Breakfast Timing?

I get up at 6/6:30 and do not eat breakfast until 8:30/9. I get ready for work, get the kids off to school and get to work at 8. Then I make a goal to get in 24oz of water before I touch food. I also don't eat lunch until 1/1:30, after I've worked out and the later breakfast helps with waiting that long.

Thanks everyone! I will pay attention to what my body is telling me and continue eating breakfast at 8. I appreciate the feedback!

Just a little anecdote ....

The first night after my son was born, he slept on my chest through the entire night. That morning, Nurse Ratchet came in, startled him awake and lambasted me for letting him sleep on my chest and insisted that he had to have awakened many times.

He hadn't.

My husband was also in the room, and let me promise you, there were never two people more in love with having a child. We responded to every sigh and peep, often before he had a chance to make them! We both spent the first 3 weeks literally watching his eyelashes grow -- I barely think he had a moment that he wasn't being held or catered to.

The kid was born at NINE pounds and was 21 inches long. He was the size of some 3-month olds.

Anyhow, from that moment on, I began waking my sleep-through-the-night-baby at least once or twice a night. I would feed him, but he would fall back asleep (and probably look at me side-eyed for waking him up). This went on for 6 weeks until one day my mother called me early and joked that I must be exhausted being awakened during the night -- and I commented that I hated setting alarms and waking him up every night.

Silent pause.

My mother said, "What the hell are you talking about?" -- and I explained to her exactly what I just wrote. Another long pause and then she exclaimed, "Are you insane??"

Then she gave me the best advice ever: "Never wake a sleeping baby. Ever. If it's working for you, no matter what some "expert" might say, continue doing what is working!!"

So -- how does this story relate to you?

If it's working for you --- continue doing what is working FOR YOU. You are the expert of your own needs.

Thank you for this Kat! You made me laugh and it makes so much sense! I assume your son is still a good sleeper??

YES!

I can say in all honesty, there has never been a missed night of sleep for any of us due to him in all 11 years. Not one!

Also note: never ever ever bring you your "sleep-thru-the-night-baby" at your first "Mommy and Me" meeting filled with sleep-deprived new mothers. I am pretty sure that's like weighing 105 pounds while eating cheesecake and ice cream at a Weigh****chers meeting...