I quit eating breakfast

It might catch up with you....we can try to "trick" our bodies but eventually this nasty disease figures things out and has it's way with you...I stopped eating breakfast yrs ago, didn't do a whole lot for me for the most part.

Good luck!

Like you, I either skip breakfast or eat very, very lightly before work each day. I've also learned that eating a full meal will just send me running to the bathroom, for at least an hour or more.

While I don't experience the symptoms many of you do, I have urgent needs since I'm missing the bottom 1/3 approx. of my colon, due to cancer. Been living this way for nearly 14 years now. It's just become a way of life for me now.

People think I'm crazy when I mention I skip meals before something such as work or a social commitment. But then they have no idea what it's like to run to a public bathroom and not once, but every 10 minutes for an hour or more. People have actually said to me - again, you have to go again, so soon? That's a moment when I realize people with normal colons will just never get what people with GI disorders go thru.

I LOVE breakfast...wouldn't ever dream of skipping it unless I had to go for fasting blood tests.

John...what were you eating normally for breakfast?

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I'm a firm believer you can skip one meal of the day, you just need to make the other meals as nutritious as possible and if you have to skip dinner for an evening commitment, eat something that agrees with you when you arrive home later. It can be done.

My husband has never eaten breakfast. His system is used to this (he says it goes back to college days). He has 1 cup of coffee and several full glasses of water before his lunch each day.

I'm the type that does need something in the morning though otherwise I get a huge headache. So even though I have a PT job I start at 10 each morning, I get up at 6, eat a banana or half of an english muffin right away, not eating past 6:30 and then that's it until 2:30 each day. My body has now become accustomed to this as well.

It is possible to rearrange eating times and food intake (amounts, etc.).

After being diagnosed w/ UC, I eliminated breakfast, which was a big deal at the time. Over the years , I've found that you really only need one meal a day and it certainly is not breakfast. I have a piece of toast or something just to get the pills down, go about my day, have a nice dinner and thats it. Our society has always tried to push the 3 meals thing, but in many countries around the world, this is not the norm and it explains the massive amount of obesity in America. You simply just don't need to eat so much!
Being "empty" though-out the day is a blessing, it allows me to do things and eat later. I'd suggest this to everyone here , it's worth a try.

I usually never eat breakfast during the week, only on the weekends. It helps me get through work easier.

I too mostly skipped breakfast for fear of needing to go while travelling to work and things being worse in the morning anyway. I don't think it is really good though. I have started to get dizzy and hypoglycaemic if I go too long without something.

In an ideal world, if I can get up, have something light and have 2 hrs before leaving the house, that works. Trouble is, am a night owl so getting up so early is really hard.

    Hello,I'm new to the forum but was dx'd with Proctitis in 2006.I have 2 psyllium husk capsules with water first thing,then a cup of tea and a banana before I walk the dog.Most mornings I have "urgent"trips to the bathroom,but I'm usually "safe" after an hour or two.At mid-morning I juice veggies,Usually get two glasses full.If I feel hungry I will have some unsweetened cereal at lunchtime.......

When I was flaring, I used to get up early enough to be sure I could eat breakfast at least two hours before I had to leave for work. That allowed me to deal with the inevitable consequences of a meal at home. Then I skipped lunch, so I wouldn't have problems in the afternoon.

Of course, the butter, bacon and pepper in your breakfast would have done me in. I finally settled on soup, because it was low-fiber and the warmth was soothing to my gut.

We're all different, but it surely helps to figure out what foods bother us and what schedule works.

i'll be the annoying one and say that ALL of you eat breakfast every day because you do. breakfast is the first meal you eat since you are breaking the fast from the day before, no matter what time it is.

most days, i only eat two meals and i call them breakfast and dinner. breakfast time varies but i always try to fast for at least 14 hours a day. most days it's 16-17 hours. i feel it's good to have a specific eating window that your body gets accustomed to. i always break my fast with l-glutamine and probiotics in coconut water.

Scottsma: "I have 2 psyllium husk capsules with water first thing,then a cup of tea and a banana before I walk the dog.Most mornings I have "urgent"trips to the bathroom.."

Experts suggest taking the fiber in the evening for that very reason. That's why I take my psyllium husk before dinner.

Joanna,

You're absolutely right:

say that ALL of you eat breakfast every day because you do. breakfast is the first meal you eat since you are breaking the fast from the day before, no matter what time it is.

That made me chuckle!

 

How have you been doing?

And why do you do the 14 hour fast every day?