Too much calories for breakfast?
linlinjay
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Hi!!
I had 510 calories for breakfast, 2 pieces of sourdough bread i think with natural peanut butter that you squeeze from machines in whole foods and i put half table spoon of honey on each. Did I ruin my diet???? I'm so sad I always ruin it with eating wrong. I also had a banana so its 90 calories more!!!!
I had 510 calories for breakfast, 2 pieces of sourdough bread i think with natural peanut butter that you squeeze from machines in whole foods and i put half table spoon of honey on each. Did I ruin my diet???? I'm so sad I always ruin it with eating wrong. I also had a banana so its 90 calories more!!!!
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It's the total number of calories you consume each day that matter, not the calories at any one meal.
Even one day isn't going to ruin your diet. Log your meal, get back on plan. Nothing is ruined.6 -
But there's still more hours in your day, how could you have ruined anything? Are you weighing and logging?3
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One meal won't ruin anything. Just make sure to make your calories fit your goals. Preplanning helps with this. Also make sure you are weighing your food to ensure accurate counting results.1
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Hi!!
I had 510 calories for breakfast, 2 pieces of sourdough bread i think with natural peanut butter that you squeeze from machines in whole foods and i put half table spoon of honey on each. Did I ruin my diet???? I'm so sad I always ruin it with eating wrong. I also had a banana so its 90 calories more!!!!
Your body doesn't care how many calories you eat at this meal or that meal...come on...logic here. A calorie is just a unit of energy...it is the energy our bodies use to do everything...your body doesn't work on a meal by meal basis...energy consumption and usage is a continuum...5 -
There's no wrong way to eat. If you like a high calorie breakfast and it keeps you full for a long time then great. Without knowing what your stats/meal requirements are there's not much anyone can say to help. If you eat a large amount of food for breakfast and you intend to stay within your goals for the day you may need to cut some out of lunch and dinner. Do you know how much peanut butter you used? make sure to weigh high calorie additions like PB to ensure accuracy. If you are in a calorie deficit you will lose weight. Consistency is key. One day won't ever "ruin your diet" try thinking about it as a lifestyle change instead of a temporary period of negativity you just have to get through. This is a process and should be an enjoyable one. Best of luck!!0
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Getting over the idea that you "ruin" a diet based on what you eat at one meal or even a day is much more important than how many calories you eat for breakfast.
Even if 510 calories at breakfast is hard to fit in your day or isn't filling enough based on food choices, you haven't ruined anything -- you've learned something!
Also, there's no right amount of calories to eat at a meal or right foods to eat. It depends on what works for you. Maybe just log for a while, try to hit your goal but don't stress about it, and then after a few days or a week look over your logs and figure out some easy adjustments to hit the calories or make it easier.1 -
You can't "ruin" a diet in a day or a meal. It takes weeks upon weeks of consistently screwing up to do any real damage to your weight loss. I think you have a motivation problem. It's very easy to have a big meal and say "Oh darn I ruined it, better give up logging for the rest of the day" Don't fall into that hole. It's extremely hard to get back out. You didn't ruin anything. Keep pushing forward. You can correct this by dinnertime. This is not a big deal. Just keep swimming;)2
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Options
1) take a walk to make room for more
2) have a lighter lunch or dinner
3) pre-log from now on so you can decide what's worth it before you do the damage
4) switch to an English muffin next time
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I'd just go for a walk to earn back my calories.1
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I eat around 700 calories for breakfast everyday and lose weight. It is my biggest meal of the day and it is filled with nutrient dense foods. Yours sounds fine but I don't know what daily goal is so if it is 500 calories than yes you ruined it but if it is something like 1200-1500 than you should be fine. Focus on nutrient dense food, not how many calories you are consuming.
Calories are important but you are only hurting yourself if you are focusing heavily on them because that kind of focus causes stress and stress causes weight gain as well as makes it difficuly (biologically) for your body to lose weight.
Take a nice relaxing walk and make the appropriate adjustments to your food and be happy
Good luck!1 -
kimikola22 wrote: »I eat around 700 calories for breakfast everyday and lose weight. It is my biggest meal of the day and it is filled with nutrient dense foods. Yours sounds fine but I don't know what daily goal is so if it is 500 calories than yes you ruined it but if it is something like 1200-1500 than you should be fine. Focus on nutrient dense food, not how many calories you are consuming.
Calories are important but you are only hurting yourself if you are focusing heavily on them because that kind of focus causes stress and stress causes weight gain as well as makes it difficuly (biologically) for your body to lose weight.
Take a nice relaxing walk and make the appropriate adjustments to your food and be happy
Good luck!
1. Calories are the only thing that is important when it comes to weight loss.
2. Stress does not cause weight gain, excess calories cause weight gain.
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That seems like a good hearty breakfast that will set you up for the day. It certainly doesn't seem excessive. If it's used up too many calories and you have to go over your goal for the day, it's no biggie. That happens. Draw a line under it and move on. And chill out. Fat loss is a long game, one meal cannot "ruin it" any more than stopping to tie your laces can ruin a full-day hike.1
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You haven't 'ruined' your diet - you've simply had a breakfast you enjoy.
A solution to that would be to have a smaller lunch or dinner (By smaller - I mean a little less calories) or cut back on any snacks you had planned for the day. Technically, you could eat ALL your allotted calories in one meal if you chose to - it's no biggie!
The important thing is, you don't deprive for the remainder of the day. Balance is KEY! 1 -
It's no big deal. You either adjust your other meals, or you exercise a bit more, or just accept it was a little mistake and carry on as normal the next day. "ruining" your diet takes constantly failing to eat to a calorie deficit / not exercise, one slip up does not a diet ruin.
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My breakfast when cutting last year hovered around 800 kcals. Point? The numbers vary.1
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I know everyone's calorie needs are different based on their stats and goals but I had close to 850 cals for my breakfast this morning. It was quite similar to yours.
2 slices of homemade wheaten bread = 350 cals
30g Whole Earth crunchy organic peanut butter = 180 cals
2 scoops of Bulk Powders - Pure Whey Protein Isolate 90 = 230 cals
15g of Linwood - Milled Organic Flaxseed = 80 cals
=840 cals
My day certainly isn't ruined. Breakfast is usually always my highest cal/carb meal of the day as I workout in the morning but I still have plenty of cals left for lunch and dinner. Make sure you use the fitness calculators and online tools to determine a realistic and sustainable approach for long term weight loss.1 -
That breakfast sounds great. I eat a similar sized breakfast every morning, because that's when I'm hungriest and I often can't eat lunch until 6-7 hours later.
It's your consumption as a whole that matters.1 -
What Donners185 said!1
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JenniDaisy wrote: »kimikola22 wrote: »I eat around 700 calories for breakfast everyday and lose weight. It is my biggest meal of the day and it is filled with nutrient dense foods. Yours sounds fine but I don't know what daily goal is so if it is 500 calories than yes you ruined it but if it is something like 1200-1500 than you should be fine. Focus on nutrient dense food, not how many calories you are consuming.
Calories are important but you are only hurting yourself if you are focusing heavily on them because that kind of focus causes stress and stress causes weight gain as well as makes it difficuly (biologically) for your body to lose weight.
Take a nice relaxing walk and make the appropriate adjustments to your food and be happy
Good luck!
1. Calories are the only thing that is important when it comes to weight loss.
2. Stress does not cause weight gain, excess calories cause weight gain.
A news article quoted a study done, stating that stress does indeed play a part in weight gain. Sorry, I have no proof or article to quote, as I watched it on the evening news last night.0 -
My breakfast calories range from 5 (coffee) to 1000. It has not affected my weight loss. What really matters is your average overall calories over time, even a whole day of high calories may not make as big of a dent as you imagine if you are otherwise consistent.
Edit: @JustMissTracy as for stress, it does affect weight by either causing you to eat more (extra calories) or by causing you to retain water (which is why weight loss is perceived to be harder, but it's not a real gain/plateau). It does all come to calories in the end, but you are entirely and totally correct to state that stress management is important for smoother sailing while dieting, and for overall health as well. Adding unnecessary food and calorie related stress trying to be perfect is pointless at best and harmful at worst.0 -
Hi!!
I had 510 calories for breakfast, 2 pieces of sourdough bread i think with natural peanut butter that you squeeze from machines in whole foods and i put half table spoon of honey on each. Did I ruin my diet???? I'm so sad I always ruin it with eating wrong. I also had a banana so its 90 calories more!!!!
Will you explain what you mean by "ruin" your diet?0 -
JustMissTracy wrote: »JenniDaisy wrote: »kimikola22 wrote: »I eat around 700 calories for breakfast everyday and lose weight. It is my biggest meal of the day and it is filled with nutrient dense foods. Yours sounds fine but I don't know what daily goal is so if it is 500 calories than yes you ruined it but if it is something like 1200-1500 than you should be fine. Focus on nutrient dense food, not how many calories you are consuming.
Calories are important but you are only hurting yourself if you are focusing heavily on them because that kind of focus causes stress and stress causes weight gain as well as makes it difficuly (biologically) for your body to lose weight.
Take a nice relaxing walk and make the appropriate adjustments to your food and be happy
Good luck!
1. Calories are the only thing that is important when it comes to weight loss.
2. Stress does not cause weight gain, excess calories cause weight gain.
A news article quoted a study done, stating that stress does indeed play a part in weight gain. Sorry, I have no proof or article to quote, as I watched it on the evening news last night.
If your evening news is anything like the evening news in my area, they will frequently reference new studies without adequately delving into the sample size (some studies that sound dramatic are often done on very small groups that make it difficult to draw accurate conclusions) or investigating how they interact with other studies on the subject. They're often working from press releases and there is often an inherent bias into broadcasting studies that are either surprising or contradict established science on the subject (while this isn't always a problem, it can lead to an imbalance in coverage, where a small study that contradicts larger ones is reported as if it is more than it is). While some networks do hire qualified science reporters, many of the people we see on television reporting on science or health news have very low scientific literacy. It's not that they're trying to do a bad job, it's just that they often lack the resources to bring the full picture to their viewers.
I would be cautious about using the evening news as a source for science or health information. If you do, consider making it your starting point and doing more research on the studies yourself.2 -
I am always super hungry for breakfast and eat it every day no matter what! However, I find that if I eat things like toast, PB, oatmeal, etc. no matter how many calories I consume I am just hungry again about an hour later. You didn't ruin anything by eating that many calories for breakfast. Personally for me... I can do scrambled egg-whites with veggies and turkey bacon, eat until my hearts content and only max out at about 220 calories or so. Vs. toast, peanut butter, oatmeal, cereal, etc.. Try eating lower calorie/nutrient dense foods for breakfast 0
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IF you're going to have a bad meal, better breakfast than any other - you have all day to burn the calories. Something else to keep in mind - being hungry is your body's way of telling your calorie deficit is too much and you might be putting yourself into starvation mode. There's a fine line between the two.0
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Weight loss is not ruined with one meal.
You have more calories left even if you are on 1200 calories. Nutritionally you got some protein and a fruit. What is bad?
I choose to eat less calories at breakfast and more at lunch and dinner but there is no rule about how you split up your calories for the day. It would be okay to ewt them all in 1 big meal if you function okay that way.
You have at least 690 more calories for your day and maybe a lot more depending on your calorie goal and how active you will be today. Just plan a lunch and dinner that fit your remaining calories.
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