Breakfast

How many calories?

Most of my breakfasts are 300-400 calories and are enough for eggs and toast, overnight oats, cereal with fruit, eggs on potato with plain yogurt and salsa, avocado toast, an egg and cheese sandwich, yogurt with fruit, honey and toast.

I personally find heavy breakfasts makes some people feel lazier during the day (think of the post-Thanksgiving-dinner feeling). I much prefer to eat my main meal later in the afternoon or in the evening, between 3PM to 6PM or anytime after work, which for me on most days is after 2:30PM.

I have raw rolled oats and fruit in skim milk 6 days a week, but tomorrow being Sunday I'll have 3 scrambled eggs on 3oz of fried deli ham drizzled with Sriracha. 400 calories.

How low do you want?

When losing weight I varied from 2 eggs + veg + spray/spritzer oil (about 200-250 cal) to 2 eggs + veg + feta + either greek yogurt or cottage cheese or smoked salmon or fruit (sometimes half an avocado), all of which can result in about 350 cal.

For me at 1500-1600, 350-400 cal is about what I prefer for breakfast, but the original (when I was at 1250 cal) is also plenty filling for me.

My breakfast every morning is the same, and logs in at 289 calories.

2 eggs
1 large flat mushroom
50g trout
-- all fried in the same pan with 10 sprays of frylight olive oil
2 satsumas or clementines

Three whole eggs, egg whites, two pieces of turkey bacon, avocado toast

mdreddie wrote: »

thelandkraken wrote: »

My breakfast every morning is the same, and logs in at 289 calories.

2 eggs
1 large flat mushroom
50g trout
-- all fried in the same pan with 10 sprays of frylight olive oil
2 satsumas or clementines

Captain America is my favorite avenger.

Quite right too! He’s definitely my fave

Poached eggs and a buttered english muffin. ~250 calories.

Ocernight oatmeal is pretty low, made with large flake oats (it takes longer to diggest for 130 cal) unsweetened plant base milk (like almond milk) (20 cal) and greek yogurt (70 cal). I like mine with berries (about 50 cal) and maple syrop (another 50 cal) , but you could use flavored greek yogurt and skip the syrop.

A toast (about 100 cal) with sauteed veggies (like spinach, mushroom, bell pepper, etc. And some spices like garlic powder, chili powder...) (90 cal including half a teaspoon of oil) and a poach egg (70cal).

I like apple sandwich, but you could make it open face: a toast (about 100 cal - try cinnamon raison bread here, it’s amazing), with peanut butter (90cal) and half an apple thinly sliced on top (50 cal).

A few years back, i was really into breakfast salad: big bed of greens and veggie (about 100 cal), 1 egg (70 cal) and roasted cube sweet potato (about half a cup for 50-100 cal - don’t even bother with oil, just roast a big batch with no oil or seasoning and keep in the fridge all week) and lemon juice as dressing.

Some cereal are alos pretty good: special k is 110 cal per serving. I used to do 1.5 serving with fruit and almond milk, for under 300 cal, but I didn’t have that in a while, it might have changed.

Sweet potato toast is also great: slice a sweet potato about 1/4 inch think and pop in the toaster (it might burn a bit, but it’s great!) (about 70-100 cal), top with 1 egg (70) and some veggies (50-100 cal including oil to sauté)

Finally smooties are always great: frozen fruit for about 150-200 calls, greek yogurt (70 cal) and plant based milk (20 cal).

I have a toasted whole wheat English muffin with 1/4 tbsp of butter and top it with an egg and cheese. I scramble an egg in a ramekin, microwave for 30 seconds, stir, top with 2 tbsp of shredded cheese, and microwave for another 10 seconds then let sit for a minute to let the cheese melt. It has about 280 calories and keeps me full until lunch. That is, if I eat breakfast. Most days I just have a cup of coffee. I'm not usually hungry in the morning and would rather save the calories for dinner.