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A Breakfast Poll

floofyschmoofer
floofyschmoofer Posts: 209 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
How many calories do you consume for breakfast on average? Conversations with co-workers have made me curious.
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  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,375 Member
    0... my breakfast is black coffee 6 days a week. I have breakfast on Sundays (a family affair) and I keeps that light - usually under 400 calories.
  • KcRavassa
    KcRavassa Posts: 45 Member
    Between 30 calories worth of coffee and creamer and up to 500ish calories when I make something on purpose to eat (like today I had a trail-mix bar I created out of leftover trail-mix and a little dough to bind it together).
  • lauragreenbaum
    lauragreenbaum Posts: 1,017 Member
    I'm not a huge breakfast fan, so not much. I put cream in my coffee and have maybe half a cup of cottage cheese if anything. I don't get hungry until about 11 am.
  • RelCanonical
    RelCanonical Posts: 3,882 Member
    Generally 0. If I'm hungry in the morning, which is rare, I'll have something small. Between 80-150 calories usually. Most of the time, though, I don't each until noon. I had a snickers mini this morning. That was 55 calories.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    usually about 300 if I eat breakfast at all. Right now I'm pregnant so I'm eating more than usual, so around 500 for breakfast.
  • Terytha
    Terytha Posts: 2,097 Member
    Under or around 300, usually. A yogurt, an apple, and a coffee.

    Weekends are the exception, I try to get them to around 600 and eat enough that I can skip lunch.
  • promisesstandin
    promisesstandin Posts: 150 Member
    maybe close to 500; have started loving breakfast - usually eating 2 meals a day now so, although 500 seems like a lot, I'm pushing calories by the second meal
  • mmstoeckle
    mmstoeckle Posts: 491 Member
    I range from 250 to 500 (for a weekend splurge). I need coffee and breakfast or I eat the pantry later in the day.
  • JeBeBu
    JeBeBu Posts: 258 Member
    I am with the majority here & am not a big morning water. If I do eat, almost always below 200 calories. I tend to be hungry at dinner after a full work day and workout.
  • COGypsy
    COGypsy Posts: 1,404 Member
    edited June 2019
    I usually have between 800-1000 between a pre-workout smoothie at 4 am and my "real breakfast" around 8 or 8:30.
  • missysippy930
    missysippy930 Posts: 2,577 Member
    Usually 200-300,
  • cbstewart88
    cbstewart88 Posts: 453 Member
    Between 250 - 300 calories...
  • floofyschmoofer
    floofyschmoofer Posts: 209 Member
    I've always loved breakfast and I wake up starving 70% of the time. I think I'm eating too many calories in the morning that would better serve me to save for the evening when I want a snack. I average about 400ish calories from food and usually 50-75ish from creamer/half and half/milk in my coffee.

    Those that eat but not a lot, what do you have for breakfast?
  • yasiral
    yasiral Posts: 133 Member
    around 250 - 300
  • JeBeBu
    JeBeBu Posts: 258 Member
    floofyschmoofer wrote: »
    I've always loved breakfast and I wake up starving 70% of the time. I think I'm eating too many calories in the morning that would better serve me to save for the evening when I want a snack. I average about 400ish calories from food and usually 50-75ish from creamer/half and half/milk in my coffee.

    Those that eat but not a lot, what do you have for breakfast?

    Fruit, yogurt, cottage cheese, bar, toast with PB and/or jelly...
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    Black coffee so probably 10-20 calories. Wife does a bar and cream in her coffee so she is at ~200 most days.
  • floofyschmoofer
    floofyschmoofer Posts: 209 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    What do you consider breakfast?

    I'm up around 3:30, hit the gym, at work by 7:00 when I drink black coffee, then eat my "breakfast" around 9:30. It's almost always plain greek yogurt, protein powder, and berries - around 300 calories.

    So my "breakfast" could be zero, 5 calories, or 300 calories, depending on definition.

    The first "meal" of the day, if you eat one. If not, whatever one eat/drinks in the day before lunch? If you're up that early, you're in a whole other universe from me. My day starts at 7.
  • busyPK
    busyPK Posts: 3,788 Member
    During the work week around 300 calories. Weekends more like 450.
  • puffbrat
    puffbrat Posts: 2,806 Member
    350-450 most days
  • WickedPineapple
    WickedPineapple Posts: 698 Member
    Most days I get 400-500 for breakfast, and 800-900 on Saturdays when Mr. Pineapple and I go out for breakfast.
  • slbbw
    slbbw Posts: 329 Member
    when I eat breakfast ( for me usually around 9-10) its 200-300 calories. Some days I eat lunch at 11 and earl grey tea is my breakfast, which is less than 5 calories.
  • hcalhoun22
    hcalhoun22 Posts: 12 Member
    Most days around 245 calories on splurge days when I work out harder I will have around 400 calories.
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    300-500 cals Monday to Saturday, 500-1000 Sunday
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    Breakfast is my favorite meal because eggs are my favorite food. I generally rock about 400 calories for breakfast.
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    No breakfast for me or I end up hungry all day.
  • ceiswyn
    ceiswyn Posts: 2,256 Member
    100-200 calories.

    My appetite works counterintuitively; a big breakfast makes me hungry. On the other hand, I'm often quite active in the mornings so my body needs fuel. This seems to be a compromise that works.
  • JennJ323
    JennJ323 Posts: 646 Member
    Definitely my smallest meal of the day, I like to keep it under 200. Usually it's just a yogurt or granola bar or hard boiled eggs.
  • Pipsqueak1965
    Pipsqueak1965 Posts: 397 Member
    250-400 cals. Depends on what I'm doing.
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