Small Breakfast....example?

Hi, I have this weird idea., I WANTED to limit myself to have a SMALL breakfast. 6 months ago, I don't even have breakfast but now I'm in a boarding school and I was forced to be at the cafeteria for breakfast everyday. But I find it uncomfortable for me to have so much calories since the beginning of the day. Here is what my school have available for breakfast. - Bacon, Scramble egg (egg beater) , Muffin, Danish, Baked potatos, All kind of bread, begel, Marshmallow fluff, PB, creamcheese, butter, jelly, apples, milk (soymilk - and all those kind of normal milk or fat free) and cheerios cereal (but I think it's kinda sugary).

Here is what I have.. - Scramble egg (maybe qual to 2 large egg) + 1/2 cup soymilk

But today, I had those egg and milk AND an apple. Is tis too much? How small could breakfast be? I want something small and as LESS calories as possible.

Any help? suggestion??

I don't know how much smaller you can get.  Most of the research I have done has pointed to having breakfast be one of your largest meals and have your meals get smaller (calories wise) towards the end of the day.  You need breakfast to get your first energy boost and keep your metabolism moving (since you have been at rest and need feeding it while sleeping)  If anything you should be striving to make your other meals smaller and your breakfast bigger.  But seeing what you have available to you at your cafeteria and think eggs, milk and an apple is probably the best you can do.

No, that is def not too big.  In my opinion, you dont eat enough.  I always worked on the assumption that breakfast is the first main meal of the day, and therefore should be big (breakfast = break the fast)!

Personally, I have 2oz porridge / oatmeal (dry weight) made on water and either a piece of fruit or 2oz cottage cheese (if I'm trying to up my protein).

Different strokes for different folks I guess.

Breakfast is important because it gives you energy when you need it most at the start of the day, it gets your metabolism burning fat and it also gets your digestion kickstarted.   For someone who's body is still growing and developing it's a mistake to skimp on breakfast.  (And people who skip breakfast all together are more likely to be overweight than people who enjoy breakfast.)   Protein and carbohydrate will give you the best combination..  Scrambled egg and some toast, for example.   Peanut butter and toast.  Cereals and milk is good.  Cream cheese on a bagel...  

So don't go for fewer calories.  Enjoy that breakfast.

I read this post recently:

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.

Meaning, eat your biggest meal first, then a smaller lunch and the smallest meal should be dinner.  That makes sense for a couple of reasons:

1. You will burn your breakfast and lunch calories off throughout the day.

2. Having a smaller dinner means less calories to burn off at the end of your day when most people are less active.

3. A bigger breakfast is needed because you have been "fasting" for 8 hours while sleeping.

I am not a breakfast eater either, but, I have heard making this change will help the weight come off faster. I am going to start trying it today and see how it goes for a week.  Maybe it will help you as well.  Eat as much fruit as you can and drink orange juice to help fill up without all the calories and fat. 

I think breakfast is important, but I don't think it's vital to make it the biggest meal of the day. My body can't handle a lot of food early in the morning. I end up feeling sluggish and slightly sick, and it has no bearing on how many calories I ingest during the rest of the day.

Two eggs, an apple and milk sounds like a fine breakfast, if you are feeling well and enjoying it.

Sounds good! I like an egg on an english muffin with tomatos, mushrooms & kale, nuked! Yum!

Original Post by carleyrapp:

Sounds good! I like an egg on an english muffin with tomatos, mushrooms & kale, nuked! Yum!

I read that as naked!

Hey, however a person eats their kale is none of my business. :)

Original Post by mortalmonkey:

Original Post by carleyrapp:

Sounds good! I like an egg on an english muffin with tomatos, mushrooms & kale, nuked! Yum!

I read that as naked!

 

THAT TOO!

oh, i remember the required breakfasts at boarding school....good times.  are you a freshman/III former?  my school only required being at breakfast for freshmen.

eggs, soymilk and an apple is better than nothing...but i would try to get something solid in your stomach too...so maybe put your eggs on half an english muffin or a piece of toast.

I usually have a packet of Quaker Oatmeal (about 150 calories) and either an apple or some grapes. 

samantha

2 pounds down, 7 to go!

aasil - Sorry....i'm not in ur old schhol. But my school require freshmen + sophomore + senior to come down for breakfast and require everyone for dinner....how suck is that..

Try EggBeater + tomato + 1/2 cup bran + 1/2 cup skim + 1 apple + 1/2 banana =

Egg Beater = 100 cals
Tomato = 50
Bran + Milk = 150
Apple = 50
1/2 banana = 60

= 410 = Small Calorie

charming - that does suck.  we only had required dinner once a week.  it was sit down and we had to dress up for it.

good luck!

Charming,

Hey it's ME.  :-)  I just want to ask you if you've been using the food log here on Calorie-Count?  That will not only tell you the calories in the food choices you've made or are thinking of making, but if you click on Analyse it will tell you if you're making good choices by giving them a grade.  I've found that tool so very helpful.

For example a regular egg is 72 calories. Scrambled it's about 199 calories.  Egg substitute is 30 calories - scrambled then it's probably about 157 calories. 

You don't really have a lot of good choices in your cafeteria and that's a shame for you.  But your choice for breakfast is a good one.  And like lizshuler said...breakfast should be one of your biggest meals.  :-)

 

Original Post by tammymc3793:

For example a regular egg is 72 calories. Scrambled it's about 199 calories.  Egg substitute is 30 calories - scrambled then it's probably about 157 calories.

 Um... the only reason scrambled eggs or scrambled egg whites would have more calories than an egg is if you added other calories like milk, oil or butter.

I scramble an egg & nuke it. It has the same calories as one egg.

tammymc3793 - I used to log all my food into the log but since my nutritionist suggest me to stop counting calories, I tried to get away from the log as much as possible (even though, I still caught yself secretly estimate calories on some day). But yeah... I have to agree that this site is awesome! I love the analizing part....

But thank you for ur suggestion anyway! =]

Carlyrapp, they must calculate the milk and butter into the added calories for scrambled.  I'm just going off the calorie-count calories and what they say everything is.  If I'm wrong, the site is wrong.

Charming...you need to do what your nutritionist told you to do.  Not me.  You're making good choices considering the choices you have available to you.  Keep up the great work!

Original Post by tammymc3793:

Carlyrapp, they must calculate the milk and butter into the added calories for scrambled.  I'm just going off the calorie-count calories and what they say everything is.  If I'm wrong, the site is wrong.

You & the site aren't wrong, you're obviously factoring in milk & oil/butter. An egg is an egg cooked any way & it has the same calories as an egg. Cooking doesn't raise the calories of food unless you add calories to it.