Breakfast - Good idea or otherwise?

[Mk]

That's the real reason to eat breakfast.

Also, I find that "ugh" feeling in the morning that makes me not feel like eating is the "my stomach is running on empty and hurts" feeling.

For most people, it's a long time between dinner and waking up (about 12 hours), assuming dinner is eaten sometime around 6 or 7 PM. If you then don't eat until lunch, you're going on 18 hours without food. Two things happen there that affect weight - by the time you eat lunch, you're so hungry you will tend to over eat, and when your body has been fasted for 18 hours, your metabolism shifts to conserve energy in case you're starving, which means that lunch meal is going to pile on more fat reserves. You then cram in a second meal only 6 hours after your first meal, and then starve yourself for another 18. Eating breakfast helps spread the meals out over more of the active part of your day, and starts you off with the energy to be active.

I'm never hungry until about four hours after I wake up.

I always eat a breakfast or lunch sized meal right before bed, because my body says to.

Should I do that?

Breakfast is very important! Your body hasn't eaten in 8+ hours, if you go to long without eating your body goes into starvation mode and your matabolism is turned down (if your trying to burn fat this is bad).

If anything you shouldn't eat diner. Not to long after you eat diner your matabolism is turned down anyways because your body is about to go to sleep in a few hours. So all those calories you just ate are more likely to go into making fat.

Starvation from sleep? Healthy to eat no dinner? Sorry, but this sounds crazy to me.

 

[moose]

I know that it is unhealthy to eat right before going to sleep. Try to eat a snack a few hours before going to sleep, therefore you won't be hungry, yet in the morning you may become hungry.