Sometimes I get home late from work or the gym and don't eat dinner until 8:30 or 9pm. I try to eat lightly, but I often feel very full the next morning. Should I eat my usual breakfast (juice, coffee, whole-grain cereal and fruit) at the regular time or wait until later in the day?

Actually, the problem may not be the breakfast at all (although it has minimal protein and is very high in carbohydrates). Your dinner should have been long digested, even if "the next morning" starts at midnight.

Consider the possibility that you are digesting poorly. A trial of digestive enzymes taken immediately after meals (or even just the late dinner) would tell you if this is the case. I use Super Enzyme by Twinlab, but you can compare labels and get anything similar. After taking the enzymes, if you feel as if the meal is gone the next morning, you know you haven't been digesting well. You may want to continue augmenting with digestive enzymes.

I nearly always have people eat something for breakfast, but it doesn't have to be much.

Good health,
A.N. Spreen, M.D.