Larger breakfasts

katherineleggett

I want to try having larger breakfasts and smaller dinners. I’ve heard this is good for weight loss and it’ll hopefully keep me filler longer. Can anyone suggest any good savoury breakfasts that are healthy but higher in calories

livingleanlivingclean

Meal size, frequency and timing are pretty irrelevant to weight loss - it's your overall calorie intake that matters.

I wait until late in the day to eat - if I eat breakfast I feel hungry a lot more during the day. I eat most of my calories in the evening, and have no issues with weight loss.

But, if I was going to eat a savoury breakfast it would probably be an omelette with vegies and cheese, or shakshuka with toast, or avocado and poached eggs on toast.

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

It doesn't matter for weight loss. Only your total calories over the week.
If you ate 3500 calories less that week than you burn you'd lose 1lb.

I don't eat until 1-2pm. Saves my calories for later in the day.

callsitlikeiseeit

its irrelevant to weight loss.

i rarely even eat much of a breakfast. sometimes i eat a bigger lunch and smaller dinner, sometimes a bigger dinner and smaller lunch. depends on the day and what i have planned.

ive lost 103 pounds.

hesn92

I like savory oatmeal. I make oatmeal with water and add a fried egg, bacon and avocado.

I prefer to have small (or no) breakfast and a large dinner. I find that as long as I’m full at the end of the day I’m happy.

AnnPT77

While agreeing that timing is irrelevant for weight loss, it certainly can be central for satiation, and satiation is important to successful weight loss! You're smart to experiment & see what's most effective for you.

I need a good breakfast for satiation and energy, personally.

My favorite is oatmeal (just rolled oats, cooked in microwave - use a deep bowl! - not instant because instant is less hearty for the calories). I add plain Greek yogurt, a few walnuts/hemp seed/flaxseed if I have the calories, and a dab of sweetness, either molasses or all-fruit spread (sugar is fine, too - I just prefer the others).

Another option is eggs, meat, cheese, veggies: Omelet or scrambled, hard boiled with sides, whatever.

Google or Pinterest will give a lot of recipes for freezable reduced-calorie breakfast wraps/burritos you can make ahead, or for various types of "breakfast muffins" that are really more like crustless mini-quiches or hearty muffin-cup baked oatmeal thingies, any of which you can make in a batch, then freeze to microwave later.

If I'm working out in the AM and want a decent but lighter breakfast, I'll have an Ezekiel pita/English muffin/tortilla with peanut butter and a glass of lowfat kefir.

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ladyhusker39

Think outside the box. Just because it's the meal where you're breaking your fast doesn't mean you have to eat what the marketing department for a food company/industry tells you to eat.

TavistockToad

If I was having a big breakfast it'd be a full English

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AnnPT77

JerSchmare wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

While agreeing that timing is irrelevant for weight loss, it certainly can be central for satiation, and satiation is important to successful weight loss! You're smart to experiment & see what's most effective for you.

I need a good breakfast for satiation and energy, personally.

My favorite is oatmeal (just rolled oats, cooked in microwave - use a deep bowl! - not instant because instant is less hearty for the calories). I add plain Greek yogurt, a few walnuts/hemp seed/flaxseed if I have the calories, and a dab of sweetness, either molasses or all-fruit spread (sugar is fine, too - I just prefer the others).

Another option is eggs, meat, cheese, veggies: Omelet or scrambled, hard boiled with sides, whatever.

Google or Pinterest will give a lot of recipes for freezable reduced-calorie breakfast wraps/burritos you can make ahead, or for various types of "breakfast muffins" that are really more like crustless mini-quiches or hearty muffin-cup baked oatmeal thingies, any of which you can make in a batch, then freeze to microwave later.

If I'm working out in the AM and want a decent but lighter breakfast, I'll have an Ezekiel pita/English muffin/tortilla with peanut butter and a glass of lowfat kefir.

You changed topics. The first part of your first sentence, before the comma, is the relevant part. The rest is a completely different issue.

No, I read OP's whole post, in which she also said she hoped it would keep her fuller longer, and I gave her the type of advice she actually asked for.

Y'know, as if she were an intelligent adult - which I assume she is - not just some silly person who should be told her goal is categorically wrong by people with different preferences.

<shrug>

diannethegeek

katherineleggett wrote: »

I want to try having larger breakfasts and smaller dinners. I’ve heard this is good for weight loss and it’ll hopefully keep me filler longer. Can anyone suggest any good savoury breakfasts that are healthy but higher in calories

I think it's great that you are going to try different things to see what works for you. If a bigger breakfast doesn't keep you full longer, you can always switch back.

How big of a breakfast are you looking for? For instance, a big breakfast for someone on 1200 calories would look very different than a big breakfast for someone on 2400 calories. Having an idea of how many calories you're aiming for at breakfast might help you find more ideas.

Savory breakfasts don't tend to be my go-to, but I'm a fan of something like scrambled eggs, avocado, and cream cheese on toast, or a bagel thin, cream cheese, and lox. You could do breakfast burritos, breakfast sandwiches, or a big veggie & egg frittata.

diannethegeek

JerSchmare wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

While agreeing that timing is irrelevant for weight loss, it certainly can be central for satiation, and satiation is important to successful weight loss! You're smart to experiment & see what's most effective for you.

I need a good breakfast for satiation and energy, personally.

My favorite is oatmeal (just rolled oats, cooked in microwave - use a deep bowl! - not instant because instant is less hearty for the calories). I add plain Greek yogurt, a few walnuts/hemp seed/flaxseed if I have the calories, and a dab of sweetness, either molasses or all-fruit spread (sugar is fine, too - I just prefer the others).

Another option is eggs, meat, cheese, veggies: Omelet or scrambled, hard boiled with sides, whatever.

Google or Pinterest will give a lot of recipes for freezable reduced-calorie breakfast wraps/burritos you can make ahead, or for various types of "breakfast muffins" that are really more like crustless mini-quiches or hearty muffin-cup baked oatmeal thingies, any of which you can make in a batch, then freeze to microwave later.

If I'm working out in the AM and want a decent but lighter breakfast, I'll have an Ezekiel pita/English muffin/tortilla with peanut butter and a glass of lowfat kefir.

You changed topics. The first part of your first sentence, before the comma, is the relevant part. The rest is a completely different issue.

The OP specifically mentions she hopes it will help her feel fuller in her post. The two are different topics, but they're interconnected for many people and both are relevant to the OP. I'm happy that so many people in this thread have found what worked best for them, and I'm not always much of a breakfast eater either, but it sounds like the OP hasn't yet and maybe needs to play around a bit and try new things. Maybe a big breakfast will help, maybe it won't, but the OP is the one who gets to try it and see.

JeromeBarry1

katherineleggett wrote: »

I want to try having larger breakfasts and smaller dinners. I’ve heard this is good for weight loss and it’ll hopefully keep me filler longer. Can anyone suggest any good savoury breakfasts that are healthy but higher in calories

How high calories do you want? Do you have a preference for your macro distribution?

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