400 calories for breakfast?

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  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    My breakfasts are usually around the 400 calories mark. I always believe that you need a good nutritious start to the day to rev up your metabolism (which is low and sluggish when you first wake up). Think of your metabolism as a fire and that you need plenty of "logs" & "kindling" to get it going and turn it into a roaring fire. Without it, it would only smolder and the same is said for your metabolism. So for those that either skip breakfast or have very little, their bodies are starting in a slow way and not working to their full potential (even if you don't feel hungry).

    This is not true.

    Here is the link again for those who didn't read the first page:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/529002-a-compliation-on-meal-frequency?hl=compliation+meal+frequency
  • MarGetsThinner
    MarGetsThinner Posts: 12
    I'm one of those people who rarely eat breakfast.. If anything I will have a snack around 10:30 or 11:00, because that's the time I will start getting hungry. And my weight loss has been going pretty good!
  • reedkaus
    reedkaus Posts: 250 Member
    eat breakfast like a king and dinner like a pauper
  • Akimajuktuq
    Akimajuktuq Posts: 3,037 Member
    I'm not a big breakfast fan. I'm just not hungry when I wake up. But since I have to trundle off to work, I have a whey protein shake (no sugar, no artificial sweeteners, no soybean oil, from grass fed cows, etc), often with some coconut milk and sometimes Super Seeds (chia, flax, hemp), plus the cream in my coffee and I'm usually around 300-400 cals. Keeps me good until lunch.
  • Oops25
    Oops25 Posts: 68 Member
    Yes, you should have more calories in breakfast coz you are starting your day with it..A high-protein breakfast will keep you fuller longer and will also give you energy to take on the rest of the day.. I eat almost 600 calorie breakfasts and I feel great with it! Anything less than 400 calories, I start feeling hungry and by the end of the day, when I go for my workout, I have very less energy..But that's just me..I know it is best practice to have a large portion of your calories for breakfast, little lesser for lunch, and the least for dinner, so I follow this on most days..
  • sunny_smile5
    sunny_smile5 Posts: 91 Member
    I used to never eat breakfast, but since eating breakfast I have had tremendous success with weight loss (before I join MFP though). Anyway, instead of counting calories, however, I count carbs, proteins, and fats. I choose from a list of healthy carbs, proteins, and fats to eat from. Following that plan, I would eat 5-6 meals and snacks per day and when I did that I lose 30 pounds..just from doing that alone, no exercise whatsoever. For two years, I stopped following that routine and gained back some weight..but have now decided to start up again. This time, however, I have incorporated exercise and the weight seems to be coming off faster. I'm eating all the time and exercising about 30 minutes daily. Sorry, a little off topic, but Breakfast is ALWAYS the most important meal of the day...NEVER SKIP IT!
  • MeganDominique
    MeganDominique Posts: 229 Member
    My breakfast on a day where i have time (more often than not or ill be to hungry by noon so i cook ) im between 500-600 calories. im easily full till lunch. I eat 4 eggs scrambled sprayed in pam wraped in a grism spinach tortilla :)

    should add lunch for me is normally 1-2 pm
  • michelejoann
    michelejoann Posts: 295 Member
    I usually stick around 260ish. 300 at most. If I'm eating brunch, then I skip "lunch" and will do about 800 cals for brunch.

    I find that by the time dinner rolls around, I USUALLY have 500-600 calories to work with. Then I add in a 30 minute walk before bed to burn off what I've eaten (to lessen whatever I've eaten for dinner) and usually end up good.

    I also *sometimes* have a mid-morning or afternoon snack. If I remember to do so. I do get hungry a few hours after breakfast, but I either am too busy to eat or I snack on fruit or something.
  • TubbsMcGee
    TubbsMcGee Posts: 1,058 Member
    I typically like to eat a large amount of calories first thing in the morning so that I can burn them off throughout the day..."upside down diet".

    If I eat BELOW 400 calories a day, I tend to gorge at lunch.
    The past few weeks, I've been eating <300 cals for breakfast and I've noticed an increase in weight.
  • myfitnessnmhoy
    myfitnessnmhoy Posts: 2,105 Member
    You can eat as much for breakfast as you like. Some people eat 800 calories and lose weight, some people don't eat breakfast at all and lose weight.
    If your breakfast works for you, stick with it!

    ^^^^ Nailed it exactly. /thread. :)

    PS: I will say that if what you are doing works for you, it's still worth experimenting with other things to see if they work BETTER. But that's a personal choice, and your point that different things work for different people (and the implication that timing is relatively unimportant) is spot-on.
  • debussyschild
    debussyschild Posts: 804 Member
    There is no set calorie goal for meals, lol. Some people like to eat a big breakfast, others don't. It's not a "what you SHOULD do" thing. It's what you prefer to do. I eat 5 meals a day, all averaging about 400. Doing that allegedly keeps your metabolism "steady" and going throughout the day. Do what works for you, so long as you stick to your calorie goals, you'll be fine.
  • WestCoastPhoenix
    WestCoastPhoenix Posts: 802 Member
    eat breakfast like a king and dinner like a pauper

    Stop reading bro-science...this is nonsense.
  • debussyschild
    debussyschild Posts: 804 Member
    My breakfasts are usually around the 400 calories mark. I always believe that you need a good nutritious start to the day to rev up your metabolism (which is low and sluggish when you first wake up). Think of your metabolism as a fire and that you need plenty of "logs" & "kindling" to get it going and turn it into a roaring fire. Without it, it would only smolder and the same is said for your metabolism. So for those that either skip breakfast or have very little, their bodies are starting in a slow way and not working to their full potential (even if you don't feel hungry).

    This is not true.

    Here is the link again for those who didn't read the first page:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/529002-a-compliation-on-meal-frequency?hl=compliation+meal+frequency

    Please don't hijack this thread. There are other threads that deal with the whole "is it important to eat breakfast (period)" idea.
  • debussyschild
    debussyschild Posts: 804 Member
    eat breakfast like a king and dinner like a pauper

    Stop reading bro-science...this is nonsense.

    It's not nonsense, it just makes sense to that person. Who gives a flying eff if it's factually correct?
  • raystark
    raystark Posts: 403 Member
    I once had a friend who would say "eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper." I'm not sure it's how things really work, but he was in great shape!

    I really dig this - your friend is awesome :)

    Your friend is also clueless.

    Nice.
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    mine are 5-600
  • Kcouillou
    Kcouillou Posts: 4
    Like the saying goes "eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper" :)

    My breakfasts always range anywhere from 300-400 cals, and on mornings where I do hiit fasted cardio I eat a little more then 400 cals! Like this morning after my fasted cardio I had a big bowl of steel cut oats with cinnamon vanilla homemade unsalted almond butter and blackberries with an egg white veggie omelette on the side! This breakfast came in at around 430 cals!

    I also am one who eats 5-6 meals a day every 3 hours or so!

    Feel free to add me as a friend :)
  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
    Πx is always the answer to a mathematical question involving "should".


    Now back to my leftover pizza for breakfast.
  • leggup
    leggup Posts: 2,942 Member
    I eat about 100-200 calories for most breakfasts. I eat lunch at 11 am, so I'm never hungry. Do what works for you. If you're eating 100 cals for breakfast and then you're so hungry for lunch that you binge, have a bigger breakfast or a mid-morning snack.

    If it's not broken, don't fix it.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    They should lock threads that are a year old or something.

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