Timing of breakfast

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Quick question - I usually have porridge with a handful of fruit and nuts thrown in for breakfast. Trying to drop a little weight at the moment. As well as the normal things like cleaning up diet and increasing exercise is timing of breakfast important?

i.e. Would it make a difference if I had breakfast immediately upon getting up at 7.30 or wait until 10.00 break in work to have it?

ronanc15

I'm sure there's different schools of thought on this but I think the most popular would be to eat as soon as you are ready to do so. For me that's first thing in the AM. There isn't going to be any huge benefit to holding your breakfast off until 10.30.

Some would argue that eating first thing "kickstarts" your metabolism.

Ant11

According to leangains delaying your break-fast can help with fat loss.

This might interest you. http://www.leangains.com/2010/04/leangains-guide.html?m=1

ronanc15

Ant11 wrote: »

According to leangains delaying your break-fast can help with fat loss.

This might interest you. http://www.leangains.com/2010/04/leangains-guide.html?m=1

Not eating til noon? I wouldn't be able to do a tap. Don't know about anyone else

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Ant11 wrote: »

According to leangains delaying your break-fast can help with fat loss.

This might interest you. http://www.leangains.com/2010/04/leangains-guide.html?m=1

Sounds like hell to me tbh.

Ant11

ronanc15 wrote: »

Not eating til noon? I wouldn't be able to do a tap. Don't know about anyone else

Pretty easy once you get used to it. Anyway I'm not saying do it or don't do it. I just put the link up as it might interest the OP.

If you read it all it doesn't necessarily have to be noon. You can use your own eating window.

boxercreations

Rafa's Wrinkly Ballbag wrote: »

Quick question - I usually have porridge with a handful of fruit and nuts thrown in for breakfast. Trying to drop a little weight at the moment. As well as the normal things like cleaning up diet and increasing exercise is timing of breakfast important?

i.e. Would it make a difference if I had breakfast immediately upon getting up at 7.30 or wait until 10.00 break in work to have it?

When I was trying to follow diet plans I'd eat my porridge at 8am but found I was hungry before noon - especially if had done bootcamp/swim etc and I often forced myself to eat believing it "kick started" metabolism (perhaps it does but it leads to me eating way more calories in a day).
Now 5 days out of 7 - I don't eat until 11am - 2pm depending on how I feel. Sunday's are lazy breakfasts with the kids and Friday I gym and swim for 2 hours so have porridge before. But if I wake up ravenous I'll eat.
I also now try to stop eating too late at night as well, so 12 to 8 pm would be my regular pattern and I have dropped weight with it.

syklops

Eat when your hungry.

To drop a few pounds, do bacon and eggs in the morning rather than porridge.

SunnyDub1

I leave the house each morning at 7.30 and don't have breakfast till between 10 - 10.30.

Usually have a homemade juice (kale, spinach,celery,apple,ginger) each morning and then a black coffee on the way into work.

I find that if I eat breakfast before I leave, I'm starving by the time I get into work

syklops

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

I leave the house each morning at 7.30 and don't have breakfast till between 10 - 10.30.

Usually have a homemade juice (kale, spinach,celery,apple,ginger) each morning and then a black coffee on the way into work.

I find that if I eat breakfast before I leave, I'm starving by the time I get into work

Everyone is different. I feel at my healthiest when I have something before I leave for work, and like you I am starving come lunch time, and come dinner time I am ready for it. In that situation my resting metabolic rate is high, and if I manage to keep that going for a few weeks the weight falls off. Unfortunately for me to keep that going I need to keep up the rhythm, and something invariably comes along and messes with my rhythm, like a business trip.