How are you so healthy and habit-maintaining? Explain yourselves!!
I’ve been trying to eat breakfast lately but my body thinks I’m trying to kill it and everything feels like I’m eating sand lmao
What are your quick breakfast meals? Do you feel like your body hates you when you try to eat first thing in the morning?
My breakfast was 3 cookies. Thank you for calling me healthy though
Me too, sometimes I’ll spice it up and have a slice of leftover pie.
My secret is that I eat exactly the same meal for breakfast every single day, for years at a time.
The nature of that meal has changed over time. For the first 25 year of my life, it was honey nut cheerios and milk. That switched over to shakshuka at one point, and then to Wheaties, and then to my current standard of overnight oats /w strawberries. Each time I switched, there was a period of non-standard breakfasts where I experimented, but I would ultimately settle on a specific meal for several years.
My breakfasts habits are very defined by my constricted schedule in the morning. If time and effort were no object, I think there are lots of breakfast foods I would enjoy - I’d probably make a new omelette every day. But that hasn’t been practical, and so I’ve had to compromise and start eating cold pre-prepared meals for breakfast. I like them, though.
In terms of what to eat, you should make sure all the macros are present. I mix in yogurt and protein powder with my overnight oats, and then get plenty of carbs from the fruit and oats. I feel much more energetic in the mornings than when I just ate cereal.
But… you don’t have to eat breakfast. Plenty of the most health people I know skip breakfast.
Breakfast is a social construct. From a global and historical perspective, the modern western breakfast is really an outlier. Most cultures treat it as just another meal, and have traditionally eaten based on what’s available and their anticipated needs for the first part of the day. Yes, it’s important to eat in the morning, (and ofc something reasonably healthy) but beyond that there’s really no rules. Eat whatever works for you. Could be a couple pieces of fruit, could be leftovers from last night’s dinner. Could be a smoothie if you can’t do solids first thing. Just try different stuff until you find something that clicks.
Breakfast is a social construct.
100% this.
Yes, it’s important to eat in the morning
No. Hard disagree. It’s important to eat period. It doesn’t matter at all what time of day you do it (the one exception is late at night, a full stomach can affect your quality of sleep). Nutrition is nutrition is nutrition.
Assuming you’re meeting your daily nutritional needs, just eat when you’re hungry and don’t force it if you’re not.
Breakfast is a fucking racket. Thank John Kellog and Ed Bernays for what you refer to as breakfast.
220g oats.
10g walnuts.
5ml flaxseed oil.
5g ground flax.
15g molasses or date syrup.
1 banana or 15g cocoa powder.
4 ice cubes.
some water.Breakfast smoothie I’m having every morning. Pretty healthy and an easy 700-1000 calories.
I wake up feeling very hungry that’s the main reason i eat breakfast.
I try to have fruit and granola bars at the ready so I’m less tempted to hit a drive thru but tbh i hit it more than I’d like to admit.
So i guess figure out how to have uncomfortable hunger pangs as soon as you open your eyes
Not vegan and this is weird even for not vegans but i just eat 3 boiled eggs every day, they taste good and are full of protein and random shit like iodine that Id otherwise need to get from iodized salt or seafood, and I just boil some water, put them in and walk away for 11 minutes and they’re perfect. Part of why I do this is also sometimes it’s hard for me to get food down and I can always eat my eggs
I do liquids. Smoothies or coffee. Everything else feels like I’m forcing it
I got hooked on eating breakfast by eating something I like every morning (pyttipanna and egg)
now I don’t eat dinner anymore
technically every time you eat you’re breaking a fast. don’t let the tyranny of the clock name your meals
I really like toast as a breakfast, it’s light and easy to make with no cleanup and you can put a variety of stuff on it.
I ate the same breakfast for almost a year, two pieces of toast with peanut butter. I’m on a cut right now so I stopped eating the peanut butter but two pieces of toast is still a nice little carb boost in the morning
Eggo makes these protein waffles (I think it’s with whey so not
) I put some peanut butter in those. They’re giga for cutting weight because it’s good protein.I never did it as a health and habit thing - I fucking love eating. I feel sluggish and like I can’t do my good thinking (and I need my good thinking for work) if I don’t eat.
My problem is eternally having food that isn’t garbagio around and easily accessed. So I need to meal prep and never really stay on top of it. I don’t have trouble with taste, texture, or anything in the morning.
Do you exercise? Eat regular, protein rich meals? Exercise would give you a boost to your metabolism and make sure you’re desiring the fuel. If you’re eating a bunch of grease, snacks, and junk then you could not be properly hungry for your big 3 meals.
It’s weird how two people could be so different. I have never eaten breakfast since being fed as a child. It makes me nauseated to eat soon after waking up. In the past five years I’ve gone to one meal a day, because I realized how mentally and physically sluggish I feel after eating even a small lunch. To the point of falling asleep while driving after eating anything at all.
Now I eat only after all work and driving is done until after the next sleep.
I kept a really razor sharp edge in my mind about how much it’s coping if you insinuate genetics are responsible for your weight, but I observe via anecdote and read studies regarding physiology that suggest it’s a major factor. The thought of forgetting to eat is unfathomable to me. I can discipline myself down to [REDACTED]% BF and see my beautiful wonderful six pack but the idea that I was ever acutely unaware of skipping a meal or didn’t find a way to get as close as possible or a little bit over my calorie limit is simply untrue. It would be conspiracy thinking if I believed that people who get a small signal later on are playing with the same deck of cards and just denying it. I hear about people who get a cold and are all “I lost X amount of weight!” and I’m like “there’s no way, I would balloon up”
Genetics, social conditioning, thyroid issues, hormones, etc are all factors. Even though I rarely overeat regular food, I’ve got a sweet tooth and will binge candy and donuts. Sheetz (24 hour gas station/convenience store) has a peanut butter cup donut now, I’ve had like eight of them. They’re fucking amazing. I looked it up and they’re 470 calories! I still have to watch myself.
Also I have, at points in my life, drank way way too much alcohol. I’ve been significantly overweight from it. Doing good now though. We all have different struggles when it comes to weight, and it’s absolutely easier for me to lose it and keep it off than it is for others. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.
The trick is to work a job where you never have enough time for a proper lunch. It becomes a habit quite fast when that happens.
I usually have heated up leftovers for breakfast. Sweet cereals and sweet baked things and sweet smoothies like others are recommending are not my sort of thing.
Breakfast cereal is incredibly quick, basically no clean up, and gets you some carbs/fiber/water to get your day going. I sometimes eat the really unhealthy shit and I love it. I get out of bed on time to eat Reese’s Puffs
I make a large batch of madras lentils and keep them in a few glass containers in the freezer, always with one in rotation in the fridge. As I am nuking a portion I sunny-side up fry and egg or two, then put that over the madras. I break-fast at noon though, two squares a day is enough food for me - I get FAT AF if I eat three meals a day.
