If you eat around the same time daily, your body learns to get hungry when the time approaches. Regular breakfast-eaters get hungry if they skip breakfast, whil

If you eat around the same time daily, your body learns to get hungry when the time approaches. Regular breakfast-eaters get hungry if they skip breakfast, while breakfast-skippers like you and me do not. (If I'm wrong and someone in normal health has tried skipping breakfast for a few days without losing the morning hunger -- assuming they're making up for it later in the day -- I'd like to hear about it.) I started skipping breakfast not for intermittent-fasting benefits but in hopes of better sleep: the anticipatory appetite can contribute to waking up early, and my sleep needed help. Added: the article supports this. "The rise in ghrelin is independent of meal timing as demonstrated by similar peaks before an anticipated meal in various meal frequencies, thus suggesting that subjective feelings of hunger and energy intake is highly dependent on the individual’s preferred meal pattern (76)."