My 2 cents...for what it's worth. I've lost and gained a good amount of weight. This time feels different (although I'm ONLY (kidding) down 30 pounds). I have thrown right out of my head everything I have ever heard about dieting, nutrition and weight loss, which was really becoming an obsession and causing me to second guess every decision I made eating and working out. I decided to make a few simple rules for myself. Listen to MY body, get rid of processed stuff, eat when I'm hungry, if I'm hungry between meals eat fruit...lots of it if I need to. And the rest....nada.....I feel free of the "shoulds" for the first time. And it's working in results and mind. I'm not obsessing over "dieting" or losing weight or I shouldn't have as many carbs, or I should eat breakfast. The thing is, you are the only expert of YOUR body and mind. You do what works for YOU...and it looks like a later breakfast is working just fine!! Good luck and keep up the great work!

I see no earthly reason for you to eat breakfast if it's not natural for your body. For whatever reason, some people's stomachs don't seem ready to eat in the morning. Other people (raising hand) wake up hungry and ready to eat. I would never skip breakfast because it's my favourite meal and I get very hungry if I postpone it. My mother was even more extreme: she would literally throw up if she skipped breakfast.

The purported metabolic boost from eating breakfast is negligible, so the breakfast-versus-no-breakfast debate boils down to personal preference (as do many of our firmly held tenets, as Kaplods has so rightly pointed out in previous posts).

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I used to skip breakfast but I found once I started eating it, I would wake up and be hungry right away...id also stop my night eating if i ate breakfast...seemed to keep me on track

There are a couple of different schools of thought on the subject and I agree if it's not broke, don't fix it. Do what is working with you. Intermittent Fasting people sometimes don't eat until 1pm, and often workout on an empty stomach, and the people that follow that diet swear by it

However, if this *stops* working I think changing up your eating patterns could help you break through a plateau. It's always good to have another option in your arsenal!

I'm a member of the National Weight Control Registry (the group that surveys people who have lost significant weight and kept it off), and they are often quoted as saying that most of the members eat breakfast daily, as though that is an important factor to maintaining weight loss.

HOWEVER, they've never asked us if we ate breakfast daily before maintaining our weight loss! I have always eaten breakfast - for 20 years as 100 lb overweight person, for the nearly 2 years I was losing the weight, and for more than 2 years as a maintaining person. So personally I think timing of your first meal is likely not important unless it causes you to overeat because you're overly hungry.

All the news and websites indicate it's important to start your day with breakfast.

I did two months of IF last year and it worked very well... no hunger, weight loss at a good rythm...

The reason I ultimately left it was that I wanted to eat as normally as possible, and that means having breakfast with my husband and children.