sstrange: make yourself some hash brown potatoes, or make up a pancake or two, or have some oatmeal - it doesn't have to be toast. I like a poached/or easy over egg on top of beans with salsa. Beans will get you some starch.

Liana

Starting Phase 3 on Monday while I am on vacation for a few weeks. I want to be ready with a plan, so thank you for all of these great suggestions. I figure I will rotate breakfasts every few days, keeping it simple!

I am starting P3 on Thursday....yippee! These recipes look AMAZING! I have read each and every page and tried to take notes, and I STILL feel overwhelmed at getting everything to fit. I need to look at this as a logic puzzle....I like those.

Also bumping as I know a few more of my IP peeps are going to be phasing off soon with me! The sensible (and safe and maybe lazy) part of me wants to start off with a really simple breakfast of greek yogurt, Kashi cereal, fruit and eggs. The HUNGRY part of me is tempted to start my P3 off with a bang with one of Liz's amazing recipes (maybe the peach bread pudding?).

We'll see who wins this one!

Thanks for bumping even though I will soon be starting phase 2 not 3. It's a lot of reading/information so I'm taking the time to read and wrap my head around it all.

Eve, I chose to start Phase 3 on a weekend and my stomach def. needed some time to adjust (bathroom) to the new foods.

I was given an excel worksheet from someone on here quite some time ago. It lays everything out in columns and calculates totals as you add foods. I made done modifications and sample menus and a page to enter all my different food products and nutrition info so I can cut and paste to build breakfasts.

I am happy to share. Email me at jlus at aol.com

Thanks ladies!

Slipfree, lol! Before IP, I had a VERY sensitive stomach, so I will now be searching out the culprit(s). Luckily, I work afternoons/evenings, so I have a little time on my side with breakfast early in the AM before sending my son off to shool!

JLUS, I think I downloaded the excel spreadsheet that I think you may be referring to. My admission is that I don't know much about excel (just a pen/paper mental health therapist here with basic computer skills)! I got confused in adding in my own things because it seems failry arduous.

My hubby is a computer wiz, so I thought I would put him to the task to help me this weekend. If you have any other advice or if your files are different, let me know!

I'm in the final stretch before phase 2 but want lots of time to plan. I even had my clinic change my videos once I was on "the best of phase 1" playlist and i am glad I did as I am learning ahead of the curve this time. In phase1 I was always wishing I had seen the message sooner.

This thread is great. I'm stuck in three days of meetings where I only listen so I brought my iPad and reading through the threads for phase 3/4. Has anyone figured out if there are take out breakfast options? I know Tim Hortons in canada has a breakfast wrap on a whole wheat tortilla with a strip of bacon and a sprinkle of cheese. They also have egg white but they don't carry the WW English muffin anymore. McDonalds just introduced a WW egg mcmufffin (skipping the process cheese, of course). I need to run the numbers. I'm in canada so our menus might be different.

ChipNDip: A&W has eggs, bacon and toast - just bring your own piece of fruit and a yogurt cup if you wish. I ate that a couple times - bringing my own GF bread from home while DH had the breakfast sandwich. Our A&W has very good coffee too.

Liana

I would be happy to email mine to you... I modified it and added kits of instructions. I do not think the one you may have is the same. If your hubby is going to assist he might like this one.

Re-posting from Daily Chat with a more info on actual menus:

So I had an epiphany last night after getting NO GUIDANCE from my coach on P# breakfast ideas. I was thinking (and still do) that Ideal Protein should make an APP that you could easily manipulate to make breakfast meals. But I am a very tactile person and like to be able to reach out and move things around when I am creating/learning/planning. SO....I decided to use notecards to help me plan my breakfast menus. It worked REALLY well, so I thought I would share it here (and I'll share it on the P3 breakfast thread since that is a more long-term thread).

I used a sharpie marker and labeled cards into separate groups: Protein, Grains, Fruit, Dairy, Fat/Other (butter, WF syrup, etc, splenda, etc). Then I listed the specific food on the card with the applicable nutrition information:

Protein
1 Medium egg = 60 calories
4 g fat
6g protein

I used MyFitnessPal or my food labeling packages to get my info. Once I had several foods in each category, I just starting building meals according to what sounded good (like French Toast) and filled accordingly. I found I could use my non-fat Greek yogurt or extra egg whites when my meals were getting too high in fat. It was fun once I got the hang of it!

Once I had a meal that I thought looked good, I took a pic of the cards on my phone and typed out a text label (using a photo app) to quickly describe them so I didn't have to read each little card (Like Peanut Butter Toast and Strawberry/Cottage Cheese or Breakfast Burrito, Banana and Cereal/Milk). You could just have a type list also, but this worked for me!

So, here was my first Phase 3 breakfast:

2 Fit & Active (Aldi) Whole-Grain Waffles
1 tsp Butter
1/4 cup Safeway Breakfast Syrup (made Splenda)
4 oz. Friendly Farms No Fat Greek Yogurt (added vanilla and a little splenda to make dip for....)
1 cup Green Seedless Grapes
3 slice of Oscar Meyer Fully Cooked Bacon

= 422 calories, 45g carbs, 13g fat, 25g protein
(I would normally use WF syrup....but darn it we were out!)

I'll post a few more of my menu ideas....those with experience, please let me know if something looks "off" with my numbers!

OK:

Breakfast Sandwich, Strawberries & Milk

2 slice Healthy Life Whole Grain Bread (80 cal, 11 net carbs, 5g protein)
1 med egg + 2 liquid egg whites (110 cal, 4g fat, 11g protein)
1 slice Mild Cheddar Aldi Happy Farms (80 cal, 7g fat, 5g protein)
2 slices OM fully cooked Bacon (53.2 cal, 4g fat, 4.6g protein)
1 cup fresh whole strawberries (50 cal, 9g carbs, 1g protein)
1/2 cup skim milk (45 cal, 13g carbs, 8g protein)

= 418.2 calories, 15g fat, 33 carbs, 34.6 protein (maybe a little high in fat, could cut my cheese in half)

Breakfast Burrito, Banana in Cereal and Milk -

1 slice Fit&Active 100% Whole Grain Flatbread (100 cal, 2.5g fat, 9 carb, 9g protein)
3 slices Oscar M Fully Cooked Bacon (80 cal, 6g fat, 7g protein)
1 slice Happy Farms Mild Cheddar (80 cal, 76 fat, 5g protein)
2 Fit&Active egg whites (50 cal, 10g protein)
1/2 cup Skim Milk (45 cal, 13g carb, 8g protein)
1 cup Millville Multi-Grain Oats (like Multi-Grain Cheerios) - (110 cal, 1g fat, 19 carb, 2 g protein)
1/2 Banana (52 cal, 13.5 carb, .6 protein)
= 517 calories, 14.5 g fat, 35.5 carb, 34.6 protein
...calories and fat a little high, might cut the cheese in half for an easy adjustment

OK, typing these out takes a lot of time! Need to clean my house before the nanny get here!!!!!

How about a White Spot breakfast sandwich?.. Oh how I miss those! If my DH gets transferred back to BC I'll have some fun day meals already planned out. No white spot or red robin here in Ontario.

Evemomma - what a great idea with the cards. So much easier to mix and match. You are rockin it old school.

Evemomma: I did P3 a little differently - I added in grain one week, fruit the next and dairy the next but I looked at the P3 sheet and I think:

The sheet calls for one fat, one carb and one protein - looks like you may be exceeding that (i.e. toast and cereal for example). There was an explanation sheet at one time but I don't see it in the stickies any more and I don't have it here at work (I think I saved it to my home computer). I'll look tonight.

Not sure how much protein you're aiming for, but it looks like you may be a little high.

During the week I generally stick to what I ended up with in P3 for breakfast (because I'm boring) which generally ends up being full fat greek yogurt, fruit, cereal or toast & peanut butter, and a hard boiled egg. I try to stick to 400-500 calories (depending on what your calorie goal ends up that may or may not work for you) and I try to get around 20 gr of protein for breakfast.

Hope this helps and I'm sure others will chime in.

Thanks Ruth Ann!

I was working with the idea that a grain should contain no more than 30g of carbs. My waffles were 22g for two. I also read that my fruit should not exceed 20g of carbs, and that I should have no more than 50g of carbs altogether. Additionally, I should be staying under 15g of fat total, my dairy should be less than 120 calories total, protein 25g +, AND between 400-500 calories. So I was combining food to make the totals match up. So, maybe I am misinterpreting this?

How did you get your calorie totals up if eating less food?

No advice from my coach was NOT helpful!