Skipping Breakfast

Lynne1 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-23-2006, 02:29 PM

Hi All - another diet question. Has anyone noticed that they eat more during the day when they eat breakfast? I know the current philosophy is to eat breakfast and every few hours thereafter. However, I find that the earlier I start eating, the more I eat during the day. Anyone else find this to be true?

Tiggy26 · #2 (**permalink**) 03-23-2006, 02:36 PM

Dam Lynne!!

Spot on!! I find when I have my breakfast at 8am, I dont really feel the need to eat lunch til gone 1pm...
When I have breakfast at 7am....I tend to feel like I'm dipping low (even though I'm not) and I'm STARVING by 11:30am!!!!

I dont understand why either!!!!

lelggren · #3 (**permalink**) 03-23-2006, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Lynne1

Hi All - another diet question. Has anyone noticed that they eat more during the day when they eat breakfast? I know the current philosophy is to eat breakfast and every few hours thereafter. However, I find that the earlier I start eating, the more I eat during the day. Anyone else find this to be true?

It is like you are reading my mind. I eat breakfast at different times each morning because my husband and I only have one car so I have to work breakfast around when he has to be at work. When I eat breakfast at or after 8:15 am, I'm pretty good. Like, I had breakfast this morning around 8:15, and I didn't need lunch until around 1:30. But, on the days that I have breakfast before 8 am, I'm on a munchy kick all day long. Which, I'm trying to lose more weight and so that is a bit against my plan because when I get munchy, it is not always my baby carrots.... Good Observation!

Erin · #4 (**permalink**) 03-25-2006, 04:38 PM

I am not hungry at all until I eat the first meal of the day (be it breakfast or brunch or lunch or whatever... i do not keep a regular schedule). I think this is because my metabolism is sluggish before that first meal revs it up. could be that eating earlier causes your metabolism to pick up the pace a bit? That could explain being hungry earlier.

rea · #5 (**permalink**) 03-29-2006, 10:28 AM

thats because your body needs food every 4 hours or so. the earlier you eat, then the earlier you require lunch.

for an example, I am up at 5:30am (uck). I eat breakfast at 6, and am out the door just before 7. I have a small snack around 8 if I need it, and lunch about 11.

If I waited 4 hours on a weekeday from breakfast- I would be eating lunch at 10, so instead I eat a snack to level my bs so I don't go low.

but I end up eating the same amount, because generally I eat less lunch, and I go to bed earlier. Its like rearranging your whole day and moving it earlier than normal.

weekends though, I sleep in until 8, and eat lunch at 12. all my meals are moved forward in the day.

skipping breakfast is never safe however. when you skip it, your body will actually crave more food, your bs can get out of control, and will tend to crave more calories and fat from your next meal. 'some' people even say that if you skip breakfast, your body will think its starving and retain whatever fat you next eat, instead of burning it off.

either way, skipping breakfast isn't a good way to maintain blood sugar, and most nutritionists say you should try to maintain a normal eating pattern to regulate your blood sugar. as long as you eat breakfast at sometime, if you get up later or earlier, you can adjust your next meals accordingly.

liamtype1 · #6 (**permalink**) 03-31-2006, 10:26 AM

There must be something really wrong with me then having read what you guys have put I am normally straving 2 hours after my breakfast no matter what time I had it.

I work shifts so can be up at 5am to 9am depending on shift and I will always have breakfast before leaving the house, and I can say with 99% accuratucy that I will need more food, just like a meal to fill me up!!!

Also another problem of mine is no matter how much I am eating i'm losing so much weight....but that's another matter!!

DeusXM · #7 (**permalink**) 03-31-2006, 11:40 AM

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I will need more food, just like a meal to fill me up!!!

Also another problem of mine is no matter how much I am eating i'm losing so much weight....but that's another matter!!

Firstly, check your BG when you get hungry after breakfast. If it's low, then that's why you're hungry, so take less insulin in future.

Secondly - your final sentence is springing off all sorts of alarm bells. There's really only two ways you can eat loads with T1 and yet still lose weight regardless. One's ketoacedosis. The other's hyperthyroidism. If your sugars are fine, get your thyroid function checked. Thyroid problems and diabetes go hand in hand.

seacomp · #8 (**permalink**) 03-31-2006, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by DeusXM

There's really only two ways you can eat loads with T1 and yet still lose weight regardless. One's ketoacedosis. The other's hyperthyroidism.

Those may be the two things associated with diabetes but there are many other things that can cause you to loss weight without trying that nothing to do with diabetes. His doctor should definately be informed.

DeusXM · #9 (**permalink**) 03-31-2006, 02:12 PM

That's why I put in hyperthyroidism - it isn't anything to do with diabetes but there's a marked tendency for people with diabetes to also have a quite separate thyroid problem. Presumably the specific gene fault that causes the autoimmune reaction also influences thyroid function. Outside of DKA, it's the most likely reason for the hungry and neatly explains the ability to eat loads and yet still lose weight.

jen_slc · #10 (**permalink**) 03-31-2006, 04:03 PM

While it could be other things, I agree hyperthyroidism was the first thing I thought of for your symptoms, liam. When I was hyperthyroid I was eating SO much, multiple lunches, multiple dinners, I'd make dinner and put aside leftovers (several meals worth) and a couple hours later I'd be back and downing all the leftovers! I was starving all the time and also losing weight. Definitely get your thyroid checked.

liamtype1 · #11 (**permalink**) 04-03-2006, 06:59 AM

Thanks for the tips...but I have had my thyroid checked, it was one of the first things that I had done, and apparently according to my doc all tests came back fine.....but I'm not convinced...will get a 2nd opinion from the hospital!

I am regularly being monitored by the hospital and doctors and they cannot even explain why I am losing weight but eating so much!!! They just look at me with a puzzled look on their faces...as everything I am eating to put weight on they say is right, but still me puzzled........

Thanks a lot