Bigger Breakfasts.

We don’t have breakfast, as we dot he 16:8 diet. Lunch at 12 / dinner at 6 then nothing except a cup of tea early morning. This regulates blood sugar. Works for us anyway. Though we do have breakfast if we stay at an hotel. ????☕️☕️

At home, I have the same breakfast each day, a mixture of granola and muesli usually with extra berries or other fruit.

Recently I was away at a conference on full board. Self service so I started with orange juice, then grilled bacon and sausage with either fried or scrambled egg. Other items were available. Toast and marmalade, then I finished off with orange and grapefruit segments. Delicious, but just too much!

I always eat breakfast - usually scrambled eggs and mushrooms or Greek yoghurt and nuts. I don't eat bread or cereals. I'm diabetic and they spike my blood sugars. I drink coffee, never juice.

If I don't eat breakfast, I often get something called the "dawn phenomenon", which is when the liver senses that blood glucose is low and dumps glucose into the system. I don't produce enough insulin to cope with the increase, so my blood sugar levels go up. It doesn't happen if I eat a low carb meal.

We eat lightly during the day - bread and marmelade, bread and cheese, yoghurt and our main meal between 9 and 11 p.m.

We are both as thin as rakes and weight in our late sixties and early seventies the same as we have done since we were 24.

I decided years ago, to eat when I was hungry but always in moderation.

Advice given to the general public can only be guidelines, as we are all different.

The current theory here now is that dieting does no good, as we are all geneticly programmed to be more or less the weight we are.

I have no doubt that if I live for another 20 years, this theory will be shot down in flames too, like all the other advice we have been given regarding eating habits, what to eat, what not to eat and how often since the 1960s.

MrsKen33 I decided to do 18/6 intermittent fasting so no breakfast, salad with protein for lunch at 12 and a normal dinner at 6. I told my husband he could eat what I ate or make his own. I have now lost 10 kilos and , although he doesn’t weigh himself, he has lost enough weight that he can fit into his old Merchant Navy uniform. He is now talking about having his photo taken wearing his uniform!

Excellent Niobe I started seven years ago when I was diagnosed diabetic. Lost nearly 3 stone and have never looked back. So no big breakfasts for me on a regular basis. Well done your DH too

We do 18/6 too, low carb, but always have breakfast somewhere between 9 and 10 am. We like a nice cooked breakfast that is going to fill us up - quiche, frittata, bacon and eggs, omelettes, sometimes porridge, coffee. We don't do sugar usually so no bread. Dinner is sometime around 2 to 3 pm - meat/fish, loads of veggies and low carb dessert. That's it for the next 18 hours or so. Just water and black coffee.

We don't weigh, but as of about 3 weeks ago we've both lost 2" off waist, 1" off hips (the only measurements we take).

I just can’t face FOOD in the morning so it’s a milky coffee and a yogurt, then about 1130 to 12.00 lunch of salad, sandwich or something light. Then we eat our main meal around 5 to 6. Certainly no later maybe a bowl of cereal before bed. Neither of us are over weight and seem to stay same weight for years.