Wrap the eggs in a whole grain or whole wheat tortilla and top with salsa.
Or do steel cut oats or oatmeal made of whole oats with skim or 1% milk. Add a ton of cinnamon - I feel it gives a bit of its own sweetness, and it’s an excellent healthy spice in general.
If you like the traditional breakfast cereal route, try Fiber 1 or Shredded wheat - the vanilla almond is lightly sweetened. Always try and add some fruit to your cereal.
Aim for whole grains, and good whole grains - corn flakes claim they’re whole grain. While technically accurate, they’re still not good for you.
Here’s one of my favorite recipes for a dessert, or a really quick breakfast:
Moist Whole Wheat banana bread. My trick is to use the white whole wheat flour. Still 100% wheat, but it’s the soft, white part of the wheat germ. A bag of it costs $1.50 more than the regular whole wheat.
Like I said before, I do replacements. I like waffles. So I get some low fat no sugar added buckwheat ones and treat myself to them. I like butter. So I use Smart Balance light instead.
Like Green Bean said, it varies widely by person. If I cut out challah, I’d probably go postal in a month. But if I make whole wheat challah, nobody dies, and I don’t make anyone want to die by griping about not having something I like.
Dopers are both very educated and vastly overweight people. That combination serves up a bunch of great recommendations about how to alter your eating habits (notice I didn’t say diet?) in a meaningful, sustainable, healthy way. Because it’s a lifestyle change, not a “diet”. That way the change sticks.
Indeed, it also has a very high “satiety” rating, whereas HFC has about the lowest. Meaning, if you eat taters, you’ll feel full. Soft Drinks? Not so much.
Breakfast on low-carb? Steak. Bacon. Sausage.
There’s nothing eviiiil about simple carbs and sugars- except that they are empty calories, and hwaaaaay too easy to eat too much of. Whole grains have fiber, which is not only good for your colon, but fills you up.
I know what you mean ! I read the Allen Carr book, “the easy way to stop smoking”, a couple years back to see what the fuss was all about and if I could recommend it to some smoking friends. It turns out that I needed that book to explain to me what an addiction really is. Somehow I failed to pick that up during all the " drugs are bad, mmkay?" school education I had over the years. Before that I thought that being addicted meant taking stuff that felt or tasted really really good but that would harm you if you took too much, so it was all about willpower.
In reality, addiction means craving something, having a short satisfaction when you indulge in which you feel nearly as good as people who don’t use the stuff anyway, only to have the cravings return with a vengenance. Carr compares needing your cigarette to needing the joys of wearing shoes that are a size too small, only because it feels so damn good when you take them off at the end of the day.
Like** Glory** said, I had 10 years to eat whatever I wanted to and it never made me happy. Giving in to an addiction never does, not longer then an hour at most. Thats the difference between an addiction and a food preference.
My book (and posters upthread are richt to say diets should be tweaked individually) suggested I take the typical Swiss breakfast: yoghurt wit plain, unsweetened non-crunchy oats and some rainsins and nuts. Can be made the night before. I ate it for the whole of last week for breakfast and it fits me perfectly.
It is strange to think of myself as an addict, but if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
My problem with potatoes is that they are so bland that in order to make them palatable you load them up with butter, sour cream, bacon, chives, cheese, onions, hamburger, salt, pepper, Old Bay… why not just skip the giant tasteless starch ball and eat the other stuff without it?
Disclosure: I grew up in Idaho and exceeded my potato quota years ago. Now I never have to eat another potato in my life and I’m happy about that.
I have drinking yogurt (from Easiyo) with a crushed weetabix and a bit of milk in a 200ml cup.
After I drive to work (1 hr) and do some exercise (1 hr) I have 4 ryevita with some cream cheese and relish, and a large handfull of grapes. An hour after that, sometimes I have a bacon roll (brown bread, no spread, brown sauce).
The combo is all pretty slow release, a mix of proteins and energy, and doesn’t leave me struggling for energy before lunch. I have some fruit and then lunch: about 500 calories of whatever was available - toasted ham and cheese sandwiches, this week I made sushi (yeah, I know, white rice, but I love it with loads of wasabi), leftovers from dinner, a wrap, couscous with veges, chicken salad.
Dinner is maybe a bit more than lunch with salad or veges, either before or after the gym, and a few snacks (raisins, nuts, crackers with peanut butter).
I think a nutritionist would have a bit of a fit about the balance, but it is working for me,so I don’t care.
Or any potato, washed but not peeled, cut in half, put in the microwave (cut side down), nuked on full for about five minutes depending on the size, (the outside starts to wrinkle a bit when it is done) and eaten as is, perhaps a bit of salt. Mmmm. Nuked potatoes alone would be enough reason to have a microwave oven.
I much prefer the texture of baked potatoes over microwaved, to the point I can’t stand microwaved potatoes. I just wish baked potatoes/sweet potatoes cooked faster! Takes a good hour+ to get them where I like them
Well, I do think they are evil. I don’t have a weight problem, I am too skinny. I didn’t cut out all sugar and grains because I tend eat too much of them, I cut them out because I found the evidence against them as ‘bad’ food convincing. Then my IBS, migraines, eczema, acne, and some other issues I’ve had for years just… went away. Now I am pretty much convinced of their evilness. I was always generally healthy, I thought I was just prone to migraines, skin problems, and IBS because my father is. Turns out it was environmental, not just genetic. I wish I could get my dad to stop eating crap…
That is a lot of work, not to mention oven heat, to get them baked. How long do they keep, so is it possible to make baked potatoes for a few days? If not, I’ll stick to my nuke’em method. Can’t beat five minutes prep time.
I have the biggest sweet tooth ever. It’s pretty bad. I’ve gone through days when I’ve eaten mostly sweets and nary a vegetable. The scary thing was, I thought I could get away with eating anything just because I was thin. Yeah, that’s wrong on so many different levels. I decided to cut out the sugar from my diet when a family member was diagnosed with diabetes. It was easier than I thought; after I got into routine, I found myself not craving sweets anymore. I’d eat something like oatmeal and yogurt for breakfast, eggs/fruit/sandwich for lunch, and fish/vegetables/rice for dinner. Unfortunately, that routine got messed up when I moved to a different country. I plan on going back to cutting out the sugar, though. Getting diabetes would be one of my worst nightmares.
When I was young, I always looked forward to the weekends, because that was when my mom would be off from work and would be able to fix us breakfast. She’s from Taiwan, but it was more of a traditional Japanese-style breakfast: rice porridge, pickled vegetables, grilled fish. Healthy, simple, and not much sugar. Ah, now I really miss that.
ETA: We also had things like 豆腐干 (tofu-gan) and steamed egg.
