How bad is a daily bagel with cream cheese

Bagel thins don't taste much like a real bagel,but they are good for sandwiches. I prefer a mini bagel and use the laughing cow cheese wedges,(they are GREAT!,and come in a variety of flavors). The Tomas' brand mini bagels are 120 calories and the laughing cow cheeses are 35 calories, 155 total!

Sounds delicious to me! As long as you weigh the ingredients and it is within your calories, why not?

Depends on the bagel. How bad is it? Does it kick puppies and trip old people? Well, that's pretty bad. Or is more of an overall evil presence, like it's possessed by the devil?

These factors should be considered.

I usually go with an everything bagel that just has a bad attitude.

Try working in said local bagel shop with fresh cooked bagels every morning with no preservatives... my life is torture... if I end up resisting it that day I still have to watch everyone else eating them lol

I eat a 300 calorie bagel with a couple ounces of cream cheese a couple days a week. I'm easily able to fit it into my daily caloric allotment. It hasn't set me back at all.

Nothing wrong with bagels so long as you account for it properly! Man, I love em.

When I was 19 I used to unload trucks all day and sort packages. At 6am we used to fuel up by eating a NY style water bagel piled with whipped cream cheese, along with a couple eggs, and some pan-fried potatoes in butter. I was 6'4" and 180 pounds and could not gain any weight. Work was tough and burned off everything!

In my 20s I worked for several years as a cook and baker in a restaurant that specialized in bagels. Ate one every day for breakfast AND lunch. Lunch was often a bagel with a 1/2lb handmade flame-broiled burger with cheddar in it. Again, I was the same weight and burned plenty of calories off running around the kitchen and ovens all day and night. On my feet and moving all day long.

Of course, things change (brain-intensive, body-sloth-inducing desk job) and now I can't eat like that. But I still have the occasional bagel without sabotaging weight loss by just making sure it fits in. IMO, I'd count one of the NY style "real" plain bagels at about 350-400 kcal. That with a little cream cheese can be a meal in just about anyone's diet.

Check the nutritional info on the bag of bagels that you intend to use. That will give you the calorie content.

If a bagel with cream cheese fits into your daily goal then by all means eat one per day. But would you not rather have some variety in your food? That said, I've eaten the same thing for lunch for a while now (until today as I think I've finally sickened myself of it!) so who am I to judge.

Can I ask what your daily calorie goal is?

I get the bagels from the bagel store in my neighborhood. So I don't have the nutritional information available.

The bagel store knows the calories in their bagels. Ask them. If they won't tell you, ask them to weigh it for you (they have scales if they're baking anything onsite). If they won't do THAT either, then I wouldn't trust their food.

Big bagels are about 400 calories. Smaller bagels are about 250. (edit to add: that's calories without cream cheese)

Why should the bagel store know the calories in their bagels? It's a bakery that makes bagels. If you buy breads, bagels or other baked goods from a bakery there is no nutritional label and chances are excellent they have not even considered calculating the nutritional value. I have made homemade bagels, breads and other baked goods for eons and never considered calculating the caloric value. I'm not alone on this one...

I'm not following your logic..you've never calculated the calories in your homemade baked goods, therefore a commercial or private bakery never has either?

I said I never considered calculating the caloric value of home baked goods. I now have software so can do so but it was not really a thought until a couple of months ago. Small Mom & Pop bakeries seldom calculate the nutritional value of anything they bake. They will indicate if a certain item is gluten free or contains nuts but that's about it. Commercial bakeries (mass produced) require the nutritional value label. These are the bakeries selling to grocery stores, brands like Dempster's.

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I get the bagels from the bagel store in my neighborhood. So I don't have the nutritional information available.

Two things specific to this:

1) Most restaraunts - especially if they are chains - do have nutrition info available. Often on their company web site.

2) Generally, the reason restaraunt food is so much more attractive/addictive than ordinary grocery store food is that they throw in extra "good stuff" - meaning more fat and/or sugar, and often larger servings. Freshness, hand-picked, artisanal ingredients, blah blah blah - sure that all plays a part - but most of why you want this bagel more than a grocery store bagel is going to be a matter of macronutrients - carbohydrates and fat - and the more the yummier.

One thing more general:

If there's something you just have to have, every day, it's not really a treat any more - it's a habit. Some habits are supportable - if you're burning a lot of kCal with exercise and the rest of your program works, you might be able to get away with that bagel - but, in general, weight loss, weight maintenance, and fitness are a lot easier if we're willing to give up these kind of attachments.

I get the everything thins and they do their job of quelling my craving. I could easily fit a half of a bagel thin with cream cheese in my dailies and meet my goals. Then save that big beefy fresh bagel for a special treat once a week, etc.

One of the worst things you can eat for breakfast because it's loaded with bad carbs and refined sugar. Once you hit your goal weight, enjoy them (unless you start gaining weight). But in your weight-loss phase, avoid at all costs.

"Bad carbs." Bad advice.

Bagel and cream cheese is my go to breakfast. Other people may have issues with it, but for me, it fills me up and keeps me going. There aren't a lot of things I really want to eat first thing in the morning.

Check the nutritional info on the bag of bagels that you intend to use. That will give you the calorie content.

If a bagel with cream cheese fits into your daily goal then by all means eat one per day. But would you not rather have some variety in your food? That said, I've eaten the same thing for lunch for a while now (until today as I think I've finally sickened myself of it!) so who am I to judge.

Can I ask what your daily calorie goal is?

I get the bagels from the bagel store in my neighborhood. So I don't have the nutritional information available.

A bagel store?! Living in Northern Ireland, this is something I've never seen or heard of. Here, we only have bagels in packaging

WOW, I'm so sorry. I wish I could send you a box of fresh bagels. I'd freeze them and then you could toast them.

If I had a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast or lunch, I don't feel hungry until next day...so I guess from weight loss stand point, it's not too bad.