Bigger Breakfasts.

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.

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).

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

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!

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.

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.

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!

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. ????☕️☕️

It's porridge everyday summer/winter from about 7.45 light lunch at I pm, supper from 6.30 to 7.
DH is svelte I am very overweight. The problem is he can fill up on vegetables they play havoc with my hiatus hernia and he does a long fell walk each week which I couldn't contemplate. He also goes on an exercise bicycle. Fatty and thinny have swapped over in our house.

We walk dogs prior to all meals, makes us hungry I suppose. So, we eat mostly equal meals, spread from early morning through 7:30pm.

Breakfast is black coffee, oats with fruit, a handful of nuts, more coffee.

We eat as vegans when nobody is around asking for meat, milk, butter and cheese. We give in to our decidedly opinionated children and grandchildren come round for animal based foods.

Tim Spector of Zoe agrees that having breakfast small, large or not at all, isn't important - it's the total quality of our food intake that's important.
He recommends eating at least 30 foods of plant origin every week. Everything counts, eg bread, nuts, soya milk, not only fruit & veg.

I love breakfast, tho, but definitely not a fry-up, or even a grill-up!

My dog is like one of your cats GagaJo. Won’t eat until at least lunchtime, sometimes then leaves it for an hour or two then is ready for and devours dinner about 6. Very different to all my other dogs but seems to suit her.

I find that a large breakfast or lunch puts me out of action, so a slice of toast for breakfast, soup or salad for lunch then the largest meal is dinner at about 7 to 7.30, used to be much later when I was working.

Not keen on breakfast really. I just don't feel hungry until I've been up a couple of hours. Interestingly (or not), my 2 cats differ on breakfast. She is desperate for food from 5am on, whereas he really doesn't want to eat until lunchtime.

silverlining48

Nothing wrong with a fry up as long as it’s grilled! Comes Slimming World recommended .

My husband was over the moon when he realised he was "allowed" to have his favourite cooked breakfast as part of the Slimming World programme, which his GP had prescribed.

He's cooked himself dry-fried eggs, bacon medallions, tomatoes and mushrooms virtually every morning for the past year.
He's lost five and a half stone so far!

I always have toast and thick cut marmalade and a bowl of cereal for breakfast fruit for lunch and a small evening meal when *Mr Glamma" was alive he enjoyed his full English any time of the day.

The study isn’t claiming that a big breakfast leads to weight loss Maw. If you read through it agrees with you.

“The results, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, found the timing of a big meal made no difference to how many calories were burned, to people's resting metabolic rate or the amount of weight they lost.
The key difference was to appetite or hunger levels, which were suppressed by the large breakfast”

I seldom eat breakfast, when I do it's usually a slice of toast. Our main meal is at lunchtime 12:30 - 1:00pm. We have a small supper at 6:30ish.

I love a big breakfast but the problem with that was I then had to think of two more meals - I can't be doing with soup or a sandwich, I like proper meals!

I've had my usual crumpet. Don't seem to have much appetite in the mornings. I eat my main meal just before 6pm so I can watch the news as I eat.

I’m another bruncher Terri! Especially since I retired 5 years ago!

I generally drink some home made kefir around 8am and then start to feel peckish around 11ish so anything from kedgeree, full Monty, toastie, soup or salad depending on weather and whereabouts!

Main meal around 6, rarely later, as I like at least 4 hours after eating before bed and no liquids after 9pm. This usually guarantees 7-8 hours uninterrupted sleep - partaking of alcoholic beverages always results in a toilet trot before dawn and I’m ? all the next day!

We are terribly boring.

Cornflakes at 8 30 is normal, sandwiches at 1 with the news and start cooking at 6pm

I like to eat when the hunger kicks in and that for me is late morning anything between 11ish and l o'clock. If I swim in the morning then I won't eat first. Sometimes if I feel my sugar levels are running low before that time I'll have a small banana with one of my 3 morning coffees. When I do have breakfast it's usually Greek yogurt and fruit or Weetabix, granola and fruit, maybe a slice of toast that keeps me going until afternoon. I believe in eating around what my appetite dictates to me rather than prescribed meal times. I do cook an evening meal for my husband sometimes I join him and sometimes I don't, depending on what I've eaten mid afternoon. As for those traditional English breakfasts, I only have them if we are staying in a hotel, occasionally they're nice but they're not something I long for. Again they're too early for me, I prefer brunch time that's when I'm ready for it. I like going out for brunch that's an occasional treat.

argymargy I said the same thing. I hate breakfast and wo9uldnt do it if it wasn't for the Chief of the Food Police insisting I have some. I like a small lunch of sou9p and fruit and when it gets to dinner time (6-7) I don't want to cook it or eat it so coonsequently I always leave half the plate.

I’ve had my usual small breakfasts but I’ve been eating my main meal at lunchtimes recently with just a small snack in the evening rather than eating the main meal in the evening as I used to. I’ve lost weight, go to bed earlier and sleep far better. The slight change certainly seems to suit me