Does eating around 10 am still count as breakfast even though I wake up and workout at 6am? I have never really been a breakfast person either but once I really got serious I started drinking homemade fruit smoothies with oatmeal and flax seeds in them but lately I've ran out of fruit so I have to ante up again.

Well I did it this morning! I didn't get to the store to have a look for the Kashi but I had a few whole wheat crackers with peanut butter and apple slices on them. And of course - my morning coffee.

Thank you everyone for the input!

~Dee

I don't mind eating breakfast. When I'm home, it's easy to do. But I'm usually rushing out the door, with my 15-minutes-from-bed-to-door routine, and so I throw my cottage cheese or yogurt and fruit into my bag and I don't eat until I get to the office. With over an hour of commute, I don't really get anything into my system until 9ish. I've been thinking I may want to add a cup of milk or a few spoonsful of cottage cheese in my mad dash routine. I don't like to drink anything, because there are no potties on the Metro. But maybe only a cup of milk won't kill me. And I think it would be nice to start the work morning without my usual hunger headache...

MrsD --

The longer you go without food, the worse the effects. Personally I would say that going 4 hours after waking up without anything, especially if you work out, isn't a great idea. Not only are you extending your nighttime fast by a significant amount (thus robbing your body of some metabolism-revving) but your body NEEDS carbs and protein soon after a workout, especially if you are doing any weight training. If you don't feed your deleted muscles some fuel and protein within 30 - 60 minutes of a workout, the muscle gains you might get from that workout are significantly diminished.

Could you work in some sort of protein shake or protein smoothie after your workout? Or some cheese and fruit? Egg and toast? High-protein cereal and milk?

Good for you, Dee! That sounds like a healthy way to start your day.

Well said, funniegrrl. It's important to keep the body properly fuelled.

Good going, Dee!

I'm reading a book that says that people who eat breakfast live longer than people who don't.

Count me in for never eating breakfast until starting this new way of eating. 20 years probably and I couldnt stomach the thought of breakfast but sure could down a tremendous amount at lunch and even more at dinner. to make my long story short, I am now like most of the others, eat breakfast every day and try to eat every 3 hours, at least something with protein inbetween meals. It helps tremendously. I've lost 60lbs in 14 weeks and eating breakfast hasnt slowed down weight loss for me. Except one thing, i tried the Kashi Go Lean after reading about it on here for weeks. I didnt like it. I must be the only one though. And it had so many carbs that with my insulin resistance I immediately felt a sugar crash after eating it. I only consume about 35 carbs in a day. The cereal was like my carbs for the whole day almost.

But eat breakfast!!

Kim

Oh, Kim... I thought I was the only one who didn't like Go Lean! I didn't dare admit it here!

That's a tremendous amount of weight you've dropped. Wow!

You didn't dare admit you're not fond of Kashi, but have no problem letting us know you eat Marmite??

I know there's lots of Kashi brands in the U.S., but the only ones I've come across here are Go Lean, Go Lean Crunch and Good Friends. I detest Good Friends, both for the twigs and the scary people on the box. Go Lean Crunch is a bit too sweet for my liking, but I luuuuuves me some Go Lean (plain).

P.S. - Marmite is salty brewer's yeast extract made into a spread for bread!

*gasp* SACRILEGE!!!

I'm with Jill, I'm a purist: Kashi Go Lean for me! I like the flavor, and I LOVE the nutrition! (One cup yields 10 grams of fiber, 13 grams protein, only 6 grams sugar, 20 grams net carbs, a low 85 grams sodium, and 14% potassium for the day?? Love it!) My partner hates it, though, so I accept that it is a possible thing to dislike it, even as it makes me sad.

Different strokes for different folks, though -- whatever works! Me? I reduce it to ½ a cup and add ½ a cup of All Bran Extra Fiber, just to boost my breakfast fiber to a whopping 18 grams! It also makes an already low glycemic breakfast even LOWER! A protein powder drink adds no carbs and another 22 grams of protein.

Breakfast. It does a body good.

Please excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is Kashi? Reading the posts, i assume they are some sort of cereals, but never seen those in Montreal....

Well, Frenchie, Sarah's pretty much described the wonderful properties of Kashi cereal so now all you need to know is where to buy it in Montreal. If you don't see it in the cereal section at the supermarket, try the "health food" aisles, or, here's a friend's suggestion:

"Try "Lobo" on Parc, just north of Milton on the east side beside the little Spanish resto that's been there forever. Its a little fruit/veggie store w/ amazing prices and a great selection of organic/biologique dry goods (his organic (Kashi, Nature's Path, etc.) dry cereal prices can't be beat!), along w/ a lot of cool Middle Eastern things. One of my favourite neighbourhood grocery stores....can't recommend it highly enough!"

I used to be a breakfast skipper, but in the last 6 months, have never missed breaky time. I always have porridge (oatmeal) with berries and a tadge of honey.

However, there is an English book called Fat Girl SLim written by the uncompromising Ruth Watson, who lost lots of weight and never ate breakfast, just couldn't stomach it.

Also the current books about French dieting habits (they are featured on the 3FC homepage at the moment - The Fat Fallacy and Why French Women don't get Fat) make the point that French people don't make breakfast the most important of the day and eat a lot of their calories at night.

I personally find I can't control my weight if I don't eat breakfast, but it is one of those things that falls into the category of whatever works for you.

Kashi also has a line called Heart to Heart that is Cheerios-like and is also very good.

If you sign up on Kashi's site, they have excellent newsletters and will also send you coupons. I got four in the mail for 50-cents off each. Here's Kashi's website. It is so excellent with frozen blueberries and skim milk; the blueberries make the milk really cold and, oh, my it's good. With 1/2 cup blueberries and 1 cup skim milk, it's only 270 calories.

MrsDawsondn, about the flax seed -- I read that it does your body no good unless it's flax seed oil or ground flax seed. If the seeds aren't broken, they go the way of poppy seeds, sesame seeds, etc. Buh-bye seeds, sorry you're just passing through!