To breakfast or not to breakfast? (2024)

Do what feels best for you. If skipping breakfast makes it easier to stick to your calorie goal and has no negative effects, no need to force yourself to eat breakfast. The best diet is the one you stick to 🙂

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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 Posts: 9,374 Member

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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.

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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.

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yirara Posts: 9,374 Member

In the end, the first meal of the day is always the breakfast. So I guess I have breakfast.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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yirara Posts: 9,374 Member

Per definition, the first meal after a fast is the breakfast. So yeah, I’m having that 😅🙈

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