What's For Breakfast, Everyone?

Here are a few things I enjoy:

- French toast, (1 egg, splenda, cinnamon, 2 slices wholemeal bread)
- Porridge (35 g oats, about 150 ml milk, plus water, splenda, and maybe some peanut butter, dried apricots, or protein powder.)
- Scrambled eggs
- All bran cake - usually chocolate or carrot cake (love this - google scan bran cake recipes and substitute the scan bran with All Bran or similar), with greek yoghurt
- Protein shake, sometimes with frozen berries.
- Protein bar and some fruit
- English breakfast (If you have time to make it, you can fit this into your macros by having a lower calorie lunch, using low-fat or meat free sausages, lean bacon, lots of mushrooms and tomatoes, and cooking in Frylight instead of oil.)
- Laughing Cow light on two slices of wholemeal bread
- Oaty yoghurt pancakes (about 40g oats, 165 ml flavoured yoghurt, 2 eggs, splenda. Mix, leave in fridge overnight, fry into little pancakes in the morning.)

enicus91 wrote: »

Oatmeal and coffee. I usually can't stand oatmeal so I tried to mix up the recipe.
1/2 C Oats
1 C Vanilla Soy Milk (Lite)
Dash vanilla extract
Dash cinnamon
Dash nutmeg
Dash salt
1 Tbsp peanut butter

Taste is fine, but the texture is what gets me about oatmeal. Maybe I'll add some dried fruit next time.

Old fashioned oat meal cooked very slowly in water has a more whole grain texture. The instant or quick cooking oats tend to have that generic slime texture. I like cinnamon and honey in my oats. I've even cooked dried cranberries in it and it was great. Another favorite to add after cooking is diced banana. Oats keep me feeling full most of the morning.

I don't work and so don't have a set schedule (or sleep schedule) and the only reason I get breakfast in most days is because I take morning meds and they require food. I currently have several breakfasts on rotate:
- Bran flakes, skimmed milk, raisins and a banana
- Flavoured porridge, made with water
- Turkey bacon with an egg and brown bread
This week I've been having a rare treat of a crumpet with jam and boy do I feel the sugar come down from it, not filling at all!

4 banquet heat and serve turkey sausages
1 fajita size low carb/high fiber whole wheat tortilla

I had pizza for breakfast

CupcakeCrusoe wrote: »

thedietpilot wrote: »

BombshellPhoenix wrote: »

Most mornings I just drink coffee and don't eat until noon. I'm just not typically hungry in the morning. But! This was my breakfast this morning

Those of us who skip breakfast.... Don't they say that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day"? Supposedly, from what I've read, eating breakfast helps to kick start your metabolism for that day. How do we reconcile that? Or is that just a myth?

Can anyone here attest to whether or not eating or not eating breakfast makes a difference to your ability to shed those unwanted pounds?

Meal timing makes no difference. If you're hungry, eat, if you're not, don't. Just meet your calorie goals.

^this. Your metabolism is always going. Eat a proper caloric amount for your goals and eat when it makes you feel best. That's how I lost 53 lbs

Coffee and quest bar. Pretty much daily. Quick and easy to eat on my commute to work, and on my days off I grab one right after my workout. Either way it keeps me going for a few hours before I have time to make some real food!

I try to keep it under 200 calories, because I get hungrier in the evening.

2 cups of black coffee
1/4 cup granola
1 slice lean ham
1/4 cup fresh fruit

Steel-cut oats and dried blueberries cooked in almond milk plus one hard-boiled egg on the side. I've got my long hike in the hills today.