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Breakfast

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constance.de
constance.de

What do people eat for breakfast?  If you give up/are watching carbs, I find breakfast the most difficult to deal with.  No toast, porridge, cereals of any sort, bacon, sausages, etc etc.

I was one of the lucky ones and LOST weight with PMR (10kgs).  Now I am lowering my dose of Pred (at present 5mgs) I have put on 4kgs in 3 months!!  I've never been excessively overweight but before Pred I was 11 stone (and at 5'6" that's too much) and as my OA is a really aggressive sort I don't think that would be advisable.

I can manage other meals, but breakfast?!?

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  • artfingers
    artfingers constance.de

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    Varies between a bowl of fresh fruit with walnuts or cashews and a dollup of nonfat yogurt to sometimes nearby farmers eggs and ham or yes, sometimes bacon. I do miss my grains but I'm trying to cut back on carbs due to weight gain from the pred.  I try to eat fish but ugh, never have liked it much I admit.  If you do fish, what I've read recommends buying wild caught not farmed.  Likewise farmers eggs (or hens fed a healthy diet with no hormones and allowed to be stress free such as free ranging) as opposed to store bought. Good luck.
  • Anhaga
    Anhaga constance.de

    Posted

    Just reading about Greek yoghurt and cottage cheese (I hate cottage cheese) and apparently Greek yoghurt wins in every way except marginally with protein.  Higher calcium, less sodium, fewer calories, if that's a concern, and contains live bacteria (probiotics).  I might add that to my breakfast, better than milk.
    • constance.de
      constance.de Anhaga

      Posted

      Me too - cottage cheese.👎  Love Greek yoghurt though.  I eat it with fruit and muesli.
    • EileenH
      EileenH constance.de

      Posted

      Link duly sent!

      Just google greek yoghurt creme brulee - loads of recipes to choose from.

  • tony09890
    tony09890 constance.de

    Posted

    It's not so much what you eat it's how much.   I have 1/4 cup Special K, 1 tspn fibre, two spoons fruit and nut mix and two spoons of muesli topped with lite milk (only because I prefer it), or a bowl of quick oats with two spoons of fruit and nut mix, or a couple of pieces of cobb toast with vegemite/jam and ocassionally I'll have a croisant with ham and cheese.   I'm only a little fella BTW - 75kgs.   I find you need to measure or at least have a bowl that won't take more than what you should be eating.   If you use a big bowl you will eventually fill it.   Similarly if you measure by sight the portion will grow daily.

    How much you eat for breakfast shouldn't really matter that much as you are active during the day same with lunch, dinner is the problem.   For most people dinner is the biggest meal of the day and what do you do after dinner?   sit and watch TV and then go to bed.   Dinner should be the smallest meal of the day and breakfast the largest.   The biggest problem for me is icecream and chocolate whilst watching TV.   Life is miserable with this dam condition I figure I'm entitled to have some enjoyment,   I'll have one or other every night until my weight goes up a kilo or two then I'll just cut back on icecream and chocolate, again portion size is the key..   

    • EileenH
      EileenH tony09890

      Posted

      Though apparently there is now some reearch that shows the not eating in the evening is an old wives tale.

      I don't get the eating while watching TV thing - I eat my main meal in the evening (meat or fish and salad followed by 1, at the most 2 squares of dark Lindt chocolate (75% min cocoa solids), no breakfast except multiple mugs of tea - and I've lost weight. When we walk into town - we've found an ice cream shop that is open all year except January :-) I'm VERY fussy about my gelato...

  • tony09890
    tony09890 constance.de

    Posted

    It's not so much what you eat it's how much.   I have 1/4 cup Special K, 1 tspn fibre, two spoons fruit and nut mix and two spoons of muesli topped with lite milk (only because I prefer it), or a bowl of quick oats with two spoons of fruit and nut mix, or a couple of pieces of cobb toast with vegemite/jam and ocassionally I'll have a croisant with ham and cheese.   I'm only a little fella BTW - 75kgs.   I find you need to measure or at least have a bowl that won't take more than what you should be eating.   If you use a big bowl you will eventually fill it.   Similarly if you measure by sight the portion will grow daily.

    How much you eat for breakfast shouldn't really matter that much as you are active during the day same with lunch, dinner is the problem.   For most people dinner is the biggest meal of the day and what do you do after dinner?   sit and watch TV and then go to bed.   Dinner should be the smallest meal of the day and breakfast the largest.   The biggest problem for me is icecream and chocolate whilst watching TV.   Life is miserable with this dam condition I figure I'm entitled to have some enjoyment,   I'll have one or other every night until my weight goes up a kilo or two then I'll just cut back on icecream and chocolate, again portion size is the key..   I pay no attention whatsoever to what is supposed to be good food and what is supposed to be bad food, they just keep changinging their minds:   remember when eggs were bad for you - now they aren't, remember when red meat was bad for you - now it's not.   I just try for a reasonably ballanced diet with food from all the groups, although meat doesn't figure greatly in my diet anymore.

    • constance.de
      constance.de tony09890

      Posted

      Go for it Tony - enjoy your ice cream and chocolate.

      I'm lucky in many ways as far as food is concerned.  I have always hated large quantities.  Because of this there are many restaurants we can't visit - the proportions are amazing sometimes.  If possible my husband and I share.

      We have also always eaten at lunch time as OH was always home at that time. He's had a hard life - he had to work 22 hours per week!!!!  

  • tony09890
    tony09890 constance.de

    Posted

    Funny thing, all of my life I have suffered from that curious complaint where my brain never knew my stomach was full, fortunately I was always extremely active (wife says I was hyperactive) and learn't to controll my eating so I was never overweight.   Now I'm older I still suffer from the complaint although it has morphed into something slightly different::   the more I eat the hungrier I get.  I can still control my eating and I'm still not overweight.   But one day when I get sick of all this crap???
    • constance.de
      constance.de tony09890

      Posted

      Seems to be a thing with PMR - hunger.  Glad I never had it.

      Think positive Tony, think of all us lovely pen-pals you have now.  Without this amazing PMR you would never have known us!🤔😄

    • erika59785
      erika59785 tony09890

      Posted

      Tony, yes, Constance is right about of all us lovely pen-pals you have now!  What a positive addition to PMR! :-)

       

  • artfingers
    artfingers constance.de

    Posted

    Well, what a fun conversation!  As for hunger, I wonder if it isn't the pred because I know I had a dog once (flat coated retriever) who got Addison's disease and had to have huge amounts of pred just to live.  Poor thing was ravenous all the time.  That is how I feel on this pred (10 mg, 1/2 at am and 1/2 at pm currently).  I never feel full.  But yes, portion control helps and now I am able to be more active, that helps too.  I just have to remember to drink water which is hard when you are teaching art to kiddos non stop and no time or can't leave the class to use the restroom.  Argh.
    • constance.de
      constance.de artfingers

      Posted

      Hi artfingers.  Interesting.  My son has a dog with Addison's.  May I ask if your dog lived a normal life span?
    • artfingers
      artfingers constance.de

      Posted

      Alas, no, but he probably could have with the drugs.  He was five years old when diagnosed and had been a very active dog (a Flat coated retriever which is a hunting dog - all go go go and no slowing down).  The prednisone helped but he also had to have monthly shots that were very very expensive (can't recall what they were).  For months we watched him suffer with constant hunger and thirst to the point where I got up every two to three hours to let him go pee due to how much he drank (around the clock we did this).  That was so so hard when we decided, finally, to put him down but the cost would have been astronomical plus his quality of life was not good.  Thanks for asking.
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