It is impossible to 'skip' or 'not eat' breakfast
By JJ
@JolietJake (50190)
August 10, 2017 4:10am CST
Sure....you can 'skip' a meal when you first wake up, and not eat until lunch time...but the fact is, you are eating breakfast then.
You see, 'breakfast' is actually the meal you eat first after the 'fasting' (non-eating) time while you sleep.
It is the meal that breaks your fasting period.
So if you wait until lunch time, then lunch is when you 'break' your 'fast'...which, no matter how you term it, is still 'breakfast'.
The only way to skip breakfast is to stop eating, period.
Let me know how that works for ya...
Let me know how that works for ya...36 people like this
33 responses
@moffittjc (124827)
• Gainesville, Florida
10 Aug 17
I have to eat when I first wake up, or I'll be an angry bear all day long. I'd never survive a religious fasting period, I need to eat like every 2 hours.
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@marlina (154117)
• Canada
14 Aug 17
@moffittjc It is going to be more difficult for you now.
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@moffittjc (124827)
• Gainesville, Florida
13 Aug 17
@marlina Up until recently, that was definitely the case. I couldn't shove enough calories down my throat to keep up with the amount my body was burning. But I definitely can tell my metabolism is starting to slow down now!
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@LadyDuck (478748)
• Italy
11 Aug 17
@petatonicsca In Italian is "prima colazione" (first meal) you can skip it and go to the "seconda colazione" (second meal) also called pranzo (lunch).
@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
11 Aug 17
True enough. In Japanese it's "asa-gohan" or "morning rice" so we can skip it.
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@louievill (28849)
• Philippines
10 Aug 17
So all meals should be called breakfast cause you are actually breaking a fast everytime you eat, the gap between any 2 meals is fasting.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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10 Aug 17
Technically that would be correct...I have breakfast often 
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@louievill (28849)
• Philippines
10 Aug 17
@JolietJake so even drinking is breakfast since fasting is abstaining from any kind of food or drink most of the time, so had you broke fast with whiskey or vodka?
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@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
10 Aug 17
I'm trying to grasp the concept but I'm finding it difficult
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@JohnRoberts (109845)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Aug 17
That's why McDonald's started serving breakfast all day long!
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@BarBaraPrz (49982)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 Aug 17
I'm glad they did. Many a time I would have preferred their hashbrowns for lunch or mid-afternoon snack. Now I can get them anytime I want (assuming I'm near a McD's).
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@much2say (57755)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Aug 17
@Butchcass4 True. For sure it would not fill me up!
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@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
10 Aug 17
Its a liquid I believe it is not breakfast.
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@allknowing (149312)
• India
11 Aug 17
Brilliant discovery. Having said that your system demands that you break your fast in the mornings.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
11 Aug 17
I eat breakfast very very late.2 people like this
@andriaperry (118743)
• Anniston, Alabama
11 Aug 17
I had a nurse tell me she lives to eat. Me I eat because I have to. And not when I get up, I break fast at noon.
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@m_audrey6788 (58470)
• Germany
10 Aug 17
For me it is hard not to eat anything on breakfast..I needed energy in the morning until night time 
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@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
10 Aug 17
I never thought of it that way. I just thought there was breakfast, lunch and dinner and which ever one you choose not to eat O well then that was the meal you chose to fast. I'm still trying to grasp your concept. I mean it makes sense to me in some ways than it confuses me in another way. You sure gave me something to think about. Thanks for sharing.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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10 Aug 17
The word refers to the first meal of the day and breaking your fast, not necessarily the time it is eaten.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
10 Aug 17
Yup, my 'breakfast' is my lunch....and supper @JolietJake . I eat at about 1pm. No wonder I only weigh 106 pounds.
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@JESSY3236 (20716)
• United States
18 Aug 17
lol My fiance doesn't eat breakfast. He waits until lunch.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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18 Aug 17
Um, no, he is eating breakfast later, if you go by the the definition of what breakfast is. It is the first meal of the day you eat, period.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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11 Aug 17
Actually, you are having breakfast, since by definition it is the first meal after waking regardless of when you eat it
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@thelme55 (77702)
• Germany
11 Aug 17
@JolietJake yes. Breakfast and lunch=brunch
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