Calories for Breakfast

kelsizukowski

How many calories do you average for breakfast?

glassofroses

About 300.

I eat either a bowl of cereal or porridge with a piece of toast and a few grapes. It sets me up until lunch. If I'm doing an intense workout like kickboxing I'll eat two pieces of toast and a sunny side down egg (pan fried with 1cal spray).

_Terrapin_

Last 3 logged days- - - -876, 513, 912. So, about 765.

_lyndseybrooke_

Weekdays are usually 300-450. Weekends are more like 500-700. *kitten*-it days tend to hover around 1300 - that Waffle House is a calorie killer.

Jruzer

120-150 weekdays, 300-500 weekends.

beatua1

I average about 500-700 of my typical 2200-2500 calorie day.

Kalikel

It really varies, but if I had to guess at an average...325.

I like a bigger breakfast much more now. I used to skip them or have smaller ones. Now, it's sometimes my biggest meal of the day.

leannems

Jruzer wrote: »

120-150 weekdays, 300-500 weekends.

This too. Sometimes on the weekends I'll get up to 700-800, but I prefer around 500. Weekdays its always low cause I like to eat snacks at work. Forces me to get outta my chair.

slucki01

300-350 of my 1200 cal plan (but I usually eat back 1/2 of my exercise cals so it's really 300-350 or approx 1500 cals)

pmm3437

A regular weekday for me is 450-500 calories for breakfast.

2 eggs, multi-grain English muffin with cream cheese, and either 2 strips of bacon or 2 sausage links.

My normal calorie split is ~ 25% breakfast, ~25% lunch, 30-40% dinner, and the other 10-20% is spread out over the course of the day ( snacks and drinks ).

Sunday tends to be a brunch or over-sized lunch, because its a morning gym day ( and weigh in ), so i dont eat til after 11 am usually.

Saturday mornings I don't always eat, depending on hunger level and how late I sleep, its my one day with no alarm clock.

Jollybeard

About 25% of my daily calories. I'm guessing that a percentage is probably a more helpful answer to your question. Breakfast also accounts for about 30% of my carbs, 25% of my fat, and 20% of my protein.

lizzocat

i average about 180-230...but then I also usually have a snack like less than hour later so...

Francl27

Typically between 250 and 500. Sometimes more. Totally depends how hungry I am.

Lasmartchika

Depends whether I eat breakfast or not... but when I do, I could do as little as 250 to as much as 600 calories. Depends on what I'm craving.

Liftng4Lis

_Terrapin_ wrote: »

Last 3 logged days- - - -876, 513, 912. So, about 765.

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Liftng4Lis

When I eat breakfast, usually 400ish.

mygnsac

Of my 1500 cals, during the work week I usually split my breakfast into to 2 mini meals that average about 300 cals per meal. On the weekends I rarely eat breakfast.

jemhh

500-700

rosebette

Usually around 300. Sometimes I'll have a bigger breakfast -- eggs, bacon or ham, toast, and that gets me to around 500, but then I don't need a morning snack.

ktsjourney

300 max really! I'm not usually that hungry on a morning

CaptBligh001

Like a lot of people at one time I would regularly skip breakfast, I had originally thought the old saying regarding breakfast being the most important meal of the day had been nothing more than marketing hype started by the breakfast foods industry...

That is until I discovered that there was actually quite a bit of credible research by well respected universities showing that people who routinely skipped breakfast significantly increased their risk for diabetes and heart disease as well as substantially increasing their risk of becoming obese. Some of the studies backing up these findings spanned over 16 years and tracked over well over 30,000 people.

After that I made an effort to start eating breakfast, the real challenge was what to eat and how much. Over the last year and a half I've lost over a 100 pounds and went from a wheel chair to walking 10 miles a day and to the astonishment of my doctors I managed to run my first mile after being told I would be lucky to ever walk without a cane.

The reason I bring this up is that instead of asking others how much you should eat and what you should eat for Breakfast maybe you should start learning how to listen to what your own body is telling you.

I went through life never realizing all the clues my body was giving me, that is until I started keeping a food journal. That's when I started realizing that certain foods made me feel like crap it also taught me how much to eat.

I learned that If I don't eat Breakfast that I will end up losing control of my caloric intake for the day because I end up snacking and all the snacking in the world doesn't get rid of the cravings. I don't understand why but eating breakfast seems to eliminate the cravings that cause me to tear the kitchen apart searching for just the right snack.

As for calories I like to keep breakfast in the 300 calorie range, usually whole grain cereals and fruit work the best ( By the way My mom is rolling over in her grave right now) AT one time I had what they call a savory palette, I wouldn't touch fruit or cereals for breakfast, it was bacon, sausage or steak and eggs or nothing. I would tell people I'm not a chipmunk or a rabbit so keep the squirrel food off my plate. Eventually life got too busy and I stopped eating Breakfast all together.

Anyhow fats forward a few decades and I've learned that eating heavy breakfasts make me feel like crap all day and that fruits and cereal seem to energize me, For example today I had nothing but an orange and a banana for breakfast and then did a 100 pushups waiting for my coffee to brew. BY the way I also learned that sweetened coffee creamer makes me feel like garbage not to mention some other deleterious effects in the bathroom, of course this should come of no surprise after reading the list of ingredients on the label, How they can label some of these chemical cocktails as "Coffee Creamer" is perplexing to say the least. Anyhow I now only drink freshly brewed black coffee after grinding the beans myself.

There are no magic pills, This is what works for me, your mileage may vary. Like I said, its probably best to learn to listen to your own body and don't confuse that with caving into cravings. When I say listen to your body, I mean take note of how you feel and perform after eating certain foods and experiment with the effects consumed quantity may have.

pinkraynedropjacki

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Never have had breakfast & never will. I don't feel the need to eat just because of a time of day. If it's a fasting day then I wont eat anything anyway.... but on normal days I'll eat when I am hungry not just from a time of day.

29_adjacent

About 140-180 depending on which bread I use. I have the same thing every day (during the week at least) - boiled egg on toast.

_Terrapin_

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

_Terrapin_ wrote: »

Last 3 logged days- - - -876, 513, 912. So, about 765.

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But but I can't get all s-w-o-l-e like you. I keep eating and nothing happens. Wait?!? Do I need to lift? The 876 was pretty unusual....then again.. . .

rosebarnalice

250-300.

MarziPanda95

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But I love breakfast food, so I often have breakfast food for lunch.

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DeguelloTex

830 on non-lifting days; 1470 on lifting days.

mccindy72

300-400, usually. I tend to eat most of my calories toward the end of the day.

pumpkinpocalypse

maaan i so love breakfast. I make a new thing everyday, which are complex recipes, and always sugary (but healthy! Mostly fruit-based, with nuts and stuff. it's a good balance of all macros, and carbing up in the morning works well for me) so i'm always excited for the next morning...Usually around 500, on occasions 600 if it calls for it, for a total of 1650-1700 cals daily .