Help with breakfast please!!

Egg Whites are great, and convenient too!

I used to feel the same way about breakfast (made me nauseous) until I made myself start eating it every day. Now I'm starving if I wait more than an hour after waking up! Can you stomach oatmeal? I cook a big batch of steel cut oats and reheat it with some fruit (apples or blueberries) for a quick breakfast. I also like a quick bowl of cheerios (oat ohs - do you have those?) with 2% milk and a piece of fruit. Eggs are great, but might be a little heavy for you.

Protein shake with banana and peanut butter...yum

From asda\tesco you can buy oats so simple sachets. 20 sachets for £3.50. Can vary the flavours. I always make it with milk, don't enjoy oats with water. I love these not too heavy, but keep you going for a while x

I eat a cup of cheerios with 20 red seedless grapes in it with 1/2 tsp cinnamon and top it off with 1/2 cup of skim milk.. quick and easy no cooking.. sometimes I put in blackberries or raspberries

Hi,

I don't know if you like oatmeal but I eat 1 bowl of Maple & brown sugar oatmeal everyday. For me, it keeps off the hunger till about 1pm or so. I eat a small lunch, hardly anything for dinner. It's great:)

Just about every day I have a serving of oatmeal (the quick cook kind so I can use the microwave in my office) with a tsp of brown sugar. About 160 calories. Add a cup of coffee with skim milk - 15 cals if you use a no-cal sweetener, but add 15 or so cals if you want to use a packet of sugar.

I have gotten used to grazing, eating 6x a day (small breakfast, AM snack, small lunch, PM snack, normal sized dinner, then small dessert). So a couple of hours after breakfast I'll have a small snack such as an apple or banana or some other fruit. Sometimes I'll have raw veggies and hummus.

On weekends when there's more time, I eat an egg white scramble for breakfast (2 or 3 egg whites with veggies such as spinach, onions, leeks, tomatoes, mushrooms, etc.) which can be under 100 calories unless you add cheese. You can add a slice of toast with margarine for about 100 cals. When I want to spoil myself I'll add 2 slices of bacon (70 cals).

I usually have instant oatmeal with milk and a glass of water

Another approach might be to workout in the morning, before breakfast. I too don't eat right after I wake up (even though I feel physical indications that I am hungry in my stomach). It takes a couple of hours for me to really feel hungry AND be ready to take the food in. That is sped up by ~50% if I do a good workout. I.e. I get up at 6 AM. Then I eat at 8 AM. But if I do some warm up (stretching) just after waking up, then run a few kilometers, then by the time I prepare something after I am back from the workout I feel super hungry. Two pros for that (for me) are the following:

1) I can eat basically anything at that point. Even the food I don't like very much (sadly this is the more healthy food more often than not)
2) During the workout I burn ~300-400 cals. So I use that extra fact to eat BIG breakfast without fear of running out of cals limit for the day in case I am too lazy to workout in the evening (this is very often the case for me). I read somewhere and it turned out to be true for me that if I eat 700-800 cal breakfast (note: I am 90 Kg @ 1.8 meters at the moment), I only need a light lunch and even lighter dinner.

Just an option to consider

I, too, like the_geek, work out first and then eat breakfast. I usually eat cereal, instant oatmeal - both with fruit, or a post-workout shake.

I will eat Cheerios & blueberries w/o milk *I don't like milk* and a cup of green tea w/ some lemons and honey. A piece of whole wheat w/ some peanut butter and a banana. Lastly some greek yogurt w/ some Whole Foods 365 Fruit Spread

i work out first also and hit the oats an hour later before heading to work. If i'm running late i will grab a whole wheat mini bagel with a slice of colby jack cheese and 1 ounce of sliced ham. It's 300 cals and it's one of my favs. so the 300 is worth it to me. I also like the greek yogurt, mm mmm

How about a tub of Greek yogurt and a piece of fruit? Then plan a good mid-morning snack for a couple of hours later.

oooh i've never had greek yog before might have to try some
thanks

Make sure to buy the low fat or 0%. Otherwise the fat content can be crazy...

I go with cereal. Shreddies, Cherrios, Mini-wheats. Use milk but don't drink it at the end to save a couple cals.

Egg whites are a good option like mentioned. Add whatever veggies and an 30g of cheese and your good to go!

Oh, I also love oatmeal.... so warm and cozy and stick-to-your-ribs so you feel fuller longer.

I toast 1 piece of whole wheat bread, spread it with 1 tablespoon of Nautral Peanut Butter and slice 1/2 banana on top. On days I don't work, steel cut oats or 1 egg and 1 egg white scrambled with piece of whole wheat toast.