Suitable breakfast - becoming filled up

TheCenturion · 4 Oct 2010 at 20:50

As you guys know I'm not the biggest of guys, so naturally I don't need as much food as most of you. However I do try to eat a good breakfast everyday. Usually, it's a bowl of porridge, a bowl of cornflakes, an egg and a banana. However today I was a bit late for school breakfast and so only managed to eat a croissant. So about 5mins later I went back to my room and had a pack of oatcakes (around 270cals) and 20g of whey. People are always saying on here that one of the effects that protein has is keeping you filled up for longer. But I 20mins after I had the above (crossaint, whey, oatcakes) I was feeling a bit hungry again. Obviously because I didn't eat as much as usual, but surely the whey should have kept me filled up?

Also, I'd like to eat a bit more for breakfast than I usually do. The weird thing is that when I'm eating the above, I get full up and then get hungry about half an hour or an hour later.

What can I do?

Ta

ringo747 · 4 Oct 2010 at 20:52

Mustard on your crossaint. That will help you grow too. Sorry I can't be of more help!

Edit: sorry this isn't GD!

TheCenturion · 4 Oct 2010 at 20:52

oh okay, thanks

Morba · 4 Oct 2010 at 21:16

Protein keeps you feeling full up longer? Not for me! Good carbs do that for me!

Freefaller · 4 Oct 2010 at 21:21

Porridge and a couple of poached eggs on toasts keeps me going for a while. But not that long. That's why elevenses was invented!

shroomz · 5 Oct 2010 at 00:05

Freefaller said:
Porridge and a couple of poached eggs on toasts keeps me going for a while. But not that long. That's why elevenses was invented!

Indeed. nom nom nom. Thank god my Uni cooks good food (sometimes)

OP, the suggestion would be more good complex carbs like porridge, but I personally have very much a love/hate relationship with porridge - more often than not the very smell makes me retch - so I put it in my pancakes in the morning and take some to class

Freefaller · 5 Oct 2010 at 07:21

If not porridge, some other minimally refined cereal of some kind.

This morning I've had 3 turkey steaks black pudding (from the local butcher), an apples and banana with yoghurt!

BennyC · 5 Oct 2010 at 07:30

4 scrambled eggs and then a bowl of cereal at 6:45am

Then I have ninesies, tensies, elevensies, twelvsies, twosies and threesies then I train at five, pwo around 6, dinner at 7, something maybe at half 8 if I'm peckish and then pre bed at about 10.

Eggs are very filling. Make sure you put these in first as carbs are also pritty filling. If I eat my cereal first I won't fit all the eggs in!

utajoker · 5 Oct 2010 at 08:10

if you get hungry after breakfast try drinking a glass of water.

VeNT · 5 Oct 2010 at 19:04

Freefaller said:
If not porridge, some other minimally refined cereal of some kind.

This morning I've had 3 turkey steaks black pudding (from the local butcher), an apples and banana with yoghurt!

yeah but how much of your day is spent doing some kind of exercise?
when I was working out 5 days a week and cycling daily I could eat like that too! (btw try Hogs Pudding rather than black sometime, REAL NICE)

Freefaller · 5 Oct 2010 at 19:33

I don't always have black pudding - it's a treat I do for myself from time to time. But the turkey steaks and eggs, some form of meat or fish in the morning is regular.

I don't train every day. Owing to my above average muscle mass I metabolise my food pretty well - but when I do train, I train hard. Furthermore, I eat well, I don't eat sweets, pies, cakes etc... I keep away from inferior foods - though do allow myself a cheat day or two depending on how things go, as well as drink from time to time.

I like white pudding too! :cool:

I'm eating about 3k cals at the moment which is about right for me to keep me as I am.

When going for it on tougher training routines I'll bump that up to 3.5k though have been known to pack in 4k for several weeks at a time - usually during rugby season (which I'm starting albeit somewhat delayed!).

TheCenturion · 5 Oct 2010 at 21:09

The problem is that if I eat more than 1 egg, I start to get a few problems, however I'll bear the pain for the potential gain. The other problem is that due to timings and daily routine and such, as soon as I start eating breakfast, my body suddenly digests everything and I start needing a dump. However at this point I obviously can't go in the middle of the dining hall, so I sort of keep eating, despite my body telling me I'm full up after just a little bit of food

Also FF- there's a professional rugby player who works at our school. He's 18 stone and 11% BF

He eats around 5k cals a day

Freefaller · 5 Oct 2010 at 21:12

That doesn't surprise me. I used to pack away similar amounts when I played for a higher level of rugby - sounds like a beast - but then again more and more are these days. The days of the beer belly are slowly fading from the game - well except for small club rugby!