Low Cal. but filling breakfast?

Hi everyone I have been working on loosing some excess weight with the help of this web site for about 3 weeks now, I have been working pretty hard at it and have deffinetly seen results.  Before I started comming here I had been exercising 5 days a week for about 2 months with no weight loss results, I quickly found out it was due to eating well over 2,000 cal a day on a pretty regular basis.  I am a 5ft female and am now down to 134lbs from 140lbs. 

OK enough background now to the point.  I eat breakfast around 6:45am and am always starving by 10am.  Sometimes I get a snack in before lunch which helps but most times I am to busy at work to take a break.  I usually have 8ounces fruit juice (lately V8 fusion which is 100% juice from fruits and veggies) or chocolate milk and a piece of toast or bagel.  Usually staying around 300 cals.  I usually try to save a few excess calories for dinner so does anyone have any breakfast ideas that will fill me up without adding on the calories.

Sorry so long but it was my first post here so I figured I should explain a little bit.

Almost every morning I have 2 egg whites with a slice of Kraft fat free singles, low cal whole wheat toast w/ low sugar jam and a banana with cinnamon sprinkled on it.  It doesn't take long to make and is 219 calories.  That leaves room for a snack before lunch too; I usually have a south beach diet bar (100 cals) if I need a little something.   

Wow that seems far more filling then what I was eating and around the same amount of calories.  I am just not very knowledgable when it comes to healthy eating going though my whole life never paying attention to these things.

Thanks alot, I know what I am eating tomarrow morning.

I like to have an egg, half a low fat chicken-turkey sausage, and a slice of high fiber bread. It comes out to 230 calories (75 + 65 +90), or 295 if I'm extra hungry and need a whole sausage.

I was so happy when I realized that this was not much higher than the calories I get from a bowl of cereal and milk, but it keeps me full much longer.

Also, you probably will feel better if you arrange for a 10:00 snack. 6:45 is an early breakfast. I like to keep light string cheese at work. 50 calories for one, but a good amount of protein and it helps me make it till lunch.  

Additionally, eating your cals is more satisfying than drinking them (unless its thick etc) Yuo can try incrasing either protein or fibre. An easy fibre trick is psyllium husks in water, but some people dont like the texture, so you could mix it in oatmeal.
If you are having white toaste, switch to wholemeal and put on some protein (cottage cheese etc)
How about a diet yogurt, some muesli and a piece of fruit. Change it up everyday.
I'll post a link to my website later which was a blog with breakfast ideas under 300 cal

google mykindahealthy and its at blogpsot and also mini-spoons and click on breakfast. Some ideas with lots of variety

Oh, and I forgot one of my all time favorites - scrambled egg pita!

2 scrambled eggs tucked inside 1/2 a toasted whole wheat pita with a bit of hot sauce splashed around. 75 + 75 + 90 (hot sauce is negligible calories, maybe an additional 5 or something?). 240 calories and you can put it in some aluminum foil and take it on your way out the door. Also good if you add some chunks of avocado.  

i'd definitely say ditch the juice if you can manage to! those are just pretty much empty calories that aren't going to fill you up one bit!

my favorite breakfast lately:

toasted thomas' light english muffin-100 cals

1tbs peanut butter- 100cals

1 big apple- 80-100 cals

for 300 calories you get to eat a lot of very satisfying food! this keeps me full for a long time! just make sure you get the "light" english muffins. they have a ton more fiber and protein than the regular ones. and measure out that PB till you get an idea what 1 tbsp looks like.

you could also chop up the apple, microwave it for about 2 minutes with some cinnamon and it's hot and satisfying for the same amount of calories :)

I really like the idea of heating up the apple with cinnamon, that sounds really good.  I thought the juice was a good thing but it makes since that I could do much better eating some fresh fruit and feeling satisfied.  Thanks for all your sugestions guys, it has really opened my mind to all the different options I have.

I've posted this a ton of times before but I love it so I always have to share. Every morning I have my same breakfast, 210 calories!

3/4 cup egg beaters, 2 slices of deli ham (30 calories a slice) and one slice of crystal farms cheese (or whichever plastic wrapped cheese you like). I scramble all this together and add salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder and basil. It's very filling, makes a ton and for 210 calories you can't go wrong!

Scrambled eggs (or eggbeaters for even lower cals) on a toasted english muffin with ketchup + a medium banana. That usually does it for me. =)

i like oatmeal with 1/2 c egg whites and 1/2 c milk in the micowave for 2mins and add your choice of fruit and tbs of  chopped walnuts. U get a nice serving of protein and carbs all in one bowl. very filling

I would try and get more protein in your snack at midmorning. String cheese is a great option w/ a handful of almonds or 1/2 an apple w/ a tbs of peanut butter.

my breakfast malways consists of an apple, cottage cheese, and coffee. . .I start snacking on carrots around 11:30am, to keep me for the next 30 minutes till lunch which is tomatoe, basil, dill, parsley and the wishbone spritzers for salad dressing.  . .

My weekday breakfast almost always consists of 1/3 cup large flake oats made into porridge (~100 cals) with 1 cup 1% milk (~100 cals) and a scoop of vanilla protein powder mixed into the milk (130 cals), which I find pretty filling.

Around 10AM I have a low-fat or fat-free yoghurt, depending on what the supermarket had that week, for 45 cals (fat-free) or 90 cals (low-fat). 

I like oatmeal (because I am cold in the mornings and it soothes me); usually kashi truly vanilla but I have started eating Quaker Oats weight control....the banana flavor is really good. I add extra water and then throw in a serving of all bran because I heard it is important to have lots of fiber early in the day because it takes a while to digest. It is so filling.

Original Post by cynthb:

My weekday breakfast almost always consists of 1/3 cup large flake oats made into porridge (~100 cals) with 1 cup 1% milk (~100 cals) and a scoop of vanilla protein powder mixed into the milk (130 cals), which I find pretty filling.

Around 10AM I have a low-fat or fat-free yoghurt, depending on what the supermarket had that week, for 45 cals (fat-free) or 90 cals (low-fat).

I like to have oatmeal and yoghurt for breakfast too. I make mine with water (I never liked it with milk) and add raisins to it for sweetness. I will have it with a small serving of Greek yoghurt with a teaspoon of honey mixed in. It gets me through to lunch the days I am not able to eat until after 1pm.

I like looking at hugrygirl.com for recipies.

 Here are 2 breakfast recipes that look yummy.  You can poke around at the sight more to find other things:

 

http://www.hungry-girl.com/week/weeklydetails .php?isid=1298 ;

When I am not in a rush I normally have pumpkin oatmeal with fiber one. Drink some water with it and I am full for hours. On a weekday I will have either: 1/2 cup lf cottage cheese with 1/4 cup pumpkin and 1/3 cup fiber one with some almonds and coffee or lately I have just been having toast (80 cals for 2 slices) and then putting a tsp of smuckers 100% jelly (13) cals on one slice with 1/4 cup egg beaters and then the other just has cinnamon and splenda. The jelly and the egg tastes so good together.

usually i have 6tbsp of egg whites mixed with some pepper, salt, and some mushrooms, red pepper and spinach mixed in (around 60 cals), a bowl of cream of wheat with water and cinnamon and splenda to sweeten it (100 cals) and half a grapfruit and a cup of green eat.

i comes out to around 200 calories. if you look for a little more, make you cream of wheat with half a cup of skim milk and its more around 240-250.

my faves (from CC) are:

scrambled egg with slice of turkey bacon in a small tortilla.  I make them the night before and they heat nicely in the microwave.  (don't overheat)  you can add vegs or black beans if you choose.

Steel cut oats:  which take 1/2 hr to cook, so I cook a batch and keep in the fridge to reheat in morning.

sometimes a turkey bacon sandwich.  I use 45 cal a slice bread.

I love breakfast :)

I was in EXACTLY your position. I eat breakfast @ 6 am before school, (my school starts super early,) and am starving by 9, and my lunch period is at noon. SO my solution was this: 3/4 cup instant oatmeal, with one tbsp I Cant Beleive Its Not Butter Light and half a tbsp of pb on it. You can eat the pb on the side, i'm just weird and I like it on it. This is 305 calories, and keeps me full until at least 11:30.. Another of my breakfast options is is two scrambled eggs, two slices of toast w/ 1/2 tbsp of I Can't Beleive Its Not Butter Light on each slice, and a dannon Light n' fit yogurt. It's a little higher cal, 380ish cals, but it keeps you full really well. But yea, the oatmeal works the best for me and I have it pretty much every morning. I'm also a light lunch eater; I only devote about 240 cals to lunch, so if you don't want to sacrafice the calories then it wouldn't be a good idea.