breakfast anyone?

Im not sure where you live but i find weetabix keeps me going until lunchtime.

I warm the milk slightly so that it soaks into the weetabix and it seems quite thick. I then add a bit of sweetener.

Ceri x

I wouldnt worry about it unless your going over your daily kcals because of your breakfast.

I have read more than once that having a larger breakfast can help you lose weight, but I dont know if that is true or not.

What I do is have around 30/40g of branflakes and milk and then have a breakfast bar around 2 hours later, the breakfast bar just helps me keep going to lunch time, its only 85 kcals but really hits the spot.

Some advice I was given:-
"The most important thing is find something that works for you, this isnt or shouldnt be a fad diet but a healthy way to live, so if your unhappy doing something or find something to hard, you wont stick to it. so find something that you can stick to and the weight will come off"

I took that advice on board and its really helping me.

I have found that one slice of wholegrain toast spread thinly with butter topped with 2 scrambled eggs seems to work for me. Its about 350 cals but fills me up til lunch. However I eat at 12.30. Can you eat lunch a little earlier or have a piece of fruit for a snack at 11 ish?

Try some thicker breads. We eat Burgen Soya and Linseed bread. The seeds make it more calorific and helps curb your appetite as nuts and seeds tend to do. Have that with scrambled egg or some cream cheese.

One of my favorite breakfasts is oatmeal made with water and I add a chopped apple, cinnamon and a scoop of natural flavoured whey protein powder (vanilla would work too). Top it with some flaked almonds and agave nectar or syrup if you want it sweeter. It's about 400 cals but the protein and complex carbs will keep you full until noon-ish.

Another one is heat some broccoli and mushroom in 1 tbsp veg stock until the stock boils off. Add garlic and herb cream cheese, mix together until creamy then spoon the whole thing into toast. There's protein, fiber and two of your five-a-day in this one. Should keep you going.

Watch out for cereal with too much sugar as this will just spike your blood pressure and make you hungry again earlier than you'd like. Try no-sugar added muesli with yogurt and chopped fruits and nuts. Lots of really good stuff without the insulin whiplash.

I am really struggling to find low calorie breakfasts that actually fill me up till lunch time. I get up about 7/7:30 each day and eat my breakfast about 8 but I can never seem to stay full until lunch, which I have about half 1/2 ish.
I've tried loads of wholegrain cereals but they all seem to be just over 100 calories per 30g which would be fine if i was an elf but 30g is not enough for me. I've also tried weightwatchers bread but 2 slices don't fill me up and i've recently started having porridge but I have the same problem with serving size.
I don't need to eat much at lunch and dinner to feel full but breakfast is always a problem. I normally eat about 500 calories for breakfast but I could quite happily eat 700!
Any suggestions would be appriciated

Umm...wrong approach. You don't want to go that long without eating. You want to be eating 5-6 small meals per day. When you don't have food in your stomach your metabolism sloooowwwsss way down. You want to keep food in there so it keeps working. Looks at some of the peoples diary's that have had success. You'll see a common thing. We eat often. Losing weight doesn't mean starving yourself. It means eating smarter.
Here is how my day typically goes.
Preworkout supplement -5am
Post workout supplement 6:30am
Breakfast 7:00am
Snack 9:00am
Snack 10:00am
Snack 11:00am (not everyday)
Lunch 11:45am
Snack 2:00pm
Snack 3:00pm
Snack 4:45pm
Dinner 6:15pm
Bedtime Protein 9pm
All my snacks are 90-170 calories but It keeps the metabolism going and burning all day.
Hope this helps.

Protein at breakfast is quite a filler (slower gastric emptying) and boosts your metabolism (higher glucagon levels > higher glucose production from stored fatty acids). That works quite well for me, a cooked egg at breakfast with 2 crackers (with light jam) and some skim milk keeps me going till lunch You can also bring some sliced cucumber or fruit to work as a low calorie pre-lunch snack?

Also depends on your schedule when to eat. but try to eat every 3 hours if not 4 hours and not longer then 5 hours. :-)

im not a big breakfast person bt maybe try taking some fiber pills??. like metamucil or somethng else you prefer. :):) oh and take a banana to work with you if you cant hold off untill lunch. :):)

Protein in the morning helps.

I have 1/2 cup egg whites scrambled up with 1/2 chicken sausage link, one slice of whole grain bread (no high fructose corn syrup, or crazy ingredients....just bare bones bread ingedients) with a tablespoon of hot pepper jelly (stonewall kitchens).

I eat this with a cup of black coffee at 5:30 am and don't need anything else until my 10:00 banana (so 4.5 hours between!)

It comes out to 280 calories and 4 grams of fat (4g of fat from the sausage and 145 cal from a slice of bread and jelly). If you want to make it lower cal....add leftover veggies like tomato, mushroom, shredded zuchinni...etc. The bulk keeps you full while being more substantial than cereal (including oatmeal...)

Have you tried protein? Rather than focusing strictly on carbs/calories I find that some protein and then a snack midmorning really helps.

I alternate between Greek yogurt (lowfat homemade) with fruit and a high fiber cereal mixed in one day and oatmeal with peanut butter and dried fruit.

Hard boiled egg whites are another great idea, only 17 calories each.

How about eating an apple or orange at 10:00 AM?