To think it quite normal to skip breakfast

[McHappyPants2012]

Settle an argument for me.

My dh thinks it is not normal for people to skip breakfast, he thinks I am weird because I have never had breakfast.

Yes it is normal to skip breakfast, no it's not good for your body to do it, you are setting yourself up for weight gain, not loss by missing breakfast regularly.

A colleague said to me recently 'I better get something to eat as I skipped breakfast' and I said 'I haven't eaten breakfast since the 80's...'

Morning coffee on the other hand is always worth getting up for!

It is fairly normal and common to skip breakfast.

It used to be v rare for me to ever eat it! In the last year or so I have got into the habit of breakfast and I do enjoy it now so make sure I make the time, but I would think nothing of it if someone didn't.

I couldn't imagine not wanting breakfast. I don't feel human until I've eaten in the morning so having breakfast and a cuppa is the first thing I do when I get out of bed.

As someone else said - common, but not normal.

I would faint even before leaving the house in the morning without breakfast! My body does not like being starved and I often have cereal at about 11 at night followed by toast at 7 in the morning. That's the longest I can go without food. Interesting how different people are. I also have a snack mid morning, a big hot lunch, another snack mid afternoon, eat the dcs leftovers at 6 and then a big dinner at 8. Erm, I guess I like to eat

I don't get hungry til about 1pm and I don't have much of an appitte I am a uk size 16 but eat very little don't make sense lol

I rarely eat breakfast. I got into the habit of doing so when I was pregnant, but when I carried on doing it after DS was born it just used to mean I spent the first hour of the morning feeling really sick. I'm the same now, if I eat in the first two hours after I've got up I feel really nauseous. I was like that all through my teens, so for some reason my body just doesn't cope with it.

I never feel hungry when I get up , I just want a cup of tea .

I have never liked breakfast

I've never had breakfast unless I am holiday and then I don't have lunch.

I lost loads of weight when i started eating breakfast as it prevented me from snacking during the day.
Many overweight women don't eat breakfast.

I find I can go till lunchtime without feelin hungry if I skip breakfast BUT if I have breakfast (about 7 ish) I'm really hungry again by 10 ish !!!!!!!

I eat a lot once I start but I have trouble starting - usually have to be awake 2-3 hours before I can eat. However, in the past I have "trained" myself to eat breakfast and after a few weeks it happened that I was hungry at the appropriate time. I've not kept it up though - mornings are such sleepy things.

As an adult, you're old enough and daft enough to do what you want. You should ensure your children have the time to eat a good breakfast, though. Personally, I always have breakfast.

We have friends who run a B&B, and as a treat on DH's birthday every year we go there for breakfast.

I don't usually have breakfast on a weekday, not enough time, and usually not hungry. I'll have a fry up at the weekend though.

I used to skip breakfast for years. I do have tea and toast now as I have to give the dc's theirs before school. This morning I was working early and they had breakfast at my mums. I went without, not even a cup of tea! Didn't bother me at all

I never ate breakfast till DS was born - I had to start when weaning him because I was keen to do meals together at a table, rather than him eating and me sitting there beadily watching him. I still have to be up for an hour or two before I can contemplate food, though. Unhappily he wakes up so early that that's not a problem.

I need coffee, though. I couldn't get out of the door and go to work without it.

always skip breakfast - have a cup of black coffee on way to work, and a banana about 2 hours after getting up. It is better to eat breakfast though, but i'm not helped by disliking milk, and therefore all cereals, and porridge (and don't suggest i have them with apple juice or water or rice milk or.... - still yuck)
too much to do in mornings anyway to sit down and eat - horses, cats, dogs, chickens all to feed and sort out, 4 dc to get chivvy (and make sure they eat b/fast ) and we are out of the house for 7.15 am.

No never skip breakfast it makes you overweight and isnt healthy. I totally agree breakfast is the most important meal of the day

I always make sure the dc have breakfast , maybe I should try and eat alittle in the morning

You people who don't eat breakfast are naughty and bad.

My DBro is a teacher and he said he can tell within ten minutes of his first class which kids haven't had breakfast.

Think on this- your body does not start burning calories or waking up until you give it something to eat. Breakfast kick starts your metabolism.

It's not weird to miss it but it's jolly bad for you- how hard can it be to snaffle down a cereal bar or a banana? Sorry, I sound like I am talking to my teenage niece now for which, apologies.

My Mum wouldn't let us leave the house in the morning unless we'd eaten something and I feel sorry for kids whose Mums don't insist or at least try (unless they got to breakfast club). There are so many nice breakfast option- there must be SOMETHING you can eat!

I am not sure about the skipping breakfast is unhealthy line. Whenever i read an article it always suggests porridge as a low GI, slow release, perfect brekkie. I love porridge but if I eat it for breakfast I am starving by 9.30. I can happily skip breakfast and wait until lunch. I tend to eat after commuting now, cereal and yoghurt, aorund 9/9.30 and that works for me.

I always insisted my DCs ate breakfast when they were at school , now they are adults they can make their owm minds up.