I’m in maintenance too and I find skipping breakfast helpful. I know breakfast is supposed to be the most important meal of the day, though skipping it works best for me. If skipping lunch works for you, go for it!

FiveTwoFan,
If you read Michael Mosely’s book about 5:2, he specifically mentions skipping lunch. He says that once he reached his goal he adopted a 6:1 fasting regime for maintenance, but in addition to that he also stopped eating lunch on work days unless it was a special occasion.
Like Minka, I skip breakfast most days as I’m rarely hungry then.

Technically your first meal of the day is breakfast even it you don’t eat until supper time. The serious studies I’ve seen show that eating the first meal early in the day tends to reduce the amount of calories consumed later in the day. No real hard and fast rules there just trends. Clearly some people don’t fit in to that way of eating. I do but some don’t.

The most important meal of the day concept is just advertising. In Japan it is clearer because most people just eat leftovers for breakfast. Not much difference in the foods between morning and later in the day. Sure you can buy breakfast cereal … it is just a lot less common here and a lot fewer choices. A big untapped market for the process food pushers!

Now I do like to eat breakfast but I’m finding I have less and less desire to eat lunch these days. I like oatmeal for breakfast and it just seems to be lasting longer and longer. If I’m going to have a big lunch for some reason, then I pretty much have to skip an early breakfast making lunch a late breakfast.

Hope the Fasting is going well for you, 52Fan.