Is skipping Breakfast common?

[Huntn]

I have spent my life eating breakfast religiously, until about a 2 months ago when I woke up and realized I was not hungry in the morning . I can even go to the gym and work out and not feel famished or weak.

So as an experiment and a strategy to possibly eat less in a 24 hr period, I am not eating until noon, and then I eat a banana, a tablespoon of peanut butter, hard boiled egg, and a glass of juice. At dinner I eat a regular meal and a dessert. The tough part continues to be my sweet addiction. Seeing a sweet in the house, really weakens my resolve, yet I acknowledge that past attempts to forgo sweets entirely has always failed in the long run. So I continue to fight for the right balance.

 

[Healer Flame]

A lot of people I know skip breakfast.

Me? I usually skip dinner due to heartburn and wake up super hungry. Breakfast is usually my largest meal.

The coworkers I know that skip breakfast do so for dietary reasons. They only eat from 11am - 7pm.

I feel sluggish, out of energy, seriously distracted by hunger if I don't eat breakfast.

A lot of people I know skip breakfast.

Me? I usually skip dinner due to heartburn and wake up super hungry. Breakfast is usually my largest meal.

The coworkers I know that skip breakfast do so for dietary reasons. They only eat from 11am - 7pm.

I feel sluggish, out of energy, seriously distracted by hunger if I don't eat breakfast.

Same feelings here, it starts with headache and laziness then get tired.

 

[Huntn]

A lot of people I know skip breakfast.

Me? I usually skip dinner due to heartburn and wake up super hungry. Breakfast is usually my largest meal.

The coworkers I know that skip breakfast do so for dietary reasons. They only eat from 11am - 7pm.

I feel sluggish, out of energy, seriously distracted by hunger if I don't eat breakfast.

Take over the counter omeprazole (Prilosec) for acid reflux.
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https://www.inc.com/john-rampton/breakfast-tips-7-reasons-you-shouldn-t-skip-breakfast.html
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http://time.com/4786181/skipping-breakfast-health-benefits/
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I watched most of this video and the results seem to be antidotal. For myself, I am not a nutrition expert, but I’d like to understand why not consuming calories in the first 4-5 hours after waking up is a health risk, especially when your goal is to lose weight. Instead I’m currently looking at how many calories I consume in a 24 hr period with the goal of reducing total calories consumed.

 

[cococheaf]

For example, I never have breakfast because I prefer to spend the last few minutes in my cosy warm bed before I have to drive back to my boring office. the whole thing has been going on for 8 years now, you get used to not having breakfast with the time. but if I start a new job soon, I will change it again.

 

[Healer Flame]

Take over the counter omeprazole (Prilosec) for acid reflux.
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I watched most of this video and the results seem to be antidotal. For myself, I am not a nutrition expert, but I’d like to understand why not consuming calories in the first 4-5 hours after waking up is a health risk, especially when your goal is to lose weight. Instead I’m currently looking at how many calories I consume in a 24 hr period with the goal of reducing total calories consumed.

You didn't mention your favorite meal and what time you have it

 

[mollyc]

I don't know if it's common but I don't eat breakfast anymore most days and feel better for it. I grew up in a house where meals were always at the same time, and you ate whether you were hungry or not. I kept this up after I became a mother myself, but then a few years ago I realized I really didn't want to eat if I wasn't hungry. And so now I don't.

Breakfast for me is black coffee, which technically isn't even breakfast since it has 0 calories and I'm not breaking a fast.

 

[Healer Flame]

For example, I never have breakfast because I prefer to spend the last few minutes in my cosy warm bed before I have to drive back to my boring office. the whole thing has been going on for 8 years now, you get used to not having breakfast with the time. but if I start a new job soon, I will change it again.

But those 8 hours you won't feel hungry cuz you are in your deep sleep. Hunger strikes during or after the shower.

 

[mollyc]

But those 8 hours you won't feel hungry cuz you are in your deep sleep. Hunger strikes during or after the shower.

Most "hunger" in the modern day is caused by a reliance on sugar and carbs (like from cereal/pasta/bananas, etc.). If you can detox your body from those and rely on protein and carbs from vegetables/leafy greens, you will actually feel hungry a lot less often. But breaking the sugar habit is really hard.

 

[Zxxv]

I have spent my life eating breakfast religiously, until about a 2 months ago when I woke up and realized I was not hungry in the morning . I can even go to the gym and work out and not feel famished or weak.

So as an experiment and a strategy to possibly eat less in a 24 hr period, I am not eating until noon, and then I eat a banana, a tablespoon of peanut butter, hard boiled egg, and a glass of juice. At dinner I eat a regular meal and a dessert. The tough part continues to be my sweet addiction. Seeing a sweet in the house, really weakens my resolve, yet I acknowledge that past attempts to forgo sweets entirely has always failed in the long run. So I continue to fight for the right balance.

How much *drugs do you use to get through the day on such a low calorie intake?

*coffee
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I don't know if it's common but I don't eat breakfast anymore most days and feel better for it. I grew up in a house where meals were always at the same time, and you ate whether you were hungry or not. I kept this up after I became a mother myself, but then a few years ago I realized I really didn't want to eat if I wasn't hungry. And so now I don't.

Breakfast for me is black coffee, which technically isn't even breakfast since it has 0 calories and I'm not breaking a fast.

So you use drugs instead of food to fuel you. A lot of people do that. Do you use drugs (alcohol/wine) to come down from your uppers so you can sleep?

 

[mollyc]

How much *drugs do you use to get through the day on such a low calorie intake?

*coffee
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So you use drugs instead of food to fuel you. A lot of people do that. Do you use drugs (alcohol/wine) to come down from your uppers so you can sleep?

Well typically I'm done drinking coffee by 10am. Maybe three times a year I have a coffee in the afternoon. I do often have wine with dinner, but it's not a requirement and I can fall asleep easily without wine.

I just eat most of my calories in the afternoon/evening. I stack the deck to later in the day.

Why would I eat breakfast if I'm still full from dinner?

 

[Zxxv]

Well typically I'm done drinking coffee by 10am. Maybe three times a year I have a coffee in the afternoon. I do often have wine with dinner, but it's not a requirement and I can fall asleep easily without wine.

I just eat most of my calories in the afternoon/evening. I stack the deck to later in the day.

Why would I eat breakfast if I'm still full from dinner?

You wouldnt, but why do you need drugs to get going?

 

[mollyc]

You wouldnt, but why do you need drugs to get going?

Because I genuinely like a cup of coffee in the morning.

 

[Healer Flame]

Well typically I'm done drinking coffee by 10am. Maybe three times a year I have a coffee in the afternoon. I do often have wine with dinner, but it's not a requirement and I can fall asleep easily without wine.

I just eat most of my calories in the afternoon/evening. I stack the deck to later in the day.

Why would I eat breakfast if I'm still full from dinner?

I still feel hungry in the morning even if swallow a cow for dinner.

 

[BenTrovato]

Breakfast is/was my favorite meal.. always has been. I would make delicious breakfasts even when I wasn't hungry. I used to subscribe to "breakfast is the most important meal of the day". Once I learned the liver does most of its detoxing in the morning, I started to cut back and noticed how much more energy I had throughout the day and how much healthier I started getting. There were ups and downs at first but now when I eat breakfast I feel sluggish.

 

[Huntn]

You didn't mention your favorite meal and what time you have it

That is debatable as to favorite, I really enjoy my banana, peanut butter, and hard boiled egg at lunch but the major meal would be dinner, an early dinner around 5 pm. If eating out, I eat light. The exception to what I previously described is that on Saturdays, I usually fix fried eggs, over easy and bacon for the wife and I about 8ish.
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How much *drugs do you use to get through the day on such a low calorie intake?

*coffee
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So you use drugs instead of food to fuel you. A lot of people do that. Do you use drugs (alcohol/wine) to come down from your uppers so you can sleep?

For myself, my calorie intake is not as low as I want. It does not take much to consume or exceed 500 calories with one desert. Sweets are my achilles heal.

As far as coffee: ZERO, I quit cold turkey when the new high blood pressure metric (130) went into effect. I’m taking candysartin which keeps me down around 110.
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I don't know if it's common but I don't eat breakfast anymore most days and feel better for it. I grew up in a house where meals were always at the same time, and you ate whether you were hungry or not. I kept this up after I became a mother myself, but then a few years ago I realized I really didn't want to eat if I wasn't hungry. And so now I don't.

Breakfast for me is black coffee, which technically isn't even breakfast since it has 0 calories and I'm not breaking a fast.

That is me in the morning.

 

[eyoungren]

Even though breakfast is the most important meal of the day many people prefer to skip it.
For me breakfast is a must, i really get up very hungry after many hours on bed all night so no matter what i must have at least a hot tea and toast otherwise i won't function well.

Where i come from breakfast and lunch are considered the main meals where as dinner is not, unlike Australia and many countries dinner is the main meal of the day.

Those who skip breakfast please tell us why?
If you enjoy breakfast please share favorite meals.
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Fried eggs with onion,tomatoes and green chilis and Almond croissants.

I skip breakfast, not because I am not hungry, but because most breakfast foods make me sick.

Something in the batter of waffles, pancakes and especially french toast that causes my stomach to turn. As a kid, my mom didn't appreciate making those things only to have her son puke them up inside of five minutes.

So I stopped eating breakfast. None of those foods holds any sort of attraction to me to make them worth eating - only to throw them back up. French toast in particular makes me want to dry heave anytime someone brings it up.

I do not have a gluten intolerance, nor a food allergy. Whatever is in the batter though, my body does not like. It can be any batter, but Bisquick, which is an American staple is the worst offender to my stomach.

I do not care for egg yolk, so the traditional way Americans make eggs for breakfast does not appeal to me. Americans also seem to like to make their bacon crispy. I hate that.

I'm also not a fan of toast (crunchy bread, seriously?!) breakfast sausage and breakfast ham. The ham Americans use for breakfast is not a dinner ham and is way too damn salty and tastes bad.

The same for breakfast steak. If Americans served ribeye for breakfast I might change my mind, but we don't. We serve this oversalted thin piece of garbage we call a breakfast steak and expect people to be happy with it.

Hashbrowns is about the only thing I like. Lately, various restaurants have introduced Egg White breakfast sandwhiches and those have been okay and enjoyable.

But no, mostly I skip breakfast because a lot of the breakfast foods Americans like are pretty disgusting to me.

EDIT: I've had about 43 years of skipping breakfast, so my body is pretty used to not eating until 10am or later. Lately the first meal of the day has been about 4:30pm or later due to my schedule (I'm up at 3am and out to work by 5:30am).

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Interesting thread, but I would recommend that the thread title include the question "why do you skip breakfast?"

Sometimes, context matters.

When I was at school, and at university, I never skipped breakfast, invariably having a solid meal of muesli, eggs, toast with bitter marmalade, orange juice and coffee.

Living abroad, I acquired a taste for savoury breakfasts (ham, cheese, eggs), with bread, and sometimes yogurts.

However, once I started teaching, and had early morning classes, I found I couldn't eat breakfast, - not if I had to give an early morning class - and breakfast became compressed into coffee and juice. After the class, I would often be ravenous.

This is still the case where I have to deliver morning briefings - coffee first, then briefing, followed by breakfast, if I can still manage to have one.

Lengthy commutes will also conspire to curtail breakfast - here, it is a lack of time rather than a surfeit of tension.

These days, if I have an early morning flight, I will often travel by train or bus to the airport, (a journey of two and a half hours) and eat breakfast at the airport after check in.

Likewise, when I am at home, between assignments, I will only skip breakfast (apart from coffee and juice), if I am to meet someone for lunch. This is because, normally, I don't eat both breakfast and lunch.

 

[Lee_Bo]

As a type 2 diabetic, breakfast and dinner are a must because (1) I'm hungry and (2) have to take meds with food. Depending on the day I may skip lunch but I always have something to eat in my fest on those days.

I also don't believe skipping meals is a way to lose weight, but watching what you eat and how much can help you lose weight.

For example, using a few apps on my phone I've gone from 280-ish pounds to 247 as of this morning by eating better and walking more.

Ok, sorry. Rant over. No, I don't skip breakfast.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Because I genuinely like a cup of coffee in the morning.

Absolutely agree with you.

My first cup of coffee is a must - and my second most welcome.

My third, and anything else is a pleasure, but not a necessity.

I'm not a morning person, and, if I am to function at all in the morning a cup - or two - of robust coffee greatly assist this process.
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You wouldnt, but why do you need drugs to get going?

Because not everyone has the same body clock.

 

[Clix Pix]

When I arise, which since I am retired may not be all that early in the morning, my first intake is Orange Juice. Once I've finished that, one cup of freshly brewed coffee, perhaps as time goes on followed by a second.... Some days if I am in a hurry to get somewhere or am about to take a lengthy road trip, coffee is not consumed at all. Some days when at home, an hour or so later if I feel hungry I will also have a cup of yogurt or a "Smoothie" of some sort. Otherwise I rarely bother with lunch. Dinner is a meal which is always on the agenda one way or another, though!

When I am traveling, especially on a road trip, I will have breakfast at the hotel before starting out and that pretty much takes care of me all through the day until I am at home again or at my next destination. If available, I will have either an omelet or scrambled eggs plus perhaps a couple of pancakes. If just an omelet, no pancakes, I will nibble on some toast and jam (which are usually served) but this doesn't happen very often. I like just the hint of sweetness at breakfast, but the main focus is going to be whatever it is that is providing my protein: omelet with vegs and cheese or scrambled eggs. I really think it is very unfortunate that in too many American homes there has been an emphasis on serving up sugar-laden sweet cereals to children, usually with no protein along with this. A recipe for disaster. And we wonder why there apparently are so many hyperactive kids these days?

 

[Scepticalscribe]

When I arise, which since I am retired may not be all that early in the morning, my first intake is Orange Juice. Once I've finished that, one cup of freshly brewed coffee, perhaps as time goes on followed by a second.... Some days if I am in a hurry to get somewhere or am about to take a lengthy road trip, coffee is not consumed at all. Some days when at home, an hour or so later if I feel hungry I will also have a cup of yogurt or a "Smoothie" of some sort. Otherwise I rarely bother with lunch. Dinner is a meal which is always on the agenda one way or another, though!

When I am traveling, especially on a road trip, I will have breakfast at the hotel before starting out and that pretty much takes care of me all through the day until I am at home again or at my next destination. If available, I will have either an omelet or scrambled eggs plus perhaps a couple of pancakes. If just an omelet, no pancakes, I will nibble on some toast and jam (which are usually served) but this doesn't happen very often. I like just the hint of sweetness at breakfast, but the main focus is going to be whatever it is that is providing my protein: omelet with vegs and cheese or scrambled eggs. I really think it is very unfortunate that in too many American homes there has been an emphasis on serving up sugar-laden sweet cereals to children, usually with no protein along with this. A recipe for disaster. And we wonder why there apparently are so many hyperactive kids these days?

Excellent post (and I agree with you about availing of a good hotel breakfast - fried eggs, scrambled eggs, omelette) before heading out anywhere; and agree, too, about the barest hint of sweetness in a breakfast, hence my preference for bitter marmalade; to this day, - and as a teenager, I was the first in my family to request muesli, (a request acceded to, immediately, by my adored family) because I detested the sweetness of the cereals available to us as children.

Am also a big fan of yogurt (something natural, no additives), or kefir, or a good - natural - smoothie, along with coffee and juice.

 

[pmau]

Here is honest remark about myself regarding breakfast and stress:

Getting up, getting ready and commuting 70km to work is already stressful to me.
I react very badly to stress early in the morning.

If I eat something in the morning I literally get sick.
Sometimes I make myself a small cup of coffee.

Then, when the first office hours are dione, organizing the daily schedule and all the people I need to talk to during the day, I sit down in the cafeteria and have a sandwich and a real cup of coffee. Luckily the sandwiches are quite OK.

On the other hand, we are allowed to work remotely two days in a week max. and a certain number of days per months.
This means that I can sleep longer, because I just have to sit at my desk at home.

If this happens, I prepare myself Apple slices in Yoghurt and Honey, eat a real bread mostly with cheese or some light bacon. I usually don't make scrambled eggs or similar. Coffee is implied.

I can tell you as a fact that these home office days are way better for my health, simply because of reduced stress and less time pressure. I believe most people I know skip breakfast due to external pressures, not because they would not like it.

 

[Healer Flame]

This lovely delicious breakfast is missing from American menu.....


[doublepost=1557614613][/doublepost]Its cooked beans fried with onion, tomatoes, green chilli, Black paper, cumin and other stuff. Try it its not sugary and delicious

 

[Clix Pix]

This lovely delicious breakfast is missing from American menu.....

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[doublepost=1557614613][/doublepost]Its cooked beans fried with onion, tomatoes, green chilli, Black paper, cumin and other stuff. Try it its not sugary and delicious

Uh, first thing in the morning or in my day? No thanks! Sounds as though it would be tasty later on in the day, though, but I can already guarantee that my digestive system would not be happy with it as the first thing I consume!

Somewhat off-topic, but, HEALER FLAME, just what is your purpose in being on a site specifically focused on Apple products? Unless I've missed seeing some posts, it doesn't seem to me as though you actually own or use any Apple products at all -- so why are you even here? It looks to me as though most of the threads you have started have nothing to do with using any sort of Apple or any other tech/electronic products, but are focused in quite different directions. What's your real deal?

 

[rafark]

. I think nature would want us to deposit or refuel after 8-9 hours in bed. .

If that's the case then 100% of the animal kingdom including humans would be dead. Every single animal in the wild, including humans, have evolved to eat once every few days. In fact, sleeping 8 hours everyday and having "breakfast" every single day cannot be more anti-natural. It may good to your body, we may all like to eat at least twice a day, but it's the entire opposite of being natural.