How much do you eat for breakfast?

[badger]

I've been eating toast for breakfast pretty much all my life. On weekends I'll usually throw in an egg into the mix, but 99.5% of the time it involves bread of some sort.

I find that if I have a greasy breakfast with eggs, sausages/bacon, and hashbrowns I would feel full and sometimes sick all day. Bread just suits my stomach so much better.

When I visit my relatives in Japan, they'll give me the usual fare of rice, miso soup, and anything else they have left over from dinner the night before. That sort of meal really doesn't sit well in my stomach first thing in the morning.

[OakLeaf]

I find that if I have a greasy breakfast with eggs, sausages/bacon, and hashbrowns I would feel full ... all day.

Nobody said greasy, but I think feeling full all day is kind of the point.

I had to train myself to eat breakfast, but I feel so much better now that I'm not so starved at dinnertime that I cram myself so full that I'm still not hungry 12 hours later.



too many clauses in that sentence, but you know what I mean.

[JennK13]

Im also one who has to eat breakfast, and there has got to be some kind of protien. Usually i have an egg or two, and either a half a bagel or a waffle (winter would be oatmeal instead of the waffle), or i put the egg on top of the bagel half with a slice of cheese and some ham if I'm riding early in the day. If I'm doing a long or hard ride, like 3 plus hours in the saddle, I'll fuel up with more carbs.
If I forget to eat breakfast, and I really do forget occassionally, I also dont get "hungry" all day. I think it's because I'm so ravished, nothing sounds good and my stomach hurts because it's empty, so it makes me want to eat even less. I dont "skip" breakfasts, but i take medication right when i wake up and it has to be on an empty stomach - i usually jog right after, or commute into work via bike (only 7 miles so it's not a hard ride) and i eat after that. If I'm late or get sidetracked I just forget to eat. I keep microwave omlets and cereal at work so I make sure i get around to it eventually
Usually it's 300-400 calories. I have an incredibly high activity level, so i dont typically count calories - i keep good food around (fruits, lots of protiens, and complex carbs on a limited bases), eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm full.

[Owlie]

I need to eat breakfast, but I have to give myself a little time to wake up. I find if I have a BIG breakfast, I don't have to eat much the rest of the day. Normally, though, I just have a bowl of cereal and a glass of OJ or milk, even if I'm riding.

[skhill]

Don't have any idea of the calorie count, but almost every day I have a bowl of (generic) spoon-size shredded wheat, with whole milk (organic) and fruit of some sort. Plus coffee. If I'm going for a long run, I'll generally have half a PBJ sandwich before the run, then the cereal afterwards. I'm in such a rut...

[Reesha]

Also, I am just crazy about this German/Baltic bread. I first had it when I was staying on a farm in Sweden in March, but I am able to get it at the local grocery store (we have a number of Baltic immigrants living in St. Louis).


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This stuff with a slice of ham and cheese as an open faced sandwich is a really good part of breakfast. Mmm.

[mirliluck]

I am a big breakfast kind of girl, actually a 2x breakfast type , and I must have some protein in there! I will usually have something like sprouted grain bread or oatmeal pancakes + nut butter before I leave the house, then eggs/tofu scramble w/ veggies a few hours later. Lunch is usually salad and something like cottage cheese, snack on greek yogurt + berries/nuts, dinner is usually more veggies and some sort of fish. I like to keep fats on the higher side because I find that I stay full longer that way. Lots of olive and coconut oil, full fat dairy, and I eat avocado and nuts pretty much every day.

I have experimented more with 'nutrient timing' since I started a weight training program to get the most out of it, and it has really made a difference in how I feel. Carbs mostly in the morning, as well as and preworkout or ride, of course any ride that is about 1.5 hours + I take an energy bar with that is heavy on carbs (I've been loving Clif C bars lately, just fruit + nuts!), and a protein shake after any workout/ride.

[malkin]

Beans on toast!

[rubywagon]

Peanut butter toast and coffee with almond milk. Every. Single. Day.

[ny biker]

Beans on toast!

When my niece was a toddler, she liked "bean toast" for breakfast. But that's what she called toast made with raisin bread.

[spindizzy]

Cottage cheese, fresh fruit, a tablespoon of natural (no sugar/salt) PB and black coffee.

[warneral]

I did Weight Watchers a few years back and then Maintenance for over a year after. I got into some pretty unhealthy habits (hoarding points til the end of the day). Switched to CORE which helped and slowly started eating breakfasts.

Stopped the diet (by that point I had some binge/restrict issues going on). I had been following "real eating" food blogs. Katheatsrealfood, etc. Learned to love oatmeal (with bananas, milk, egg white, and always a spoonful of nut butter melted on top).

I also like greek yogurt + berries + granola

The other go-to breakfast for me is a whole wheat pita (100cal) + egg white + a little cheese and precooked bacon stuffed inside.

At work they have plain oatmeal cooked with water. I'll sometimes grab a bowl of that and squeeze a packed of nut butter all over it and sprinkle with some cinnamon/sugar. Or I'll bring in some greek yogurt thing or even my egg sandwich which I heat up and toast the pita and assemble.

I also drink french press coffe plus 2 TB of Half and Half...

[Susan]

I mix

1 Banana
3 tablespoons of mixed seeds (flaxseed, pumpkinseed, sunflowerseeds, sesame)
3 tablespoons of oat bran
1 cup of berries (raspberry, blueberry, strawberry...)
1 cup of soy milk
(+water)

for a breakfast-smoothie almost every day. I got my Chia-seeds today maybe I'll add them in. Sometimes when it's very cold I cook some oatmeal and add blueberries and soy milk