]

I eat all different things. Blintzes, eggs and half a bagel, smoothie, yogurt, oatmeal, leftover ravioli, fruit, etc. Healthy weight.

[Anonymous]

I do, but I really need to because of my activity level (lots of training for multi-sport).

I could see skipping it, and I think it might help with fat adaptation a little bit - meaning the ability to be a little bit more flexible in your energy source. Flexibility there is a good thing, and not something you "train" other than through normal every day habits.

As for my breakfast, I am addicted to an oatmeal product with flax seed, fresh blueberries, raisins, walnuts, and zero fat Greek yogurt. I also have some tart cherry juice. I am addicted to this so much that I will often eat this after a long-ish (2.5-3 hour) indoor workout. I really enjoy it that much.

A lot of people poop all over oatmeal, but it has worked really well for me. I eat the same breakfast every single day. And, the same for my races. My grandfather also was an oatmeal guy. He made it to 85 while working a family farm into the late 1970s. My numbers with this diet are also great after a long long period of heavy drinking and obesity, so something is working.

[Anonymous]

My ideal schedule would be a substantial breakfast around 9 or 10 am, a light snack-lunch around 1 or 2 pm, and a regular dinner. Unfortunately that rarely meshes with the rest of my life schedule (work, weekend activities). So I usually end up skipping breakfast or having something small like a banana or an English muffin with peanut butter. Then I'm starving by 11:30 or so and eat an early/normal lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My ideal schedule would be a substantial breakfast around 9 or 10 am, a light snack-lunch around 1 or 2 pm, and a regular dinner. Unfortunately that rarely meshes with the rest of my life schedule (work, weekend activities). So I usually end up skipping breakfast or having something small like a banana or an English muffin with peanut butter. Then I'm starving by 11:30 or so and eat an early/normal lunch.

Forgot to say - I'm right at the edge between normal and overweight. Literally the normal 3-5 lb variation I get within a week puts me on either side of the 25 bmi mark. Not sure if improving my breakfast habits would help, and I'm not even sure which direction I should go - eat more consistently in the morning, or lean in on IF. I get a good amount of light exercise (walking, hiking, light swimming, etc) but not a lot of intense exercise - I think that's another area I really need to work on.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I have a boiled egg and 1 piece of sourdough toast every morning with a cup of tea and sometimes some fruit.

[Anonymous]

BMI is high enough that I don't want to post it. I have a venti Starbucks drink every morning (I mix up which one I have -- mocha, caramel machiatto, etc). I live on just that until lunch. Yes, I know this is very bad.

[Anonymous]

After wearing a glucose monitor I am trying to make dinner very small and early and eat breakfast. I have never been a regular breakfast eater. It is a big switch for me. My blood sugar levels are much better if I eat dinner by 6 and don’t eat anything else the rest of the evening. I wake up really hungry and try to have a protein heavy breakfast. Yogurt. Eggs. Nuts. Cheese. Chicken.

[Anonymous]

IMO if you're hungry you should eat and not worry about what the evidence shows about breakfast. There's no one-size-fits all. I eat a small breakfast because I get hungry around 9am, about 2 hours after I wake up. My husband on the other hand doesn't get hungry until 10:30/11 so he just waits for an early lunch. This is how we've always both been through varying weights and fitness levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No really. I wake up by 6am, and my mornings look like this:

Wake up, drink black coffee. Exercise (exercising with food in my stomach feels awful to me). I might eat something light afterwords (a couple pieces of refreshing watermelon) but that's about it until 11am or so.

A couple days of the week, I take a late morning gym class. I might have a couple of nuts or a couple chunks of watermelon. But then I won't get home until like 12:30, and then I'll eat.

fwiw, I generally don't eat after 7pm. I'm a healthy, active, athletic weight. I eat plenty, but exercise is important to me and I cannot eat before workouts and am generally not very hungry in the morning. I'm not consciously doing "intermittent fasting" but it's how my body feels best. Ultimately I don't think what you do is a big deal - eat how you'd like if it makes you feel good, and you're at a healthy/fit weight.

I'm exactly the same way. i've never been a big eater. As a kid I hated being forced to eat when I wasn't hungry - when I started college it was easy enough to skip breakfast, eventually I started skipping lunch. I typically eat a large dinner and that's it and I'm in good health (just turned 50).

[Anonymous]

I feel much healthier if I eat breakfast, and I do think it jumpstarts my metabolism and I end up burning more calories during the day. Sort of counterintuitive, but I've found it to be true.

Breakfast is usually something like a banana with peanut butter on it, or eggs

I dont eat after dinner (typically around 6:30/7) until breakfast (8ish), so I do have a bit of a fast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No really. I wake up by 6am, and my mornings look like this:

Wake up, drink black coffee. Exercise (exercising with food in my stomach feels awful to me). I might eat something light afterwords (a couple pieces of refreshing watermelon) but that's about it until 11am or so.

A couple days of the week, I take a late morning gym class. I might have a couple of nuts or a couple chunks of watermelon. But then I won't get home until like 12:30, and then I'll eat.

fwiw, I generally don't eat after 7pm. I'm a healthy, active, athletic weight. I eat plenty, but exercise is important to me and I cannot eat before workouts and am generally not very hungry in the morning. I'm not consciously doing "intermittent fasting" but it's how my body feels best. Ultimately I don't think what you do is a big deal - eat how you'd like if it makes you feel good, and you're at a healthy/fit weight.

This is me too. In addition to being a morning exerciser, I’m so busy getting the kids ready and to school and getting my work day started that I just don’t get to eat until 11 am as I don’t like to eat on the go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After wearing a glucose monitor I am trying to make dinner very small and early and eat breakfast. I have never been a regular breakfast eater. It is a big switch for me. My blood sugar levels are much better if I eat dinner by 6 and don’t eat anything else the rest of the evening. I wake up really hungry and try to have a protein heavy breakfast. Yogurt. Eggs. Nuts. Cheese. Chicken.

Regulating blood sugar is a benefit of fasting.