Worse yet, there are people who don't eat breakfast. Do they photosynthesize their food instead?
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I don't. I feel it takes a few hours (4-5) for my body to wake up enough to feel hunger, and if I force myself to eat breakfast I feel queasy. So I just eat black coffee and move on.
So I just eat black coffee and move on.
Great, now I have this mental image of you waking up late, going "NO TIME TO WAIT FOR THE KETTLE!" and just eating spoonfuls of instant coffee straight from the jar before running out of the house.
Have tried it, wouldn't recommend it.
It's a very handy routine when you're a bit short on time in the morning
Same, a large breakfast makes me feel queasy too. I never met another person like this. I usually don't eat until noon.
But, 10AM and later, I'm not queasy.
This. I really only eat a small breakfast because I have to for meds, but if it weren't for that I'd totally be fine with one big meal a day (turns out to be dinner most of the time) and perhaps one apple or sth. late at night.
This forced 3-meal system is so weird and inconvenient.
It all revolves around work.. eat before work, at your please-take-the-smallest-amount-of-time-mandated-so-we-don't-get-sued mid-day or mid-shift break, and after work.
That's just because we made it like that though for some weird cultural reason (as well as propaganda), there's zero reason why an office worker or train conductor couldn't eat multiple small amounts of fruits and veggies over the day, or just none at all until home. Even the idea of the "importance of breakfast" literally came from Kelloggs trying to convince everyone to eat cereal in the morning 60(?) years ago to build themselves somewhat of a 'cultural anchor'. I mean, we could've also gone the way to chop each workday in 2-hour chunks and eat a bite between all of them. Good thing nobody told Nestle they could've made people buy more food that way.
I literally feel sick if I eat breakfast. Only after a couple hours do I get hungry. I only really eat breakfast if I know I am going to be physically active and will need the energy like if I went cycling or hiking.
Most of the days I just have one meal, at like 4 or 5 pm. While being up since like 3-5am cause of work.
And I still maintain 80-82kg weight.
Without your height your weight doesn't mean much
177cm
Which is two and a half oompaloompas for all us Muricans.
Can you convert to football fields?
Stadium? Covered, or open air? Grass or astroturf?
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Used to abstain from eating breakfast sometimes when I was younger. Now I'll likely feel nauseous if I do.
There's no rhyme or reason to it, but some mornings a black coffee is all I seem to want/need which is kinda negative calories
Other mornings I'll polish the plate of a large full English and will perish if I don't
What's even worse is people who don't understand that we are a hunter-gatherers. Our ancestor's first meal came much later in the day and we have evolved as such. Not eating a lot for breakfast is extremely comon and burned in our DNA. Don't know where you are going with this.
I don't get hungry often, at least not the way I think normal people do. I usually go from 'fine' to 'more than mildly queasy' in a couple minutes, then I have to rush to find something to throw in my stomach. It's like flipping a light switch. This usually only happens when I have some project I'm focusing on.
Ate without table -3
Those aren't mutually exclusive (send help)
If this resonates with you, please check for sugar related health issues. (I am not saying you have them, but it is time to check.)
Most of my family has this problem, but at least diabetes appears not to be the cause.
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I work from home, IT, 8-10 hours sitting, programming. If I ate five meals a day I'd weight a ton in few months.
Fasting helps me keeping the callory intake down. First meal at 3-6pm then some snack in the evening, keeping sugar intake low. If I eat in the morning I feel bloated and sluggish + at around 2pm I feel tired.
Not eating keeps me fresh.
5 meals is also excessive. I have the same schedule and I eat the normal 3 meals a day: breakfast, lunch, dinner. I can't really miss any because then my tummy becomes very distracting. I really don't understand how you can go till 3pm without feeling any adverse effects. If I skip breakfast I'll be useless and dizzy till lunch.
I just don't eat more than I need each meal.
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Depends on what is meant by a meal. You could simply eat smaller meals to get less calory intake.
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Not everybody is blessed with a super metabolism CATE. Check your privilege.
For real.
I did try not to eat for a week and nothing happened, yes I lost a bit weight but minimal.
You actually have to expend calories, too
Why, does the calorie economy depend in it? Who are you working for, Big Food?
Prolly trying to trick us into making free co2.
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The secret is to be incredibly neurodivergent and unlock the secrets to extreme hyperfixation. The more you lose track of time, the better, as this is also the threshold where hunger ceases to exist.
-source, one incredibly autistic fuck (me)
The trick is to have an undiagnosed illness that constantly upsets your stomach and threatens to regurgitate any food you eat. Once I realized it hurts less to not eat at all, I started regularly skipping on meals. What's really annoying is that I still have a pudgy tummy, even though I'm stuck on a diet some people would dream of being able to commit to.
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I used to think I was the same way but started omad to lose weight and you do get used to it. As long as there’s enough protein and fiber and the meal is big enough then I’m completely fine for 24 hours at a time.
Im just extremely depressed :3
Yeah, and then I remember to eat something when the shaking starts
It's usually the lightheadedness for me
Most of us are fuel by hatred towards something/someone.
You'd be amazed at how filling spite can be.
fwiw that's actually why I think I'm healthier when I have those meal replacement shakes in the house somewhere. People always are like "ew why would you replace meals with that?". But they actually don't. They replace NOT having meals. Because when I have that "one more thing to do", if don't eat something super low effort right when I think about it, I'm just gonna power through and forget again.
I'm really fat, so as long as I have water, electrolytes, and a multivitamin I could probably go for several months without food before really bad stuff started happening
As it stands, a day or two barely registers
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If I could, I'd never have to eat again. I hate having to eat all the time. Hunger always throws you off what you're doing. Sure, I love delicious food, but giving it up and never having to think about "what am I going to eat today, when am I going to cook it..."? Anytime.
That is what led me to about a year of Soylent and pho. I couldn't be bothered to cook for myself often, I was single, had a long commute, worked near a pho restaurant. So I drank a Soylent for breakfast and lunch then had a large beef and brisket pho every day.
One thing that gets me about TV and movies is when people dramatically storm away from the dinner table. I don't think I've EVER seen anybody IRL stop eating and leave just because they were mad. But forgetting to eat is on a whole other level. It's like oops, I forgot all about breathing in and out - better write that on a Post-It.
Mental illness is a bitch
I grew up glued to my PS1/PS2 playing until I was dehydrated with a headache and my eyes burning.
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