In the past, given any opportunity I used to sit around all morning, drink coffee (strong, without milk or sugar) and smoke cigarettes. At best, breakfast was an imposition. Eventually as morning turned into afternoon, some sort of “brunch” would be eaten.
Imagine my surprise to find out that after giving up cigarettes, given any opportunity I still sit around all morning and drink coffee (strong, without milk or sugar) and do not smoke cigarettes. At best breakfast is still an imposition and eventually as morning turns into afternoon some sort of “brunch” does get eaten.
This makes me suspect that the tendency to not want to eat breakfast immediately after waking up is quite natural for me regardless of smoking cigarettes or not smoking cigarettes, and it may well be quite natural for others too.
Having reached this better understanding, what will I do about it?
It is much easier to make eating themes which accommodate natural eating tendencies. After deciding what time breakfast will be taken (even if that time is closer to lunch time), decide what type of breakfast. A bread roll in a container with some ham and onion, and lots of lettuce and tomatoes is a very portable breakfast if I need to go out. That will set me up well until the next meal which is the evening meal.
Most of the time I am at home and have found out that a fried egg with a short cut bacon on lightly buttered one round of toast plus an orange is a very sustaining “brunch”. Over time, as the weight reduces the body needs less. In the first year I started with two eggs and two shortcut bacons on two lightly buttered toasts plus two oranges. At that time, that was the right amount to be a sustaining “brunch”.