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I was watching a documentary on the Seventies last week. It was old news footage of real people such as NOW and early gay pride protesters and other events of the era, and it struck me how thin most people were. There were very few obese people in that footage. Hell, I was underweight in the Seventies myself!
I was totally normal weight in the 70s too. Probably around 30 lbs. at age 3, and 100 at age 13.
I eat breakfast every morning. Because I know my body and I know I need to. My hubby doesn't always eat breakfast. He's still healthy and normal weight. When he eats breakfast, he most times skips lunch. I have to eat 3 times a day or I get cranky and start to feel nauseated.
Everyone is different. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. People would be so much happier if they realized that.
In all my many years of being dedicated to health and athletics, studying fitness, researching nutrition, training others, speaking with industry experts, learning the best ways to fuel my body, even working with experts in the field of eastern medicine (qi gong and tai chi), I have NEVER heard anyone say "dont eat breakfast because your digestive juices arent flowing so you wont digest your food as well". That is ridiculous even for the internet.
Well you're right--I was going off my own experience, which is that when I'm not hungry and I eat, the food just seems to sit there and not digest very well. However, just because you've not heard of it does not mean it's invalid--I know a lot about books too but I'm always finding new stuff I've not heard of. It just seems pretty intuitive to me.
Anyway I am always more successful at watching my weight when I listen to my body and my body tells me I'm not hungry till later.
I'm with stepka here. You eat when you are hungry, not before. The problem arises when one needs to eat before getting hungry because if one doesn't you're gonna get pretty hungry when you can't eat! That was my pattern for several years. I could not eat at breakfast time so I got hungry until morning tea when I could eat. I did resolve that problem finally and it had nothing to do with my body. My brain simply wasn't waking up properly in the morning!
On weekends I don't have breakfast. I have a small early lunch and a small low carb dinner. If I was more active on weekends I would no doubt eat more, including breakfast.
Remarkable, King's Gambit. When I eat crap the night before, I'm not hungry in the morning. When I overindulge on drinking the night before, I'm not hungry in the morning. If I sat on my butt all day long, snacked all day, and ate late in the evening instead of the usual suppertime, I'm not hungry the next morning.
That must be WHY I'm not hungry the next morning, since - if I ate at a reasonable hour, had plenty of time to digest before laying down to sleep, ate a reasonable healthy supper, was physically active during the day, and didn't snack all day long - I tend to be hungry at breakfast time.
So for me - not being hungry in the morning isn't because my digestive system isn't whatever blah blah blah. It's because I did stupid crap the day before. I wonder how many other people would come to the same conclusion if they took a real honest look at their daily habits (and kept the hyperbole, rhetoric, and ego out of internet fora to brag about how their bodies are too special to respond like normal people).
So for me - not being hungry in the morning isn't because my digestive system isn't whatever blah blah blah. It's because I did stupid crap the day before. I wonder how many other people would come to the same conclusion if they took a real honest look at their daily habits (and kept the hyperbole, rhetoric, and ego out of internet fora to brag about how their bodies are too special to respond like normal people).
Funny, my body does the opposite of yours and it's not because I'm claiming to be a special snowflake. I also don't think anyone else is claiming such but we are pointing out that everyone reacts somewhat differently and that's why not all diets work in the same way for all people. I know some folks do great on low carb and others fail miserably and some folks thrive on eating breakfast and others don't want anything until 3 or 4 hours later. Why is that so hard for some folks to understand? Why do you come on here and accuse folks of claiming to be special when in fact they just react differently than you do? What is a normal person? You? LOL.
The one thing that I think that we can claim is universal though is that it's a bad idea to eat when you're not hungry and that's what gets more of us in trouble with our weight than anything else. Also, the only "diet" that is proven to boost health and extend lifespan is caloric restriction, however one chooses to implement that. I implement it by skipping breakfast and eating fewer meals that will raise my blood sugar and thus insulin level. Also, the meals are less depressing that way.
Why do you come on here and accuse folks of claiming to be special when in fact they just react differently than you do? What is a normal person? You? LOL
Well said. I think some people on this forum need to spend less time ridiculing everyone who doesn't conform to their views, and more time considering the beneficial effects of anti-depressants on the personality.
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It just seems pretty intuitive to me. 
What is a normal person? You? LOL. 
