Need advice on avoiding a sugary breakfast.

I always go over too, but I eat a lot of fruit for breakfast and I don't usually count fruit-based sugar (just processed or white granulated sugars). And I try to use honey instead of white sugar as often as possible.

Try eating eggs and toast or even steel-cut oatmeal (homemade!) for breakfast. That should help with less sugar.

Almost every day I eat 2 scrambled eggs with diced ham and shredded cheese with a low carb tortilla. It is filling and delicious and gives me a good protein boost and has very little sugar/carbs.

I love cereal and do splurge maybe once every 2 weeks, but the rest of the time I avoid it as I am following a low carb diet and it just takes up too many of my daily carb points with the milk.

Felicia

Oatmeal. No sugar. Add stevia. With cinnamon.

This! It is actually in my lap as I type this good luck!

I also have egg whites with veggies and ground lean turkey.

Have chicken and veggies for breakfast. Only mildly different from eggs and veggies.

Good old fashioned plain Cherrios!! My breakfast of choice most mornings with skin milk and raspberries (they are low in sugar for a fruit).

ignore MFP's sugar goal completely. don't even track it.

Can I ask why? surely it's there for a reason? or is it wrong :S
I'm pretty new to MFP.

It's bizarrely low considering how high their carb percentage is by default (their default macros splits make me crazy overall, but I didn't want to get into that can of worms) and the fact that it doesn't differentiate between sugar types. If you are tracking your carb intake intelligently and trying to get a fair amount of fiber, then the sugar just can pretty much fall where it may. Eating at a deficit makes a lot of the macros splits a bit less critical.

That having been said, I'd recommend upping your protein substantially from what MFP sets by default. It will help protect muscle loss when eating a deficit and it the most satisfying of the macronutrients.

Nothing new here, but to echo some of the other posters, I love my eggs. I opt for the omega 3 variety (gotta love the omega 3 infusion when u can get it). I poach them and put them on the seediest grainiest slice of toast i can find and slice up a whole tomato on the side. Add a glass of water, and a cuppa joe, and voila...breakfast of champs! I usually aim for roughly 300 cals for most meals- and this fits nicely!!

Egg/egg white & veggie omelets! I just had one egg and one egg white with onion, mushrooms, spinach and a half ounce of reduced fat feta cheese with half a 100 calorie whole grain/high fiber English muffin and a half cup of fresh pineapple...yummy and super filling. I find that having some protein with my sugar/carbs keeps me satisfied until lunch.

Is a slice of roast beef, a bun, and a can of Diet Coke (it will be a large glass of hot tea in the winter.)

Why not tea all the time?

Because in the summer hot tea isn't at all good, and if I drink it iced I will drink vast quantities and start to have heart palpitations.

Actually, once I go on my ADHD meds again I'll go off the soda, but until then it works for me of a morning.

Have you ever tried green tea? We have started drinking it to avoid the caffeine overload. I love it.

Start drinking a protein shake. Mix powder with yogurt and fruit and you have yourself a nutritious, healthy, filling breakfast that's quick and easy to make!

ignore MFP's sugar goal completely. don't even track it.

Can I ask why? surely it's there for a reason? or is it wrong :S
I'm pretty new to MFP.

I quit tracking it a long time ago. I have much less stress now. Like I said above, sugar is just a simple carb, pure energy. So long as you expend the energy you take in, and provided there's no medical condition, then there is no reason to avoid sugar for weight loss. (And so long as you are getting plenty of fiber in the rest of your carbs, along with plenty of healthy fats and protein)

There really isn't much need to have simple carbs, unless you're going to be doing some serious cardio for your workout. If that's the case, then you should eat them an hour or two before you start the workout, or they'll be gone by the time you start.

For the rest of the day, you should try to eat more complex carbs (fruit and veggies) than simple carbs (sugar and grains).

That being said, if you're eating a lot of fruit, your sugar will go up, but they contain complex sugars. It takes time for your body to break them down, unless breads and bleached sugar.

MFP measures natural sugar as well as refined sugar, so even if you're eating a seemingly healthy breakfast the unsweetened yogurt does contain sugar and the dried fruit will also have quite a large sugar dosage. I'm in this quandary too, so I for one of these options:

I either carry on with my usual breakfast of porridge with dates, unsweetened yogurt & apricots knowing I'll be nearly at my daily limit for sugar and then eat mostly savoury for the rest of the day, including no fruit but try and snack on crackers and cottage cheese or avocado or something thats quite nutritionally dense and filling.

Otherwise I'll go for a savoury breakfast like poached eggs so that I can have sweeter snacks throughout the day if I think I'm in one of those moods where I want to eat lots of sweet things!

Hope that makes sense, but really you've just to do whatever works for you so that you're enjoying your food choices I think.

Some may think this bad, but most mornings I stop at Sonic and get their Jr. Breakfast Burrito but without the cheese. It is actually quite small and has a small amount of sausage and egg in it. My mornings are rushed and it is a good breakfast for me. I have actually gotten where I drive up to the drive thru now and when they say "Welcome to Sonic", I say "It's Annette" and they tell me to drive foreward as they know what I am getting, lol. I get that and a large ice water with lemon wedges and refill it throughout the day with more water.

ignore MFP's sugar goal completely. don't even track it.

Can I ask why? surely it's there for a reason? or is it wrong :S
I'm pretty new to MFP.

I quit tracking it a long time ago. I have much less stress now. Like I said above, sugar is just a simple carb, pure energy. So long as you expend the energy you take in, and provided there's no medical condition, then there is no reason to avoid sugar for weight loss. (And so long as you are getting plenty of fiber in the rest of your carbs, along with plenty of healthy fats and protein)

There really isn't much need to have simple carbs, unless you're going to be doing some serious cardio for your workout. If that's the case, then you should eat them an hour or two before you start the workout, or they'll be gone by the time you start.

For the rest of the day, you should try to eat more complex carbs (fruit and veggies) than simple carbs (sugar and grains).

That being said, if you're eating a lot of fruit, your sugar will go up, but they contain complex sugars. It takes time for your body to break them down, unless breads and bleached sugar.

Simple carbs are found in fruits, veggies, milk, soda, etc. Complex carbs are found in legumes, starchy vegetables and grains.