Thought I'd picked a healthy breakfast option ...

Eh, that yogurt is a good protein source. But I prefer the 2% variety.

So you bought the one with honey in it and are surprised there is sugar?

I look at the labels, and you can be surprised at the amount of carbs in one container. I try to find yogurt with less than 10 carbs. Full fat plain Greek yogurt has 9 carbs. Chobani is 13 carbs. One time, I enjoyed a healthy, Siggis yogurt....blew my carbs for the day!

In to echo others, there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with what you had, how is a less than 200 calorie breakfast bad for you and I wouldn't worry too much about sugar, unless medical or you are waaay over doing it (7 cans of coke a day type of overdoing it).

Sounds fine to me

jemhh wrote: »

I eat Noosa every day and never checked the carbs until right now. 31 g of deliciousness.

That Noosa stuff is great! I wish it had more protein, but there's something so different about the taste that I really enjoy.

Also, 2% Greek yogurt for the win. Nothing wrong with some sugar or 184 calories. Also, a 184-calorie breakfast sounds pretty low. I'd be starving by 9AM. Hopefully there are mid-morning snacks in store!

OP, if you're worried about getting the most bang for your buck, try eggs for breakfast, if you can stomach them. I hard-boil 20 eggs (well, I do Alton Brown's oven version that is basically "set it and forget it" with no clean-up) every Sunday so that my husband and I can have two each morning during the work week. He nukes four slices of turkey bacon (two for each of us) each morning while I get the kids dressed and downstairs, and voila! A delicious, filling breakfast for:

220cal
0g carbs (not that I'm into watching carbs, but if you care, that's what it is)
15g fat
20g protein

Add in my coffee with a little half and half and a little sugar, and my breakfast becomes:

255cal
4g carbs
17g fat
21g protein

That half and half adds just a bit of delicious, filling fat and protein

I eat breakfast at about 6:15 each morning, and 9 times out of 10 it doesn't even occur to me that lunchtime is approaching until at least 11:30. (That 1 out of 10 is usually due to TOM.)

Hopefully that's helpful to you. If you don't want to eat bacon and eggs for breakfast, that's cool, too. I hope you find something that works for you.

I think Becky is just a little surprised at the amount in what we perceive as a healthy choice. (am I right?)...... I find that usually products (especially things like this) that are labelled low fat, are high in sugar content to compensate.

If that is all you are eating for breakfast then it's not "healthy". You should be getting closer to 350 calories for a meal. The amount of sugar shouldn't concern you unless you are diabetic and then only if it caused your glucose to spike. Think about your whole day, what other sources of sugar are you consuming throughout the day. If that is all or most of what you get, it's not a bad deal. People have got to stop villianizing (is that a word?) certain foods. In the overall scheme of things I would much rather consume sugar, honey, or other natural forms of sugar than the chemicals that are in artificial sweeteners.

Sweets1954 wrote: »

If that is all you are eating for breakfast then it's not "healthy". You should be getting closer to 350 calories for a meal. The amount of sugar shouldn't concern you unless you are diabetic and then only if it caused your glucose to spike. Think about your whole day, what other sources of sugar are you consuming throughout the day. If that is all or most of what you get, it's not a bad deal. People have got to stop villianizing (is that a word?) certain foods. In the overall scheme of things I would much rather consume sugar, honey, or other natural forms of sugar than the chemicals that are in artificial sweeteners.

While it's true that the media has done a big disservice by overly villifying (yeah, I don't know how to spell that either!) certain foods, that doesn't mean there aren't any drawbacks to foods that have 2/3 of their calories coming from added sugar. At the very least you shouldn't choose such a food because you think it's "healthy."

There is no need to get a specific amount of calories for breakfast. Many people skip breakfast altogether and do just fine.

snowflake954 wrote: »

Buy the plain Fage, and then put in your own fruit, jam, whatever

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. That's what I do. By the by, I also now buy 2%, and I like it alot more.

Both of which contain sugar...

TEH SUGARZ!

I'm not a fan of the yogurts that have added fruits, honey etc. in them. They're too sweet for me,

I make my own yogurt and I'll either have it straight up plain or I'll add a touch of honey, homemade jam or the like (and by a "touch" I mean one, maybe two teaspoons. Just enough for a touch of sweet but not overpowering).

I bought the 4% greek yogurt made from whole milk on accident once and refuse to go back down to nonfat now. I buy the plain yogurt and add my own honey and fruit to help control the sugar. Keep in mind, yogurt will always have sugar even if you buy the plain kind because milk has sugar. Not all the sugar is "added sugar" which is what most people are concerned with.

1 serving (126g) Is 88 calories and.... *GASP* 20g of sugar!

My point is... you shouldn't demonize the food you just ate. I mean come on, you had yogurt WITH HONEY are you really suprised by the "sugar content" when you were adding straight honey to the yogurt?

I know fage has plain 0% or plain 2% yogurt that are by themselves without the little flavoring cup on the side. Maybe try those next time if you absolutely cannot have sugar due to some health reason.