As title... Breakfast before you morning commute or after?
I've been having my bowl of porridge before my 14 mile commute in the morning, but it would be almost as easy to have it when I get to work, is there any benefit to doing this?
Porridge after the commute for me.
alarm goes off, get up, get dressed, leave house, no faff.
After for me or I struggle up the hills... porridge here as well...
after for me, but need a coffee before
before, porridge is easier to keep/make at home.
it makes itself while i walk the dog then takes me less than 30secs to eat. I only have a small portion.
although to be fair, im already tucking into my almonds/hazlenuts, but that could be boredom while im waiting for the shower.
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The pre-commute breakfast of champions 😉
Works well after for me
I work from home so don't really commute but I always go out and run or ride before breakfast
I need a coffee though just to make my bowels move, otherwise it can get a bit uncomfortable if I'm running 😯
I need to take medication anyway well before food so - to some extent - it's forced on me but I reckon it tastes better after a good workout
Out of bed, into kit, pedal like ****, shower at work, breakfast.
Porridge after the commute for me.
alarm goes off, get up, get dressed, leave house, no faff.
This is what i'm thinking. I can easily make the porridge at work.
If I eat before commuting I feel sick. So it is a cup of tea and out the door. But I always carry an energy bar just in case and I was glad of it this morning.
after, sometimes an apple on my way out the door if feeling peckish.
Before and after for me!
Definitely after, quick coffee and fruit juice before leaving. Quick up and out in the morning. No cooking facilities at work but there is a canteen which serves poridge of variable quality.
A couple of bananas before just to get me there and then breakfast at work.
during ?
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up, out, ride....shower...eat food @ work and then seem to graze all day
I always eat after the morning commute.
I don't like cycling whem I've just eaten and it also means that I can have a bit longer in bed, which is always good.
Quick cup of tea and a small bowl of granola at home then porridge and coffee at work 🙂
Before for me, then caffine til lunch. Tried waiting til I got here but ended up being ravenous all day.
NB: I accept that this goes against the percieved wisdom.
Eat first, but I can eat breakfast at any time.Even when I have to get up at 3 in the morning to catch a flight I still have breakfast at home and then maybe another one at the airport. When I was a postman many years ago I had one breakfast when I woke up and another after the first delivery.
I've never had a problem with eating before exercising, when I worked up in Shoeburyness I would stagger up from the table after eating the massive meals my landlady cooked walk to the local pool and swim a mile or two.
No showers at work so I have a couple of weetabix, shower then ride in. Freshen up at the sinks then granola bar/banana before I start work. 1st sandwich at 11 second at 1 with more granola/banana/tracker bars as and when.
Before. Except when I'm riding before work, then it's up and out at 6, back for breakfast at 8, then back out the door to work at about 8.20....
...then cave in at eat my packed lunch about 1030 and go get something else for lunch at 1 😉
Coffe first. Then porridge at work after ride
Just saves time
Either for me.... I prefer to ride then have breakfast when I get to work, but this isn't always practical as I need to help get the kids off to school on time!
Eat when you get to work and get paid for doing so.
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Both for me today! Rice Krispies and toast before, then I was really hungry at half 9 so a bowl of porridge too.
Fat knacker!
Up at 0530 for boiled eggs, maybe a bowl of muesli. Shower at home, 5 mile easy commute. Coffee and bannana after the 0715 morning meeting, apple, pineapple around 1000, lunch at 1145 by which time I am famished.
Been trying to really watch what I eat since I came off being sick, dropped about 4kg in 3 weeks. Find I'm eating much less in the afternoons and evenings.....I think maybe my body is getting used to smaller portions. Who would have thought it?
Big mug of strong coffee, commute, shower, breakfast at desk.
Unless your commute is huge, your body doesn't need fuelling beforehand.
mcboo - When you say pineapple at 1000. A whole pineapple? I've just got this picture of you sat at your desk carving up a whole pineapple with a big hunting knife
You keep your fruit based fantasies about me to yourself binners you dirty barsteward.
get up, pee, clean teeth, get kit on, pee again leave
get to work clock in , shower , have breakfast
Before for me, fairly long commute though.
Riding on an empty stomach promotes fat burning. Can be pretty miserable though!
If I cycle in it's 18 miles, so I follow a two breakfast strategy. Poached egg on toast before I leave then a reward scone and huge coffee after my shower at work.
If I cycle in it's 18 miles, so I follow a two breakfast strategy
Double that, then add half, plus 130+ traffic lights. There's mine. Done on a bowl of cereal beforehand 😉