Breakfast?

I have a lot of trouble sleeping at night and I wake up most days around 11 because I get to bed so late, I have been wondering for so long if I am waking up at that time do I wake up and eat breakfast? and then lunch at like 2? or do I just make a healthy lunch? I don't know which is right because I know breakfast is the most important meal of the day but when I am not up at 8 it feels like its pointless because breakfast pretty much is lunch time also....any input...?

From what i have read and heard, it matters a little less what you eat, and more about when you eat.

Eating breakfast, or eating within 30 minutes of waking up gets your liver functioning/processing, and that raises your metabolism. Raising your metabolism burns calories. 

consider that your metabolism has 2 speeds, sleeping, and awake. Sleeping burns 50% less calories, so if you sleep more, you burn less calories, which means you need to excercise more, or eat less to maintain your GAP.

Having a calorie gap is how we lose/gain weight. it is simple mathematics.

I typically have a slice of toast and cheese before bed to keep my metabolism cooking for the first few hours of sleep, and i always eat something when i get up to get the liver going again, and i try to eat something every 1-2hours.

 

On the weekends I tend to be in a similar situation, I sleep in late and skip the "breakfast" time of the day.

But this doesn't mean you can't still eat breakfast. What I do is eat what I would normally have for my breakfast (whether it be 11am or 1pm) and then when I feel hungry again, I eat lunch. Who said you can only eat breakfast items in the morning? (Think IHOP - you can get pancakes for dinner if you wanted.)

Typically on days like this I don't reach my calorie goal - I fall approximately 500 calories shy of it since I slept through a good portion of my day where on a normal work day,  I would have consumed 500 calories between 6am and 11am/1pm.

If you are concerned about reaching a specific calorie intake for the day, try to consumer healthier but also higher calorie foods. So maybe instead of fat-free yogurt/milk go for some items with fat in them. Nuts, cheeses... they will help you reach your calorie goal.

i read somewhere that just after waking up you should have a glass of water and 20-30 mins later have your breakfast.

i don't think what type of food you eat matters, moreso just that you eat something not long after waking up to kick your metabolism into gear.  sometimes on the weekends i'll wake up late and get rolling slowly and just go straight to lunch... othertimes i'll have my breakfast and then have a much later lunch or have a snack and then go to dinner.

Somedays I eat breakfast around 11am then I have lunch around 3pm and dinner around 8pm... When I go to bed late and wake up early this works prefectly for me.  If I want to sleep in without wrecking my normal daily eating schedule I set an alarm for 7:30 am, wake up and eat my protein breakfast meal bar then go bacl to sleep until 10. This might sound crazy, lol, but then at 10 I am ready to go the gym and not starving for food. 

Wow thanks for all the unput, that helped a lot I know it was kinda a dumb question but I figured it was worth asking! thanks again

You could start by thinking of yourself as living in a different time zone where your day starts at 11am. That way, you can have all your meals, only it will not be at the time that everyone is having what is usually had at that time of the day.