Q&A: What’s better: eating right when I wake up or waiting until I’m hungry?
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Do you really need to eat first thing in the morning…or is it okay to wait? In today’s episode, Jess walks through how to figure out what works best for your body and blood sugar. She shares client stories, easy breakfast ideas for low appetite mornings, and what to track if you’re experimenting. This one’s for anyone who’s ever wondered if skipping breakfast is helping or hurting.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Diabetes Digital Podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | If you are new here, welcome. |
| 0:05.5 | We are a group practice that is focused on helping people improve their health and their relationship with food. |
| 0:13.4 | And in particular, we work with folks who have diabetes, pre-diabetes, PCOS, and many, many things in between. |
| 0:21.0 | Welcome to the Diabetes Digital Podcast. I'm Wendy. |
| 0:24.5 | And I'm Jess, and we're best friends, registered dieticians, and diabetes educators. |
| 0:29.3 | Through our telehealth platform, DiabetesDigital.co, we offer accessible and personalized virtual |
| 0:34.7 | nutrition counseling for people with diabetes and prediabetes. |
| 0:38.2 | Visit DiabetesDigital.co, that's CO, to book your first appointment. |
| 0:42.8 | We accept insurance and offer affordable self-pay options. |
| 0:46.0 | Now, let's get into today's episode. |
| 0:49.9 | So I am one of the co-founders of Diabetes Digital. |
| 0:53.5 | My name is Jess, for those who are new. |
| 0:55.5 | And today I'm going to be answering a listener question. |
| 0:59.8 | And this listener writes, what's better? |
| 1:02.5 | Eating right when I wake up or waiting until I'm hungry. |
| 1:06.2 | I think this is such an excellent question and one that I've been answering for the past 12, 13, 14, 15 years |
| 1:13.4 | as a dietitian. And I'm going to give you the same answer that I give everybody else. And that is, |
| 1:18.8 | it really depends on your body. And here's the things I want you to consider. So some people feel |
| 1:24.7 | better eating within an hour of waking up. That is me. Like I need to eat almost 30 minutes of waking up because if I wait, it's not a pretty picture. I start getting angry, angry, moody, and it's really hard to recoup throughout the day. So it is like an absolute non-negotiable. And what's interesting is when I was a kid, up until I would say like college, |
| 1:46.7 | I never ate breakfast. I just felt like I wasn't hungry, it didn't have time. And so I say that |
| 1:53.4 | to say that your body can actually change and adapt. And now I feel so much better if I have breakfast. |
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