Wondering if anyone has had any success with this method of eating. - Derrick

I think the biggest challenge for me is eating breakfast. I wake with no real appetite, and even eating something light can seem like a chore. I suppose I can try starting out with maybe eating multiple smaller meals throughout the day rather than three seemingly substantial ones. - Derrick

I eat pretty much all day long - starting about 75 min. after I get up. Then a snack a few hours later, then lunch, then another snack, then dinner … then another snack. All relatively small, but I am pretty much always eating. - Stephan!e•CogSc!L!brar!an

I could never eat first thing in the morning, but I did have fruit or an egg sandwich or something and the necessary coffee once I got to work. Lunch is very important at work, mainly to get away for a while. By the time I got home I didn't feel much like cooking anything so it would be a very light meal. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

I've had some success with this - the biggest thing for me was allowing myself to eat later in the morning. I'm not hungry when I get up, so I have to let myself take time about 2-3 hours later to actually eat a larger breakfast. Usually I'm hungry by then. Also, making smaller meals for dinner made it more likely I'd be hungry earlier. I used to skip, or not eat breakfast until after 10. Now, I eat a good breakfast at around 8:30-9:30. - Jennifer Dittrich

If you figure this out, please share any tips. Because I'm self-employed and working from home, I keep weird hours and sometimes my first true meal isn't until noon or later. - Corinne L

I had to train myself to eat breakfast. I started small with thing like a piece of fruit and some peanut butter and worked my way up. - Katy S

I have this problem, too. I'd also like to change my habits so I want to eat in the mornings. - Trish R

I should probably note that I don't always want to eat in the morning now, but I can tolerate it and I do feel like I have more energy throughout the morning as long as it's a high protein breakfast. - Katy S

What Jennifer said but in a British accent. - Akiva

I am starving when I wake up. Then I feel that way every few hours for the rest of the day. I got nothin. - laura x

My sister was like that. She woke up starving. She was always naturally slim, too. I guess it works - if you can face food first thing in the morning. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

My current work schedule has changed my eating schedule and it's working out okay. But the healthy plan falls apart if I don't start with breakfast (cold cereal and milk and yogurt) no later than 6:30. Lunch at 10 (lately, frozen gyoza or dumplings with a frozen vegetable mix, all steamed in the microwave), before I leave the house at 10:30 to go to first job. I leave first job at 4 and have dinner (salad with some kind of protein mixed in) at 4:30 before second job. If I have breakfast too late, then I can't eat at 10 and skip lunch, which means I hit the snack machine early afternoon and then, even if I have dinner, I'll probably also hit the snack machine in the evening. So, early breakfast is a must. Without it, everything falls apart. - bentley

D, you might look at Ian Smith's_ Shred_ plan. You eat 3-4 small meals plus snacks throughout the day on that one. Smoothies are a common breakfast option. - Ell Bee, See?

I got myself switched around mentally first, be deciding I wanted to follow this idea: Eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch, and a pauper for dinner. on days when I actually eat like this I wake up famished and the cycle becomes easier to maintain. and oddly enough every.single.thing. they say about eating breakfast becomes true. but still i often fall off the monarchy diet. - Lnorigb

Lnorigb, I like that concept! - Anne Bouey

Lnorigb, that's the idea behind my meals. I think my breakfast is the highest calorie meal and the salad is the lowest. I read about it when I was a kid, not sure where. Reader's Digest maybe? - bentley

I snacked on a little fruit about three hours after I woke up today, and that was even after eating a fairly light dinner last night. :( Like most all good things, this is going to take some time, I reckon. - Derrick

Yes - Shevonne

A PBJ sandwich for breakfast has been serving my skinny daughter well for years. It's quick and easy to make, and high in protein. It's also good for curbing your appetite. Another breakfast food she reaches for on occasion, especially in winter, is slow cooked oatmeal. Stay away from quick oats or the instant stuff in the packets...metabolizes too fast and leaves you hungry shortly after eating it. The longer it takes to cook the oatmeal, the longer you will feel full. Steel cut oats are the best, but cost more than the old fashioned oats. For my hubby, who is an ex-smoker turned major snacker (he never broke the hand-to-mouth habit) and a diabetic (because he damn near ate himself to death), I make sure there are plenty of fresh low carb veggies in the house for him to snack on whenever he wants...cucumbers, lettuce, celery, raw spinach, mushrooms, etc. That way he is consuming something with very few calories/carbs between meals and at night when he's watching tv. He's 5' 2" and used to weigh 220 lbs. Now he's 132 lbs, which is about where he should be, and he dropped that weight rather fast, because he was also eating leaner meats, because of me (I had issues with gall stones and couldn't eat that much fat). - April Russo (FForever!)