I NEVER eat breakfast, though I do get my calories in through out the day. I babysit in my home and one of the children gets here at 6:25am and then I get my kids up and ready for school, the next 2 kids get here around 7:15am, and then take them to school and drop them off, I just don't have time to eat in the morning lol

WELL.... this morning I had a banana on the way out the door and I'm starving now, I'm never this hungry in the morning. Does anybody else find that if you eat breakfast you are STARVING?

Bananas have a pretty large amount of carbs/sugar -- maybe eating one brought your blood sugar way up and then you "crashed" a little bit later and are now feeling very hungry?

If I have oatmeal/toast/very sugary fruit in the AM, I'm usually ravenous by 11:00 or 12. If i have something like an egg with tofu sausage, I don't feel hungry until well into the afternoon, and even then, it isn't a ravenous hunger.

Try a piece of light string cheese, it's full of protien and just as fast/easy as a banana. The ones that I buy are 60 cal or 1 point on WW.

i agree with that ... eating in the morning makes me want to eat lunch earlier and then i want to eat dinner earlier ( like by 6:30 ish ) and then by 11:00 at night i start to rummage in my fridge ..... which i know is no good i eat a "brunch" at around 12:00 and that keeps me up until about 4:30-5:00 and then i eat lunch , dinner @ 9:00 and then in bed by midnight ..... or at least thats how i try to plan my day im a night owl , meaning also a night eater so i try to be sleeping by midnight ! maybe this plan can work for you ?

I just had a late breakfast/early lunch and its 11:20am. I usually have mid afternoon snack, like popcorn veggies, fruit or whatever I have on hand and then dinner around 5:30 because my kids are starving by then lol

It sounds like you think you have to eat breakfast the minute you get up. You don't! I get up at 6 a.m. Usually I don't eat breakfast until 8:30 or 9.

Jay

Well I think thats since its 9:30am when I get back from dropping the kids off at school that I might as well wait until lunch time I'm not usually hungry until 11:00 or so anyways.

I've had the same experience (eating makes me get hungry earlier). It seems like the first meal sets the "meal timer" and establishes when I will get hungry again.

OTOH, I do go out of my way to eat a breakfast, even when I'm not feeling particularly hungry, because I've read in the past about how good it is for you to eat breakfast many times. I remember reading a long time ago that eating breakfast was correlated with a longer life expectancy and it is also associated with successfully losing weight (and maintaining).

In my own experience, I have the most willpower in the morning (and the least at night). So I am very likely to eat a healthy breakfast when I make myself eat something. At night, I avoid the potential binging problem by going to sleep earlier and not allowing myself to even get started on a late snack (the slope is too slippery).

Part of the reason you got hungry so quickly after eating that banana is because the banana actually "jump-started" your metabolism. You have to think of your metabolism as a fire...in order to keep it burning at full force you have to keep throwing wood (food) on it...that's why people advocate eating 5-6 small meals a day. Too little wood and the fire goes out. When you wake up in the morning, your body and your metabolism have basically been fasting for the last 6-8 hours. At that point, your metabolism is a small flame. It's not going to burn very many calories because it has no fuel and it's going to keep burning at that rate until it gets some. When you ate the banana, you "stoked the fire" and got your metabolism going. That's why you got hungry so quickly...you revved up your metabolism, it burned through the calories in the banana, and it needed more to keep burning at that rate.

I also never use to eat breakfast. I would wake up at 6 am and not eat anything until noon because I didn't feel hungry, but that doesn't necessarily mean that my body wasn't hungry. As soon as I started eating breakfast, I found myself hungry again an hour or two later but, ironically, I also found myself having more energy in the mornings. When I finally got into the habit of eating breakfast, I ate it like 2-3 hours after waking up because I still wasn't feeling hungry. When I hired my trainer, he said that was the worst thing I could do and proceeded to give me the aforementioned analogy. He told me to eat something...anything right when I get up even if I'm not hungry...just to get my metabolism going. So now, right when I get up, I eat 2 scrambled egg whites and then have a proper breakfast like an hour later and, ironically, I find myself having more energy in the mornings. Hungrier, yes, but with more energy nonetheless.

I think its what you eat, but also how much you eat. A banana is what, 100 calories? Your body will eat up that 100 calories very quickly. (I just read what onesecondthought said and thats basically what I was getting at).

At school I wouldn't eat breakfast until 2 hours after I woke up.. NOT a good idea. I would be hungry 2 hours later for some reason. Instead, when I eat say half an hour after i wake up, right before work, I'm good for 3 1/2 hours, with the same amount of calories! I wake up at 8 oclock and have a 150 calorie egg white omelet with turkey sausage and veggies and I'm not even hungry by my lunch break at 12. I eat only because I don't want my metabolism to stall. Good luck!

Many food plans say that you should eat every 2 or 3 hours once you're up--so if you don't eat until noon, you are going over that. Try eating breakfast at 9:30 and see how that goes. It doesn't have to be a lot--my breakfast this morning was a Kashi TLC bar and a cup of 1% milk 'cause I was in a hurry.

Jay

I went and bought Fiber One yesterday so I'm going to try a 1/2 cup of that without milk around 9:30am. Thanks for all of the suggestions and advice

I eat breakfast everyday around 8:00am...about 30 to 45 minutes after I wake up...after my first cup of coffee. I find if I have an egg sandwich it really gets me through the morning until lunch with no problem. I just fry an egg (70 cal) with a small squirt of Pam & yolk broken. When it's about done I put on slice of cheese (60 cal) a good dash of hot sauce (0 cal) on 2 pieces of the Sara Lee whole grain bread (90 cal), toasted. 220 calories total. Warm and satisfying. I add a glass of tomato juice or V8 and it puts me right around 300 calories. I'm never hungry until 12:30ish when I have protein with breakfast.

MMMmmmm... Lori Bell, you've got me wanting one of those sandwiches!

That sounds like a great way to start the day. Congratulations on your weight loss, BTW!

Jay