Do you eat breakfast?

graciiekim
graciiekim Posts: 72 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
If so, what percentage of your total calories do you dedicate for breakfast alone?
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  • oarngesi
    oarngesi Posts: 73 Member
    I make sure to eat breakfast everyday within 1 hours of waking up and it is atleast 25 percent of my daily calories. It works great for me and I'm never hungry throughout the day.
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    I love breakfast! :love:

    I average around 400 cals for breakfast, give or take 50 cals or so, depending on the day, so about 20%.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    I never eat breakfast.
  • gyptionft
    gyptionft Posts: 7 Member
    I eat breakfast every morning. Don't usually spend loads of calories on it but change it frequently so one day I may have a few more calories than the other. Usually just a slice of toast with no butter, or cereal, fruit, boilled egg, almonds along with a green tea and water lots of variety so I don't get bored! You should aim to eat breakfast as it kick starts your metabolism making it easier to loose weight as well as giving you the energy boost for the day ! x
  • bluuu123
    bluuu123 Posts: 83
    breakfast is super important

    have a carby one!! energy for the whole day


    i usually ballpark each of my intakes to about 300 cals (eating 4-5 times a day) so my breakfast is also 300 cal
  • FreeBDA
    FreeBDA Posts: 2
    No, I don't. But I guess its because I am used to it, that's why I don't get hungry in the morning. I usually get hungry around midday. That is of course unless I did a significant amount of running that day, in which case I will have a sweet tea for breakfast.
  • MissBlunts420
    MissBlunts420 Posts: 63 Member
    I don't really care for breakfast, as I'm rarely hungry when I wake up. However, I recently started taking some new medication first thing in the morning that requires me to eat, so I have either an apple, banana, yogurt, or some kefir, depending on what sounds good at the time. Sometimes I have a cup of coffee as well. My calorie range for breakfast usually falls between 165-300 calories.
  • JazzFischer1989
    JazzFischer1989 Posts: 531 Member
    Some days I do, some days I don't. If I do eat breakfast, it's usually just one of those 100-calorie granola bars and a piece of fruit. Or a bowl of Cheerios (though on the rare occasion, my dad will make a giant breakfast so I'll have that).

    Generally, I don't really get hungry until 12-1pm.
  • Sophiareed218
    Sophiareed218 Posts: 145 Member
    Almost never. I don't know, just never was a morning person and eating in the morning makes me nauseated. I am a night owl naturally so I usually don't eat my first meal ( if you want to call that breakfast) at 2-3 pm. It's usually 300 calories or so.
  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
    My breakfast is usually in the 300-400 calorie range. You don't need to eat a large breakfast or even eat a traditional breakfast at all if you're not hungry. Your metabolism does not need kickstarting nor does eating breakfast guarantee that you'll lose weight more quickly and easily. Some people find the earlier in the day they start eating, the more likely they are to overeat.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    I rarely eat breakfast. When I do it's maybe 15% of daily calories.
  • jlgobert
    jlgobert Posts: 41 Member
    used to never eat breakfast, but the more i got into running the more i needed energy to increase my distance. i tried running last weak without breakfast and i felt like i was about to pass out. So now I make sure I east something. My breakfast ranges from 350-450 calories.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Yes, and anywhere from 20-35%, depending on whether I am able to have lunch or just a snack before work. I've been making eggs a lot in the latter case, and those definitely eat the calories up (pun intended) up in the best way.
  • CyberEd312
    CyberEd312 Posts: 3,536 Member
    I eat 1200-1400 calories for breakfast which is 30-35% of my daily caloric intake.... I agree with other though and I fully believe there is no need for meal frequency, the only need is to make sure you are hitting your calories and macros for that day regardless to meal timing... It is more of a personal preference......
  • BombshellPhoenix
    BombshellPhoenix Posts: 1,693 Member
    You should aim to eat breakfast as it kick starts your metabolism making it easier to loose weight as well as giving you the energy boost for the day ! x

    Nope. Metabolism only stops when you die. When you eat is personal preference and boils down to how you FEEL.

    I wake up at 7am, drink my morning coffee and don't eat breakfast until almost noon.

    ETA : I've lost a total of 53 lbs, we won't count the back and forth game I've been playing between losing and gaining during my bulk.
  • Snip8241
    Snip8241 Posts: 767 Member
    I don't eat right when I get up. I will workout and then eat breakfast.
    I usually devote 300 to 350 calories. If I am busy I will eat a protein bar. If I have time its egg whites, English muffin, fruit.

    I can't exercise with a full stomach. Not really sure why.
  • cincysweetheart
    cincysweetheart Posts: 892 Member
    Usually yes (my weekends are different)… and I usually have about 400-500 calories for breakfast. Typical daily intake is anywhere from 1300-1500. Lunch is really small and I'm not a huge snacker.
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
    I don't usually, unless I'm going to exercise in the morning. Usually I eat my first meal in the early afternoon, work out in the early evening, and eat dinner afterwards.

    I found that when I ate breakfast, all I could think about all morning was when the next meal was. For some reason, skipping it completely doesn't do this and I just don't think about food until it's eating time.
  • ythannah
    ythannah Posts: 4,371 Member
    Never. I'm nauseated first thing in the morning and have to be up an hour before I can get a cup of black coffee down. I can't imagine trying to put solid food in there. I don't eat until I have a granola bar or a protein bar at work, more than three hours later.

    I work out as soon as I roll out of bed and have had no problems working out in a fasted state.
  • mathandcats
    mathandcats Posts: 786 Member
    My breakfast is usually in the range of 250-300 calories, and I eat 1500/day.
  • Mischievous_Rascal
    Mischievous_Rascal Posts: 1,791 Member
    Hardly ever. I getup around 5-530 in the morning and have a few cups of coffee until I get hungry around 11-noon.
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,899 Member
    I find that sometimes skipping breakfast helps me stay within my calorie goals as I'm not very hungry in the mornings. When I do eat breakfast (quite often right now), I use about 1/5 of my daily calories. My biggest meal is usually dinner.
  • LaReinaDeCorazones
    LaReinaDeCorazones Posts: 274 Member
    If I'm not really hungry I'll eat a bar like nutri grain, but usually I'll be hungry after I walk my youngest to school and walk a few miles after that, so I'll have a few eggs mixed with spinach on a flatbread either with ketchup or tapatio
  • raysputin
    raysputin Posts: 142 Member
    Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It raises your metabolic rate and you have the whole of the day to burn off breakfast calories. I try not to eat food containing simple carbs like, sucrose, fructose, glucose or lactose. I make sure all my carbs are accompanied by fibre and protein. I have few carbs after breakfast and try to eat only lean protein for the rest of the day. Since I started to get 40%+ of my daily calories from breakfast and by following such a regime, I find it much easier to keep my hunger under control..
  • ASH2038602
    ASH2038602 Posts: 215 Member
    I do. If I skip breakfast I find myself over snacking through out the day. I also go to the gym in the morning and feel dizzy if I dont eat. I usually have about 300 calories at breakfast and I eat 1200-1600 a day.
  • emngill209
    emngill209 Posts: 14 Member
    I really try to aim to have breakfast, mainly because it starts out your daily energy and because it gets your metabolism going as well. For myself personally I start to feel sick after about 2 hours if I don't eat.
  • jrline
    jrline Posts: 2,353 Member
    Depends on what I have planned or if I work out before breakfast. If I don't have a lot of working out planned early in the day I only consume about 15% if going on a long jog or hike then I'll bump it up to 25-30%. Skipping breakfast is never a good idea.

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  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
    It depends on my mood but not for weight loss.
  • Swiftlet66
    Swiftlet66 Posts: 729 Member
    About 30-40% for breakfast. I eat more earlier since I usually don't have time later in the day due to work and night classes.
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    300-400 usually. My daily calories vary widely as I watch a weekly deficit rather than a daily one (some days under some days over), so it's hard to say a percentage. I do remember breakfast being the first meal I decided to "tackle" while counting calories. Prior to that, most of my meals were made by someone else so I wouldn't have had an accurate count on how much I was consuming.

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