Most calories at breakfast...what to eat??

Eggs are awesome - I eat them all the time. Canadian bacon is also nice and lower in bad stuff than regular bacon or sausages can be.

My two typical breakfasts -

Eggs (2 or 3, depends on the day), fried in coconut oil
Sourdough toast with butter
And orange or grapefruit (or banana - whatever I've got)
Black coffee

Oatmeal
Plain Greek yogurt (1/2 cup)
Blueberries (or other fresh fruit)
Walnuts
Honey
Cinnamon
Mix it all together and yum!
Oh, and black coffee...but don't mix that in.

Occasionally I'll make a breakfast sandwich with egg, Canadian bacon & cheese on toasted english muffin - fast to prepare and easy to take on the go.

Hmm my breakfasts are usually pretty low in calories, not sure that would work with what your doctor said (I have 6 meals/snacks per day each being 200/300/400 calories - depending on how much I work out that day).

If you like pancakes - try this: 1 Banana, 1 egg, few blueberries (mush up banana and add the egg, then blueberries) I eat them with sugar free maple syrup. Someone here on MFP got me the recipe and they are very good.

Also egg sandwich with low sodium turkey breast & light cream cheese (I love the ¨laughing cow¨ one, one wedge) deli mustard, whatever bread you use or English muffin or something. I also put a cup of alfalfa sprouts on my sandwiches.
If I want to mix it up for a day I make this ¨breakfast sandwich¨ but with soft tortilla.

Fruits with yogurt and a little bit granola for the crunch.

I don´t know if you like to cook/bake, but there are some very healthy muffin recipes as well.

You can make an omelet with onion, garlic, tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach etc - if you want cheese, just sprinkle a little bit of grated mozzarella on top of it to keep it light. A lot of people also just use the egg whites - I´m not a believer in that - but it sure keeps the fat %age down in your omelet.

You can make an homemade breakfast smoothie.

There are also loads of healthy breakfast ideas & recipes online - just google ¨healthy breakfast recipes¨ - you should be able to find some good ones.

Also, ask your doctor if it would be alright to eat lighter but more meals per day - I think this would be much easier (there are lots of nice things you can eat that are under 300 calories and eating good things 6x per day will keep you full and your metabolism busy all day). Also, if you get cravings I find that a cup of green tea helps me with that (I take mine with Splenda, nobody´s perfect )

Good luck! If you need some recipes or ideas or anything feel free to add/pm me

PS: I would not recommend just eating one meal either - true, as long as you stay at least a little under your calorie goal you can still lose weight, but it´s better to have more meals with fewer calories - keeps your metabolism burning food all day long and you don´t get a hunger/craving feeling (chances of overeating that one time is much higher if you go that way).
But sure, if you know you´ll meet with friends for a large dinner - that will work every ones in a while.
Trust me, right now that you are young pretty much everything works, but when you get older your body will thank you if you start doing it the healthy way early on

Just for anyone questioning this logic- I don't think this is necessarily geared towards losing weight. I remember seeing some doctors talk about this on a morning show a while back, it was from a study they did about people from countries that have longer life spans. People in those countries tended to eat their biggest meal early in the day, with dinner being the lightest meal. I don't believe they really concluded anything from that with studies, it was just an observation.

I would question your doctor. Eating a specific sized meal is all personal preference. It doesn't "boost your metabolism" or anything like that. It's all a myth.

Glad to see that doctors are still giving out old wives tales as nutritional advice. And by glad I mean horrified.

There's reason number 315 why I think the medical community is a joke.

OP, if you want a big breakfast, nothing wrong with it. You don't have to eat breakfast foods. I had spaghetti and a salad yesterday morning at 9 AM.

Who days you have to eat "breakfast" foods first thing in the morning? If you have meals that you like that fit your macros, and you really want to try this, just shuffle them up. Theres no law saying you can't eat steak and green beans for breakfast, or chicken breasts or thighs or whatever. And no law saying you can't have an omelet for dinner.

Personally I think meal timing for ther most part is bunk, but I've seen some research that shows people who make the biggest changes do better (ie people who normally skipped breakfast making it their largest and people who normally made it their largest skipping). And I guess on one level, it makes sense, if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. So I think it has more to do with signaling to yourself your changing things than any intrinsic value of meal timing.

My go to breakfast of late:

Half a cup of Florentine flavor eggbeaters, scrambled
Half a Bolani (afghan sort of thin crispy, savory pancake filled with spinach-sadly i think its local to the Bay Area, but i sometimes subsitute two veggie patties or a couple slices pan fried polenta) fried in half a teaspoon organic non hydrogenated lard
A few chicken strips dusted with Weber Beer Can Chicken seasoning (so good on so many things) and pan fried in some Pam or half a teaspoon of natural, non hydrogenated lard (you'll have to hunt this down or mail order it, its not in grocery stores, sadly).
Half a cup of veggies-whatever you have handy

Salsa on the side

Calories:

Eggs: 60
Bolani (or subs) 110
Chicken strips: 120
Salsa: 30
Veggies:50
Lard: 1/2 teaspoon 20 cals

Comes to 390 cals, but you can easily tweak it (dont use the lard, have a few less chicken strips) and get it down to 300 or so. I prefer the full version though, i feel so full and satisfied i have no need to snack.

You're doctor is seriously misinformed. Meal timing is irrelevant. If skipping/eating a light breakfast causes you to over eat later you should eat a big breakfast. Otherwise, it doesn't matter. I skip breakfast AND lunch and just eat a huge dinner and I've lose weight just fine. Eat whenever you want and get a new doctor.

I think all doctors would recomend eating a big breakfast for a healthy diet and all that... Even if they don't know how it effects you, it's what eveneryone always thinks you have to do to be healthy

I do not actually agree, I find spreading calories out through the day. I try to eat about 6 times a day, sometimes more. Generally I have 3 larger sized at meal times and 2-4 smaller sized meals (snacks). I find if I don't have something about mid evening I wake up hungry in the middle of the night. Those times in the past have been my binge out of control times, so I try to protect myself from that.

If eating a big breakfast works for you by all means do it, but do allow yourself enough calories for the rest of the day. Also a note about what is breakfast foods ... if you eat it at breakfast time it is breakfast food. Experiment with non-traditional foods for breakfast, it will open up a whole new world for you.