Hi, I eat the same breakfast every morning, a boiled egg and a slice of wholemeal bread with Bertolli margarine. Just learning how calorific bread is but don't know what to have instead, I can't imagine eating an egg without it!
I don't eat cereal because I don't have milk. Any suggestions, please?
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Removing the bread can potentially be counterproductive as you might crave it more and more and end up eating the whole bag of bread.
If you do want to remove it, you could try having oatmeal (cooked in water if you don't use milk) with fruit, or yogurt with dried nuts and fruit, ham or salmon rolls stuffed with cottage cheese or scrambled eggs, or just scrambled eggs with mushrooms/peppers, an omelette with a side of avocado & cherry tomatoes sprinkled with salt and oil...however these option do seem fitting with a slice of bread. Maybe you can try German-style rye bread (the one made of purely ground rye instead of rye flour) if you are looking to try out more macro-friendly bread options. I personally like the taste, but it is strong and might overpower the toppings you use. Wasa bread (Swedish crispy flatbread) is high in fiber and since the pieces are very light, you might be able to fit in 3 slices for breakfast for less caloric content than you wholemeal bread and they combine well with butter flavours...again, the texture is different and you might just be happier sticking to your bread and fitting it into you daily intake, or leaving it for weekends only.
A slice of bread is about 100 calories.
Eat the bread.
Are you set at 1200 calories? That may be your problem because I fit in two slices of bread every day when I was losing weight on 1500.
And usually cereal and milk is more calorie dense than a slice of bread. At least, the cereal I like is.. 😂
My breakfast today: 1 oz cheddar cheese, 98 grams hard boiled eggs, and a small chicken sandwich in a 1/2 pita. All total about 425 cals.
The thing is, I don't think this is true .
Ezekiel bread (a popular brand of sprouted grain bread) has 80 calories and 15 grams of carbohydrates per slice.
Nature's Own 100% whole wheat bread has 60 calories and 11 grams of carbohydrates per slice.
Both are fine choices and those 20 calories and 4 grams of carbohydrates aren't going to be relevant for most people. But if someone is making claims that sprouted bread is inherently lower in calories and carbohydrates, they're not a good source of nutritional information.
No bread is going to "help you lose weight." Weight loss is created by a calorie deficit. If someone finds a certain food more satisfying or filling and it fits well into their calorie goal, then that would be a help. But that could be many types of bread, not just sprouted grain bread.
What would you sub for the bread instead?
I haven't used milk with cereal in a very long time. You can learn to eat that way and without toast with your egg if you want.
That being said, and egg is about 78 and bread can be anywhere but lets say 150 and about 30 calories with the margarine. That's about 260 calories. That's actually a good breakfast for the amount of calories it has. If you like it and it fills you up, then I say don't change what you are doing.
You haven't been logging food consistently, and you do have it set to 1200.
I also noticed on the one day you logged food that you had about 450 calories from oils and nuts (margarine, mayonnaise and oil/ linseed-flax, a "healthy nut mix," and pecans) in that one day. That puts you over on your fats, is that your intention? Since you are also eating animal products (egg, ham, lamb) I'd say the place to cut back would be the added oil. A serving of whole linseed is 14g or two tablespoons for 60 calories, so you had several servings? Six tablespoons? You could likely cut that back quite a bit.
Your bread was logged at 84 calories. You did have other grains, too - is "Bap" a bread? Eat the slice of bread and cut back on the added oils, that's a lot easier. I find the flavor of the margarine and the oil can be had for about 3g per serving (about 54 total calories for 6g) and you really don't need the added oils at all with the lamb and egg and ham and nuts.
You still came in very close to your (super low) goal, so I'd call that pretty good.
Why are you set at 1200? How much weight do you have to lose? How tall are you? Do you work or care for a house or kids? I'd change that Goal. That's hard, 1200.
Wait! Why is this bread so high in calories? Is all US bread? The wholegrain bread I eat comes in at roughly 240 calories per 100 grams. Like most bread, baguette, flat bread, etc. how can there be so many calories in bread?
647 is the NAME of the bread.
The calories look like about 40 calories per 28g slice.
You like thick slice of bread?
Typical US bread per slice are 30g more or less..
You eating 3 to 4 slices . 🤷♂️
Equivalent to 2 slices of bread by weight
I believe that user is using 100 grams as a point to compare, not claiming their average serving of bread is 100 grams.
Read the print.. they are comparing per 28g.. a slice
Ohh.. 😂. Yeah. 647 is the name/brand of bread..