Breakfast.. how many calories do you eat?

That depends... if you think of breakfast as the meal you eat when you wake up, then I eat 0 calories for breakfast.

If you think of breakfast as the first meal of the day, then eat that about 1pm and its usually about 750 calories, depending on whether its a workout day or not.

Personally, I tend to graze at night time, and never healthy foods. So i eat about 500-600 calories for breakfast, then a light lunch, and dinner, and healthy snacks inbetween. I've found that doing this keeps me on track. Knowing that I don't have any calories left, curbs my nighttime candy treats.

It depends on your goals. If I don't eat any snacks, then I shoot for 20-30% of my daily calories for breakfast during the week, but on the weekends, I like to make a big breakfast and eat a light lunch. I don't think there are any one-size-fits-all rules.

I don't set a 'target' cals amount because I usually graze throughout the morning. Some days I'll have oatmeal and extras for about 250 cals, at the moment i'll have a 100 calorie cereal bar, then eat a 100 cal bag of yoghurt covered fruit a few hours later. I might have greek yoghurt with fruit and compote (150 calories) if I'm still hungry.

Looking through my diary, it can be anywhere from 150 (porridge) to 250/350 (English muffin with poached egg & ham/bacon).
I tend to have a couple of higher days and the rest on the lower end of the scale every week. I'm not a big fan of eating in the morning, though, so something like a small bowl of porridge or chia pudding is often all I can manage.

280-320 calories (i have instant oatmeal for breakfast or yogurt)

I try to keep it under 300 cals. If I include protein that generally keeps me going until late morning. If you're eating up to 500 try to split that into 2 and eat 250 early morning and 100-200 mid-morning. Keeping your metabolism going is key.

I normally eat about 400-500. I think of breakfast as the meal that starts off my day. Your body has more fuel in the morning and will burn more calories. As the day goes by, your body will not burn as many calories. Because of that I will have a lighter lunch and an even lighter supper. I also do my cardio exercises in the morning because of the calorie burning aspect.

Hope this helps

Paryse

The way you distribute your calories into meals may be very important for how it makes you feel, and how it makes you behave, and how it makes you stick to your diet.

But physiologically, it's not very important as it pertains to fat loss, provided we are just looking at different distributions of the same food.

That being said, I would base your decision entirely on personal preference. You could even skip breakfast and eat a huge dinner if you wanted to. Or, you could eat a massive breakfast and eat less later in the day. Or you could do something in between.


The point of this post? What other people do for breakfast will not likely have much of any relevance as to what you should do for breakfast (there's nothing wrong with asking of course). Experiment, see what gives you the greatest satisfaction and what makes it easiest for you to maintain long term.

700 to 800 usually.