Question about skipping breakfast

[annabel♥lee]

When you say skip breakfast, does that mean do not eat at all until noon?

Thanks!

[rainbowflower]

I always try to last until noon, but sometimes eat something at 10.30-11am ish! I figure that by that time I've already gone 15-16hrs without food so my blood sugar has been low for a long time anyway

[atomic sagebrush]

No, it all depends on when you get up, what time you ate the night before, and what you have to do that morning!

I have to get up super early and I had to eat by 11 or I would go bonkers. For someone who routinely gets up at 9, first of all, I hate you ;) and secondly you may want to even go till 1.

For a person who eats dinner very early, say at 5, they may not be able to postpone breakfast for very long at all. My thinking is with skipping breakfast, do the doable, as much as does not render you utterly miserable, then eat.

[love being a mummy]

I have dinner about 6pm.
Bed around 11pm - 1am
Breakfast about 9.30am

Sometimes I will eat before I go to bed but most of the time I don't.

I am trying to change my routine though so I can sway blue.

[annabel♥lee]

I've found that I can skip breakfast on weekends, but I have a hard time skipping it on week days when I have to go to work. I'm a preschool teacher and I desperately need a little something in the morning or I am starving and have no energy for my 3 year olds! I've been trying to keep it on the low side calorie wise, so usually I'll just have a stick of cheese and a rice cake with a Diet Coke around 8:30 am.

[atomic sagebrush]

Then you need to eat! Skipping breakfast on the weekends will just have to be good enough!

There is no magic rule that says you MUST skip breakfast...if it's easier, you can try skipping lunch, skipping dinner, or just not snacking helps a lot too. You're just trying to maximize the amount of hours in the day when your blood sugar is a little on the low side.

[GeCon]

Are you supposed to skip breakfast when TTC or in the 2WW or both?

[zanacal]

Ideally both, but around the time of ovulation and the 2ww is the most important.

Fertilised female eggs suck up glucose effectively and if there's too much in the environment they may suck up too much. Fertilised male eggs don't suck up glucose effectively so may prefer to have more in the environment around them. There's a good chance that both types do well in both types of environment (although neither like very high levels of glucose) so it makes sense to give the baby of your chosen gender the best chance of sticking. (I should have copied Atomic's explanation of this - mine isn't half as good!).

There is also a chance that your body takes note of what's going on and produces the right type of egg for your environment - so if you keep your blood sugar levels low in the weeks/months leading up to your attempt then that may be beneficial too.

[rainbowflower]

what Zana said but not girl sperm (sperm don't suck up any glucose), fertilised female eggs are better at absorbing nutrients from their environments

ideally you'd never have breakfast when TTC pink, but at minimum it'd be from OV-AF

[zanacal]

I'm laughing that I wrote that - it's bad enough that I always get confused between XX and XY so I don't even try to remember anymore - but that was definitely a mistake! Bit distracted today ...

I'm going to edit it in case anybody else reads it and doesn't read the next posts!

[rainbowflower]

lol feel free to edit my post to remove the reference to it if you like :)

[atomic sagebrush]

Are you supposed to skip breakfast when TTC or in the 2WW or both?

Both is best. We know for a fact that AFTER fertilization, XX blasts seem to develop best in a lower-glucose environment (thus the advice to skip breakfast for sure around O and during the early part of the 2WW)

My thinking is that our bodies have most likely evolved/designed by God to pick up the signal from the environment that blood sugar is lower and XX has a better shot of survival than XY does, and preferentially conceive the baby with the best odds of survival, so it's likely that lower blood sugar ALL the time when TTC will additionally make you more likely to conceive an XX to begin with.