My breakfast is my biggest meal.

Mine is too, It keeps me from wanting to snack and I feel it is the best meal to do that, I used to just have coffee or a ceral bar, now I need and want the good "hearty" breakfast

Yep, I eat 1330 a day without exercise, and breakfast is usually around 500 of those.

Breakfast is usually about 1/3 of my daily gross calories.

I always hear that breakfast should be your biggest meal of the day, as food = fuel, and it starts your day off fueled appropriately.
Then you top off the tank as you go along.

I tested this, recently, but without really knowing it. The great thing about being a wee complusive about logging, you can go back and see trends. And I have indeed found that if I eat a bigger, more calorie/protein/fat laden "breakfast" (it's at noon...I work a weird shift, and so my eating times are rather odd), I often have a big hellasalad for "lunch" (about 6pm) and a relatively light "dinner" about midnight. With snacks in the middle including raw veggies and such, I am never hungry and my energy level is consistent through the day. By the time the day is done I frequently feel just plain sick of eating. At 6'1", build like your average linebacker, and formerly 320 pounds, I don't put up with "hungry" too often, and only recently understood the idea of "sick of eating."

Days like today, I get a bit of excess energy, so I drag my mountain bike out into the thick Arkansas summer, and blast off a couple hundred calories in under 15 minutes. Rest of the day is smooooooth and strong, yo.

On odd days when I eat a light breakfast, like a protein bar only, I'm starving and puny by lunch, eat whatever crap I can find, and then eat a big honking dinner right before bed. And wake up feeling rather sodden the next day.

Interesting, eh?

So, in too many words: eat a big breakfast, feel goooood!

My breakfast is around 500 or so calories as well. I like to eat a big breakfast because it gives me fuel throughout the day as most have already stated. You aren't the only one!

My breakfast is right at or a bit under a third of my daily calories, and I eat basically the same thing every single day. (The only variation is the fruit.) It's often the biggest meal (I do eat a snack once or twice a day).

And I too am always ready for it in the morning - it's a motivator to get out of bed

I'd like to hear some breakfast ideas as well! It's always my hardest meal!

You betcha! Breakfast is my favorite! I hit about 500 cals at breakfast, 400 at lunch, and about 350 at dinner (which I eat around 6pm). The rest of my 1470 cals is dispersed through the day as whole food snacks.

I see a lot of people putting peanut butter in their breakfast diaries along with oatmeal... so do folk stir it in or what? Just it's something new for me!

always my biggest meal! and my favorite meal! i cant wait to eat it in the morning lol

I know, right? I be laying in bed thinking about what to eat in the morning! :laugh:

Haha! Me too!

For breakfast I usually have...

16 oz 1% milk with 2 tbps Nesquik powder (300 calories, but around 22 protein... I'm a chocolate milk freak, I HAVE to have this, haha)
Oroweat Sandwich thin (100 calories, 5 protein) with either a little bit of butter or a tablespoon of peanut putter (30 calories, 0 protein or 100 calories, 4 protein)
String cheese (80 calories, 7 protein) or one container of Danon Light and Fit yogurt (80 calories, 5 protein)- Sometimes I even do both of these!
Total: Between 510-580

I "spend" most of my carbs at breakfast, not because it's my plan, but that's usually just the way it happens. Especially since I'm eating more. I'm only at 40% carbs, and I usually stay right around my carb limit (except for yesterday, haha).

I like to go by this:

"Eat like a King for breakfast,
a prince for lunch,
and a beggar for dinner"