Living The Lifestyle, Tuesday, March 6, 2018
88olds
Posts: 4,555 Member
We meet here to explore, share, celebrate, and (sometimes) agonize over how we do (or don't) incorporate weight loss guidelines into our daily lives. "It's a lifestyle, not a diet" is easily and often said, but sometimes not so simply put into practice.
This is a thread for everyone. If you're new to GoaD, or to weight loss, your questions and comments are always welcome. If you're maintaining, or a long-term loser, your thoughts on the topic may be just what someone else needs to hear. If you're reading this, join in the discussion!
Each weekday, a new topic is offered up for discussion. Thread starters for March are:
Monday - whathapnd (Emmie)
Tuesday - 88olds (George)
Wednesday - Calvin2008Brian
Thursday - misterhub (Greg)
Friday - Al_Howard
Today's Topic: Let’s Talk Breakfast
Is breakfast the most important meal of the day? Or a nuisance? Or just not hungry in the morning?
Has breakfast changed for you during your weight loss journey? Does your breakfast plan help or hinder your efforts?
This is a thread for everyone. If you're new to GoaD, or to weight loss, your questions and comments are always welcome. If you're maintaining, or a long-term loser, your thoughts on the topic may be just what someone else needs to hear. If you're reading this, join in the discussion!
Each weekday, a new topic is offered up for discussion. Thread starters for March are:
Monday - whathapnd (Emmie)
Tuesday - 88olds (George)
Wednesday - Calvin2008Brian
Thursday - misterhub (Greg)
Friday - Al_Howard
Today's Topic: Let’s Talk Breakfast
Is breakfast the most important meal of the day? Or a nuisance? Or just not hungry in the morning?
Has breakfast changed for you during your weight loss journey? Does your breakfast plan help or hinder your efforts?
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I have the same thing for breakfast almost every day; bran cereal, greek yogurt and blueberries. Oh yes, coffee for sure. Years ago, I didn't eat breakfast. It was hard not to get a snack mid morning. All available snack were high calorie e.g. a muffin.
I put greek yogurt on my cereal because I have problems digesting milk. The greek yogurt also has more protein than regular yogurt.0 -
A protein rich breakfast starts my day off on a good note. I look forward to my veggie omelette everyday. I wake up hungry.0
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I’m in the most important meal camp now. I think I can explain my whole up and down weight odyssey in terms of breakfast.
Looking back, I was what we would call- not a morning person. I would drag myself out of bed at the last minute. I couldn’t even think about food.
But come lunch, I’d be out of my mind. Charge into the closest fast food I could find and scarf it down.
Then I got in a situation where I really had to function in the morning. I could not skip breakfast. Enter the Raisin Bran years. This coincided with an upward march of the scale. So I was eating breakfast, but my choices were not helping me a bit.
Then I discovered oatmeal. Plain old rolled oats Quaker. A game changer. I was greatly aided at WW by the fact that breakfast was in place when I started. But I did add a WW smoothie to breakfast for a while.
Fast forward to about a year ago. My breakfast smoothie was long gone. Just as an experiment I started adding egg protein powder to my oatmeal. With no other obvious changes, I’m down about 5 lbs from when I started this.1 -
I have never been a breakfast person. In fairness to my mom, she tried! She got up every morning and cooked breakfast (bacon/sausage, eggs, and toast) for me and my sister when we were growing up. The thought of eating breakfast early in the morning made me physically ill.
After I was grown and working, I still couldn't eat first thing in the morning. And, to this day, I can't eat right after I wake up. I typically have a cup of coffee when I get up in the morning. "Breakfast" usually doesn't happen before 10:00. What I have for breakfast varies. Sometimes it's oatmeal with a chopped apple. Sometimes it's a bowl of grits with butter. Sometimes it's bacon and eggs. Sometimes it's an English muffin with sausage and/or egg. Sometimes it's something leftover from dinner the night before.
But it's NEVER cold cereal. I've never been a cold cereal person. For whatever reason, cold cereal makes me hungry within about an hour after eating it.0 -
I eat something, but it’s usually a couple of hours after I get up. I rarely want to eat as soon as I rise. Often, it has is something light.0
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I have Greek yogurt, old fashioned oats, strawberries, blue berries, and banana. Add the liquid from the berries for additional moisture, mix in a LARGE bowl, and nuke. Big bowl of yum! 4SP's for the 1/2 cup of oats.
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I stopped eating true breakfast years ago. However, when I was in loss mode a few years ago, I did find that if I ate something about two hours after waking up that I'd eat less for the entire day. I try to stick with that plan whether I'm hungry or not.
I have a lot of food allergies so many traditional breakfast foods are off limits for me. I do LOVE oatmeal with a little brown sugar and some fruit or a dollop of peanut butter. But I usually usually have leftovers for breakfast. Sometimes scrambled eggs and homemade turkey sausage and a slice of gf toast, but usually leftovers.0 -
Is breakfast the most important meal of the day? Or a nuisance? Or just not hungry in the morning?
Has breakfast changed for you during your weight loss journey? Does your breakfast plan help or hinder your efforts?
Some days, breakfast is the most important meal (or at least it seems so) but it really varies a lot. It never used to--back in the day it was one of three absolutely must-haves, in a big way.
Since coming off auto-pilot and being more mindful, my breakfast is more in keeping with my sense of where I am on the "hunger' spectrum. Some days, it's 1/3 or more of my daily intake but often it's just a bit of food--usually mostly protein--to get me going. I prefer to spread my WW points out over the course of the day so instead of stuffing myself full right off the bat, a lighter breakfast ticks all my boxes.
The change in breakfast, like many of the others that came with mindfulness, has really helped me. I was in auto-pilot for decades, loading up on carbs and fatty meats for breakfast. I eat much healthier and more fulfilling breakfasts now, which in turn helps me stay flexible for meals and snacks the rest of the day.0 -
Most important? More controversial than one might think.. Huh? We say. When defined as within 1 hour of arising and consuming 300+ calories the numbers drop off . I eat after coffee and my 4 mile walk.
I do eat a bit more than before WW but not early enough to be a defined breakfast. I like my daily veggie egg/eggwhite omelet about 3 hr after arising.
For me mentally it is good to start the day one a good habit trail.
Time of day studies whether for first meal or last meal have varied results.0
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