I never ate breakfast before I started paying attention to my weight and trying to lose. Since May, we eat breakfast almost every day that isn't a fast day (I am doing a customized intermittent fasting WOE and it is working great.)
This is the basic rotation. Every day is coffee and cream regardless.
- 2 eggs scrambled with tomatoes, peppers, onions
or
- 1/2 cup oats with chia and almonds and some peanut butter.
or
- protein smoothie with almond milk and spinach and ground oats and flax and with (varies) banana, strawberries, blueberries, etc.
Today was a smoothie day.
Last edited by Nightowlrn; 09-01-2016 at 04:40 PM.
Yesterday:
Cheeseburger Omelet
Components: 2 eggs, 4 oz 93/7 organic grass-fed ground beef, 1 oz sharp white cheddar
Calories: About 450
Verdict: Kept me full for 10 hours (!!!). The calories were good, but the protein count was too high for me at around 50 grams. That killed my appetite so much that the mere thought of food made me feel queasy. I would make this again but with less food to keep the protein at around 30 grams.
Today:
Ground beef with a fried egg on top
Components: 1 egg, 4 oz of the same meat
Calories: About 290. Protein - 35 g.
Verdict: Idk yet. I like that it didn't stuff me as much as yesterday's meal. That was just way too much food. I don't know what I was thinking!
Last weekend, I cooked up a couple pounds of the ground beef mentioned above and portioned it out into 4 oz servings, freezing them. It's made prepping meals soooo easy! I'm definitely going to keep doing this. In the future though, I'll portion smaller servings, probably some 2 oz and 3 oz baggies. I've never done this before and was pleasantly surprised at how fresh tasting the meat stays.
I plan to keep having today's same basic base but with less meat and adding other things to make it like a breakfast bowl. Probably some guac. Maybe salsa or tomatoes.
Alright, so an update to give feedback regarding the satiety of today's breakfast. I ate it about 9 hours ago, and my appetite is still dead. It's dead to an unpleasant degree though, similar to how it was yesterday. The thought of eating food makes me feel sick! Yet at the same time, I'm craving produce like mad - a carrot is so juicy and appealing to me right now , and blueberries! Oh sweet, blessed blueberries! I just can't eat them yet though b/c the thought of actually eating anything makes me practically gag.
Apparently I'm very sensitive to peptide YY, the hormone that we produce more of after eating protein. Perhaps I even make too much of it. Or maybe it's something else about protein that makes it do this to me. What's kinda interesting is right after eating the meal, I felt fine, especially today. Both times, the extreme loss of appetite didn't kick in until about 2 hours after eating.
So, lesson learned. It's nice to have this option when I need to kill my appetite, but I plan to only do so rarely. Back to the wiser middle way. I'll still go with the macros that work best for me, but not so extreme.
Last edited by Chunkahlunkah; 09-07-2016 at 07:32 PM.
1/2 baked potato with butter
2 runny yolk over easy eggs, with salt and pepper
I cut the potato half into 2 and topped each piece with 1 egg and some Frank's hot sauce. Om nom nom.
Cals: About 290
Satiety: ? Will update. It's been 2 hours and so far, so good. Update: This Bfast did a decent job of keeping my appetite in check today. I was hungry for a very small snack 3 hours after eating (~ 50 Cals), and a moderate lunch 2 hours after that. For me, a drop more protein in the breakfast would be ideal, maybe a piece of bacon or cheese, so that I wouldn't want to eat until lunch.
Last edited by Chunkahlunkah; 09-11-2016 at 07:18 PM.
2 eggs scrambled with home garden onion, green pepper, banana pepper, and tomatoes. Coffee and half and half. 1 slice wheat toast butter and orange marmalade. est 350 calories.
I usually like the percentages reversed for carbs and fat. My monthly nemesis is visiting though, so only the thought of a breakfast on the sweeter side appealed to me. The egg helped with satiety. I'd do this same breakfast again.
Last edited by Chunkahlunkah; 09-12-2016 at 12:10 PM.
Slow cooker chicken taco from Budget Bytes blog
2.5 T of greek yogurt
Cals: About 270-320
Macros 42% carbs, 15% fat, 43% protein.
Such a simple, tasty classic.
I love this meal. The protein (29 g) and calories may be lower than my estimate. I made this last month and froze leftovers. I only today entered the recipe into MFP though, and it's likely I overestimated the amount of chicken I had used.
Edit: The thumbs down was an accident.
Last edited by Chunkahlunkah; 09-13-2016 at 11:53 AM.
Baked then mashed sweet potato with butter
2 graham crackers with natural chunky pb
Coffee with milk
500+ calories and pretty carby, but I think it'll help with what I need to do today (i.e., 12+ hours out of the house and lots of walking around campus).
I like that it didn't stuff me as much as yesterday's meal. That was just way too much food. I don't know what I was thinking! 
, and blueberries! Oh sweet, blessed blueberries! I just can't eat them yet though b/c the thought of actually eating anything makes me practically gag.
