The FastDay Forum

We've always been told to have breakfast / most important meal of the day blah blah blah....but it's just not true. I always found it awful to try and eat until I'd been up and about for a few hrs and got naturally hungry so feel that being obliged to eat first thing has probably contributed to my weight gain over the years.

Moral of the story - listen to your body - especially when the "advice" changes every few years.

Rant over!

Yeah damn it but good we all finally found out we can skip breakfast if we want and just have coffee & tea

I'll be honest, I've always enjoyed eating breakfast and believed it set you up for the day. But I've since gotten used to not eating it and dont miss it and can function normally without it. I dont think it contributed to my weight gain - sheer greed and bad choices did that.

Couldn't agree more. I went from teens to early 30s without eating breakfast. Then I read all the stuff about skinny folk always eat breakfast etc. So I started but was always hungry again mid-morning. This meant that lunch wasn't any smaller than before. So all I was doing was eating extra calories.
So yes listen to your body and free yourself from the tyranny of breakfast

I am so a breakfast person, loving a bowl of porridge with milk and honey, followed by a slice of toasted home made bread, butter and homemade jam or marmalade. All washed down down by a big mug of black coffee. It keeps me going until around 3 pm so the meal I can do without is lunch. I am consoling myself now that I can have it tomorrow! Looking on the bright side it keeps my stock of porridge going longer, it is difficult to find here!

I've always loved breakfast, but have always happily skipped an evening meal. Funny how different all our bodies are?

But the interesting thing is I have no problem at all not having breakfast when I fast, and when I started 5:2, I would have all my calories as my evening meal. Now I just don't eat at all on my fast day, and wonder if I've found that such an obvious and easy progression because an evening meal is my most likely to skip anyway?

Like Motherof2 though, it's bad eating choices, rather than not listening to my body that are the cause of my weight gain. Too much crap like chocolate and beer will do that

I'm definitely an evening eater. I could always go to midday without feeling hungry at all. Lets hope we all find our perfect way of eating.

I'm still new to this so haven't experimented with missing meals yet....but so far 3 small meals a day has stopped me feeling hungry at all on fast days, so I'm sticking with that for now.