I’ve never been a breakfast person, and I don’t wake up hungry. I used to go a few hours without eating anything and then have a breakfast of two scrambled eggs, 1/2 cup of brown rice, and a sliced avocado with some salt or soy sauce. That’s a very tasty and healthy breakfast, but I get hungry again within a couple of hours.
Normally I don’t eat much carbs, like bread or pasta or potatoes, and I don’t get my fats from butter or dairy.
This week I started eating a butter sandwich as soon as I wake up in the morning. And when I say “butter sandwich” I’m talking about eight pats of butter between two slices of whole wheat bread.
Why is this so satisfying? I’m not hungry until late in the afternoon, at which point I just wait until dinnertime.
I’d like to lose some weight, and with these butter sandwiches I’m consuming much less food during my day, but they can’t be healthy for me. Clearly I don’t know how nutrition works.
What do you eat in the morning?
I usually make a Smoothie that consists of a banana, some plain fat-free yogurt, 1 scoop chocolate Orgain protein powder, about 1/2 cup almond milk, and some frozen blueberries. Sometimes I add Chia seeds, instant coffee, or cocoa powder. This smoothie is filling enough for me til I need a small snack around 3:00.
I make “egg muffins” and freeze them to reheat every morning. To make these, I steam a bag of broccoli florets. I break these apart and put them into greased muffin tins. Then I add some shredded cheddar cheese and egg beaters. I bake these (400° for about 15 minutes or until done). Then, after they cool, I stick them in the freezer. I make sure I have 12 in a Tupperware tub in my refrigerator.
Every morning, I microwave 3 of them and have that with some whole wheat toast and cream cheese. (I take more out of the freezer as needed and they are mostly defrosted by the next morning.)
Lately, steel cut oats with half a banana and 250ml of kefir. I actually hate eating breakfast. I was into Intermittent Fasting for years and did 18/6 almost every day, but then I was diagnosed with diabetes and my doctor told me to stop IF if I wanted my meds to work as they should without causing low blood sugar.
I’m pretty close to yours - I eat one half avocado, two eggs sunny side up, and then a dash of mayo in the center of the avocado and fill it generally with shrimps. For me this keeps me full for a good while and I feel healthy and with a good stomach.
I usually only eat one full meal before dinner, but I’ll often have a banana, protein shake and apple as well.
If I’m working from home I try to wait with “breakfast” until there is a good pause between meetings, usually around lunch.
I’m the same regarding schedule. This early eating is new for me.
I’m actually opposite. I’ve always eaten early breakfast regardless of hunger since in Norway it’s supposed to be the most important meal of the day that sets you up for the rest of the day.
Lately though I’m trying to get 14-16 hours of fast every day (night), and it’s just easier skipping early morning than to have to go the whole long evening without anything.
I don’t do this fast because it’s supposed to be extra healthy or anything, I just do it because it seems to put my body into a good state of burning energy (combined with eating regularly and exercising fairly often), which is something I’d like to do more of currently.
I’ll regularly fast for 12 hours, but I’ve also done up to 16. There’s no real point in it for me. I just naturally fast for about 12 hours daily. Sometimes I screw it up by eating an apple before bed.
It’s not really the hours that means the most to me, it just gives me focus on it and help to avoid evening snacks. I get to a really nice phase of burning when I manage this properly for a while.
Edit: and I would never worry about an apple if I was hungry.
Very similar to your rice and eggs. I cook the eggs sunny side up with runny yolks and put them on the rice. Green onions, and a handful of cherry tomatoes. Some soy sauce to season and I am full for quite a while
Weekdays: Approx. 100g of fresh or thawed berries and peaches mixed with 200g whole milk Greek yogurt, sweetened with stevia and drizzled with local honey.
Weekends: whatever leftover lunch/dinner type foods are in the fridge.
I also have a homemade latte everyday.
Energy drinks
I used to be you. Red Bull and sushi until my teeth were buzzing.
- Every morning: 2 cups Cafix, 1 cup decaf coffee, 4 prunes
- Alternate mornings: 1 thick slice homemade whole wheat bread, dipped in olive oil
- The other mornings: 1 large sourdough pancake, dressed with olive oil and salt
I usually eat breakfast around 5AM, and this holds me until lunch at 11AM.
Pretty sure I’m not in the mainstream.
Ass.
That’s dinner.
Granola with almond milk, blueberries, raspberries, collagen, and creatine.
It’s a bit much, but I like it.
Where do you get the collagen from?
I use a collagen peptides powder from Amazon
Currently smoothie with 1 cup milk, protein powder scoop, banana, handful of strawberries, handful of mango.
Previously half a bowl of oatmeal. Or toast.
I didn’t used to be a breakfast person either, but I’ve been trying to move my food intake earlier in the day, it’s supposed to be healthier. So, one of: plain yogurt with honey and fruit, one scrambled egg in an omelette with Parmesan cheese, or a bagel with butter. Almost always vegetable juice, and a multivitamin. Always always 2 cups of coffee. Depends on what’s around and I feel like.
Greek yogurt with a little cereal on top and hot tea.
I’m southern european and some of these answers are giving me culture shock… Normally, a coffee would get me through the day until lunch and, if I’m especially hungry, I’ll eat some pastries too. But the thought of having to eat plenty of eggs or anything that involves cooking so soon after waking up is giving me upset stomach. I realize this may not be healthiest option tho
What do you eat for lunch though? For a lot of people where I live, lunch is a quick snack. Breakfast needs to keep you going until about 8pm, with a few light snacks during the day, and the typical work schedule doesn’t really allow anything else.
Here lunch is our biggest meal of the day and usually around 2 or 3 pm. Most people will have lunch at home, even if they have to go back to work later and many eat a small meal between “breakfast” and lunch. But most people either won’t eat anything for what you’d call breakfast or just have some coffee and toast/pastries. I really don’t know anybody who wakes up and immediately starts cooking.
Clearly I don’t know how nutrition works.
… yeah about that…
Eating the same thing for a week or so is fine, for example when a particular vegetable is in season it’s fine to eat a lot of it, but you really should mix it up more than it sounds like you are.
You can kinda get away with it if you eat commercial breakfast cereals, because they are often “fortified” with a whole bunch of neutrients that aren’t naturally in whatever they’re made of. But they still have too much sugar, so they’re not really a great option. If you’re lazy though - go for that.
What do I eat for breakfast? Normally whatever is left over from dinner, and it’s different every day. If I don’t have any (or enough) then I’ll eat cereal or toast.
Yeah, I really don’t change it much. I pretty much eat the same things all the time, at least when I’m at home.
