When I join my wife on a daily breakfast schedule, I feel like I'm just needlessly eating food when I know I don't have to. But for her, her mood palpably worsens within an hour or so of not having a bite in the morning.
On weekend mornings and vacations, I'll indulge in nice hearty breakfasts, but for my average workweek, no need!
On the flipside, I can eat my last meal of the day and go 7-8 hours without food until I sleep. She can't, though; she'll get severe hunger pangs or be light-headed.
So it seems like I should have breakfast + lunch, while she should have lunch + dinner. But being out of sync like that is unbelievably annoying in a relationship where you share / eat the same foods.
But as I mention in a comment elsewhere here, if I indulge in a breakfast I will get hunger pangs the next morning (or two). Which leads me onto "needing breakfast". If I push through and just do my coffee and cream, I can get back to not feeling hungry in the morning (no hunger pangs) and back to [my] "normal".
My philosophy is: I eat if/when I'm hungry, not because "someone" tells me I should. "Someone" might be society. Also "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" is marketing BS started by Kelloggs(?I think?) to sell cereal.
I'm very similar to the OP. I rarely eat breakfast. If I do, I can expect my body to have hunger pangs the next morning at breakfast time. However, black coffee doesn't affect me (I even add creamer so I get some morning fat sugar fuel, but not much). I also stopped drinking alcohol but a few times a year. If I drink alcohol after about 6 pm, I will get hunger pangs the next morning. I've never been overweight in my life and I stopped eating breakfast after high school.
It really depends on the person, for my wife, she just calorie counts and can shed the pounds with little problem. I can't stand being constantly hungry and not eating until I'm full, and dealing with hunger in the morning until lunch is only a mild annoyance. For her, she needs regular food or she gets really hangry. Different strokes.
Funnily, I never ate breakfast until I met my wife, and because she's a breakfast nazi ("Most important meal of the day!!!"), I started eating breakfast, and struggled with weight over the years since then. I never had weight issues before that. So I'm dropping breakfast (except on the weekends, as it's a group thing for us to have a big breakfast, but then I skip lunch) and we'll see how it goes :)
The first week or so was rough, but yesterday I ate oatmeal for lunch (with walnuts and blueberries and slice banana) and then had a Factor meal (very tasty, not a shill!) that had lower calories than my usual dinner, and I was totally satisfied. That was like 1/2 the calories of a normal day previously and I had no hunger - so weird and awesome!