Chocolate cake for breakfast?

***SarahR*** · 09-02-2012, 05:39pm

I just don't understand how people can function barely eating anything until the evening meal. Aren't you hungry, grumpy and light-headed all day?! This isn't a critiscm or directed at anyone in particular btw, I just know that I feel really ill if I don't eat for that length of time!

**S-J** · 09-02-2012, 05:51pm

Originally Posted by *SarahR*

I just don't understand how people can function barely eating anything until the evening meal. Aren't you hungry, grumpy and light-headed all day?! This isn't a critiscm or directed at anyone in particular btw, I just know that I feel really ill if I don't eat for that length of time!

I cant either. I literally shake and feel faint if I dont eat regularly

**Lizard King** · 09-02-2012, 06:06pm

I don't think about food until mid afternoon. My friend says she wakes up starving in the morning I just can't comprehend that!

***SarahR*** · 09-02-2012, 07:22pm

But how can you get all the calories/nutrients that your body needs by only eating 1 meal a day? I just don't see how you can achieve that in a healthy manner.

I do think that my metabolism is probably not the norm, as I am very slim and eat A LOT, but I would have thought if you don't eat regularly, you are encouraging your body to go into starvation mode, and lay down fat to 'live off' in between meals. Like a polar bear

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**PoppyHoney** · 09-02-2012, 07:34pm

Originally Posted by *SarahR*

I just don't understand how people can function barely eating anything until the evening meal. Aren't you hungry, grumpy and light-headed all day?! This isn't a critiscm or directed at anyone in particular btw, I just know that I feel really ill if I don't eat for that length of time!

I used to be able to go through to about 3pm with no breakfast and be absolutely fine, but my blood sugar has got more and more unstable in recent years, and now I do much better on little and often, including breakfast. If I go without breakfast now I get headachey and queasy by mid-morning.

**Damsella** · 09-02-2012, 07:37pm

Originally Posted by *SarahR*

But how can you get all the calories/nutrients that your body needs by only eating 1 meal a day?

I can eat three or four meals a day and still not get the nutrients I need

We all eat too much anyway, cutting calories is the way to live longer.

***SarahR*** · 09-02-2012, 07:43pm

Originally Posted by Damsella

We all eat too much anyway, cutting calories is the way to live longer.

Oh I know, those dudes were my lecturers once upon a time

. But it still makes me feel ill. I just can't function without eating regularly

. But if it works for you and you are the weight you want to be, I say carry on!

**Jack_the_Cat** · 09-02-2012, 08:18pm

I'm with those who couldn't get by without breakfast. I have a couple of crumpets or porridge and a cup of tea, and by 10.30 I'm ready for a snack. I eat again at lunch time and although I sometimes last until dinner, I often have an afternoon snack too. I am slim, around 8st and have never been a diet. I have been getting into the habit of snacking later at night (I'm thinking about it now!) and I have found that's when I put on a few pounds.

Some of the people I know who are constantly on a diet but still over weight seem to eat so little, I would assume therefore that their metabolisms aren't working in their favour.

**Lizard King** · 09-02-2012, 09:00pm

Originally Posted by *SarahR*

But how can you get all the calories/nutrients that your body needs by only eating 1 meal a day? I just don't see how you can achieve that in a healthy manner.

I don't only eat one meal a day though. This afternoon I had egg mayonnaise with cherry tomatoes then some yogurt, a meal at 6 and I will have a slice of cheesecake shortly. Or sometimes I will eat only a big evening meal or other times I will have a late lunch, tea and then a couple of bars of chocolate or weekends generally I will have some kind of cooked breakfast like scrambled eggs on toast and then two other big meals. My diet isn't healthy but it hasn't made my body go polar bear

. I've always weighed 8 stone give or take a few pounds either side.

**katkinn** · 09-02-2012, 09:17pm

I'm another one who doesn't eat breakfast. Pretty much ever. Although I do have a milky coffee (no sugar

) which is probably the same protein/calories as having a yoghurt

(I generally make it myself so only have a sniff of milk that froths in the milk frother thingy!)

Two reasons - a) I'm just not hungry. I have absolutely no appetite at all.

And b) when I do eat breakfast (or brunch) I am chomping at the bit for something else to eat a couple of hours later. And if I have lunch as well, by dinner time, I'm ready to eat one of my kids.

I am a grazer though - it's not that I don't eat anything at all. A handful of grapes, a small chunk of cheese, a biscuit (or 3

), handful of nuts/sultanas, another coffee or 2 etc. Lots of lime and soda. And plain water.

But even if I eat breakfast and then lunch, I still graze

I can get through the day by looking forward to dinner. And we have a good dinner the majority of nights. Maybe one night every fortnight we have a takeaway, once a week I/we'll go out (at least), once a fortnight DH will be out and so I'll have crisps and wine (but then will quite often have had sushi for lunch) The dinners I cook are very healthy - lots of veg, pulses, good protein, superfoods etc.

I've heard various times over the years that it doesn't matter when you eat, it's what you eat.

And of course, what works for one, isn't going to work for someone else.

I'm sure Joanna Lumley said on the Graham Norton show recently that she didn't eat during the say as it made her hungrier......

eta - ooh found a link - ignore the fact it's Daily Wail. It's reporting from the GN show (I haven't read the whole article so apologies if it's a sack of.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...in-figure.html