I work out in the morning and my new breakfast of choice is a shake: 1 cup chocolate soy milk, two tlbs of Better n'peanut butter (from Trader Joe's) and a banana (and some ice). It's about 350 calories but I have enough fuel for my workout. I eat about 550 calories by lunch and then I'm not so hungry until dinner, but we're all different.
It takes me about an hour or two after waking to get hungry, but I usually do eat at that point. I don't always feel like traditional breakfast foods, though. A typical weekday breakfast for me would be one of the following:
- Leftover turkey breast chili
- Two homemade sushi rolls
- Egg salad or turkey sandwich
- Dinner leftovers (casserole, spaghetti, etc.)
I always have oolong tea on weekday mornings, unless I'm hungover, then it's a coke.
Weekend breakfast tends to be more indulgent, mostly because Hubby and I are usually running errands, and thus we eat out (or sometimes he cooks). Also, this wouldn't be breakfast, it would be more of brunch. I will skip lunch usually if I eat a meal this large, mostly because I'm not hungry when lunch rolls around. A typical weekend breakfast might be one of these:
- 2-3 eggs over easy, 2 slices whole grain toast, home fries
- 1 pancake and 2 eggs, slice of toast
- McDs bacon/egg/cheese biscuit and hashbrown
On weekends, I typically have coffee for my morning beverage.
Last edited by banananutmuffin; 10-17-2011 at 08:29 PM.
I wake up starving. I am a cereal and banana, and milk person. I also will have another piece of fruit mid-morning if I am hungry. I try to keep the calories under 300 for the morning.
My breakfast on weekdays is almost always two eggs scrambled with ham, onion, and a little cheese. On the weekends, its usually a portion of whatever was leftover from the night before. I used to eat cereal or a granola bar for breakfast but was always starving by lunch. I'm amazed at how this meal fills me up now and I don't get hungry again until its lunchtime.
So, I start out with coffee w/ 3 tablespoons of creamer. Yes, its a lot of creamer, but I teach freshmen English--I *need* coffee to live and I build the calories in to enjoy my (large) cup. I make it at 7am and have it finished by 8am.
My prep period starts at 9am, so I eat a 100calorie yogurt at work. Sometimes an apple, sometimes 1/2c Kashi Go Lean cereal in the yogurt. If my first period goes badly, I'm too anxious to eat, so I don't. I'm trying not to force myself to eat because I think I "should"
For breakfast I make a protein shake. This consists of a scoop of organic vegan brown rice protein powder blended with 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup almond milk. I also add 1/2 banana frozen. It tastes like a milk shake. I also have a small bowl of nature's path ancient grain granola with plenty of fresh raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries on top. I add just enough almond milk. Very tasty and filling. I would say it is under 300 cals...but I don't count cals.
One tortilla (the cook yourself kind--so yummy)
One egg, fried sunny-side up
2 slices of nitrate-free bacon
Coffee, black
This came out to around 310 calories. My breakfasts are usually higher in calories, but I wasn't very hungry this morning.
Typically, I like to eat a big bowl of steel-cut oatmeal with 1T ground flax, 2T walnuts, some sort of fruit, cinnamon and a little honey. Lately, I've been adding pumpkin as my fruit.
Depending on whether I'm hungry or not (in the past I used to wait until I was hungry before eating on a weekend sometimes miss it altogether) I usually have:
1/4 to 2/3 cup of rolled oats/porridge
with a pinch of salt
and a couple teaspoons of homegrown local honey
and lashings of cinnamon.
I have had to cut back on the amount of honey I use lately because it's just too sweet for me.
Maybe one day a week (usually if I'm going for a run on a weekend morning) I'll just plate up with fruit (apple/banana/strawberry combo or alone), keeping it light, then after my run I'll have a 'slap up' breakfast (my definition haha) which consists of:
a medium boiled egg
and a couple pieces of toast
with REAL BUTTER yum! oh,
and Promite
I eat a few different things depending on my mood and the time I have.
I always eat something with protein though. SOme mornings I make a smoothie - 1 cup of yogurt and then blended up with some frozen fruit. Some mornings it's an atkins shake. Some mornings it's a high protein fiber bar (low carb too) and some days it's a couple mozzarella sticks.
Only if I'm eating really late will I have a big breakfast (like eggs and sausage) because I don't tend to be very hungry in the morning. I will just grab a snack around 10:30 or so to hold me over until lunch if I eat a small breakfast. And almost always I have eaten around 1000 calories by 2 pm. I'll then eat a modest dinner of around 400 calories and I don't tend to get hungry in the evenings. Seems my hungries are ALWAYS during the early part of the day.
