I find that I need very small meals throughout the day to not dip into "the danger zone" of super low calories. If I skip breakfast, I also skip all snacks, lunch, sometimes dinner, and I end up with days of eating 200 calories/day. Gotta love ED-NOS!

My breakfast is the same every day. I eat 6 egg whites, about 60 calories worth of reduced fat cheese, chopped fresh mushroom, and spinach all mixed together in a omelet/ frittata. Its is very filling. I eat it with salsa and sour cream. I get cranky if I can't eat this:)

agreed!

Seriously, I can get a decent (if small) breakfast for 200 calories. In my case, porridge made with half soya milk and half water, a tablespoon of protein powder, and a chopped date to hide the taste of the protein powder. It's only a small bowl, but it's enough to stop me from feeling hungry, sustain me until lunchtime, and stop me from keeling over from low blood sugar. I'm half your size (being, you know, rather short where you are rather tall) and I'm inactive where I seem to recall your being pretty energetic. Maybe my 200 calorie breakfast is the equivalent of 400 calories for someone like you?

But I can see where IF is great for people who aren't natural breakfasters, are only having a small nominal breakfast, and would actually be happier using the calories later.

I like to eat very small breakfasts. Enough to hold me over but not enough to make me feel restricted with my calories when it comes dinnertime. I usually will have:

1/2 cup Egg Beaters
1 slice light multi-grain toast
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter for the toast
(150 Cal.)

It works for me. :)

I eat the same breakfast day in and day out:

Barbara's Brown Rice Crisp cereal w/skim milk, 2 slices wheat toast topped with all-natural pb and fruit spread...totals around 350 calories.

I used to eat breakfast every morning and was losing weight fast doing so.
The last five months or so I seldom ever eat breakfast and my weight loss has slowed to a crawl. I do not know if there is any connection. Maybe I should go back to eating breakfast regularly?

When I do eat breakfast it is either

1 cup of plain Fiber One Cereal
1 small banana sliced into the cereal
1 pkt Sweet n Low
3/4 cup skim milk

or

1/2 cup egg beaters usually with chopped onion cooked with Pam
2 slices low cal toast with I Can't believe its Not Butter
1 cup black coffee, no sweetner and no creamer
On rare occasions I will microwave two slices of low sodium turkey bacon

Larry,

I eat oatmeal daily, but not the cooked kind. I prefer my oats straight up raw! ;)

My daily staple for breakfast :) But it's good anytime of day..
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1/2 cup DRY old fashioned oats dumped into a bowl
1 cut up piece of fruit (apple, banana, pear, or big bunch of grapes, strawberries, whatever I have a hankering for) tossed into the oats
Then I also add 1 flavored greek yogurt (strawberry, blueberry, honey, black cherry, peach)
Mix up all the above together & stir. Then I add a generous sprinkling of ground flax seeds, & a generous toss of raw cacao nibs & a handful of raw almonds!

It's pure decadent delight! :) A good combo of fiber & protein to power me thru my workout & it keeps me going till lunch! I really like to get my chew on & this is ooey, gooey & chewy & fills me up! :) YUM!

[QUOTE=iatejen;4074083]I'm usually split my breakfast into two meals - one quick one to get me out the door in the morning, and then something for a late morning snack that is more filling.

I do this too. A boiled egg and low sodium V8 in the car on the way to taking my son to school.
Then a bigger breakfast once I'm back home. Lately turkey bacon or sausage and a half cup of egg beaters with some lf cheese.

Thus why I said "consider".:D Every circumstance is different. It is highly likely that your 200 calorie meal is equivilant to more than 400 for me. Regarding hunger and blood sugar - it is highly likely that you could adapt to IFing and have neither of those issues ... or possibly not. If it's not broken - don't fix it right?

Your last statement is exactly why I brought it up. So many feel they ~MUST~ eat breakfast when for the majority of people there is no need to do so in particular if they are not natural breakfast eaters.

Fat loss or gain is an equation of energy measured in calories. Not meal timing. If the only change from when you were losing to now is you stopped eating breakfast that would not be responsible for your slowed progress.

Having said that - it could be that eating breakfast gives you additional energy and makes you more active than when you skip it.

Can you hire a camera crew to follow you around and then we can analyze your every move? There is always an answer - we just don't always have the data to answer the questions. (Assuming we're asking the right ones!)

[QUOTE=Larry H;4076311]I used to eat breakfast every morning and was losing weight fast doing so.
The last five months or so I seldom ever eat breakfast and my weight loss has slowed to a crawl. I do not know if there is any connection. Maybe I should go back to eating breakfast regularly?


Hey Larry, Congrats on your loss- that's so AWESOME DUDE! :) I think I would incorporate back breakfast into your plan then if your at a snails pace in your weight loss as of late. Heck why not give it a shot if you were successful and steadily losing by having breakfast prior to the crawl, you got nothing to lose but perhaps additional pounds, just my 2 cents! :D

I've tried.

It doesn't end well. I get very very cranky if I don't have it...

I generally have either a Bio yogurt (~69kcal) or a banana. At work I tend to drink a small cup of coffee with a little cream and sugar, but recently I've been unable to finish a single cup. I'm not hungry in the morning unless I've been awake for a while and I don't see any point in forcing myself to eat a big meal at this stage, even if a larger, balanced breakfast might be better.

John - I think this is one of the occasions where everyone's been interpreting what you said in a way you didn't quite think they would, and hindsight is always great! Merely eating a small breakfast isn't a reason to skip it, and as you've agreed, 200 calories can be a perfectly nourishing breakfast for smaller people. Eating a small breakfast because you don't get on with breakfasting and are making a token effort, that's a good reason to think about skipping it. If you'd said that, I don't think you'd have had so many people leaping up to disagree.

However, when I said that I need to have breakfast to stop me keeling over from low blood sugar, I'm somewhat at a loss to understand how you conclude that I may be able to adapt to IF. Do you think that I'm imagining the results rather than having repeatedly experienced what happens to me if I don't eat breakfast? Or is being high-risk for fainting, and feeling incredibly ill even if I don't faint, just something I should work through? I went through years of my life where my sleep disorders were so bad, and the level of support I got in the home so limited, that I was effectively practising IF whether I liked it or not. It made my medical condition a great deal worse, and I've had several doctors tell me in no uncertain terms that I absolutely have to eat every few hours and can't leave it for too long overnight. I seem to recall explaining all of this in the IF thread not too long ago.

I didn't really used to be much of a breakfast person. I'm one of those people who doesn't really get hungry till I eat something so I used to avoid brekkie all together. These days, however, I make a conscious decision to try to have at least a little something even if it's just a piece of fruit or a granola bar or a boiled egg and I've found it does help, as not being a morning person who deals with a lot of chirpy, morning people, I do think I feel a little more human (in terms of patience levels).

Breakfast for me could be:
- Cereal, almond milk and a lean, grass-fed, beef halal sausage- 270cal
- Cereal, almond milk and a boiled egg- 212cal
- Steel cut oatmeal and a boiled egg- 228 cal
- 2-egg mushroom omelet- 195 cal
- Heinz baked beans in tomato sauce + 1 small slice of corned beef- 180 cal
- 1 plain crepe + 1 teaspoon of Nutella- 115cal

Those are some of the breakfasts I've made in the last couple of weeks. Today, it was just a tangerine though.