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How much calories do you take for breakfast?

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  • Posts: 242 Member
    I have an egg omelet and cheese pita every morning for breakfast. 150 calories.
  • Posts: 390 Member
    edited October 2015
    ZeroDelta wrote: »
    I have an egg omelet and cheese pita every morning for breakfast. 150 calories.

    How does that come out to 150? Seems like a lot of food. Sounds yummy too.
  • Posts: 436 Member
    banana and coffee pre run ~ 100 cal

    breakfast ~ 400 cal

    second breakfast / morning snack ~ 200 cal
  • Posts: 3,330 Member
    None. I simply can't eat in the mornings. Even the thought of food turns my stomach. So I wait until later and eat about noon or 1PM, then dinner, and usually a snack before bed.
  • Posts: 28,055 Member
    Today I ate a pastry, corn&rlce, green salad, carrot etc and they were 734 calories at total. Normally I would take around 300, but I have an appetite problem lately which I think is psychological. I will skip lunch and eat a well-nutritient dinner. I bought organic milupa baby food, which I am sure tastes horrible but well in nutritients.

    Usually I have about 400 calories for breakfast. Once I had closer to 800 calories and found it didn't keep me full for much longer than my normal breakfast.
  • Posts: 9 Member
    Read this, it will help you on how to calculate your calories: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=156380183


    Don't eat baby food. Take a multivitamin in the morning but you need actual food. Try a salad with diced carrots, mushrooms, ect with a vinaigrette dressing or caeser dressing. Either way you need actual food.

    As far as breakfast, I eat 3 pieces of turkey bacon and it's a total of 90 calories.
  • Posts: 2,248 Member
    Ranges from 400-700ish
  • Posts: 390 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »

    Usually I have about 400 calories for breakfast. Once I had closer to 800 calories and found it didn't keep me full for much longer than my normal breakfast.

    Yes this is exactly what I realized, no matter how big my meal is I will eventually in a few hours feel hungry. So I lowered the calories for all my meals.
  • Posts: 464 Member
    helanyhuff wrote: »
    Watch the cholesterol.....eggs are perfect get rid of the yoke..... :)
    Only problem is the yoke had vitamins in it. Iron is in the yoke not the white. I was told the samr thing and when I was trying to get my iron levels back up I discovered that the whites have no iron :P
  • Posts: 283 Member
    I need more calories for breakfast, makes me less hungry for the rest of the day. When I have a smaller breakfast, my total intake for the day is actually larger.

    500-700 calories
    2 whole eggs, 2 slices of bacon, half a cup of kefir with maple syrup, coffee. Sometimes I'll switch the bacon for another meat source. Gives me a good start on my protein goal!
  • Posts: 28 Member

    Yes, I met a woman who eats baby food 3 times a day for her diet. She was aiming to lose weight. and she seemed healthy enough.

    That sounds miserable and not sustainable at all. Life's too short to be punishing yourself by eating baby food! I love food and enjoy eating well and watching the calories.
  • Posts: 2 Member
    I just have porridge mixed with my whey protein for breakfast. :)
  • Posts: 181 Member
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    364 calories;)
  • Posts: 2,145 Member
    Yeah, enough protein & healthy fat... higher calories... The usual suspects!
    I will say I generally toggle between big breakfast/lighter lunch or visa versa because I find that satiating. The net calories of my breakfasts and lunches together about equals my dinners. I only have snacks if my workout schedule dictates.
  • Posts: 24 Member
    260 calories from a yogurt made with whole milk. I think the higher fat helps keep me satisfied through the morning
  • Posts: 284 Member
    I eat a cup of plain yogurt. Usually under 200 calories unless its the weekend.
  • Posts: 3,380 Member
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    Some kind of crustless quiche - this one is BLT 150 calories for two wedges.
  • Posts: 2,869 Member
    Usually have a 40g serving of oatmeal with 100ml soya milk at about 200 cals, sometimes also have a slice of wholemeal toast with dairy-free spread and low sugar jam or marmalade which takes it up to about 360 cals.
  • Posts: 1,303 Member
    If I'm losing weight: 0 calories
    If I'm maintaining: ~200 calories
    If I'm on business travel (not my money :smile:): ~400 calories
    Weekends and I went out to Panera: ~800 calories
  • Posts: 1,303 Member
    kylies1977 wrote: »

    That sounds miserable and not sustainable at all. Life's too short to be punishing yourself by eating baby food! I love food and enjoy eating well and watching the calories.

    How many 200lb babies have you seen?!
    https://youtu.be/hNQMwA_UOTM
  • Posts: 1,787 Member
    I eat between 200 and 300 calories if I'm going to have breakfast at all. Often I'll skip it, have a smallish lunch, and keep the bulk of my calories for dinner and wine, though.
  • Posts: 522 Member
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    Some kind of crustless quiche - this one is BLT 150 calories for two wedges.

    Looks yum!
  • Posts: 1,849 Member
    130. One Fiber One brownie and a bottle of G2. My breakfast and lunch are closer than most people's, so that holds me until lunch just fine.
  • Posts: 8,159 Member
    Breakfast is the meal where I get about half of my 2600 daily calories for the past year. Breakfast was important when I worked on the farm doing a lot of manual labor.

    One reason was with my 40 years of IBS I would try and eat then get stabilized before leaving the house. Since my way of eating for the past year has cured my IBS I may look at eating less breakfast.
  • Posts: 360 Member
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    Some kind of crustless quiche - this one is BLT 150 calories for two wedges.

    Please share the recipe! It looks yummy. I can't get my crustless quiches below ~250cals...probably because of the cheese.
  • Posts: 25 Member
    I think the major problem here guys are people skipping breakfast, that's just dumb.

  • Posts: 14,776 Member
    I think the major problem here guys are people skipping breakfast, that's just dumb.

    Care to elaborate on that? I'm a breakfast person now but I've done 16:8 style IF in the past and don't see a problem with eating in a different pattern than the norm.
  • Posts: 13,454 Member
    OP I think your posts of late have indicated that you have some real issues with setting and adhering to realistic, healthy caloric goals. Eating baby food for 3 meals a day, does that really sound like a good idea?

    To answer your original question - my weekday breakfasts are usually either:
    Greek yogurt, coffee, flavored creamer ~250 cals
    Frozen breakfast sandwich, coffee, flavored creamer ~350 cals
    Bowl of cereal, coffee, creamer ~300 cals

    Weekends we have pancakes, cinnamon rolls, biscuits and gravy, eggs and bacon... 500-800 cals usually on those days.
  • Posts: 333 Member
    400-600 mostly yeaah
    Breakfast like i king o:)o:)
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