Do You eat Breakfast or Not?

@Paladin1950
Of course daily when young tho by late teens i was rarely hungry before midday. For several years i rarely broke the overnight fast till i was hungry.

I had some gestational blood sugar issue while pregnant with my twins, and did eat at least 3 meals daily for duration of pregnancy. It cleared up after delivery but i continued that for the couple of months i was breast feeding. After that even tho i would stay up after their 4:30a.m. feeding just to have some solitude before husband got up for work and i made his breakfast, i generally didn't eat until he'd left and the boys had their next feeding.

By the time the boys were 4 i was back to my first meal of the day being closer to midday than morning. The June they turned 8 i was 6 months pregnant with daughter and had been eating breakfast at generally accepted time for it, but still got diagnosed with gestational diabetes. If i didn't eat nutritionally sound food shortly after rising and at least two other meals daily my body punished me. So in a way my kids 'made' me a breakfast eater again.

While i've kept my glucose levels under control since then thru sensible consumption breakfast has become something of a habit. So even 13 years after retiring i do have it. However, i generally don't eat until hungry (by 9 most days) unless have heavy chores planned then eat high protein breakfast instead of cereal.
 

Absolutely. I love breakfast, it's my favorite meal of the day. I like almost anything with eggs, I always start off with grapefruit, or if I've run out, some fruit juice, maybe toast or a muffin, and always coffee. And about once a week, waffles and bacon. I also love blueberry pancakes but rarely make them, as there's no easy way to make a portion for one person, and I don't want to throw out the extra, or have to eat the same thing for 3 days.

I am not crazy about cereal, but have that once a week if I have fresh fruit to add to it.

I can't imagine skipping breakfast. It's one of the joys of life.
 
When employed used to get up 5am(ish), walk dog, see to child, depending on her age take her to nursery/schooI, then make 2 slices of toast and eat it driving to work which was about 8.30am.

Now retired, first port of call is a cuppa cha (tea) immediately after first visit loo, usually followed by another cuppa after completion of ablutions and second vist loo. ;)

Breakfast is anytime after 12noon or onwards (today it was after 2pm), which is porridge.
Always the same because my body seems to need the bulk and stodginess, or I get iffy.
My porridge is made with soya milk, frozen blueberries and/or other frozen fruit, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg.
Followed by another cuppa.
Yum.

Breakfast is most often the largest or only 'proper' meal of the day I have. I'm not that much into food anymore, it's become a chore.
 

I take thyroid medicine early then wait at least an hour and take pantoprazole and wait another hour before I can eat. So breakfast becomes brunch or lunch. I lost a little weight.
 
hollydolly said:
..are you diabetic ?
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No. And Ive been tested officially and unofficially by my relatives.
There are diabetics in my family. When I was young and thin I had the metabolism of a teenage boy.
I ate constantly and had desert with every meal. Jealous people in my family would pick me to see why my blood sugar wasnt spiking. :D

If I dont eat I get a headache. If I wait too long I get light headed. This doesnt happen often now cause Im retired.
I thought maybe I might be turning diabetic since Ive gained some weight but the doctor says no Im fine.
 
Maybe once a week if I have some athletic activity planned for an afternoon, I'll eat a small breakfast like a cup of Cheerios or shredded wheat with milk and sugar and then just consume a yogurt or milk with sugar for lunch. Otherwise, I have eaten little to nothing for breakfast's over my whole adult lifetime. Eating smaller quantities and doing so less often, puts one's body through less digestive cycles that allows slower aging.

Although, if one is used to regularly eating breakfast, one will feel hungry if not eating breakfast at the regular time. But once one stops for a week or so, one's body adapts to the circadian rhythm change, after which one won't feel hungry. One can also adapt to just one main meal say at mid afternoon that our ordinary human ancestors often practiced because food preparation was so involved and central to their day's activities.
 
Breakfast has always been important to me.

Some of my best memories is sneaking out of bed to have Grandpa make pancakes.
His were as big as the plate topped with real maple syrup!

As I grew older oatmeal was breakfast,, than various brands of cereal saw me through the teen age years.

Motherhood saw me feeding our sons various types of breakfast foods.

Now hubby & I have cereal,, coffee & maybe share cookies with the dog in the morning.
 

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