How are you? I keep skipping breakfast.

I need to start eating breakfast.  When I don't--most days--I fall into that classic pattern of not eating most of the day and then overeating at the end of the day.

I've also been too busy to exercise.

I am really busy.  Busier, in fact, than most people I know.  But I could fit exercise into the day if I really had to. 

And truthfully, I really have to . . . it makes me feel better and keeps my eating on track.

What are your challenges this week?

Comments

[Derek]

I usually can't start the day without breakfast. I just try to make sure it's not from one of those fast food restaurants.

I'm coming off of an absolutely terrible week with poor eating and almost no exercise. My challenge this week is to do the exact opposite, and I'm nervous about a BBQ I might attend this Sunday.

[Sarah]

I'm trying to talk myself out of staying in bed all day and getting out for run. I keep going back in forth between wanting to eat the leftover pizza in the fridge or counting points and running. I'm on the ledge today.

[Alyssa]

Hey Mel,

The exact same thing happens to me when I skip breakfast - I get to 8pm without eating and it's like wham! crazy binge. I find it's really helpful if I (or often one of the girls I live with, if I'm really busy) sets out a bowl and spoon with cereal already in the bowl. When all I have to do is pour milk, eating breakfast just seems reasonable - it's more work to clean everything up!
Maybe you can try setting out most of your breakfast too :)

Alyssa

[Stephanie]

I am training for (mostly walking) a half marathon. This is unprecedented for me and, likely, unwise. But my challenge now is getting to the gym regularly. I've been doing 3-4 times per week at the gym, 3-5 miles of walk/jogging. So far so good (only 2 weeks of training so far). It's hard to get into the schedule, though. oy.

[Nicole]

Mel, I feel ya. That's all I can say. You want to know something pathetic? Today I actually took a day off work so that I didn't have to get up at 5 AM to exercise. Seriously. That's pathetic.

My challenges this week are too many. Tonight Hubs and I are celebrating his birthday. Thursday night we're having dinner with a friend. Friday afternoon I'm going to lunch with my sister, and dinner with Hubs. And then the weekend...well, that's a terrible animal on its own.

Ugh. Hang in there! We're with you.

[Biz]

I love breakfast -it's my favorite meal of the day most times, but I am lucky that I get up at 7:00 and don't need to leave the house until 8:30, so I have time to make my breakfast pizzas! :D

Hang in there!!

My challenge is to finish my bathroom before our German exchange student comes!

[Somebody's Mother]

I'm good with eating breakfast every day. And I can so relate to being way past busy. My exercise has fallen by the wayside too. The big challenge that I am focusing on right now is getting enough sleep. I've noticed that I am much more likely to graze on junk if I am tired. For a while I was focused on trying to figure out why this is the case and to really try to not eat when I'm tired. I realized it made more sense to just work on getting a bit more sleep. Then I'll work on getting the exercise back into the routine.

[MB]

I try to have something simple for breakfast. Lately I'll just have a hard boiled egg or a banana before heading to the gym. I recently heard you should eat fruit on an empty stomach so I'm thinking of making a fruity green monster this morning and see how that fuels my workouts.

Squeeze in the exercise wherever you can until things settle down and you get some time to yourself to get a real workout in. Even a few jumping jacks here and there will get the blood pumping.

[Shar]

Eating breakfast is really important, but I miss it sometimes, too. I'm planning to read this new book I ordered called "Looking Good Naked". It promises to provide helpful and easy tips to eat well and look great. I hope it works for me.

[Sara]

I find I skip breakfast on the weekends because I don't plan. And then by 1 pm, I'm eating cheese, crackers and anything else I can get my hands on. Here's what I do to get myself to eat breakfast at work. I make a pot of steel-cut oatmeal, mix in unsweetened applesauce, raisins and cinnamon, and refrigerate. I scoop out a portion every morning, and microwave it on high for a minute, with a splash of hot water to keep it moving. Oh- and I find I need protein in the morning too, so I've started cooking my oatmeal half in water, and half in milk - it's working. Hope this tip is helpful, not annoying. It means that I spend my Sunday in the kitchen making food to eat all week. My challenge this week is to try and keep my ding dang calories under 1700, and feel happy about that. Hint - I'm not.

[LHA]

I have a slightly different take on breakfast. Through many, many years of dieting and food reorganizing, I have never wanted to eat breakfast. I am never hungry in the morning, no matter how hungry I am when I go to bed or what time I get up. I have come to accept this as a bit of good luck---one time of day when I am never hungry--that's a miracle! So, I eat my first meal when I have been up two or three hours, when I do start to feel hungry. I try to make it fairly high in protein, and often eat non-traditional breakfast foods, like leftovers from dinner. I can often "defer" eating seconds at night by planning to have that at breakfast instead. I do agree that if I delay eating too long then I am apt to overeat late in the day. Perhaps some others might find this different way of looking at breakfast would work for them. All of my many attempts to follow diet instructions for a certain time or menu for breakfast never did anything positive for me, but this seems natural.

[MamaBearJune]

Very frustrating for me lately. I hurt my knee on the ice a few weeks ago and the doctor recommends "taking it easy" whatever the heck THAT means! :-P I did dance on my birthday a week and a half after the fall and I'm still paying for it. My eating has been pretty good. But I get really cranky when I can't do anything for exercise.

[Patrice]

I usually don't eat breakfast but I eat a lot during dinner which makes my tummy looks bigger.