Breakfast cereal guilt!

[Korrie]

I admit – I’m a breakfast cereal junkie! So I’m switching to steel cut oats – and have a great trick of adding half a sweet potato and spoon of black strap molasses – so filling, and I’m thinking GOOD for me!

QUESTION: is there a time of day when I could have my breakfast cereal that ISN’T so stressful on my Glycemic Index??? (As if I know what THAT means)

[Tess]

Eating cereal in the morning is also my habit. I love the muesli with dark choco bits I get here in Belgium. Since I fast through breakfast, and typically try to stick with 1 large meal between 2 and 7 PM to cover most of my calories, I can have a small bowl of cereal before bed if I feel like I might wake up in the middle of the night. I’ve done it a few times and it kills the cravings while not disrupting the calories or fasting.

Good luck finding your groove with it!

[Korrie]

THANKS, Tess! Good tip. You’re totally right. I am postponing “breakfast” so long – that it’s becoming lunch foods anyway! And I’m searching the “health food” stores for cereals that don’t have the “bad” ingredients – so if I WANT a cereal snack later, it won’t be the worst.

[Isabelle]

Korrie…if you want cereal, eat it. The eat stop eat program is not about good foods vs. bad foods…just make sure to count the calories on non-fast days.

I completely understand you wanting to get the healthiest options in, so that will be excellent for you in the long term…but it really is ALL about the calories.

[sandra]

I have a cup full of cereal in my yogurt dessert almost EVERY night. Worth every one of those 110 calories, but I will tell you I found some caramel rice cakes the other day that I’ve been using and they are only 50 calories.

[Halo]

I like breakfast food so when I eat around noonish I have that if I want feel like it. It’s only breakfast food because that’s when we normally eat it – but it’s just food so have it anytime.

[Julie]

Eat what you want and eat what you like. Account for the calories. That’s all.
No good foods or bad foods. Just too much food.

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