Big Breakfast?

What is a healthy size breakfast? 

How much of your daily calorie allowance do you consume in the morning? 

Do you think it matters? 

Is a big breakfast a healthier breakfast?

How big is too big?

On 1300 cal a day, it is usually 300 calories (100 for snacks, 300 for 4 meals).

On 1600 cal days it's 400. (300 for lunch, 300 early dinner, 300 for later dinner, 300 for snacks.)

But that's just me. -shrug- Any breakfast is fine for me as long as long as it's high protein and low to modest in fat. 

I eat 2100 calories and my breakfast is 490 calories :)

I guess it just depends on your caloric intake and how much you feel satisfied with.

I have a 320 calorie breakfast, 415 if I have a cup of coffee with it, and I try to keep myself at 1600-1700 calories per day. For me, having a bigger breakfast keeps me feeling full longer, and gives me the energy to push myself harder during my workouts.

How big my breakfast is depends on the day. On the weekends I can have a bigger breakfast and I especially add some more when I have to work an 8 hour shift and don't eat a lot at work. But on the weekdays I normally have 1/2 cup cottage cheese with pumpkin and fiber one. This morning for example, breakfast was 2 slices of toast (80 cals) with some jelly (13 cals). I would advise to not stuff yourself or make yourself uncomfortable becaue someone says you need to eat a big breakfast. Everyone is different. Just do what works for you.

I dont think a big breakfast is necessary I prefer to have a nice big lunch or dinner so breakfast for me is only about 260 calories which is enough to get me through to my mid morning break, but if you dont have time to eat at 11am it would be fair to double that amount so have around 500 cals for breakfast.

my breakfast is usually 150 cals, but thats because i know i need to save my calories for the rest of the day, on the weekends however, i have as many calories as i want for breakfast because i'm not guarenteed a dinner in the evening

I eat 1300-1500 a day, and I like a big supper and eat a lot of snacks, so I only eat 100-200 calories for breakfast. Of course, I eat a snack in about in hour. If I sleep in on the weekend, which I do occasionally, I combine breakfast and lunch for maybe ~500 calories

My breakfast is normally 250-300 calories (just a bowl of cereal and milk)... it's not the biggest meal of my day, but it IS important to have it - if I don't, I get low-blood-sugar by lunchtime and feel icky.

Most mornings I have egg beaters - or egg whites - 3/4 of a cup (which makes a lot) for 120 calories.  A slice of toast (80 calories) with butter (50 calories) and a lot of salsa.  Usually .25 or more of a cup (30 calories).  It fills me up and it's usually under 300 calories. 

My breakfast is 300 calories/20g fiber.

Yum!

=^..^= MOLLY

I think you should play around and see what your body feels best with. Personally, I can't eat a big breakfast because it's too much on my stomach in the morning. I'll have a yogurt with some fruit mixed in and then I have a snack not too much later.

Some people have to have a big breakfast to stay full for the day. Others simply can't handle a large breakfast.

Personally I eat 3400-3600 calories a day and my breakfast is 600-700 calories.

As long as breakfast contains protein, complex carbs, fat, fiber and a serving of fruit or veggies, then it is fine. Thus anything less than 300 calories tends to be inadequate, as a meal with less than 300 cals is difficult to make nutritious. A 100-calorie granola bar is not a healthy breakfast.

Yesterday I had a 700 calorie breakfast.. and over the course of the day I was REALLY glad I had it because I spent 12 hours outside in the freezing cold at and participating in a horse show. I was going to try to forget about meeting a calorie target that day but I ended up with 1550. So that breakfast really kind of saved me I think..

My breakfast is anywhere from 400-500 and is one of the biggest meals of my day, the other being dinner.  I usually eat about  1700-1800 calories a day.  It has made a big difference in how hungry I am later on, which was killing my eating and choices.  I used to be FAMISHED by 10:30 am and then tended to snarf on the dollar menus at the fast food places because I didn't really have TIME to go get a decent meal.  Now I have the large breaky, smallish lunch that I planned out and packed myself, combined with late morning  and afternoon snacks (100-200 cals each) and another 500 calorie dinner.

 

I eat 2 meals a day so my first one is typically 400-600 calories & then my second one is like 700-800 calories 

Meal #1 is either = Eggwhites & Rice Bran or A hunk of ground meat like grass-fed beef, bison, ostrich, elk or venison

Meal #2 is either = Trout or Salmon with roasted, steamed or sauteed veggies or a hunk of ground meat from above with roasted veggies! 

* I know everyone says - eat small mini meals throughout the day - well that doesn't work for me because I do not snack! Plus there are no real good snack foods for someone like me out there anyway.  

I eat 1400-1600 calories most days, and my breakfast is 300-450 calories.  For me, big is good, and it always includes plenty of fiber and at least some protein. 

I eat a bit between 2000-2100 calories a day, and i consume about 600 of those for breakfast. about 400 for lunch, 4-500 for dinner and the rest snacks and other things i may put into my mouth. such as bread-toppings. etc.

I love the ritual of breakfast, so as long as I take time to prepare something, it usually doesn't matter how big or small it is.  Always with fresh coffee.  Usually I vacillate between oatmeal with 1/2 cup berries (150 calories total) or a protein-ier, fibreful bagel with egg whites and low-fat cheese (~300).  It's more of a psychological thing for me than it is a matter of being hungrier later on.

I eat a 1200 calorie diet, and for breakfast I eat a protein bar. It has 200 calories and 20 grams of protein, so it keeps me full for a long time.