I’d love to be able to eat when I’m hungry but I have a job so for me I have breakfast, lunch or no lunch depending on how I feel and then have dinner around 4:30. On rare occasions I fancy a treat and have some low carb sweet literally right before bed but it’s not often.
People say to change it up so I hope inserting or deleting food here and there based on appetite keeps working.
Same issue here. I can’t just eat whenever I want to. So I usually end up eating a good breakfast, skipping lunch, and having a good dinner. Not because I am all that hungry at 7 AM, but because if I wait until 10 AM, I’m at work and can’t stop and fry up some eggs. Because I’m at work, there’s no kitchen, and no eggs.
If I can’t or don’t want to eat before work then I just take in cold foods that I can eat at my desk. Thankfully my work doesn’t mind anyone doing this.
I sometimes take cold bacon and cold 2 egg omelette.
If you’ve just started and already feeling lowered hunger signals then you are very lucky, some people don’t get that for weeks or even months. One of the BEST things you can do to spur rapid weight loss is to increase the temporal distance between your meals. That’s why so very many people here do a form of intermittent fasting. Keto makes them less hungry, which in turn allows them to space out their eating further, which in turn spurs more rapid lipolysis.
So absolutely, if you aren’t hungry, feel free to skip a meal. All those extra hours with your insulin lowered is more time that you body is eating through your own fat.
If you can avoid it then don’t snack at all. It’s much better to have larger meals spaced further apart than a similar amount of food more distributed over the same time frame. The latter just leads to a higher overall insulin and less fat loss.
So my strategy starting out was that when I wake up I am usually very hungry. I eat a fully loaded protein and fats breakfast. Bacon or sausage, 2-3 eggs, some veggies or avocado and maybe cheese too. I would eat a lite lunch and a normal dinner. Then sometimes I would skip lunch and eat dinner early. Eventually I sometimes skipped dinner after a late lunch and would have an 8 pm snack. Lately I find that I can wait for breakfast and eat dinner and I’m golden. Just listen to your body. But for me eating big early on and lighter as the day goes on works best for me. That way I get a powerhouse start and have good sustained energy throughout the day. I haven’t gotten to the point of fasting yet, but who knows 
Yes, but no need these days. When I was first starting and was still worried about not getting hungry, I would make sure to have keto foods at work - hard boiled eggs, nuts, canned fish, cheese. Now I don’t keep any food at work because I have no need of it.
Thanks. That’s what I’d like to get to----eating more earlier in the day and then lighter as the day goes on. Don’t know if I can ever get to fasting, but will just focus on eating the Keto way
for now.
Just to clarify, I didn’t mean to sound like it’s a bad idea to eat when you’re hungry. I work in a print shop. It’s dirty and I’m dirty most of the time. It’s understood you don’t carry food around and only eat when it’s lunch time. We also get paid for lunch so it’s expected to be short and efficient.
Why would you have to train yourself to eat breakfast? I mean, if you don’t do it now why would being back at work change that? I work 6a-2p most days and often 4a-2p and am doing 20:4 intermittent fasting. I open my eating window at 2pm, typically start eating around 2:30-3pm and quit around 6pm or so. I am not hungry at work and am not starving when I get home and it lets my wife and I eat together even if we do eat a bit differently, with her simply doing LCHP rather than keto.
I would also add that it isn’t about calorie restriction either. As long as I eat keto I have no problem getting as much as 2800 calories in that 3-4 hour window depending on what I am eating. Things like Pork Belly make that pretty easy and I can easily make a 1200 calorie omelette. 
Good question.
Things are changing for me, so it’s all a moving target now and I was just trying to cover all my options. I didn’t want to be at work and starving where my only options for food are fast-food or fast-food. I do carry an avocado, canned salmon and almonds so I’m not totally at their mercy.
But your pattern sounds interesting. Maybe that’ll work for me too. I don’t know just playing it by ear.
String cheese, can of vienna sausages, baggie of bacon, nuts…?
At my desk have canned salmon, pecans, almonds and walnuts, canned sardines and occasionally smoked fish. In the community fridge I have those 5g butter tubs (the little tiny ones) and 1 oz cream cheese. These are in bags that hide what they are and then in jars. This so the fridge rats don’t steal my food.
As I contemplate going carnivore I think I will move my old gas grill to my office. That would take eating at work to a whole new level.
I normally have set eating windows and if I’m not hungry within that window I won’t eat, like it’s very rare for me to eat after 1pm because evenings are for gym and yoga and I prefer to have an empty stomach to do these and like you, eating late causes issues (late for me is 6pm as I’m in bed by about 8pm each night, sleep is another thing I’m very disciplined about). BUT, there are occasions when I’ve been pushing hard in the gym and my body demands extra food so I will have an evening meal, but strictly never after 7pm no matter how hungry I get.