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.

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.

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 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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.