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I've never liked eating breakfast, ever since I was a kid.As an adult whenever I skipped it my hubby would get on my case about how I need to eat breakfast and how important it is. So I started drinking protein shakes which were tasty enough, albeit expensive, but it was something in my belly for breakfast. Then I started IF ironically because hubby started doing it, and there was suddenly no guilt about not eating breakfast, and it was so easy to skip that meal since I never liked it anyway.
Don't get me wrong I like breakfast foods, I'd just prefer to eat them later on in the day or night, and I do. Donuts are my absolute favorites and now I eat them for dessert. Yum! 🤤 Life is good, I get to eat the things I love, and I don't have to force myself to eat breakfast anymore. Win/win.
As a meal time, breakfast is best for me to skip. Once I start eating, it's difficult for me to stop eating, so eating from 1-7 pm most days works perfect for me.
As a meal itself, I love breakfast! On days I'm home I will often have breakfast for lunch. Yum!
Great thread! Hope I did the survey right. Next month I will have been doing (vegan) OMAD breakfast for a year. Just turned 69. Very happy with the results: lost 47 lbs., different body shape (no loose skin), cleared up rash on elbows, teeth all strong and beautiful, skin beautiful, no return of ovarian cancer.
This process is gentle, inexpensive, and particularly with the plant based element, good for the planet and animals.
I do one meal a day at dinner. Somedays I don't eat till 7 or 8 pm and repeat the next day so about a 22:2 schedule. I go to sleep at around midnight. I will work out just before dinner, a 10-mile bike ride or 4-mile walk or I mow the lawn or whatever I can find to do. I will only work out in a fasted state. It makes sense to me to do it that way. In addition to the OMAD, I will always do low carb. I eat meat and vegetables and some fruit like berries in 2 or 3 different courses within my eating window. I would never say I am starving or famished, quite the opposite of that.
Oh, you wanted to know why! I like getting up early, at five or six and having my one meal after I feed my animals. Then I don't have to even go in the kitchen or think about food at all the rest of the day. It just suits me. I may grab a mineral water, decaf green tea or ice coffee, but not always.
I wouldn't really call it IF but I usually skip lunch. Nothing to do with weight loss, pretty much where I'd like to be at and been there for about ten years now. Lost it all with simple CICO. Just convenience. Easier to not eat lunch than bring the same salad/sandwich type stuff in the car or a park. Eating out at restaurants gets expensive. Easier to just skip and eat when I get back home.
I have mixed feelings about fasting period regardless what some may say: But, if I am going to skip a meal for any reason it is lunch. I am not a huge lunch eater but feel breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day. If you are fasting to lose weight probably dinner is the best meal to skip. I still stick with lunch.
I usually skip both breakfast and lunch and just eat dinner. I also follow a ketogenic way of eating.
I have never been a breakfast eater (eating it made me nauseous), and skipping lunch is easy, since I never have enough time at work to eat anyway. So rather than choke lunch down in a few minutes, I just skip it. Then I can eat a nice satisfying dinner with my day's worth of calories.
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