ditto on the cereal.... although i do eat it! i have kashi golean crunch with light choco soy milk and a banana for breakfast at work (less than 300 calories)..... even though the soy milk and kashi have protein.... i'm still hungry within a couple hours! but i have morning and afternoon snacks each day!

if i'm going to go riding (on weekends... holidays.... i have oatmeal (also made with light choco soy milk and a tablespoon of natural peanut butter)... now THAT stays with me longer than cereal... for whatever reason (and it's under 300 calories too! so it's not that! i think the PB fat keeps me feeling full longer!)

heck.... i love my oatmeal so much.... i even have it for lunch a lot of days! it's easy to bring to work and i LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

my meals and snacks pretty much average out to around 300 calories each.... for a total of 1800 calories a day.... i work out EVERY workday morning... and ride after work every evening except fridays.... i normally ride around an hour (sometimes more).... so burn around 500 or more calories.... and my morning workouts vary from 300 to 600 or 700 calories (if doing aerobics!) so for me.... 1800 is probably still too low of calories for what i do....

of course... i'm bad about cheating on weekends

(i pretty much eat every 3 hours, on average!)