How many calories are in your breakfast?
 

For me I'd say...between 250-350.

Curious about the rest of you!

About 200, but I eat more than the standard three meals a day. So my meals are smaller, but there are lots of them!

A typical breakfast is egg whites and oatmeal or a protein shake with blueberries. :)

I have four favorite breakfasts I cycle through, depending on what I'm in the mood for or my calorie plans for the day.

2 Kashi waffles, 1 with peanut butter, 1 with jam - about 400 calories. This is my usual breakfast for maintaining and the rest of the day is "on plan"

1/2 cup of pumpkin flax granola, fat free greek yogurt with honey, 2 spoons of wheat germ - about 325 calories, normal maintenance day breakfast

1/2 cup of oatmeal (made with water), 2 spoons of apple butter - about 275 calories - days when I'm trying to get back to goal weight, or I plan to eat dinner out

1/4 cup egg beaters, 1 50 calorie whole wheat tortilla, lots of spinach leaves/salsa - about 150 calories - for days when I'm trying to get back to a goal weight

I can't tell for sure because I've stopped counting calories, but mostly it was around 300-350. However, I tend to consider breakfast like the most important of my meals (and dinner the least, in a way--I'm lucky in that I just can't be bothered to eat past 8-9 pm, so it doesn't matter if I'm hungry again or not), so I'm not too focused on making it a 'low-cal' meal in any case.

Glory~ I like your idea of the 4 breakfasts depending on mood and maintenance or losing requirements. By the way, I saw your recommendation for pumpkin flax granola cereal on "Food Talk and Fabulous Finds" -- and I now have my own variation that I've been eating all the time lately!

1/2 cup of the cereal
half or full container of greek yogurt (same brand you mentioned)
topped with blueberries :)

Makes SUCH a good breakfast!

I do count calories, but I just do a rough guesstimate at best in my head, I refuse to OBSESS with an EXACT calorie count!
For me during weightloss I ate approximately 400 calorie breakfasts, 400 calorie lunch, 400 calorie suppers & 200 calories worth of snacks if I got hungry.

Now in maintenance I aim for approximately 500 calorie breakfasts, 500 calorie lunches and 500 calorie suppers and if I am hungry I add in 200-300 calories worth of snacks and call it a day. If I am hungry I eat more, if I am not so hungry I eat a bit less. Pretty simple regime, simplicity works best for me!

i eat about 200 calories to 250, but i also eat 6 times a day, that includes my snacks...and my dinner is usually the higher meal....so yeah, i think it depends on your plan for the day...and how it breaks down for you...

I with nineteen at about 250-350.

I almost always have the same breakfast which is 1 whole wheat english muffin with thin spread of natural peanut butter and 1/2 of a banana cut in slices on it.
It sustains me while I hike and keeps full until lunchtime. I just LOVE it!
Occasionally I will mix it up with a bowl of Go Lean cereal with skim milk and 1/2 banana on it.
I finally bought the Almond Breeze almond milk to day at Trader Joe's and I am really excited to try it. Do any of you use Almond milk????

Almond milk is really yummy! It's decadent and smooth and a special treat for us (just because of the cost).

My breakfasts are between 200 and 400 calories, depending on whether they're to the egg white with salsa variety or the oatmeal with dried fruit end.

Kara

I drink the unsweetened chocolate almond milk and I love it. I buy it in bulk from Whole Foods and I save some money, plus they last forever in the shelf.

My typical breakfast includes 1 cup of unsweetned chocolate almond breeze, 1 string cheese and 1 atkins chocolate/peanut/nougat bar.

Calories: 275 grams of carb: 11

I love almond milk! Just discovered it recently. :)

I know this is gonna sound crazy, but lately I break my breakfast up into 3 parts, spaced about an hour apart.

-cucumber salad, lots of it (I know, I'm weird)
-fat free/sugar free yogurt with Fiber One Cereal mixed in
-3 egg white omlette with either a broiled zucchini or sauteed spinach and mushrooms or some other veggies- for a total of about 250-300 calories

my breakfast is always fiber one cerial with milk comes out to about 400 calories. i eat alot in the morning because i dont have lunch for 5 hours. im in highschool, cant eat when ever i want to. I have to wait for my lunch :(

Robin, I'm getting to that place myself at the moment. I'm trying to figure it all out.

My breakfasts are 250-350. I almost always have an omelet with veggies or beans in it. Sometimes I'll have a slice of toast also.

Recently, however, I've been wanting to eat something before I go to the gym, to give me enough energy to complete the NRLW workouts (which include HIIT on top of weight lifting). I need to look into optimum pre-workout nutrition but I also need it to be low-cal. I've been having a yogurt or banana or a piece of toast with pb prior to the gym and then my omelet when I get home. I'm loathe to use up so many calories in the morning (I'm an afternoon snacker and evening wine drinker), but, I want plenty of energy for my exercise AND, I want to be able to eat a really big, filling meal (hooray omelets!) once I get back from the gym.

It's a pickle.

My breakfasts run between 300-500 calories. This includes my fish oil supplement that contains 38 calories.

My typical breakfast is 1 cup cooked steel cup oatmeal (cooked with water), 1T flaxseed (ground), 2T dried fruit, 1t raw sugar, 2T soy milk, coffee (black), and my supplements. Which works out to around 300 calories.

Sometimes on the weekends I make wholegrain pancakes, waffles, or an omelet and that will run higher.

I eat about 350-400 calories.

Two favorites - oatmeal, 2 slices turkey bacon, 1 hard boiled egg, soy milk.

# 2 - Greek yogurt, 1/2 cup fruit mixed in, soy milk, Wasa crispbread with peanut butter on top.

I generally alternate them day by day.

Both get me through the morning, and they have to do a lot, as I exercise in the AM. I usually eat lunch around 11 AM, so I do not have a morning snack.

If for some reason I do not exercise, I add a snack in mid-morning, usually a protein, but depends on how I am feeling - for about 100 calories.

I count carbs for my diabetes situation, so that influences my choices.

Someone mentioned almond milk. I love it. Low cal., low carb, tastes just great.

My most common breakfasts are:
- instant oatmeal w/skim milk: 245 cals
- oat bran w/raisins, brown sugar, and skim milk: 265
- raisin bran w/skim milk: 265
- oat bran cold cereal w/skim milk: 265

So I guess I usually eat 265! :lol: I eat a banana at around 10:30 in the morning to tide me over until lunch though, and sometimes I add other fruits to my cereal.

Ok, I tried the Almond milk & I love it! It slightly changes the taste of my cereal in very good way!

I encourage anyone who hasn't tried it to give it a whirl...it's yummy!

Today's breakfast came in at just under 400, and I suspect my two "alternates" are about the same. On Mondays I have no time for a snack because I'm in a management meeting from 10 to 12 (in theory, often 12:30) so if I get anything, it's a ff latte. :) I need those other calories to get me through.

I pretty much eat the same thing for breakfast/pre breakfast each day I eat part of this before my morning walking/aerobic video and then the rest after my video.

2 egg whites
Buckwheat pancake ( 1/4 cup mix ) or two slices toast ( Schwebel's light wheat ) with spray butter
4 oz orange juice
1/8 cup mild fancy shredded cheddar
1/2 pealed medium apple
1 oz Jimmy Deans 50% reduced fat sausage

About: Calories 420 , fat 11 , carbs 61, protein 24

I don't really eat a breakfast per se... I eat a lot of mini meals in the morning since I'm super hungry when I wake up and I hope that the first meal will fill me. By about 10 AM I have about 800 calories of breakfast items under my belt. I eat things like oatmeal and peanut butter, cottage cheese, alternative bagels, cereal & milk, eggs, smoothies... But then the rest of the day usually slows down a lot since I don't get that hungry.

I eat 5 times a day. Breakfast is my biggest feeding so it is 375 - 425 calories.

You referred to breakfast as a "feeding". :lol: That's funny!

Kara

Mine is about 430 calories right now. I have a bowl of thick (could turn the bowl upside-down) cream of wheat made with milk. I love the stuff.

I don't eat snacks, so I get my calories from 3 meals a day. Breakfast has to hold me from 6:30am to 12:30pm.

150kcals max, 1/4 cut porriage oats, low fat milk, cinnamon, low kcal sweetener and raisins. o and sometimes protein powder mixed in.

right around 400

1/2 cup oats with tsp honey
egg beater omelet with 2% cheese and as many veggies as I feel like chopping that morning and as much salsa as I want
a couple oz of light soy milk in my coffee.

Mine are usually in the 200-400 range; I switch off between carb-based (cereals, oatmeals) and protein-based (eggy, dairy, occasional P.B.) breakfasts depending on what my morning exercise is.

200 calories on weekdays (1 cup non-fat plain Greek yogurt, 1/2 cup Trader Joe's High Fiber Cereal, and 2 oz of berries).

300 calories on weekends (3 slices bacon, 1/2 cup cottage cheese, 1 low-fat muffin with non-fat cream cheese).

I'm a creature of habit, especially when it comes to breakfast.

300 ish.
Either a 2 egg, spinach, feta omelet
or
oatmeal,raisin,flax and sugar/honey