Is this ok for breakfast or am i overdoing it?

parrai

Hi, I am just starting to change my diet to (hopefully) a healthier one, and am looking for some advice. For breakfast I make a smoothie consisting of, glass of milk, about 100 grms of low fat strawberry yoghurt, handful of pumpkin seeds, 3 spoons of linseed, 2 spoons of flaxseed, 4-5 almonds and a handful of mixed frozen berries with 1000mg omega 3 fish oil supplement. Then about 25 grms of museli with milk, Is this too much?
I'm male, 5'10" 16 stone. Thanks in advance for your help.

Mellor

Weigh the ingredients and work out the calories. does it suit your required intake?

And one think i noticed is that you choose low fat yogurt, but them added pumpkin seeds, linseed, flaxseed, almonds and fish oil - all of which are high in fat. BTW i'm not saying there is anythign wrong with fat, there isn't. it's your choice of low fat yogurt than looks odd.

parrai

Thanks for replying, this is what i mean, i don't really know what i'm doing... like i thought the seeds and stuff were 'good fats' so to speak and the breakfast being the most important meal, thought this would be the time to get them in. I don't know alot about calories either, so don't know how to measure them. Any ideas? I thought the low fat yoghurt would have been better than the full fat, I used to live in fast food type places so just wan't to improve and educate myself on nutrition. I've looked online but there is so much stuff it's confusing, the above 'breakfast idea' was an amalgamation of these ideas, just want to get it right in the start. Thanks again.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Eggs are in my opinion the number 1 choice for a nutritious healthy breakfast, and they'll keep you going well past lunch time, just remember to ditch the toast that most people have with them, have an extra egg

accensi0n

Horgan wrote: »

Eggs are in my opinion the number 1 choice for a nutritious healthy breakfast, and they'll keep you going well past lunch time, just remember to ditch the toast that most people have with them, have an extra egg

Yeah, I find eggs for breakfast keeps me going. Usually from about 9am to about 1pm.

3 eggs, scrambled with some butter, salt and pepper.

EDIT: Should add, sometimes I'll also have an apple or some nuts n' seeds.

eclectichoney

Aren't lindeed and flaxseed the same thing?? If so you probably only need to use one of them

Mellor

parrai wrote: »

Thanks for replying, this is what i mean, i don't really know what i'm doing... like i thought the seeds and stuff were 'good fats' so to speak and the breakfast being the most important meal, thought this would be the time to get them in. I don't know alot about calories either, so don't know how to measure them. Any ideas? I thought the low fat yoghurt would have been better than the full fat, I used to live in fast food type places so just wan't to improve and educate myself on nutrition. I've looked online but there is so much stuff it's confusing, the above 'breakfast idea' was an amalgamation of these ideas, just want to get it right in the start. Thanks again.

Those seeds would be good fats and I wasn't suggesting that you cut them. My gripe was with the low fat yogurt.

Most of the time, low fat, has higher sugar, so the cals are similar.
The smoothie as a whole, made with low fat or full ahd would have pretty little difference in totalt calories or fat. So just go with the best tastes. Personally, I'd use natural or greek yogurt.

What really important is the total cals, you need to calculate that, as you could easily over do it.

eclectichoney wrote: »

Aren't lindeed and flaxseed the same thing?? If so you probably only need to use one of them

Yup the exact same thing. Well spotted.
I think normally linseed is used to describe the oil (as in linseed oil) and flax is used to describe the seed.
But both can be changed around

parrai

Thanks Mellor, and everyone else who replied, wasn't aware the linseed was the same as flaxseed.

RobAMerc

hi parrai,

If you are struggling to work out your caloric intake etc maybe have a look at fitday.com. On that site you can work out what you should be eating and enter what you are eating so that you can figure out where you are at.

best of luck

xgtdec

parrai wrote: »

Hi, I am just starting to change my diet to (hopefully) a healthier one, and am looking for some advice. For breakfast I make a smoothie consisting of, glass of milk, about 100 grms of low fat strawberry yoghurt, handful of pumpkin seeds, 3 spoons of linseed, 2 spoons of flaxseed, 4-5 almonds and a handful of mixed frozen berries with 1000mg omega 3 fish oil supplement. Then about 25 grms of museli with milk, Is this too much?
I'm male, 5'10" 16 stone. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi There

Im presuming the name of the game is fat loss?
I have a smoothie for breakfast because i have a mental block about eating too much solid food(im working on it though);)
My smoothie in the morning is like this
200g egg white
100 water
tablespoon of honey
30g porridge
1 scoop casein
handful of mixed berries
2 cubes of ice
blend 30 seconds and down the hatch!!:D...i have that at 7am and it would get me to lunch with no hassles

would you consider that instead?, reason i ask is that in your shake the milk and yoghurt could easily be replaced by water and egg whites, it really and truly dont taste that different...and in fat loss term it would be super high protein and not as bad as the milk and yogurt...just a thought!!

parrai

Thanks Xgtdec, Sounds good. How many eggs would be in 200g, and would you cook them first? like hard boiled maybe?

xgtdec

I use 2 chicks egg whites that you can get in dunnes stores, dont go loading raw egg white down ya!!!!!!

200g is i'd say around 5 egg whites, i think roughly the shake recipie i gace ya amounts to about 45g of protein for breakfast...which in my opinion isnt half bad considering a small bowl of cereal gives you under 15!!

frag420

Sorry to but in here but any alternatives to eggs for high protein in the morn. I alternate between porridge one morn and smoothie the next. I usually have a few handfulls of berries(rasb,blue,straw) spoon of yogurt, water. What else can I add to this to keep me going until lunch??

frAg