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    For those of you who eat breakfast, what do you start your day with?

    Currently, my breakfast consists of juice, coffee, and the occassional slice of wheat toast with margerine. I am not that hungry in the morning, but I feel starving by @10:00, and tend to snack and eat stuff I shouldn't.

    I am trying to re-vamp my eating habits, and am looking for some suggestions for healthy breakfasts. I don't eat meat, but I do eat eggs (occassionally) and dairy.

    I am a carb junkie, and love my breads! I eat cereal sometimes, but I am not a big fan of milk, so that is not something I could eat on a regular basis.

    Any suggestions/tips on how I could get my day off to a better start?

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    a big bowl of fruit, or a english muffin (honey wheat is my fav) topped with some low fat vanilla yogurt and fruit, or a egg white omlette, granola and fruit, 'breakfast tortilla' with scrambled egg, salsa, low fat cheese... just some healthy idea's for you
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    How early do you eat breakfast? If it's early, plan to eat another small meal before lunch. Have some yogurt and granola, a piece of fruit, a hard boiled egg. That way you will have planned ahead, and will eat soemthign healthy like I listed, instead of noshing on junk.

    Also, you might want to change your breakfast a little bit...consider replacing the margarine with peanut butter...the protein may help you feel fuller, longer...and maybe add a small piece of fruit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Green Apple
    a big bowl of fruit, or a english muffin (honey wheat is my fav) topped with some low fat vanilla yogurt and fruit, or a egg white omlette, granola and fruit, 'breakfast tortilla' with scrambled egg, salsa, low fat cheese... just some healthy idea's for you
    Mmmm! Honey wheat english muffin sounds good will def. look for those in the grocery store - so does the yogurt/granola idea. Thanks so much!
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    Quote Originally Posted by kandie_kitten
    How early do you eat breakfast? If it's early, plan to eat another small meal before lunch. Have some yogurt and granola, a piece of fruit, a hard boiled egg. That way you will have planned ahead, and will eat soemthign healthy like I listed, instead of noshing on junk.

    Also, you might want to change your breakfast a little bit...consider replacing the margarine with peanut butter...the protein may help you feel fuller, longer...and maybe add a small piece of fruit.
    It depends on what time I get up - can be as early as 8, or as late as 10. The peanut butter idea is good also - I may try 1 slice wheat bread with the pb and see if that ties me over better. Thanks!
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    English muffins are awesome for breakfast and not 2 fattening either. Fruit is good too, or even egg beaters w/ a little cheese and fresh veggies. if ur on the go a breakfast or granola bar works too.

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    strawberry yogurt, english muffin
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    i read on netscape about a new study saying people who ate eggs for breakfast felt fuller longer and thus consumed less calories during the day... sounds great! and you can always hard boil a pot of them and keep them in the fridge. that way, if you're not a morning person, like me, you just grab the already cooked egg, a bannana, and maybe some whole grain toast and you're good to go! also, i have the no hunger in the morning/snacking in the day problem. plan ahead and if you're going out, pack some snacks with you that would have been a good idea to eat for breakfast- a granola bar, an apple or bananna, (no, i can't spell bannanna), a low fat yogurt smoothie.
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    I guess it depends where I am as I travel for work but on the average work day I like to start my day around 1pm with a large fruit salad and maybe a yogart or 2 and then wonder down to Yoshiuma and grab a bowl of beef and rice or go to a cafe and get a plate of bacon and toast and salad. I try to do a carrot, apple and celery juice on the way to or from my food source too. Sometimes if I'm really in the mood I'll have both of the above as I only have so many hours in the day to eat and i use alot of energy at work. If I'm at home I may cook porridge instead of rice and have halumi instead of bacon. I'm allergic to eggs unfortunatly, but they are great - very, very good for you especially if you can get organic free range!
    Butter is better for you than margarine!

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    two scrambled or microwaved eggs (they don't blow up in my little mirco machine) for me, some low carb yogurt, some fiber cereal, and coffee. i like my protein fix in the morning. the last few weeks i add some junior mints to breakfast, which is really bad, but it augments the coffee buzz nicely .

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    ^ Agreed.

    Forget the carbo-loading and max out on the protein intake. Protein bars are good if you're on the road a lot, but if you have the time, eggs are an excellent protein source.

    The benefit to avoiding carbs in the AM is that you won't feel so lethargic halfway before lunch. Protein digests very differently, to your benefit.
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    Usually 1/2 cup of low-fat cottage cheese, 1/2 cup of fiber cereal, plus an orange or banana.

    Sometimes scrambled eggs with veggies, but that's usually too much work in the morning.

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    Scrambled egg white, sugar free toast with some sugar free jam. Can't forget the coffee.

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    You should eat first thing when you wake up, whether you are hungry or not. Your metabolism stays in sleep mode - slowed WAY down, which means it's storing everything as fat rather than burning it off - until you eat. When I first wake up, I have a piece of fruit and usually some coffee, and about an hour later I have a cheese bagel or an egg-white veg scramble or something.

    And don't feel bad about snacking, either. To maintain a fast, healthy metabolism, you should eat five times a day. Just eat healthy stuff, and don't gorge. A good midmorning snack for me is a piece of cheese and some crackers, and maybe another piece of fruit.

    Fruit is your friend - you can eat as much of it all day as you want, and it's delicious and sweet so you feel like you're getting a treat. I love fruit and have four or five pieces a day!

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    I'm trying to get back into my old healthy habits again. I wake up at 5:15 am so it's gotta be a simple and fast breakfast. Usually a slim fast shake or bar and a peice of fruit. If I remember to hard boil a couple of eggs, I'll eat that with two slices of turkey bacon (they smell so good comming out of the microwave!) and fruit. And my best friend coffee is always waiting for me in the am!

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    I always have my phases about breakfast I will eat only one thing until i'm fed up : Oatmeal, Cereal, Eggs, Peanut butter toast with banana, pancake. Mmm yummy

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    I'm addicted to Kashi Autumn Wheat cereal with low fat organic lactose free milk. I never drunk regular milk cuz I loathe the taste of it, but this version is to die for, creamy vanilla-ish piece of heaven, lol. And the cereal is the best. Always sold out at my TJ. This is the only kind of breakfast that keeps me full for a long time, and I'm usually prone to getting hungry very fast. I also top it with some kinda fruit, and finish with green tea.

    If out of cereal then whole grain muffin with honey, fruit and tea.

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    Special K cereal with Vanilla Silk soy milk.

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    I really like oatmeal, so I'm trying to get back in the habit of a big bowl of oatmeal with a couple spoonfuls of wheatbran and some almonds and brown sugar (the brown sugar cuts the bitter from the bran, the bran and the almonds make it stick to my ribs). A banana is supposed to be even better than the brown sugar, but I'm terrible at keeping fresh fruit around. I make sure to grab a couple cartons of yogurt/some dried apricots/a protein bar for my second breakfast.

    Black beans and rice is a traditional mexican breakfast food, and it's awesome once you stop thinking of it as dinner. There's enough carbs in there to wake me up and get me going, but the protein means that I stay full most of the morning.

    If nothing else, it's a good idea to carry around some fruit, dried fruit, low-fat yogurt, and/or other healthy stuff with you so that when you snack it's easier to pull out something good than buy some crap.

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    1/2 cup of oatmeal and a 1/2 cup of milk *eggs are always 3-4 egg whites
    Scrambled eggs with a slice of wheat toast
    Eggs benedict with dill on sourdough
    tofo sausage and eggs
    Special K cereal w/ no fat milk
    peanut butter on wheat toast and skim milk cappicino

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    On a good day, I drink a glass of water, then do my morning beauty routine before I have my coffee and breakfast. I use egg beaters for eggs if I eat them, or I have fruit, or a whole grain cerial. I like kashi and granolla, or *sigh* fruit loops. I make sure to eat something with protein in the morning too, even if its just a slice of cheese, it keeps me from zonking out in the afternoon from the coffee.
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    I agree about the eggs in the morning thing keeping me feeling full longer, and not all carbed out and lazy. I have kids so we go thru a lot of eggs, and I buy them like 3 dozen at a time because i boil them up a dozen at a time and put them back in the cartons, and into the fridge. Lately i've been trying just pepper or paprika on them to avoid all that delicious salt. And along with a couple of HB eggs I try to have some cheese and coffee and maybe some grape juice or OJ/Pineapple. My FAVE thing, when I take the time, is a goblet full of assorted berries, nectarines, and bananas with a few drops of honey and some nutmeg. And then a couple of little lemon mini-muffins or an english muffin or something, and coffee. Like a couple of people mentioned, I do tend to feel ill if I eat right after waking up though. Coffee and a big glass of water is fine, but soilds in my tummy are a no-no for an hour or so. Those protein bars or cereal bars are great to keep around in a purse or bag or briefcase though, just to recharge. Oh, and I agree about the peanut butter suggestion as well. I actually like cheese and PB together though, and that's a nice powerfuel combo for me.
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    I'm super lazy in the morning. My breakfast consists of a protein shake (soy protein in a vanilla flavor) with about a cup of frozen mixed berries some honey and a few splashes of soy milk. The protein in the shake keeps me from feeling hungry for hours and the noise of the blender wakes me up. Hah.
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    forgot to add, looove Japanese kind of breakfast. I was flying thru Japan once and on the plane and at the airport they had the yummiest stuff, like fish and rice, and don't remember what else, but it definitely left a lasting impression, lol. I'd never consider what I think of as lunch/dinner stuff for breakfast before then. Gotta go back just for that (and their skincare, too).
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    I always have a big breakfast either bacon, eggs , toast and jam with fruit and a slice of cheese or cream of wheat (with sugar) and toast and butter . Plus I almost always have a big glass of Orange juice and some coffee.

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